Template talk:When

{{editprotected}} The documentation should be moved to a doc subpage. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 02:39, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Y Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:19, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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{{editprotected}} Can you point this to Wikipedia:As_of Gnevin (talk) 09:44, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Y Done HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

No reason was given for this change and it does not make sense.

Wikipedia:As_of#Usage_guidelines says:

Usually "as of" is used only in cases where an article is intended to provide the most current information available.

In contrast, the purpose of this template is currently described as follows (Template:When#Usage)

Add {{When}} after a time period to indicate that the time period is vague or ambiguous and would be clearer by being reworded more precisely.

This applies to much more cases than those where a statement needs to be updated to provide the most current information. Namely, {{When}} is very often used to request more specific time information about a historical event or development (the "In April 2007" example in the template documentation). In these cases, the necessary rewording will not involve "as of" or even Template:As of. Therefore it does not make sense to link it to a request to use that template (for that, we already have Template:As of?).

A few articles (randomly selected out of many more) where the change broke the meaning of the template (i.e. where it was rendered nonsensical by transforming it into a request to use the "As of" template): Harp, Intel Corporation, Apollo 1, Manhattan Project, Rhode Island.

Please revert the change.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 17:02, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

I've reverted, since changes made to fully protected templates should be uncontroversial (as I thought this was) or done by consensus and obviously neither applies now that an objection has been raised. I have to say, though, that MOS:DATE is probably not the best link either, but that's just an opinion. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:10, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Editprotected request involving this template

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Presently

I would like to recommend adding recently to section 2.2. Nutster (talk) 13:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

'date' parameter

I know this sounds a little silly, but does {{When}} have a date parameter, like {{Citation needed}}, to record when the template was inserted?; I guess templates like {{Citation needed}} do this so people can prioritise articles which have had inline cleanup templates the longest. Are there any plans to implement this kind of feature to {{When}}? Kevin Steinhardt (talk) 20:35, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, see the documentation: You may append a date to the template in the following format: {{When|date=May 2013}}

Merge with As of?

Started up a thread about merging this with {{as of?}} over on Wikipedia talk:As of. Osiris (talk) 10:08, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit requested: Bypass redirect

Please change the line

| link  = Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Chronological_items

to read

| link  = Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Chronological items

in order to bypass the redirect. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 21:37, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Y Done EVula // talk // ☯ // 00:15, 7 October 2012 (UTC)