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@ Dr vulpes:, this is an interesting idea.
One immediate concern I have is that it decouples the status from the date given in |status_ref=
. While I don't suppose there is very much value to a typical reader in displaying what the TNC status was as of some day in 2022 (which is unlikely to have been changed since then), going further back there is more likelihood that a status has changed and an older access date (say 10+ years) may indicate that the status be checked to make sure it is current. And it won't be obvious (without viewing the source code in edit mode) that this template is being used to provide an up-to-date status when the date given for the reference is quite old. Wikidata is more likely to have recently updated TNC statuses than Wikipedia, but could also be potentially out of date. There is some value for editors (or someone else concerned with fact-checking) to have a date that corresponds to when a (potentially dynamic) source was accessed.
Another concern (although not really one of mine) is that some Wikipedians are quite resistant to the notion of getting anything from Wikidata ({{ Short description}} grew out of this, which is something I view as creating a massive amount of work for Wikipedians in order to avoid Wikidata, with very little benefit). If there is support for pulling conservation status from Wikidata, that could also be accomplished by including the functionality of this template in the code for taxoboxes. Some editions of Wikipedia in other languages already have taxoboxes that pull information from Wikidata (I'm thinking particularly of the Russian Wikipedia, where the taxobox shows identifiers for several taxonomic databases (similar to what {{ Taxonbar}} does on English Wikipedia). Of course, there might not be support for modifying taxoboxes to do that.
The date issue I raise could be resolved with another template, maybe {{
TNCRef}}?, that pulls the date of a statement on Wikidata, and replacing existing |status_refs=
with that template. With taxoboxes set up to need |status=
, |status_system=
, and |status_ref=
, I don't see a way to pull status and statement date from Wikidata with a single template (but if taxoboxes were set up to display status via Wikidata with no parameters needing to be specified, it should be possible to display the statement date as well as the status).
I think you should bring this template up at WP:TOL to see if there is support for pulling conservation status from Wikidata, and if there is, to determine how best to do so. Plantdrew ( talk) 01:53, 9 May 2023 (UTC)