On 6/27/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
If there's any reasonable purpose served by editing the template, there's no reason to hesitate. If something puts too much load on the servers, the devs will edit the software so that you can't do it or it's not a problem; see, for instance, recategorizing templates (which is handled in a job queue rather than being executed right away) or transcluding templates in sigs (they're automatically substed). Devs handle the backend, don't worry about it.
Could this be written up in red writing somewhere? It seems to be very common that non-devs tell each other not to do things because "it's bad for performance" etc.
Steve