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On this page, the deletion or merging of templates and modules, except as noted below, is discussed. To propose the renaming of a template or templates, use Wikipedia:Requested moves.
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What not to propose for discussion here
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- Stub templates
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- List at Redirects for discussion.
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- The template is redundant to a better-designed template
- The template is not used, either directly or by template substitution (the latter cannot be concluded from the absence of backlinks), and has no likelihood of being used
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Listing a template
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for this.
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Discussion
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Contents
- 1 How to use this page
- 2 Discussion
- 3 Current discussions
- 3.1 April 17
- 3.2 April 16
- 3.3 April 15
- 3.3.1 Template:Infobox UK place
- 3.3.2 Template:UAAP Season 81 schedule
- 3.3.3 Template:Genealogy of Tamar and her family
- 3.3.4 Template:Kuwait parliamentary election, 2006
- 3.3.5 Template:Kazakh presidential election, 2005
- 3.3.6 Template:Belgian chamber election/top
- 3.3.7 Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship beam
- 3.3.8 Infobox premiership/presidency
- 3.3.9 Template:PortalSEEselection
- 3.4 April 14
- 3.4.1 Template:Image hoax
- 3.4.2 Infobox settlement wrappers
- 3.4.3 Template:Sylvia Ratonel
- 3.4.4 Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1922
- 3.4.5 Template:2017 IPL-MI-Batting
- 3.4.6 Template:Other people3
- 3.4.7 Template:Dec to frac
- 3.4.8 Template:Pubchemcite
- 3.4.9 Template:Infobox Primeval creature
- 3.4.10 Template:Deo Block
- 3.5 April 13
- 3.5.1 Template:OmPuff (kwaito)
- 3.5.2 Template:2018–19 Albanian Second Division table Group A
- 3.5.3 Template:2018 Rugby League Qualifiers table
- 3.5.4 Template:2018 J.League Cup group table
- 3.5.5 Template:2018 Danish 1st Division table
- 3.5.6 Template:1THE9
- 3.5.7 Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1924
- 3.5.8 Template:Non-free architectural work
- 3.5.9 Template:Infobox England region
- 3.6 April 12
- 3.6.1 Template:Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D tracks
- 3.6.2 Template:Triplemanía venues
- 3.6.3 Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1925
- 3.6.4 Several merged tables (2)
- 3.6.5 Template:Icelandic municipal election
- 3.6.6 Template:Singapore general election, 1991
- 3.6.7 Template:Malian parliamentary election, 2013
- 3.6.8 Template:Japan general election, 1930
- 3.6.9 Template:Japanese general election, 1932
- 3.6.10 Template:Kyrgyz presidential election, 2011
- 3.6.11 Template:Ivorian presidential election, 2000
- 3.6.12 Template:Greenlandic parliamentary election, 2005
- 3.6.13 Template:Cantonal Council of Zürich election, 2007
- 3.6.14 Template:Infobox D&D character
- 3.6.15 Template:Ole Miss Rebels softball navbox
- 3.7 April 11
- 3.8 April 10
- 4 Old discussions
- 4.1 April 9
- 4.2 April 8
- 4.3 April 7
- 4.4 April 6
- 4.5 April 5
- 4.6 April 4
- 4.7 April 3
- 4.8 April 2
- 4.9 April 1
- 4.10 March 31
- 4.11 March 30
- 4.11.1 Template:List of rivers of Tajikistan
- 4.11.2 Template:Warning antisemitism Arabs
- 4.11.3 Template:GNF Protein box
- 4.11.4 Template:Odia language
- 4.11.5 Template:32TeamBracket-Compact-NoSeeds
- 4.11.6 Template:WikiProject Free and open-source software
- 4.11.7 Template:Gibraltar Football League
- 4.11.8 Template:Governors of the Central Bank of Kenya
- 4.11.9 Template:Basketball in Israel
- 4.11.10 Template:Form factors
- 4.12 March 26
- 4.12.1 Template:Montreal municipal election, 2005/Position/Saint-Leonard borough Councillor, Saint-Leonard-Ouest
- 4.12.2 Template:Montreal municipal election, 2005/Position/Ville-Marie borough Councillor, Peter-McGill
- 4.12.3 Template:Montreal municipal election, 2009/Position/Councillor, Peter-McGill
- 4.12.4 Template:Iranian legislative election, 2000
- 4.12.5 Template:Iranian legislative election, 1996
- 4.13 March 21
- 4.14 March 20
- 4.15 March 19
- 4.15.1 Template:Salem–Vriddhachalam–Cuddalore Port line
- 4.15.2 Template:Liloa/Piilani/Moana Family Tree
- 4.15.3 Template:La Serena squad
- 4.15.4 Template:La Ronge Radio
- 4.15.5 Template:Super Over
- 4.15.6 Template:Navbox Province of Italy
- 4.15.7 Template:If affirmed
- 4.15.8 Template:Samanid Provinces
- 4.15.9 One Nation party templates
- 4.15.10 Unnecessary file wrappers
- 4.15.11 Template:Urban public transport in Algeria
- 4.16 March 18
- 4.17 March 7
- 5 Completed discussions
- 6 Archive and Indices
Current discussions
April 17
Template:SaskatoonCoach
- Template:SaskatoonCoach ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
WP:NHL does not create navboxes for coaches, players, championship teams, etc. – Sabbatino (talk) 07:49, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Module:Adjacent stations/Brightline
- Module:Adjacent stations/Brightline ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Brightline was renamed to Virgin Trains USA, so this is now a duplicate of Module:Adjacent stations/Virgin Trains USA. Daybeers (talk) 03:33, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
April 16
Module:Join
- Module:Join ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Module:String ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Module:Join with Module:String.
Consolidate string-related Lua functions under Module:String. * Pppery * has returned 20:43, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Module:Kill markers
- Module:Kill markers ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Module:Unstrip ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Module:Kill markers with Module:Unstrip.
Given that all three of these functions are located in the same mw.text
library in the backend, they should be in the same module instead of split out into two. * Pppery * has returned 20:27, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- merge, seems reasonable. if I recall, the unstrip module was created to solve a problem with references no being parsed correctly in templates like {{wide image}}, {{panorama}}, etc. but, I seem to remember that the problem was "fixed" in the mediawiki software. so, it's possible we could just remove/delete the unstrip module. some testing would be helpful to determine if that module is still needed. Frietjes (talk) 20:40, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge. Also merge Module:Plain text? New more generic name Module:Strip? -DePiep (talk) 21:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Module:Cycling race
- Module:Cycling race ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/bestyoungclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/teamsclassificationbypoints ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/sprintsclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/mountainsclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/stageinfobox ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/teamsclassificationbytime ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/pointsclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/infobox ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/listofteams ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/teamtimetrialclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/stageclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/stageclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/generalclassification ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/teamroster ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/listofwinners ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cycling race/listofstages ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Deprecated templates without mainspace transclusions. * Pppery * has returned 18:59, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Aside from the fact that it is marked as deprecated, the way that the module is coded is atrocious to me: lots of dead code, global variables, a wiki variable that always returns the same thing, duplicate code everywhere, and i18n for other languages. I'm glad that the Cycling community decided to deprecate its use. * Pppery * has returned 19:25, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- ... and templates with names that technically meet G8. * Pppery * has returned 03:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Rulers of the Persian Empire
- Template:Rulers of the Persian Empire ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
WP:OR; not every ruler of Persia/Iran was a "ruler of the Persian Empire", nor was every ruler a Shahanshah ("King of Kings"). The template is too ambiguous and problematic amongst others, and should therefore be deleted. - LouisAragon (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- @LouisAragon except some of them (like early Arsacids), the others were officially "King of Kings". Not only Iranian rulers, but also the Ottomans, the Seljuks, the Mughals and etc called themselves "Shahanshah". And what's your definition of the "Persian Empire"? anything but ruling dynasty of Persia? Aryzad (talk) 15:31, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- The Zand and Pahlavi dynasties have never been termed as a "Persian empire". The Zand and Afsharid (with the exception of Nader Shah) didn't use the title of king of kings as well. The Arsacid dynasty has never been called a "Persian Empire." I could go on, but I think you get the idea. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- @HistoryofIran The problem is not that the Zand or Pahlavi dynasties were called the Persian Empire or the Zand rulers called themselves Shahanshah or not, or the Parthians were not ethnically Persian! it's more simple than that. There are two different definition for "the Persian Empire". First: the Achaemenid Empire, the second: just referring to era that Iran (It's called the Persian Empire instead of the Iranian Empire because in the western view it was the Empire of Persia, not Empire of a southern province) was ruled by a monarch. The Zand or Pahlavi dynasties were not big like Empires? so what? the Byzantine Empire was just a city in it's last decades. Anyway. Your comment has two good points: 1) post-Nader rulers of Afsharid dynasty can be removed. 2) The Zand didn't called themselves "Shah", but I can't understand why this is important for you. Your problem can be solved with changing "Shahanshah" to "Rulers?" (And just for your knowledge: The official name of the Pahlavi dynasty was the Imperial state of Persia (and then changed to the Imperial state of Iran in English language)) Aryzad (talk) 20:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- This is a good example of the template being too problematic. Sorry but ultimately this looks like your own opinion rather than actual factual information. I'm not gonna go too deep into this, I've said enough. There is a lot of other stuff you can help with. --HistoryofIran (talk) 20:20, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- @HistoryofIran The problem is not that the Zand or Pahlavi dynasties were called the Persian Empire or the Zand rulers called themselves Shahanshah or not, or the Parthians were not ethnically Persian! it's more simple than that. There are two different definition for "the Persian Empire". First: the Achaemenid Empire, the second: just referring to era that Iran (It's called the Persian Empire instead of the Iranian Empire because in the western view it was the Empire of Persia, not Empire of a southern province) was ruled by a monarch. The Zand or Pahlavi dynasties were not big like Empires? so what? the Byzantine Empire was just a city in it's last decades. Anyway. Your comment has two good points: 1) post-Nader rulers of Afsharid dynasty can be removed. 2) The Zand didn't called themselves "Shah", but I can't understand why this is important for you. Your problem can be solved with changing "Shahanshah" to "Rulers?" (And just for your knowledge: The official name of the Pahlavi dynasty was the Imperial state of Persia (and then changed to the Imperial state of Iran in English language)) Aryzad (talk) 20:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- The Zand and Pahlavi dynasties have never been termed as a "Persian empire". The Zand and Afsharid (with the exception of Nader Shah) didn't use the title of king of kings as well. The Arsacid dynasty has never been called a "Persian Empire." I could go on, but I think you get the idea. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per LouisAragon. This is a problematic and heavily inaccurate template. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Modernism
- Template:Modernism ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This navbox is a travesty. Inclusion here is completely selective and subjective in nature, and the whole thing is simply too large to function as a useful navigation aid. Who has decided what counts as a milestone? Who has decided which filmmakers are worthy of inclusion here? Where is the definitive list of who is or isn't a "modernist"? If this is kept, all the individual people and works of art need to be removed and only the section headings remain. Categories are clearly more appropriate for the individual entries here, where inclusion would not be so selective. A navbox is better suited to "a small, well-defined group of articles"
