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The answer is, as usual, ""it depends"". But with these cleanup templates a number of bots add the date parameter, so the extra work is negligable. And having the bots do it means you don't get things like ""Devember"" as I typed earlier today, or more subtley ""december""- lower case ""d"". Also if you add a named parameter to a template and it is unused, it doesn't matter, as you hint above.  Farmbrough, 15:17 7  December 2006 (GMT)."