David Gerard (fun@thingy.apana.org.au) [050401 20:00]:
Tim Starling (t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050401 18:52]:
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Forgive me if there was a big discussion of this while I was in lurker mode for the past year or so, but is it really a good idea to allow arbitrary transclusions at all? I can see the usefulness of templates overriding the problems and limiting their spread to a few cases; but arbitrarily including text that constantly changes seems like a good way to screw up things like article provenance, evaluations, and such.
It was a bad idea. The users made me do it.
Hey, Paul T. Riddell has an FBI file for selling secrets to the Daleks. http://web.archive.org/web/20020225052146/www.hpoo.com/columns/hells/news45....
That's not an April Fool's, I'm just posting on crack and answering and entirely different message to the one in front of me. My apologies.
- d.