Module talk:Arbcom election banner

Year

@Xaosflux: I note that Special:Diff/1042160676, updating the year in the name of the category for voter guides from 2020 to 2021, has made the previous years' ACE templates also now point to Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021 voter guides. More generally, I wonder, is there a reason that year is always the current year, rather than being taken as a parameter so that the ACE templates wouldn't need to specify so many link targets? —2d37 (talk) 22:49, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@2d37: because no one built and implemented that parameter - feel free to mock up a change if you would like, getting ready for this year is more important that making old years work for me right now though. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:08, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux: Changes are in Module:Arbcom election banner/sandbox (and Module:Arbcom election banner/sandbox/doc) for review when there's time (perhaps after the election). I addressed both sentences of my original comment, which may constitute doing too much at once (although I hope the edit history is broken into small enough 'commits' for easy review). I've checked that the existing uses of the module appear to continue to work with the sandbox version, with no changes needed to the existing uses. —2d37 (talk) 02:32, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]