Template talk:Death date

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[edit] What is this template for?

What's the benefit of this template beyond overruling the user's preferences? Fornadan (t) 14:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I see the same problem here. It is simpler and easier to link the date than the template. -- Taku 22:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

This template currently does nothing more than display the date. It does not override user preferences.

Really? Why then does the first date appears the "wrong" way (mmddyyyy), when my date prefereneces says ddmmyyyy? Fornadan (t) 08:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by "the first date". Can you link to an article where you don't see the death date as you would expect to see it? -- PatLeahy (talk) 15:24, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

This templates makes it easy to include hidden metadata about the date in articles in the future. This template currently does not do this but other templates in the same category do, for example {{Birth date}}. This metadata can be used by web browsers and other software tools (for example other websites, or Firefox's Operator extension) to extract the details, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, index or search them, or to load them into an address book program, for instance.

There is a discussion about whether templates such as this one are the best way to include such metadata in articles. See Wikipedia talk:Metadata standardization.

-- PatLeahy (talk) 03:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

If so I humbly suggest that setting a bot to paste this template everywhere might not be a good idea until that discussion has been resolved. Fornadan (t) 08:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change to use unprotected doc

{{editprotected}} Please apply these changes so that the document can be taken out of this protected template and so that people know this template is protected. Thanks, PatLeahy (talk) 17:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 20:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] comma

Should this template not insert a comma between the day and the year when used in the M/D/Y format? e.g., February 24, 2005, instead of February 24 2005. — Yavoh 23:53, 1 December 2007 (UTC)