Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15636815-20140211010033

The new Template:PellaDate is a proposed replacement for Template:Date. The code for PellaDate now has complete documentation to increase understanding for people who know how to read Wikitext.

Once the new template is approved (with or without changes), we need to make some small changes to templates that accept date input. These templates need to call the new Template:Date. Otherwise, why did we do all that work? ;-)

Because I'm a nice guy, I have created code for the required changes, along with appropriate changes to each template's documentation. The admins need only to copy and paste. You're welcome.

Templates
The following changes apply both to Template:OfferLoco and to Template:OfferWagon. Add the following to the end of the variable definitions: Then, find the line that reads: | style="width:; text-align:left;" colspan="1" | ...and change   to

That's it! Existing pages will show the same output as before and will be added to Category:Pages needing date updates so we can fix them during our Abundant Spare Time™. ;-)

OfferLoco
In Template:OfferLoco/doc, find lines that refer to "date". Replace each of those lines with the appropriate line shown below.

Parameters: type = s (Special), v (Vintage), u (Under Level 90 Special), or l (Limited) year, month, day = date offer **began**, using numbers only

OfferWagon
In Template:OfferWagon/doc, find lines that refer to "date". Replace each of those lines with the appropriate line shown below.

Parameters: type = s (Special), v (Vintage), u (Under Level 90 Special), or l (Limited) year, month, day = date offer **began**, using numbers only

Finally, copy and paste the entire contents of Template:PellaDate/doc into your favourite text editor. Use the text editor's "find and replace" feature to replace all occurrences of  with. Then create a new page, named Template:Date/doc. Copy and paste the contents of your text editor into the new page, and save the page.

Now, wasn't that easy? ;-) 