Template:DoB: Difference between revisions

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Calculates a person's current age when given their birth date. Main use is for {{Infobox Smasher}} and userpages. Originally taken from Wikipedia.

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 <nowiki>{{DoB|YEAR|MONTH|DAY}}</nowiki>
-This is the Birth date and age template from Wikipedia, and is available under the GFDL. I changed the name to DoB because it's a lot easier to type, and the only reason why Wikipedia don't call it something like that is because they've got several very similar templates, so they give them more specific names to avoid confusion.
+Calculates a person's current age when given their birth date. Main use is for {{t|Infobox Smasher}} and userpages. Originally taken from Wikipedia.
-This proposed new Date of Birth template is primarily for use with the [[Template:Smasher Infobox|Smasher template]]. Because most people have better things to do than remember Smashers' birthdays, the current age on a lot of Smasher articles is out of date. This template calculates how old someone is given their date of birth.
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