As part of a group of related potential changes, I have suggested rewording this to:

FailedGA is a former good article candidate. There are suggestions below for which areas need improvement to satisfy the good article criteria. Once the objections are addressed, the article can be renominated as a good article. If you disagree with the objections, you can seek a review.

Please see Wikipedia talk:Good articles for more details. TheGrappler 03:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just reverted a revision because it adds ugly subst messages and ignores inputted dates that have been applying the new date feature. Not to mention it makes it harder to editors to change the GA date for those many articles that didn't have the date stamp on it.

However, can someone more familiar with the code change it so that the current date feature remains the same (i.e. no hard typing) and hides the error message? Since there are still plenty of older Failed GAs that have this template from before it had the feature. --SevereTireDamage 23:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, someone tried that sort of thing before (see Template talk:GAnominee). Are there any example templates we could steal code from?  -- Run!  13:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]