Steve Bennett wrote:
users." How much work can be saved by eliminating 4 keystrokes every time you've looked up and typed in an ESBN
It is not neccesserily the ammount of work, but an inexperienced editor may neglect to put the ISBN template tag in at all, meaning there will either never be one, or someone else has to realise it and edit the article to add one. Many users do not know how to use templates and so by forcing them to use them for such basic functionality, many would either ignore the fact, or just not investigate how to fix it. Regardless why would one remove a feature from the parser, it makes no sense.
MinuteElectron.