, or a "complete set", which is clearly not achievable here. --woodensuperman 13:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Although, the categories also need some work as well. There are a load of Category:Modernist architects categorised as Category:Modernist architecture! --woodensuperman 13:52, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - while I'm sure there are enough academic books which can be the basis for such a template, this template will be huge (it already is). If needed, a better approach here would be smaller scopes of film, Literature, etc., then this template. But as Woodensuperman pointed out, this can turn very quickly to be a subjective template as sources aren't used. --Gonnym (talk) 15:15, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Strong Keep, baby out with bathwater. And an important baby at that. "Too large" is subjective and underestimating the intelligence of Wikipedia's readers, as people interested in visual arts will look at the visual arts section, music the music section, and overall 'Modernism' the entire package. Subjective additions or subtractions are also subjective, so the easy solution, as always: entries should mention 'Modernism' on their pages. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Here are around 500 articles on architects, most of which have will the word "modernism" or "modernist" mentioned on their pages (and if they don't, why are they in the category?). Here are a couple of hundred writers, etc, etc. It would be ridiculous to include all of these, along with all the other topics, and, as always, any selection of some of these is subjective. This is why it should be left to category navigation rather than this abomination. --woodensuperman 15:42, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Also note that there are already entries which do not mention "modernist" or "modernism" on their articles. John Osborne and Georges Méliès were two that I picked completely at random. --woodensuperman 15:45, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- That baby still in bathwater. Inclusionists look for a solution without the nuclear option, and 'Modernism' is an important topic which should of course have a template. The form of that template should be under discussion, but 'delete' is not it, so I'll add a 'Strong' to my 'Keep' and ask that you list this deletion request on each of the relevant Wikiproject talk pages. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:50, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- The subject may merit a navbox, but this is not it. A navbox that links to general "modernist" topics, such as Literary modernism, might be acceptable, but listing some modernists and some modernist works is not, and listing all of them is a simply ridiculous task for a navbox, which would not prove useful, given the size it would have to be. Navboxes are not for enormous lists of everyone related to a subject which will never be complete. WP:TNT is the only option. --woodensuperman 15:58, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- That baby still in bathwater. Inclusionists look for a solution without the nuclear option, and 'Modernism' is an important topic which should of course have a template. The form of that template should be under discussion, but 'delete' is not it, so I'll add a 'Strong' to my 'Keep' and ask that you list this deletion request on each of the relevant Wikiproject talk pages. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:50, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Francis Picabia
- Template:Francis Picabia ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Do we really need a navbox for this few links? WP:NENAN --woodensuperman 11:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Latvian municipalities
- Template:Infobox Latvian municipalities ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose subst: and delete Template:Infobox Latvian municipalities with Template:Infobox settlement.
Unnecessary wrapper for {{Infobox settlement}}, with limited transclusions, on pretty stable sets of articles. Subst:itution will reduce the maintenance overhead, reduce the cognitive burden for editors, and enable articles to benefit more immediately from improvements to the current parent template.
Other types of entities in Latvia, villages, former districts, planning regions etc. already directly transclude Infobox settlement. The two neigbouring countries, each of similar size, Estonia, Lithuania completely do without a country-specific infobox and only use Infobox settlement. Only few transclusions, pretty stable set of articles. Display will be the same, as the template already is a wrapper for the subst:-target.
Note: Despite being named "Infobox settlement" the template is not only used for settlements. Per its documentation, Infobox settlement is "used to produce an Infobox for human settlements (cities, towns, villages, communities) as well as other administrative districts, counties, provinces, et cetera—in fact, any subdivision below the level of a country"
. 78.54.12.181 (talk) 01:00, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
April 15
Template:Infobox UK place
- Template:Infobox UK place ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose: Convert to a wrapper of {{Infobox settlement}}
What is possible and useful in the case of French commune (37000 transclusions), German location (13000 transclusions) [1] should also be possible and useful in the case of UK place.
No content will be lost, no code in the articles will change - just the back-end code in the template itself will be changed to use Infobox settlement.
Note: Despite being named "Infobox settlement" the template is not only used for settlements. Per its documentation, Infobox settlement is "used to produce an Infobox for human settlements (cities, towns, villages, communities) as well as other administrative districts, counties, provinces, et cetera—in fact, any subdivision below the level of a country"
. That is practice for over a decade, it is used on ~ 500000 articles.
77.13.54.209 (talk) 22:22, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
@Underlying lk: You created several wrappers before. What do you think about feasibility here? 77.13.54.209 (talk) 22:36, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. We've had this kind of discussion before, see for example Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 February 21#Template:Infobox UK place. Infobox UK place provides a number of features which are tailored specifically for the UK situation. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:50, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- User:Redrose64, you claim
We've had this kind of discussion before, see for example ...
but the example does not talk about using Infobox settlement as backendInfobox UK place provides a number of features which are tailored specifically for the UK situation.
. Is that being "tailored specifically for the UK situation" (btw. what is 'the UK situation'?) not true for- which use Infobox settlement? Or for
- which also use Infobox settlement? Are they not tailored specifically for the item they are used on?
- What tailorisation for "the UK situation" prevents using Infobox settlement as a backend for this template?
- Is it really true that what works for ALL Africa, ALL Latin America, ALL Asia, ALL Europe (except UK) - does not work for the UK? Where is the evidence? 78.55.133.88 (talk) 00:20, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
- User:Redrose64, you claim
- Neutral, While it's a lot of effort for limited benefit, I don't see any issues with making it into a wrapper template using infobox settlement as long as the changes are verified against some testcases before being deployed. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:10, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
- Neutral, I don't see a problem with this change as long as all of the infobox fields that are currently in use by UK places are not disrupted - providing nothing gets removed and all fields are still usable, I would not oppose this change. However I do agree with WOSlinker that it also seems like a lot of work for very little benefit and it seems like it's already working as is, thus I currently stand as neutral. JoshTilley (talk) 07:41, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:UAAP Season 81 schedule
- Template:UAAP Season 81 schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 Women's Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 mens tournament squads ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 men's tournament squads ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 womens tournament squads ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 men's volleyball ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 women's volleyball ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 boys' volleyball ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 81 girls' volleyball ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 men's tournament squads ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 womens tournament squads ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 men's volleyball boxscore ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 women's volleyball boxscore ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 women's volleyball semis ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 men's volleyball ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:UAAP Season 80 women's volleyball ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
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unused after being merged (with attribution) with UAAP Season 81 volleyball tournaments, UAAP Season 80 volleyball tournaments, UAAP Season 79 volleyball tournaments, UAAP Season 78 volleyball tournaments, ... UAAP Season 71 volleyball tournaments Frietjes (talk) 14:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Genealogy of Tamar and her family
- Template:Genealogy of Tamar and her family ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused; included directly in the article Frietjes (talk) 13:46, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. I make an edit to make transclusion, so the template is in use now. Benyamin-ln (talk) 18:31, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Templates should only be used if they are transcluded on more than one page. * Pppery * has returned 20:16, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Kuwait parliamentary election, 2006
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Unused template since 2006 Kuwaiti general election uses a different table, with very different values. Gonnym (talk) 12:57, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Kazakh presidential election, 2005
- Template:Kazakh presidential election, 2005 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template since 2005 Kazakh presidential election uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 12:55, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Belgian chamber election/top
- Template:Belgian chamber election/top ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template since Belgian chamber election tables seem to have been changed to use {{electiontable}} instead. Gonnym (talk) 12:51, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship beam
- Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship beam ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
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- Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship draught ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship propulsion ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship range ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Queen Elizabeth class battleship speed ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
The following templates are all unused versions of information manually entered into the infobox at Queen Elizabeth-class battleship. Gonnym (talk) 12:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Infobox premiership/presidency
- Template:Infobox premiership ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Infobox presidency ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Per WP:Infobox#Requirement: Can't be addressed by the existing infoboxes
. There is no obvious reason as to why {{Infobox officeholder}} cannot be used to serve the same purpose in premiership/presidency articles. Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 12:18, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep they have completely different purposes and aren't comparable in any way. Colonestarrice (talk) 12:39, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- None of the parameters used in either template are incompatible with {{Infobox officeholder}}. Indeed, most of them have been copied over from that particular template, e.g.
|term_start=
and|cabinet=
. Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- None of the parameters used in either template are incompatible with {{Infobox officeholder}}. Indeed, most of them have been copied over from that particular template, e.g.
