Template talk:COVID-19 cases in Africa

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doesn't include anything

In this edit, Greenman edited the template to remove a </noinclude> tag that ends up leaving the template including no information at all. Sure enough, the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa article which includes this template has a blank section where the template should've provided content. Should this template be deleted? It's odd that it is dutifully being updated, but no check has ever been made to see if the content is actually appearing in the article using the template.

Further, the template isn't referenced; it generates a referencing error. Seems like the template expects a reference with a certain name to be defined in the including table; but there's no documentation here. Back in the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa article, the "access-date" on that reference is a couple months older than the newest data here. Is this table actually referenced and verifiable? -- Mikeblas (talk) 17:58, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting the missing noinclude! You seem to be saying the access-date is not up-to-date and therefore are unsure whether the table is referenced? It's the same source, so you can follow the link and verify this, but the access-date is only updated when it's changed on the parent page. I'll look at updating things to generate a duplicate reference with the specific access-date at some point. Greenman (talk) 21:54, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]