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Document how to substitute

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Could an admin please add to the template page some documentation about the proper usage for inserting this template in another template using subst:? The line that exists now, "It must be subst'd.", is a bit cryptic except to those Wikipedians who already know how to do it. I know how, so I am not asking for myself. It would also be helpful to add a template at the top explaining this template's protection status and rationale. Thanks. Finell (Talk) 19:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Feel free to add anything else on the new subpage. --- RockMFR 22:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much for this and the other maintenance! (Talk) 02:30, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Use ISO 8601 formats

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Shouldn't this template use ISO 8601 formats like YYYY-MM (2008-07) for the current version July 2008? All template parameters should use official standards.

I.e. change the code form

date={{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}}

to

date={{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}}-{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>padleft:{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTH}}|2|0}}

Created {{DATE2}} for illustrating this. Tested it here: User:Nsaa/DATE2. See also {{CURRENTISODATE}} for more on ISO dates. Nsaa (talk) 12:25, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{editprotected}} Changes as shown above. Nsaa (talk) 21:08, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done. Please propose this somewhere better watched (WP:VPT would probably be good), changes like this to a meta-template such as this have the potential to cause massive breakage if the possible effects aren't investigated. Mr.Z-man 00:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Added a question at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical). Looks like a change may be accepted iff renaming of categories are carried out? Nsaa (talk) 20:15, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Add category

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Can somebody please add the category Category:Templates that must be substituted to this article. Debresser (talk) 20:17, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unexpected results

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(See this bot correction) - Is this template not supposed to work with the {{dead link}} template?  -- WikHead (talk) 19:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 11 July 2014

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Please replace the contents of this template with the contents of the sandbox so that this template can be properly substituted and not break article pages when used to add a date to citations. — {{U|Technical 13}} (etc) 17:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: I'm pretty sure this won't make any difference as coded: it's a known problem with MediaWiki that subst: doesn't work inside <ref>...</ref> tags. Therefore, I'd like to see some testcases that demonstrate that the proposed change fixes the problem. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]