Phil Boswell wrote:
I was going to suggest that {{lifetime}} and/or {{lived}} could be modified so that the death date was optional, and lack thereof would put the article into [[Category:Living people]], but given the recent furore over conditional templates, maybe now is not the time...:-(
Also, I note that these templates have been listed for instant Substitution, so the information wouldn't actually stick anyway :-(
What? Why, and where? The whole reason I use those templates instead of just putting in categories is for their potential future mutability, for _exactly_ the possibility you just mentioned.