On 11/17/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Would anyone object if I just deleted this functionality, so people could use templates like for everything else? Or would that be a little too drastic? As a historical thing, this stuff was introduced well before templates, I believe, and was subsequently obsoleted by them.
I once created {{ISBN}} which wrappered the ISBN magic word on en. It was deleted for redundancy. If this does happen, you should give people a bit of warning...
I can't agree with MinuteElectron that "While esoteric this feature is very nice and saves lots of work for users." How much work can be saved by eliminating 4 keystrokes every time you've looked up and typed in an ESBN?
Steve