- Keep but Merge. {{Infobox officeholder}} is for persons, but {{Infobox premiership}} and {{Infobox presidency}} is for era of a presidency/premiership. Should the article of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan be deleted, because of existence of the article of the Ronald Reagan?! No. Benyamin-ln (talk) 12:49, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- It’s perfectly possible to use {{Infobox officeholder}} (as a module or otherwise) to convey the same information given using these two templates. Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- I oppose. Benyamin-ln (talk) 18:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- It’s perfectly possible to use {{Infobox officeholder}} (as a module or otherwise) to convey the same information given using these two templates. Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge {{Infobox premiership}} and {{Infobox presidency}}. While I can see the points made by Benyamin-ln above, that one is for an era and one is for the actual person, there is still no need for two different templates, which are basically the same apart a name variation and the monarch parameter. --Gonnym (talk) 13:04, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge. Infobox officeholder doesn't work, but the two nominated templates can be merged with each other. What should the merged name be? Perhaps {{Infobox administration}}, which is currently a redirect. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:28, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Can anyone at least make that page-wide announcement smaller? Thanks. --Bageense(disc.) 14:13, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:PortalSEEselection
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).
The result of the discussion was As I'm the only substantial editor of both templates and don't object to their deletion, I've speedy deleted both under CSD G7. WaggersTALK 11:49, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Template:PortalSEEselection ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:PortalSEERandomSubportal ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused templates that were used at Portal:South East England. After talking to the the portal maintainer mentioned on the talk page (User:Waggers), it seems the portal was changed to use different templates. See discussion for further details. Gonnym (talk) 11:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).
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Template:Image hoax
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If an image is being used to support a hoax, the article in question should be tagged. I don't see why we need a separate template for files alone. funplussmart (talk) 22:45, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. You can have an image without an article, negating your sole reason for deletion. MarkZusab (talk) 07:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Infobox settlement wrappers
- Template:Infobox Singapore neighbourhood ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete) (Transclusion count: 119)
- Template:Infobox St. Louis neighborhood ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete) (Transclusion count: 79)
- Template:Infobox Neighborhood Portland OR ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete) (Transclusion count: 95)
Propose: Replace and delete
City-specific wrappers for {{Infobox settlement}}, with limited transclusions, on pretty stable sets of articles. Subst:itution will reduce the maintenance overhead, reduce the cognitive burden for editors, and enable articles to benefit more immediately from improvements to the current parent template.
Very uncommon practice, these seem to be the only city-specific Infobox settlement wrappers for neighbo(u)rhoods. All other cities in Wikipedia do without.
Note: Despite being named "Infobox settlement" the template is not only used for settlements. Per its documentation, Infobox settlement is "used to produce an Infobox for human settlements (cities, towns, villages, communities) as well as other administrative districts, counties, provinces, et cetera—in fact, any subdivision below the level of a country"
. That is practice for over a decade, it is used on ~ 500000 articles.
89.12.75.89 (talk) 20:06, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Sylvia Ratonel
- Template:Sylvia Ratonel ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This singer's navigational template does not consist of enough links to justify its existence. The template currently has a biography article, an album, a redirect to the biography, a link to the reality show they competed on and a link to the cosmetic company they worked for, so there are only two justifiable links and WP:NENAN. Aspects (talk) 19:17, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1922
- Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1922 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navbox with just two links. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:18, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note. This is one of a whole string of "by year" templates for "Aviation accidents and incidents" and I couldn't find one with more than four linked articles in them. Now, I only had time to check five years on either side of this one so I don't know how many there are altogether. You may want to expand this to a group tfd WilliamJE if you have the time and patience. MarnetteD|Talk 19:31, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Part of a series, see Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1981. Hint: There was not that much aviation in 1922 as today. 89.12.75.89 (talk) 20:10, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment The purpose of NAVBOX is navigation, not lists. NAVBOX without links or with very few serve no navigation box purpose and have been routinely deleted at many TFDs....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment the series has a navbox for every year from 1920-2019, and a pre-1920 one to catch the earlier ones. Perhaps it might need a think about these there is not an actual connection between the accidents other than the year it is a bit artificial, one using location or operator are more of use for navigation. Perhaps we should consider dumping the lot as we also have a category system and various list articles that can be used if you really need to know which accidents happened in the same year. MilborneOne (talk) 10:47, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:2017 IPL-MI-Batting
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- Template:2017 IPL-MI-Bowl ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
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- Template:2017 IPL-RPS-Bowl ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused and now reason why it could not be included directly in a parent article if needed Frietjes (talk) 13:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- That Templates belongs to 2017 Indian Premier League Final (Mr.Mani Raj Paul (talk) 13:21, 14 April 2019 (UTC))
Keep I added it on main article 2017 Indian Premier League Final (Mr.Mani Raj Paul (talk) 13:39, 14 April 2019 (UTC))
- Delete can be included directly in the parent article as suggested by Frietjes. 117.198.253.238 (talk) 14:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Other people3
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- Template:About-otherpeople ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Other people3 with Template:About-otherpeople.
Deprecated since 2016 with a note to use {{About-otherpeople}} instead. Uses should be replaced with correct template. Gonnym (talk) 11:58, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Support: I marked {{otherpeople3}} deprecated after developing {{about-otherpeople}} and migrating most uses. I mostly left the older template around because of extant uses outside the article namespace, but the newer template is better. We might as well complete what I started. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 20:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Dec to frac
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Template has been deprecated since 2016 and is unused. Gonnym (talk) 11:25, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- This could be redirected to Template:rndfrac, of which it appears to be a precursor. – Uanfala (talk) 07:06, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Pubchemcite
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Deprecated template since 2015 which also had its code removed, so currently it does nothing. Gonnym (talk) 11:21, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. I did the deprecation back then; after these years now no unintended usage occurs any more. As the template notes, User:CheMoBot does not use this one (see also the {{cascite}} set: bot-handled templates in {{Chembox}}, {{Infobox drug}}). -DePiep (talk) 17:09, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Primeval creature
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- Template:Infobox fictional race ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Infobox Primeval creature with Template:Infobox fictional race.
This template is used for semi-real life (groups of) creatures that appeared in Primeval (TV series) and is only used at List of creatures in Primeval. |number=
, |humans_killed=
and |returned=
should not be kept as they are too in-universe specific. Gonnym (talk) 01:26, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep both as-is The two infoboxes are considerably different and serve different purposes. Infobox Primeval creature was created specifically as an in-universe infobox for use in only one article where it is used 80 times instead of using 80 hard-coded tables in the article which is impractical. As it stands now the article is 132kB. Replacing the infobox with tables would result in the article needing to be split. The instructions quite clearly explain the purpose and intent saying the infobox is "to create an infobox for any fictional creature from the series' :Primeval and Primeval: New World. It is only intended for use in List of creatures in Primeval where it is used 80 times." It should not be expanded outside the of Primeval universe because of its deliberate in-universe design. It shares no commonality with Infobox fictional race. Almost every field is irrelevant to Primeval. --AussieLegend (✉) 07:21, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Some of your statements are just false so I need to correct them.
The two infoboxes are considerably different and serve different purposes
- both infoboxes are for races/species from a fictional setting.where it is used 80 times instead of using 80 hard-coded tables in the article which is impractical
no idea where you read that the proposal said to have 80 hard-coded tables, as the proposal was to replace one infobox with another, or are you stretching that argument to say that including|franchise=Primeval
is impractical? If that is the case that is completely silly.Replacing the infobox with tables would result in the article needing to be split
- see previous point why this is false.It shares no commonality with Infobox fictional race
- really?|name=
,|image=
,|first_x=
,|last_x=
,|species=
(used as|type=
). The only parameters not shared, are the 3 this proposal specifically said not to merge as they are rather pointless and very much fancruft, and even in that, it caters to a very limited group, as how many dinosaurs of a specific type appeared in the series or how many people they killed is very trivial and unimportant to the series as a whole. Also, do those figures have any sources? Could there possibly even be one? Obvious answer here. As a side note I'll say that I see no value in having infoboxes set up like this for a list of characters article, where the infoboxes take up more vertical space than the sections themselves and is a hallmark of a badly written list article. --Gonnym (talk) 09:35, 14 April 2019 (UTC)- You didn't correct anything, just made some incorrect assumptions about a series you probably haven't even seen. One infobox is for fictional races while the other is for creatures. Creatures, more specifically dinosaurs, are not a race. We actually used to have {{Infobox fictional creature}}, this infobox was proposed to be merged with it back in 2014, but that infobox was deleted. Allowing expansion of Infobox fictional race to include creatures would be allowing recreation of a pseudo Infobox fictional creature and it would certainly get used for that. Infobox fictional race doesn't have fields that easily lend themselves to replacing the fields in Infobox Primeval creature so it would be far better to use individual tables. The fields that you mentioned lend themselves to a heap of problems.
|name=
has already been mentioned. We don't want to turn Infobox fictional race back into infobox fictional creature. The|first_x=
and|last_x=
fields are too unweildy to use for the two series and multiple books that form Primeval. That's why Infobox Primeval creature has specific fields for the two series and one to mention the related books. It doesn't use separate fields for major and minor works. While part of the same 2-TV series, multi-book franchise, each series and book is a separate, individual work. As it stands now we don't list only when it first appeared in one work and last appeared in another work, we list when it first and last appeared in each TV series and which book that it appeared in because there is little overlap between the individual works. To use Infobox fictional race you would need multiplefirst_major
fields or the entire purpose of the infobox would be changed. The three fields that you are attempting to discard are very much part of the story in Primeval, which is primarily about incursion of dinosaurs into modern times and the effect that their appearances cause. For that reason the number of dinosaurs and how many humans were killed is significant.Also, do those figures have any sources?
