Wikipedia talk:Current and future event templates

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[edit] Future Law or Future Legal or Law Mandated

There are cases where future events are indicated by the passage of laws, such as minimum wage laws, which indicate that something should occur at some future date, such as a minimum wage increase on a particular day in a future year (see for instance the Delaware entry at List of U.S. state minimum wages). Such legislation mandated events are quite common, I think, and I'm wondering if there would be support for a template to address those mandated but potentially non-occurring future events. I don't like two of the titles I've proposed here ('Future Law' or 'Future Legal') and the third feels awkward ('Law Mandated'), so perhaps you can come up with a better title. Regards, User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Upcoming DVD Release

There should be a template like this:

Current event marker This article contains information about a scheduled or expected future DVD release.
It may contain unverified or unreliable information, and may not reflect the final version of the product.		 DVD-Video bottom-side

Doodoobutter 22:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] television templates

We have somewhat of a problem with all the TV fans adding info to their favourite show, but now we are also having trouble with ppl putting warning signs up on all of these. There are currently 5 television related temporal templates in use. Hopefully there will be some discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television#Again_the_temporal_templates

[edit] Too many templates

Ugh. It's amazing to see how many templates sprung from {{Current}} and its related templates. There's way too many of them out there. Some of them are transcluded on a ridiculously small number of articles. As of this writing, {{Future amusement ride}} is linked to by a whopping two articles.

We really don't need most of these templates. Some of them I can't figure out. For example, {{current album}} - how exactly is a musical album current? It's not like an event that happens and ends eventually - as long as there are copies floating around, the album is still there. And {{currentsingles}} - how is a single current? There are a lot of different musical ranking charts around even just in the English speaking world. Plus, these tags sort of miss the point of the original current tag:

"The tag was created for two reasons:

  1. So that users would know that the article was undergoing major revisions as events were happening.
  2. So that editors would know the same so that they could keep that in mind if/when they decided to add to or edit the article."

Articles on "Current" albums or singles aren't likely to undergo any major revisions as the song remains on the "charts", whichever charts that refers to. And still, what pressing revisions would a "current" album or single have. "X album fell one spot to number 26 on Y chart this week" or something like that.

The point is, we should really curb the number of current and future event templates. Otherwise, we'll be having templates like:

This article documents a current pizzeria.
Information may change rapidly as the pies bake and the cheese melts.

--Jtalledo (talk) 02:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current political event template

Given the proliferation of downright silly templates, it seems obvious that there should at least be a template to highlight current political events, such as the situation involving Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the increasing pressure on him to resign. I propose

This article documents a current political event.
Information may change rapidly as the situation develops.

I'll wait at least a week or two for comments. Ataru 22:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Future template on 29th century, related articles

If I remove the future template from 29th century and related articles, would anyone complain? It seems really unnecessary to have that template there, and just makes us look silly. ssepp(talk) 21:41, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Removed Rich Farmbrough, 13:54 18 January 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Variety

DO we need all these templates? Would

  1. {{Ongoing event}}
  2. {{Current event}}
  3. {{Future event}}

do? Rich Farmbrough, 13:47 18 January 2008 (GMT).

  • Yes, those could substitute for the proliferation of varieties of templates. Even so, each of the above three should be added rarely, if at all, since they are redundant, and add nothing that cannot be stated in the article title, article section title, text, or references. Further, {{current}} and its closely related templates were created merely to warn readers that an article or topic is being edited by many editors "today." -- Yellowdesk (talk) 01:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Appropriate use

The future-templates are used in way too many articles. If the lead of the article is clear on that it describes a future event, and if the article is appropriate according to WP:FUTURE, there is no need to use a future event template. I think that this page should discourage the use of future templates on such articles. -- Kildor (talk) 13:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redoing the icons

I kinda like that new Ambox icon style they're rolling out, and them I came across this:

With some color adjustments and a matching globe, it could look pretty nice. Think we should redo all the Current event templates to have this style? ViperSnake151 15:07, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Sometime in the last six months all of the graphhics on these were updated. Best to findout what team did this and check with them. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 12:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Future music festival

Template:Future music festival and 6 other similar templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Kildor (talk) 16:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)