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Why is PP stripping parenthetical statements?

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Nux (talkcontribs)

The problem is this removes the dates (born, died). Date is often important to know when a person was born. If he/she lived in the modern era or how old is a sportswomen in preview. Seems like Popups is doing a better job here (showing users crucial information).

If this is important for some articles, then maybe you could get date (and maybe calculate age) from WD data (for items in which P569 is available)?

Phuedx (WMF) (talkcontribs)

The decision to strip all content inside of balanced parentheses was formalised in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91344#3327008. Rereading that task there seems to be some that support complete removal with no exceptions and others that support no removal at all and the current situation is somewhere in the middle.


@OVasileva (WMF): Is there a decision record detailing why we took that position?

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