Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4189499-20150607233806

Hello all.

My problem this time is that we have two primary maintenance templates on our wiki, Template:Delete and Template:Clarify. The second template was added recently to take over some of the duties of the delete tag to look less threatening on pages where the page's creator just needs to fix their question before we can answer it rather than needing outright deletion (it's an answers wiki). However, both templates apply different categories to pages, and each have a different "grace period" before deletion to allow the asker to return and fix their question.

What I want to know is this: is there any way of making it so that after 10 days, the clarify template is automatically changed to the delete template, thus categorising it with the rest of the candidates for deletion for easier cleanup? I'm expecting this to require some sort of Lua module (I will learn Lua one of these days!) or something else along those lines. It makes little difference if the date used is the time the question was last edited or when the template was actually added to the page, if one is easier to code than another.

On a related yet separate note, is there anyway to change the clarify template if a question has been rephrased (which in normal wiki equivalent speak is when the page has been renamed) after it has been added to a page? I haven't actually thought what that change should be yet, but would that be possible? 