[WikiEN-l] Date conditional switching templates

[Ian Woollard]

On 12/05/2009, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
> honestly I'm a bit dubious about its utility

The problem is, you don't know whether it actually happened or not.
There's going to be problems if it was supposed to happen, and then
got cancelled. Either you have to use it with a built-in fact template
or you only use it for things that nothing can even conceivably stop
(things that need *no* human input), like orbital mechanics, rotation
of the Earth or centenaries etc.

I suppose you could add a category to the template to help find things
that have passed so as to permit people to remove the template and
check that it actually happened; that would at least be an
improvement.

> -Luna

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-Ian Woollard

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