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False source dates in articles

How can this template be valid without the user specifying "date" and "accessdate" parameters themselves? The way the template is written now, it's going to give the false impression that every fact in every article has been re-updated to whatever date is built into this template from time to time, when in reality the information in the article itself will not have been updated or verified. I noticed that Raymie (talk · contribs) already went through a bunch of AM stations, replacing valid references from 2009 with this template so that it looks like April 2014 is the source, with no apparent attempt to verify that the article matches 2014 info instead of 2009 information. --Closeapple (talk) 14:14, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I did check some of these. Part of it is that the links to the older sources were dead or dying in a lot of cases. One type of source used by a bunch of similar articles about northern Mexican stations was particularly ancient. The date information is sourced from the IFT, though I may need to add an "accessdate" parameter. I am going to work on that—this is my first template that's not a navbox. Raymie (t • c) 20:28, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, all the TV articles I've edited (which are my specialty) are using the new material. For TV IFT provides more information, notably coordinates of transmitters. For instance XHUJED-TDT is written with the new template and the new source documents. Raymie (t • c) 20:33, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Accessdate parameters have been added to all uses of this template. In addition each time I did so I cross-checked the available information against the most recent IFT lists, which did reveal some inconsistencies (different concessionaires, effective radiated power changes, even an AM station listed with nighttime power that turns out to be a daytimer!). In some cases I've set the parameter to the date I used the information in the article, which in a few cases is before the creation of this template. Thanks for spurring me to do this project. Raymie (t • c) 23:48, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]