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birth date and related templates already did that. If they do not, then I propose that it be added to those templates, which will then populate the desired changes across the encyclopedia. Nothing's broken, so there's nothing to be fixed. Let's not reinvent the wheel when we've already got some great templates that are widely used.
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is heavily used and very well designed and accepted. It is being used on a very many articles and is full-protected because of it. This template has poor and confusing syntax. I am nominating it for merging rather than deleting because of the microformatting. I had been under the impression that the
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