[WikiEN-l] "Future" templates compared to "spoiler" templates

[Carcharoth]

That sounds strange. From the discussion I read, these templates had
been around a while and spreading. Were they actually recreations that
no-one noticed? Probably best to go to the on-wiki discussions at this
point.

Carcharoth

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Tony Sidaway<tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> The future template was deleted, oh, in 2007 of something.  I'll try
> to find that link to that discussion.
>
> Any attempt to recreate this excrescence can safely be speedied.
>
> On 8/26/09, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There has been a centralised discussion on deprecating "future"
>> templates. See here:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Centralized_discussion/Deprecating_%22Future%22_templates
>>
>> The templates were compared to the "spoiler" templates. Not to drag
>> all that up again, but I found the comparison interesting. The same
>> basic point seemed to be made there, though, that such templates
>> patronised our readers, who can be expected to realise that the
>> article they are reading is about a future event (and if they can't,
>> then that is more likely to be due to bad writing in the article, than
>> the reader's comprehension skills).
>>
>> Carcharoth
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