As you are well aware from having participated in the TV project, episodes are classed as reliable primary sources and like every other TV article on Wikipedia, the information is sourced from the aired episodes, which is why they are mentioned in the infobox. You know that the TV project supports this. Now lets look at the parameters that aren't common:|affiliation=
,|alignment=
,|base_of_operations=
,|based_on=
,|capital=
,|caption=
,|creator=
,|currency=
,|distinctions=
,|franchise=
,|home_world=
,|iu_creator=
,|iu_created_date=
,|language=
,|leader=
,|leaders=
,|members=
,|name=
,|other_names=
,|quadrant=
,|religion=
,|series=
and|sub_races=
. I haven't included the redundantpara_x
fields but that's 23 fields. Compare that to Infobox Primeval creature which has 12 in total. The two infoboxes are like chalk and cheese. - Going back to an earlier attempt to make a point when you said
no idea where you read that the proposal said to have 80 hard-coded tables, as the proposal was to replace one infobox with another (etc)
, if you actually read what I wrote instead of chopping apart what I said you will see that I said that creating an infobox for the 80 uses in that article was preferable to using individual tables in each section:Infobox Primeval creature was created specifically as an in-universe infobox for use in only one article where it is used 80 times instead of using 80 hard-coded tables in the article which is impractical
. I wasn't specifically talking about your proposal as should have been obvious from "Infobox Primeval creature was created". This just happens to be why we make infoboxes in the first place. --AussieLegend (✉) 11:24, 14 April 2019 (UTC)- Wow. So much text. Just to comment quickly - I've seen the show and still think the parameters I discarded are pointless and as you've pointed out, as a member of the TV WP, I know what the discussions are about trivia information and how the community feels about them. Also, I indeed corrected your misdirection. When you comment and say that a table will cause the article to need to be split, it makes it seem as if that was a proposal on the table, which it wasn't. Not everyone reads your mind or knows of previous discussions. Regarding the parameters you think are pointless in the current template, some of them I totally agree with you, however they are all part of former mergers, which you could have voiced your opinion on. Also, stop with the "we" as it can be used both ways. "We" have {{Infobox fictional race}}. "We" have
|type=
that deals with species of a race. "We" are not against combining "race" and "species" in the same infobox. "We" didn't decide that {{Infobox fictional creature}} is not needed, "we" decided to merge it with {{Infobox character}} which is the correct thing to do when the infobox is about a specific creature and not a group of creatures. --Gonnym (talk) 12:11, 14 April 2019 (UTC)- If the existing infobox was to be replaced with Infobox fictional race without significant changes meant to cater for a single article, it would be far better to replace the infobox with tables that actually meant something to the series. That would certainly result in a size blowout that I tested back in 2014. If Infobox fictional race were changed so that it catered for creatures it would need to be renamed and then it would be appropriate to either recreate infobox fictional creature as separate from infobox character, or more likely, infobox fictional race/creature for a merge with infobox character. Given that infobox fictional creature could be merged with into infobox character, why not infobox fictional creature/race? Much of what is in that infobox could be regarded as fancruft. --AussieLegend (✉) 12:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Wow. So much text. Just to comment quickly - I've seen the show and still think the parameters I discarded are pointless and as you've pointed out, as a member of the TV WP, I know what the discussions are about trivia information and how the community feels about them. Also, I indeed corrected your misdirection. When you comment and say that a table will cause the article to need to be split, it makes it seem as if that was a proposal on the table, which it wasn't. Not everyone reads your mind or knows of previous discussions. Regarding the parameters you think are pointless in the current template, some of them I totally agree with you, however they are all part of former mergers, which you could have voiced your opinion on. Also, stop with the "we" as it can be used both ways. "We" have {{Infobox fictional race}}. "We" have
- You didn't correct anything, just made some incorrect assumptions about a series you probably haven't even seen. One infobox is for fictional races while the other is for creatures. Creatures, more specifically dinosaurs, are not a race. We actually used to have {{Infobox fictional creature}}, this infobox was proposed to be merged with it back in 2014, but that infobox was deleted. Allowing expansion of Infobox fictional race to include creatures would be allowing recreation of a pseudo Infobox fictional creature and it would certainly get used for that. Infobox fictional race doesn't have fields that easily lend themselves to replacing the fields in Infobox Primeval creature so it would be far better to use individual tables. The fields that you mentioned lend themselves to a heap of problems.
- Some of your statements are just false so I need to correct them.
- Clear merge per proposal in the OP. --Izno (talk) 22:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Deo Block
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Propose deletion As it stands it only links to two articles. Also there is no article for Deo, Block so I am not sure what the template creator is trying to accomplish. If there were articles for all the villages it becomes too large and unwieldy. Now if anyone can figure out how to make this work I will withdraw this nomination MarnetteD|Talk 01:25, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. At around 120 links, it's not going to be too large and there's no meaningful smaller-scale administrative division to use as the basis of a template. Still, only 3 of these villages appear to have articles at the moment. I've linked them in the template, so there's just about enough links for navigation. Deo Block doesn't exist because it hasn't been created yet. – Uanfala (talk) 07:20, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note. It only has five links at the moment. MarnetteD|Talk 07:30, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Also can you explain what Deo Block is and how does it differ from Deo, Bihar. MarnetteD|Talk 07:32, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Deo, Bihar is a town in Aurangabad district, Bihar of Deo Block subdivision ex - Deo Block Link- https://www.google.com/search?ei=zMS0XIbSN9bZz7sPuLeziA8&q=deo+block+&oq=deo+block+&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i71l8.4948776.4948776..4949127...0.0..0.0.0.......0....1..gws-wiz.ow6CjageHJM & Deo, Bihar Link- — Preceding unsigned comment added by PujaDeo (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Deo, Bihar is a town, Deo Block is an administrative unit centred on the town that includes a hundred or so villages. – Uanfala (talk) 06:52, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Deo, Bihar is a town in Aurangabad district, Bihar of Deo Block subdivision ex - Deo Block Link- https://www.google.com/search?ei=zMS0XIbSN9bZz7sPuLeziA8&q=deo+block+&oq=deo+block+&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i71l8.4948776.4948776..4949127...0.0..0.0.0.......0....1..gws-wiz.ow6CjageHJM & Deo, Bihar Link- — Preceding unsigned comment added by PujaDeo (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Also can you explain what Deo Block is and how does it differ from Deo, Bihar. MarnetteD|Talk 07:32, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note. It only has five links at the moment. MarnetteD|Talk 07:30, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
April 13
Template:OmPuff (kwaito)
- Template:OmPuff (kwaito) ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This musician's navigational template consists of a biography article, an album redirect back to the biography and a section of every notable musical artist they have collaborated with that should not be in the navigational template. With only being located in the biography article and that being the only valid link, there is no need for this navigational template that navigates nowhere and fails WP:NENAN. Aspects (talk) 16:28, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:2018–19 Albanian Second Division table Group A
- Template:2018–19 Albanian Second Division table Group A ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
probably created by mistake since the tables are already in the article Frietjes (talk) 13:39, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:2018 Rugby League Qualifiers table
- Template:2018 Rugby League Qualifiers table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
incorrect copy of Template:2018 Rugby League Qualifiers Table Frietjes (talk) 13:38, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:2018 J.League Cup group table
- Template:2018 J.League Cup group table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
pointless broken duplicate of the tables in the article Frietjes (talk) 13:35, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:2018 Danish 1st Division table
- Template:2018 Danish 1st Division table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused "blank" duplicate of the table in the article Frietjes (talk) 13:34, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:1THE9
- Template:1THE9 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
insufficient navigation, core links point to either the band article or the XIX album article Frietjes (talk) 12:27, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1924
- Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1924 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navbox with just one link. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:26, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Non-free architectural work
- Template:Non-free architectural work ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose renaming
- Template:Non-free architectural work to Template:Non-free proposed architectural work
- Category:Non-free architectural works to Category:Non-free proposed architectural works
Ever since I repurposed this template in 2012, people are still constantly misusing it for architectural works that exist (which should be deleted as invalid fair use) or that used to exist (which may be kept under {{non-free historic image}} if appropriate). The new name would further emphasize the intent of the template. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:40, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Note: I am choosing this venue per WP:IAR. These two need to be bundled together, but there is no way to do it in keeping with standard procedure, which would require the template to go on RM and the category to go on CfD. Since this is the typical place to bring bundled template/category noms, I am bringing it here. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:47, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: WP:RM could have been used as it is used for template renames and the category would just be a speedy request WP:C2D. --Gonnym (talk) 01:12, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Infobox England region
- Template:Infobox England region ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete) - 8 transclusions on region pages, 9 on list pages
Unnecessary wrapper for {{Infobox settlement}}, with limited transclusions, on pretty stable sets of articles. Subst:itution will reduce the maintenance overhead, reduce the cognitive burden for editors, and enable articles to benefit more immediately from improvements to the current parent template.
