Template talk:EB1911 article with no significant updates

Why this template was created.

A user ran a script to correct what that user considers to be spelling mistake: "Encyclopaedia Britannica" to "Encyclopædia Britannica". This meant that all the files in the category "1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica articles with no significant updates‎" were moved to "1911 Encyclopædia Britannica articles with no significant updates‎".

The creation of this template {{EB1911 article with no significant updates}} future proofs the category from name changes, because th name of the category no longer appears on the page. So it will not register if someone in the future does an AWB search for "Encyclopaedia Britannica", or "Encyclopædia Britannica" in the main article spave, and it will allow for any future expansion of the template (for example adding a notes= parameter to allow notes to be kept inside the template, rather than as has been done up to now with them being added as hidden comments after the category.

For the discussion that triggered the creation of this template see these edits

-- PBS (talk) 08:51, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

@PBS: is this template not essentially the same as {{Update-EB}}? – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:14, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

The difference between this template and {{Update-EB}}, it does not place what is essentially a maintenance text into article space. It was a direct fix for a problem caused by someone changing a caregory name on some articles. PBS (talk) 16:30, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

@PBS: I still fail to see the usefulness. If there is a maintenance problem, then certainly a "maintenance text" (visible cleanup template) is what we want. Maintenance templates can, and should, emit cleanup categories. {{Update-EB}} emits Category:1911 Britannica articles needing updates which seems to be redundant to Category:1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica articles with no significant updates of this template. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:49, 5 May 2021 (UTC)