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What is the purpose of listing an expiration date? It's going to change between batches of a product so will very quickly be meaningless when listed on a products page. ( [[User:Scrypt|Scrypt]] ([[User talk:Scrypt|talk]]) 23:56, 7 September 2018 (CEST) )
What is the purpose of listing an expiration date? It's going to change between batches of a product so will very quickly be meaningless when listed on a products page. ( [[User:Scrypt|Scrypt]] ([[User talk:Scrypt|talk]]) 23:56, 7 September 2018 (CEST) )
: It's not being listed on the page, but it's shown in a field in the editor to help editors see data from which version of a product with this code has been entered most recently. --[[User:Bleakpatch|Bleakpatch]] ([[User talk:Bleakpatch|talk]]) 07:23, 8 September 2018 (CEST)
:: Thank you for the clarification ( [[User:Scrypt|Scrypt]] ([[User talk:Scrypt|talk]]) 14:06, 8 September 2018 (CEST) )

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What is the purpose of listing an expiration date? It's going to change between batches of a product so will very quickly be meaningless when listed on a products page. ( Scrypt (talk) 23:56, 7 September 2018 (CEST) )

It's not being listed on the page, but it's shown in a field in the editor to help editors see data from which version of a product with this code has been entered most recently. --Bleakpatch (talk) 07:23, 8 September 2018 (CEST)
Thank you for the clarification ( Scrypt (talk) 14:06, 8 September 2018 (CEST) )