Despite being named "Infobox settlement" the template is not only used for settlements. Per its documentation, Infobox settlement is "used to produce an Infobox for human settlements (cities, towns, villages, communities) as well as other administrative districts, counties, provinces, et cetera—in fact, any subdivision below the level of a country"
. That is practice for over a decade, it is used on ~ 500000 articles.
78.54.100.184 (talk) 01:04, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
April 12
Template:Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D tracks
- Template:Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D tracks ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Bad Hair Day tracks ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navigation of the linked songs is redundant to the {{"Weird Al" Yankovic}} template and the track listings are better covered within the articles on the albums themselves. This isn't common practice unless there are articles on all the songs, and there is numerous precedent for deletion of similar templates. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 22:43, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Triplemanía venues
- Template:Triplemanía venues ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navbox serves no purpose. Being a venue for an event is not something that one would navigate between. These venues are not unique to use for Triplemania Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 21:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:59, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1925
- Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1925 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navbox with just one link. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:05, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete if this was not being discussed I would have removed the one link as it doesnt point to an accident article. MilborneOne (talk) 08:34, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment @MilborneOne: Even if it did have an independent article, one article is not sufficient for a NAVBOX. The primary task for a NAVBOX is for navigating between similar articles not lists. NAVBOX with two or less links get deleted around here routinely. I know, I have started many such TFDs....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:38, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment Thks William understood. MilborneOne (talk) 14:34, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1920 through Template:aviation accidents and incidents in 1929, inclusive, to Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in the 1920s or something like that. This and two other aviation accident year navboxes have been nominated for deletion (on different days) with the rationale that there aren't enough entries, apparently without considering the obvious solution of merging a decade of templates into one. There aren't many Wikipedia articles about notable aviation accidents in the 1920s, yet, but there are plenty as you progress through the later years of the navbox series. RecycledPixels (talk) 19:51, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Several merged tables (2)
- Template:2015–16 NIFL Premiership table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 NIFL Championship 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 NIFL Championship 2 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 NIFL Premiership table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 NIFL Championship table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 NIFL Premier Intermediate League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 NIFL Premiership table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 NIFL Championship table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 NIFL Premiership table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 NIFL Championship table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2019–20 NIFL Premiership table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2014–15 Armenian Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 Armenian Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Armenian Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Armenian First League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Armenian First League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Category:Armenia football standings templates ( · talk · history · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:1996–97 Football League First Division table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:1999–2000 Football League First Division table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:1999–2000 French Division 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2000–01 French Division 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2001–02 French Division 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2002–03 Ligue 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2006–07 Ligue 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Czech First League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Midland Football League Division One table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Welsh Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Northern Football Alliance Premier Division table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Northern Football Alliance Division One table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Northern Football Alliance Division Two table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Northern Alliance Premier Division table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Northern Alliance Division 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Northern Alliance Division 2 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Wearside Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Wearside Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Durham and Wearside Development Division league table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018 3. divisjon Group 1 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018 3. divisjon Group 2 table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018 Peruvian Promotion play-offs table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Brittany Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Centre-Val de Loire Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Grand Est Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Hauts-de-France Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Normandy Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Nouvelle Aquitaine Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Occitanie Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Pays de la Loire Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur-Corsica Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Championnat National 3 Group Île-de-France Table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2019–20 La Liga table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2019–20 UAE Pro-League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
merged with parent articles (with attribution) per this thread and subsequent TfD discussions.Frietjes (talk) 14:53, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhkohh (talk) 14:19, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- delete all per nom Hhkohh (talk) 14:19, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 10:34, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Icelandic municipal election
- Template:Icelandic municipal election ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused and abandoned template (since 2013) with only 1 edit. Gonnym (talk) 14:39, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Singapore general election, 1991
- Template:Singapore general election, 1991 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 1997 Singaporean general election already uses a different table. Additionally, the first table in the template has a note that it is not even for the correct election. Gonnym (talk) 14:37, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Malian parliamentary election, 2013
- Template:Malian parliamentary election, 2013 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 2013 Malian parliamentary election already uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 14:35, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Japan general election, 1930
- Template:Japan general election, 1930 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 1930 Japanese general election already uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Japanese general election, 1932
- Template:Japanese general election, 1932 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 1932 Japanese general election already uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 14:33, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Kyrgyz presidential election, 2011
- Template:Kyrgyz presidential election, 2011 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 2011 Kyrgyz presidential election already uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 14:32, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Ivorian presidential election, 2000
- Template:Ivorian presidential election, 2000 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 2000 Ivorian presidential election already uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 14:30, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Greenlandic parliamentary election, 2005
- Template:Greenlandic parliamentary election, 2005 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused template and 2005 Greenlandic general election already uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 14:29, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Cantonal Council of Zürich election, 2007
- Template:Cantonal Council of Zürich election, 2007 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Template was unused but 2007 Cantonal Council of Zürich election had no table, so used the table directly on that page and gave credit to table creator. No need for template per previous TfD results. Gonnym (talk) 14:28, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Infobox D&D character
- Template:Infobox D&D character ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Infobox character ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Infobox D&D character with Template:Infobox character.
A pretty straightforward merge. Only parameters missing are |class=
and |alignment=
. |age=
and |setting=
(which is used only once) should not be added. Gonnym (talk) 06:23, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Support. Harsh Rathod Poke me! 01:51, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Support ~ Dissident93 (talk) 20:22, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Support BattleshipMan (talk) 16:33, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete – Template for a questionably notable program (softball doesn't get much coverage) with no relevant links except for the title and a single coach (who would be better served on a coaches navbox, if at all). No point in having a navbox with only nearly zero links. Template creep. SportsGuy789 (talk) 01:28, 12 April 2019 (UTC) Delete per SportsGuy789. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 20:31, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
April 11
Template:SunClock
- Template:SunClock ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This template has multiple inaccuracies. I think it should be deleted because there are other places like this one that show the same thing. Mstrojny (talk) 23:08, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Infoboxᾂ video game
- Template:Infoboxᾂ video game ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Orphaned, no useful content. 74.205.219.246 (talk) 18:30, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- I nominated this template for deletion; I thought I would add more detail. The template was created on April 11 (today) by user SamJohnson55 and added to the article Dirt 3 where it replaced the Template:Infobox video game. I undid the edit, and have nominated this template for deletion to complete the clean-up. 74.205.219.246 (talk) 18:40, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. --Gonnym (talk) 05:04, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:MonctonCoach
- Template:MonctonCoach ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- WP:NHL does not create navboxes for coaches, players, championship teams, etc. – Sabbatino (talk) 16:44, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment, there is also a {{SaskatoonCoach}} out there as well. You should probably include it as similar. Flibirigit (talk) 12:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge to Template:Moncton Wildcats - List can be moved to team template like the navigational boxes for American college hockey teams. - Hirolovesswords (talk) 14:48, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete, now that the content has been merged as described above. BLAIXX 18:58, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Category:2018–19 association football standings in Asia templates
- Template:2018–19 Bahraini Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Brunei Super League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 DPR Korea Premier Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Gaza Strip Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Goa Professional League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Guam Soccer League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Hong Kong Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 I-League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Indian Super League season table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Iran Pro League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Iraqi Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Jordanian Pro League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Kuwaiti Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Lebanese Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Mizoram Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Oman Professional League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Qatar Stars League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Sri Lanka Champions League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Syrian Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 UAE Pro-League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 West Bank Premier League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Category:2018–19 association football standings in Asia templates ( · talk · history · logs · subpages · delete)
merged with parent articles (with attribution) per this thread and subsequent TfD discussions. Frietjes (talk) 14:43, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 14:16, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 14:17, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Frietjes:, Wordzgamez (talk · contribs) has reverted your merging [2] and they also removed TfD tag [3] Hhkohh (talk) 13:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- delete all per nom Hhkohh (talk) 13:57, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Frietjes, someone reverted your another merging [4] Hhkohh (talk) 09:42, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:2018 OFC Champions League group tables
- Template:2018 OFC Champions League group tables ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2019 OFC Champions League group tables ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Using Module:Sports table in template space is now deactivated per this discussion. We are merging table into articles with leaving attribution like this. This discussion is only decided whether we should actually delete after merging. (Note G7 not apply here). These templates originally only used in ~four articles Hhkohh (talk) 07:23, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- See also Frietjes previous TfD nomination Hhkohh (talk) 07:27, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note Template:2018 OFC Champions League group tables was previously merged from Template:2018 OFC Champions League Group A, Template:2018 OFC Champions League Group B, Template:2018 OFC Champions League Group C and Template:2018 OFC Champions League Group D Hhkohh (talk) 07:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhkohh (talk) 07:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 07:39, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Neutral @Hhkohh: Wouldn't it be better to nominate deletion after the tables have been actually merged into the articles? Right now for example the article 2018 OFC Champions League Final still calls Template:2018 OFC Champions League group tables. I would like to make sure that every thing is done correctly before actually deleting the templates. Chanheigeorge (talk) 12:45, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- It is not a matter to choose whether I should merge these templates into articles before or after nomination because this is not within our TfD discussion scope. But I will try to do merge as soon as possible Hhkohh (talk) 13:53, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Because I would like to ensure that after merging without using the template, the article would look exactly the same as before merging when using the template, like this [5]. If it does not look the same, then I would vote Oppose. Chanheigeorge (talk) 14:21, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Chanheigeorge, it must can be merged. If you are unsure, feel free to ask me or Frietjes Hhkohh (talk) 16:03, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Chanheigeorge, also, I will check while merging Hhkohh (talk) 16:05, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Chanheigeorge, if OFC templates merged successfully, I will go on AFC, CAF and help Frietjes merge other templates Hhkohh (talk) 16:09, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Chanheigeorge, 2018 is done now. Please check Hhkohh (talk) 17:30, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Because I would like to ensure that after merging without using the template, the article would look exactly the same as before merging when using the template, like this [5]. If it does not look the same, then I would vote Oppose. Chanheigeorge (talk) 14:21, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- It is not a matter to choose whether I should merge these templates into articles before or after nomination because this is not within our TfD discussion scope. But I will try to do merge as soon as possible Hhkohh (talk) 13:53, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Uw-mos4im
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).
