Last modified: 2014-02-19 22:08:00 UTC
See also: 57991 If I create a template, and transclude it into a Flow post ({{template}}), and then delete the template, the text is still visible. This is an issue because there is no way to track template usage due to bug 58009.
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/583, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Dupe of bug 57512?
As described in bug 57512, this is the current intended behavior. A Flow post is a snapshot in history; editing or deleting a template in the template namespace days, months, or years later shouldn't change the way it looked at the time it was posted in a discussion. If, during the course of beta-testing Flow, a critical use-case is discovered for this feature, we can reconsider it, but we're not going to build it out now.
(In reply to comment #3) > As described in bug 57512, this is the current intended behavior. A Flow post > is a snapshot in history; editing or deleting a template in the template > namespace days, months, or years later shouldn't change the way it looked at > the time it was posted in a discussion. I think this creates a trivially exploitable attack vector. I did a bit of testing at [[Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page]].