The result of the discussion was Speedy deleted per T2. The template violates WP:AGF and WP:BITE. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:44, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Template:Uw-mos4im ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
There is no need for an "only warning" for good-faith mistakes like MOS violations, all uses of this template would be unhelpful WP:BITEing Tornado chaser (talk) 05:05, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete obviously this is not necessary. The user who just created it has enough troubles already, and ought not to be messing around with warning templates without discussion... --IamNotU (talk) 12:18, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).
April 10
Template:Cr-PSL
- Template:Cr-PSL ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cr-CPL ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cr-BPL ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
As per the ongoing discussions for IPL and BBL templates, clear consensus to delete these meaningless templates Joseph2302 (talk) 21:52, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - I don't see anything in WP:FLAG that forbids us to use team colors. Many PSL related pages are relied on this template, see 2019 Pakistan Super League#Fixtures as an example. Though, this may go against WP:TOOMANY. This can be solved by reformatting the template, so that we can use lesser flag on the page, where needed. Thanks! M. Billoo 13:26, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- There was a TfD discussion in 2011 which removed the Flags from the IPL version of this template. There wasn't a huge amount of policy discussion, but editors said they were synthesis of new material. I don't see the need to show the team colours in match results and once they are gone, the templates just become an obfuscation of a simple link. Something taking time to fix is not a valid reason not to do it in my mind (though I think it would be better to do the changes before the template is deleted) Spike 'em (talk) 15:01, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Though the PSL one can be fixed, the BPL and CPL are the ones that are not given importance. There is a WikiProject about BPL but most of the members are inactive. It will be hard for just one editor to fix articles relating to two different cricket leagues. Human (talk) 15:47, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete These are used as a transport for some WP:OR images which breach MOS:FLAG / MOS:ICON as they are for decorative purposes only. Spike 'em (talk) 15:05, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Strong delete - not needed, better served by standard links, the addition of graphics without suitable alt text to a page should always be avoided, the addition of multiple (in some cases, quite possibly, tens or hundreds) of additional templates to a page should be avoided in terms of page load times, particularly when using mobile networks. So many reasons for deleting them as opposed to the reasons for keeping them which seem to be "it's too much work to replace them". As Spike has already suggested, this is a really straightforward bot request to do. Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:06, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- The Template:Cr-PSL has been fixed on my request by User:Frietjes, so now no need to delete. Similar to Template:Cr-IPL. Thanks! M. Billoo 16:08, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm concerned that we're using templates when it would be more effective to use plain text links. For example, on the 2019 PSL page the template is used over 100 times. Add that to other templates on the page (flagicon, cite etc...) there appear to be getting on to 400 templates used just on that page - there are tables and so on which cause issues with counting the brackets, but I reckon it's at least 350. From the point of view of load-time overheads, especially when on a mobile network, that's actually quite an issue that could be reduced by simply using regular links. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:28, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- The result of the TfD for {{Cr-IPL}} was to delete, so saying PSL is more like does not encourage keeping it. Spike 'em (talk) 17:40, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Several merged tables (1)
- Template:2014–15 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 First League of the Republika Srpska Promotion Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 First League of the Republika Srpska Regular Season table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 First League of the Republika Srpska Relegation Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 First League of the Republika Srpska Promotion Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 First League of the Republika Srpska Regular Season table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 First League of the Republika Srpska Relegation Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Championship Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Regular Season table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Relegation Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 First League of the Republika Srpska Regular Season table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 First League of the Republika Srpska Promotion Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 First League of the Republika Srpska Relegation Round table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina football standings templates ( · talk · history · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Montenegrin First League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Montenegrin First League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 Montenegrin First League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 2. Liga (Slovakia) table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 2. Liga (Slovakia) table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2011–12 Slovak First Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012–13 Slovak First Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2013–14 Slovak First Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2014–15 Slovak First Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 Slovak First Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Slovak First Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Slovak First Football League Regular Season table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Slovak First League Championship group table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 Slovak First League Relegation group table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2017–18 DPR Korea Premier Football League table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2014–15 Albanian Second Division table Group A ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2014–15 Albanian Second Division table Group B ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Albanian First Division Promotion round table Group A ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Albanian First Division Promotion round table Group B ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Albanian First Division Relegation round table Group A ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Albanian First Division Relegation round table Group B ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Albanian First Division table Group A ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2018–19 Albanian First Division table Group B ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
merged with parent articles (with attribution) per this thread and subsequent TfD discussions. Frietjes (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- subst and delete as per the discussion and similar league table templates. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- delete all per nom Hhkohh (talk) 07:35, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhkohh (talk) 07:40, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 12:13, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. --Gonnym (talk) 05:10, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:University of Craiova
- Template:University of Craiova ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Only 3 navigable links, including the head article, so it fails WP:NENAN.
The rest of the template is a forest of plain text listings of departments, research centres, etc. Navigation boxes are for navigation, not for making fancily-formatted lists. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:49, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. University navboxes can certainly be valid, but this doesn't cut it. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:46, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Useless. Even the linked items shouldn't be in there as they are not specific to the subject! --woodensuperman 12:14, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Cast list break
- Template:Cast list break ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
The template was deprecated unilaterally last year, and is used on about 100 articles. Functionally, the template currently just adds <br>
to the start of the input, and could easily be replaced through substitution in a few minutes. I would support keeping the template and possibly improving it with TemplateStyles so that it can use <p>...</p>
without causing a large gap between lines, but (as suggested by SMcCandlish) I am procedurally nominating it for deletion to assess whether there would be consensus for improving the template instead of replacing the template through substitution. (If the template is kept in its current state then I would support deletion.) Jc86035 (talk) 08:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm leaning delete, absent a showing that we need to keep and refine it. I'm not opposed to it being kept if the need can be established and the coding for this gets done. I'm not sure what the use case(s) is/are for such a version, or I might just go do it myself. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: If it's perfectly acceptable to use the plain br tag for the specific purpose then I would probably lean towards deleting as well. On the other hand, in other situations (especially discussions) it would be nice to have a line break which inserts a
<p>
with less paragraph spacing. Jc86035 (talk) 09:41, 11 April 2019 (UTC)- Hmm, well, this doesn't really seem to be a discussion-page-oriented template, but intended for mainspace. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:47, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: If it's perfectly acceptable to use the plain br tag for the specific purpose then I would probably lean towards deleting as well. On the other hand, in other situations (especially discussions) it would be nice to have a line break which inserts a
- Comment: Template:Template for discussion is effecting its usage in articles. Is there a way we solve this while this discussion is taking place?--TriiipleThreat (talk) 19:01, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Already resolved (someone
<noinclude>
'ed the TfD tag. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:32, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Already resolved (someone
- Keep: The template is useful in organizing cast lists and was working fine.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 18:46, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete if kept in this original form per the discussion at Template talk:Cast list break#Deprecation as using the br tag is better in this situation than this template. --Gonnym (talk) 05:10, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - this template was introduced after significant discussion because it was the best option for making detailed cast lists more readable. None of the opposition here appears to have addressed this. - adamstom97 (talk) 23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Bonnie Langford
- Template:Bonnie Langford ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This actress/musical artist's navigational template consists of the biography article, the three acting credits that should not be located in the template, a link to a section of the biography article, a link to a section of a musical and a redlink. The template is only located in the biography article so it currently does not navigate anywhere and with no articles for her own albums and/or songs, there is no justification for having this navigational template. Aspects (talk) 02:30, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Obvious delete. This isn't properly navigating. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:46, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Nominator is spot on with analysis of what's wrong with this. --woodensuperman 12:16, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Old discussions
April 9
Module:Country extract
- Module:Country extract ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Deprecated module with only one transclusion outside of userspace. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Deprecated by whom? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:08, 10 April 2019 (UTC).
- @Rich Farmbrough: BrandonXLF. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 11:30, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete if indeed deprecated in favor of Module:ISO 3166. --Gonnym (talk) 17:29, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Antique Kings of Italy
- Template:Antique Kings of Italy ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Heads of State of Italy ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Antique Kings of Italy with Template:Heads of State of Italy.
Per below. PPEMES (talk) 20:22, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Kings of Italy (1861–1946)
- Template:Kings of Italy (1861–1946) ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Heads of State of Italy ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Kings of Italy (1861–1946) with Template:Heads of State of Italy.
Not sure. But following the precedent of the merged Template:Heads of state of France as well as Template:Former monarchies Italian peninsula, ought the same thing happen to the 'heads of state' of 'Italy'? PPEMES (talk) 20:22, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Ship burial customs in Germanic paganism
- Template:Ship burial customs in Germanic paganism ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Germanic pagan practices ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Ship burial customs in Germanic paganism with Template:Germanic pagan practices.
As below. PPEMES (talk) 17:54, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. Like below, this template functions as a collection of items for a specialized topic. Not everything here is appropriate for a template called "Germanic pagan practices", and merging it would contribute to template bloat. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. I agree. Ceannlann gorm (talk) 23:41, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Death in Germanic mythology
- Template:Death in Germanic mythology ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Germanic pagan practices ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Death in Germanic mythology with Template:Germanic pagan practices.
Do you think this one could be merge, for convenience? PPEMES (talk) 17:54, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. Like above, this template functions as a collection of items for a specialized topic. Merging it would contribute to template bloat. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Anglo-Saxon metrical charms
- Template:Anglo-Saxon metrical charms ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Anglo-Saxon paganism ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Anglo-Saxon metrical charms with Template:Anglo-Saxon paganism.
Might as well keep it collected together? PPEMES (talk) 16:58, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. Many of these poems are explicitly Christian with pagan elements. Merging the template to a template called "Anglo-Saxon paganism" is inappropriate. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles tree
- Template:Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles tree ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
WP:FANCRUFT. Misuse of navbox. Should probably be reformatted and included once at List of The Vampire Chronicles characters if at all. --woodensuperman 14:57, 9 April 2019 (UTC).
- Strong Keep, (??) no reason to get rid of an interesting and informative template like this. I can see putting some templates up for deletion, but not good ones. Thanks. (p.s. WP:FANCRUFT is an opinion essay, not a guideline or policy) Randy Kryn (talk) 16:23, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- This isn't a proper WP:NAVBOX. There is already a navbox at {{The Vampire Chronicles}} which contains all the characters. This one does not need to be transcluded on every article. If this information is kept it should appear once only (at List of The Vampire Chronicles characters) in a different format. --woodensuperman 07:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Although {{The Vampire Chronicles}} template lists the 13 individual character articles this one shows many more, as well as giving readers the interesting familial relationships and timeline. Readers (at least me) find it interesting and informative. It improves the encyclopedia, improves the pages it is (and can be) placed on, and is a fine addition to Wikipedia's Vampire Chronicles collection. There is nothing wrong with it. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:34, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- There is everything wrong with it. It's content masquerading as a navbox. It certainly does not belong along the bottom of multiple pages. If this was a single use template sitting at List of The Vampire Chronicles characters, I'd probably have left it alone, but what the hell is it doing sitting at the bottom of Anne Rice? This needs at the very least converted to a different format, and used sparingly on extremely relevant articles. Something like Aztec emperors family tree, or Noldor#House of Finwë. This is NOT a WP:NAVBOX. --woodensuperman 12:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Anne Rice is linked in the title. The family tree helps the understanding of the linked pages, and provides the readers with a valuable visual aide concept map to the topic. And it improves rather than harms the encyclopedia (which is what all of these discussions are about). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:23, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- She may be linked in the title, but this isn't a navbox and the content is tangential to her biography. And cluttering up pages with family trees disguised as navboxes on irrelevant pages does harm the encyclopedia and certainly does not improve the experience for anyone. --woodensuperman 13:38, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- "for anyone" is incorrect, when I first saw the template it was interesting and informative to my mental-map of the topic. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:50, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- You may find it "interesting", but that doesn't stop it from being in the wrong place. --woodensuperman 13:57, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Your link is to another opinion essay. Interesting is a good descriptor of one of the many attributes a good template can have. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:51, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- You may find it "interesting", but that doesn't stop it from being in the wrong place. --woodensuperman 13:57, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- "for anyone" is incorrect, when I first saw the template it was interesting and informative to my mental-map of the topic. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:50, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- She may be linked in the title, but this isn't a navbox and the content is tangential to her biography. And cluttering up pages with family trees disguised as navboxes on irrelevant pages does harm the encyclopedia and certainly does not improve the experience for anyone. --woodensuperman 13:38, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Anne Rice is linked in the title. The family tree helps the understanding of the linked pages, and provides the readers with a valuable visual aide concept map to the topic. And it improves rather than harms the encyclopedia (which is what all of these discussions are about). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:23, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- There is everything wrong with it. It's content masquerading as a navbox. It certainly does not belong along the bottom of multiple pages. If this was a single use template sitting at List of The Vampire Chronicles characters, I'd probably have left it alone, but what the hell is it doing sitting at the bottom of Anne Rice? This needs at the very least converted to a different format, and used sparingly on extremely relevant articles. Something like Aztec emperors family tree, or Noldor#House of Finwë. This is NOT a WP:NAVBOX. --woodensuperman 12:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Although {{The Vampire Chronicles}} template lists the 13 individual character articles this one shows many more, as well as giving readers the interesting familial relationships and timeline. Readers (at least me) find it interesting and informative. It improves the encyclopedia, improves the pages it is (and can be) placed on, and is a fine addition to Wikipedia's Vampire Chronicles collection. There is nothing wrong with it. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:34, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- This isn't a proper WP:NAVBOX. There is already a navbox at {{The Vampire Chronicles}} which contains all the characters. This one does not need to be transcluded on every article. If this information is kept it should appear once only (at List of The Vampire Chronicles characters) in a different format. --woodensuperman 07:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- The template should not be used as a navbox at the bottom of the page, but there are other family tree templates. There are appropriate uses for them. This is more a question of where it should be used and how the template should be formatted. The template should not be deleted just because of those things. If there are no other uses for it, it could be included just at the page mentioned in the nom, but it could be neater to keep the code as a separate template page. M.Clay1 (talk) 05:59, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Is there any reason it is using the navbox markup? If this is changed, then editors might not mistake it for a navbox and use it as such. --woodensuperman 07:54, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- For whatever reason, family tree templates use navbox markup. I don't think many people would confuse it for a navbox. I've never seen one used as a navbox before. Its use as such seems like a unilateral decision by User:Randy Kryn. I think most editors will agree that it shouldn't be there. M.Clay1 (talk) 03:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- It seems {{Downton Abbey family tree}} and {{Half-elven family tree}} manage to not use the navbox markup. I would suggest that this method be employed by all family tree templates. --woodensuperman 14:11, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- For whatever reason, family tree templates use navbox markup. I don't think many people would confuse it for a navbox. I've never seen one used as a navbox before. Its use as such seems like a unilateral decision by User:Randy Kryn. I think most editors will agree that it shouldn't be there. M.Clay1 (talk) 03:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Is there any reason it is using the navbox markup? If this is changed, then editors might not mistake it for a navbox and use it as such. --woodensuperman 07:54, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
April 8
Template:New Testament prophets
- Template:New Testament prophets ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:New Testament people ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:New Testament prophets with Template:New Testament people.
Might as well keep it all together, could we? PPEMES (talk) 17:28, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge per WP:TG (
Templates that [...] substantially duplicate [...] the same functionality of established templates
) - seems the only link missing is Prophets of Christianity, all other links are already in {{New Testament people}}. --Gonnym (talk) 19:21, 8 April 2019 (UTC) - Merge per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:18, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete both. This kind of thing is much better left for categories. --woodensuperman 12:37, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Aramean political parties
- Template:Aramean political parties ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Aramean political parties with Template:Assyrian people footer.
Might as well be merged? PPEMES (talk) 10:52, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean political parties
- Template:Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean political parties ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean political parties with Template:Assyrian people footer.
Might as well be merged? PPEMES (talk) 10:52, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:History of Assyrian people
- Template:History of Assyrian people ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:History of Assyrian people with Template:Assyrian people footer.
I'm afraid this concerns a rather contentious topic, which would be clear to any outsider taking a look into it. Possibly so in multiple dimensions: from ingroups perspectives as well outgroups, scientificially, geo-politically, religiously, and what not. Contents of both templates may be prone to be up for discussions, even recurringly. Keeping it all in one template, could that be a start? PPEMES (talk) 13:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge and use navbox (and later change the name of it) - Sidebar is intrusive and very under used (only 12 out of around 40 links have it). Seeing as how a lot of these articles overlap, it makes sense to merge what links aren't in the navbox. --Gonnym (talk) 14:07, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
April 7
Template:Christian fraternity
- Template:Christian fraternity ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Fraternities and sororities ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Christian fraternity with Template:Fraternities and sororities.
Already largely included in destination templates, thus redundant. What is not include better ought to be, so it can all be dealt with in one and the same template Besides "Christian fraternity" for this specific scope is a verbiage that quite arguably fails WP:GLOBAL. PPEMES (talk) 20:46, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm actually not sure if the main template should not be the one that is split instead. List of fraternities and sororities in the Philippines and Alpha Kappa Alpha have almost nothing in common, other than the fact that they belong to the same top level subject, but a reader would not navigate from one to the other under almost no condition. These super-templates seem to fail at WP:NAVBOX. --Gonnym (talk) 22:40, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:28, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep merged Christian templates. Why? The purpose of navigation templates is to aid navigation. A person reading about a Christian fraternity or sorority is highly likely to want to read about more Christian fraternities and sororities. The general template for fraternities and sororities is too inspecific and will likely "get in the way" more than aid navigation. What I would like to see is {{Christian fraternity}} merged with {{Christian sorority}} to have {{Christian fraternities and sororities}}. They are both short enough and related enough that they don't need to be separated. This would double the probability that information on them is up-to-date because roughly twice as many eyeballs would view them. Jason Quinn (talk) 05:56, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Christian sorority
- Template:Christian sorority ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Fraternities and sororities ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Christian sorority with Template:Fraternities and sororities.
See above. PPEMES (talk) 20:46, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:28, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Design-EU
- Template:Design-EU ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Intellectual property laws of the European Union ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Design-EU with Template:Intellectual property laws of the European Union.
Overlapping templates. {{Intellectual property laws of the European Union}} was just recently merged with {{Trademark-EU}} per this TfD for the same reasons. Gonnym (talk) 19:40, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Copyright-EU
- Template:Copyright-EU ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Intellectual property laws of the European Union ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Copyright-EU with Template:Intellectual property laws of the European Union.
Overlapping templates. {{Intellectual property laws of the European Union}} was just recently merged with {{Trademark-EU}} per this TfD for the same reasons. Gonnym (talk) 19:40, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: Make it so, the navbox with red links clobbers Special:WantedPages with inflated numbers. –84.46.52.219 (talk) 07:33, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Sub judice
- Template:Sub judice ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This template is a cross between a WP:legal threat and a WP:DISCLAIMER. I encountered it at Talk:Christchurch mosque shootings where -- as you'd expect if Wikipedia's disclaimer policy had been revoked -- people didn't want to look for evidence that the case was definitely under sub judice or that sub judice applies to unpaid users discussing news stories already published, but put up this "important notice" at the top of the page just to be safe. Even if they did have a solid reason for fear, to put up a disclaimer here would be in sharp contrast to an article like Tiananmen Square protests or Fethullah Gulen where we give no Important Warning to Chinese or Turkish editors. I don't think there is any legitimate use for this kind of thing: if there really is a sub judice concern, then it is a general Wikipedia issue and having people put it on a few selected pages would only provide false sense of security for people on others. And so long as the template exists and is in use somewhere, it is taken as license -- and mandate -- that it be used on more. And the end of that social process is Wikipedians seeming to beg to be hit with regulations that I doubt apply to them anyway. This deletion proposal likely implies a similar process for Template:Sub judice UK, Template:Sub judice and Contempt Bermuda, Template:Sub judice and Contempt Gibraltar, Template:Sub judice and Contempt Hong Kong, Template:Sub judice and Contempt Ireland, and Template:Sub judice and Contempt New Zealand, but I am not actually very familiar with the process for deleting things so I'm not sure I should get into that yet. Wnt (talk) 18:50, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete all of them. It was a nice idea in theory, but in practice editors still conflate "maybe editors in XYZ should be cautious" with "XYZ's laws violate WP:NOTCENSORED blah blah blah all aboard the AE train" :( TheDragonFire (talk) 09:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Strong keep - as an editor subject to a jurisdiction with no clear cut free speech protections similar to First Amendment (Australia in my case) I think that this template is a valuable warning for editors to consider legal implications of what they publish on Wikipedia. Australian justice system has shown substantial amount of zeal in prosecuting perceived breaches of the suppression orders and it is not obvious to me that an Australian Wikipedia editor could not be a subject of such prosecution if they contributed to Wikipedia in contravention of the suppression order. Wikipedia is a high profile website, and targeting of individual editors as a deterrent is not unimaginable. None of this is to say that Wikipedia should compromise on WP:NOTCENSORED, but reminding affected editors of implications of their actions seems like a positive thing. And yes, extending such warning to talk pages of other sensitive topics (such as Tiananmen Square protests or Fethullah Gulen) seems to me like a prudent course of action. Melmann (talk) 14:09, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Melmann: Don't forget to label articles with Muhammad images, prosecutions sensitive to Vladimir Putin, or American political measures offensive to the tyrant of Saudi Arabia. Your vision of Wikipedia is one full of many, many notices as it seeks to be the key paranoid legal advisor to the oppressed masses of all the nations of the world.
- I am aware of some of the extensive censorship in Australia, yet the story you cite describes prosecutions only of key employees at major news firms. It even says that "Since then some of the less egregious alleged breaches, including items on the ABC’s RN Breakfast show and in Crikey, which confined themselves to a mention of the newspaper coverage, have since received letters to say the charges have been dropped." Since Wikipedia only publishes second-hand reports, it is still not apparent to me that editors here would be at a level of risk comparable to that involved in, say, criticizing ISIS, whose edicts have precisely the same level of legitimacy as those commanding censorship from any other nation. Wnt (talk) 12:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
April 6
Template:Infobox Finnish municipality
- Template:Infobox Finnish municipality ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Convert to use {{Infobox settlement}}. After looking into the code of this template, it appears that the only reason for a custom template is so that the data can be stored in templates. For example Template:Infobox Finnish municipality/land area stores the land area for every single Finnish municipality. This is NOT the convention for storing this data. Values should be stored directly on the page, not in some convoluted series of templates. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:39, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- Subst and delete per nom. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:55, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- Delete after replacement
; but if there is no consensus for that, at least make it a wrapper, per nom.The data should be stored on Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:58, 22 February 2019 (UTC) - The template was created in 2009 (when there was no Wikidata) to make it possible to update population, area and demographics etc. information automatically at once instead of manually updating each and every page. I agree that nowadays this information should be fetched from Wikidata. However, I still think that the information should not be stored directly on the page. ̣––Apalsola t • c 15:27, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Keep until replacement Besides information like area, it has also demographics data that has been updated annually and doing this individually makes no sense. Unifying these templates is a good long-term goal, but it shouldn't be done until someone can actually produce the replacement without loss of function. --Pudeo (talk) 16:28, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- @Pudeo: you are missing the entire point of this discussion. The discussion is whether the template should be replaced or not. Under no circumstances is a template replaced if it results in a loss of function. So your argument is pretty pointless. We are discussing whether or not to replace with {{Infobox settlement}} and your comment is basically "don't do it until it can be replaced with something that works"...--Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:23, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- SPEEDY CLOSE: is a wrapper since creation 2009-01-01 more than 10 years ago [6] 15:04, 1 January 2009 Apalsola (talk | contribs) . . (2,961 bytes) +2,961 . . (←Created page with '{{Infobox Settlement |official_name = {{{official_name|}}} |native_name = {{{native_name|}}} |nickname = {{{nickname|}}} |motto ...') But it is proposed for substitution at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 February 28#Infobox settlement wrappers. 77.183.12.176 (talk) 00:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- 77.183.12.176 that is not a criteria for Speedy Closure and putting it in all caps doesn't help. Just because you nominated it again doesn't help. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:24, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 March 22#Template:Infobox Finnish municipality
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — JJMC89 (T·C) 21:00, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- In light of the DRV discussion, I think it's clear this template should be kept without prejudice to renomination if someone who's well acquainted with the intricate functionality of the template is willing to support change and is prepared to put it in the apparently high amount of effort needed to implement that change. – Uanfala (talk) 00:45, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
No-display English variant types
- Template:Use American English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Australian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Bangladeshi English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use British English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use British English Oxford spelling ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Canadian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Commonwealth English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Hong Kong English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Indian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Irish English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Jamaican English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use New Zealand English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Nigerian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Pakistani English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Singapore English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use South African English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Use Trinidadian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
All non-displayed English variant tags are inferior to their edit notice alternatives (compare {{Use American English}} to {{American English}}). First off, these don't display so there is no indication that a certain variety of English is to be used unless you happen to be editing near where the template is in the body and that can be at the top or bottom of an article in practice--section editing would not give you any indication. Secondly, the only goal of a non-displaying template would be to do tracking which the edit notice versions do anyway. There is no incentive to have a parallel version of the same functionality that has less benefit. I propose deleting all instances of {{Use American English}}, {{Use Australian English}}, {{Use Bangladeshi English}}, {{Use British English}}, {{Use British English Oxford spelling}}, {{Use Canadian English}}, {{Use Commonwealth English}}, {{Use Hong Kong English}}, {{Use Indian English}}, {{Use Irish English}}, {{Use Jamaican English}}, {{Use New Zealand English}}, {{Use Nigerian English}}, {{Use Pakistani English}}, {{Use Singapore English}}, {{Use South African English}}, {{Use Trinidadian English}} and convert them all to editnotices that will actually display when it's useful: as someone tries to edit the article. I'm willing to help with conversion, which would be fairly straightforward if a little time-consuming. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:53, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep These are intentionally non-displaying; their main purpose is to give an indication to bots and scripts as to which variant is the preferred one for the article. They also categorise the page, which an editnotice cannot do. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:20, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Then why have templates at all instead of just a category? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:18, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- It's something to do with the Engvar script, which isn't mine - someone like Ohconfucius (talk · contribs) will know exactly why it's coded that way. But in general, housekeeping categories like this are always applied via a template. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:21, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Then why have templates at all instead of just a category? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:18, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per Redrose64. I frequently check for the category these templates produce to determine correct variants for an article.-gadfium 22:25, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per above rationale.--Tom (LT) (talk) 22:42, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- Snow Keep - Wrong venue. If you want to propose replacing or integrating their functions into an edit notice, this isn't the place to do it. It might be a conversation worth having, but not here. A lot of work would need to be done first. - BilCat (talk) 23:16, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- @BilCat: Where other than Templates for Discussion is the appropriate venue for discussing these templates? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:34, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Snow keep time saver. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:19, 7 April 2019 (UTC).
- Question: Can a category really not be added to the edit notice version? If this is possible, this request gets a support from me. --Gonnym (talk) 14:07, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- I wondered about that. The issue would still remain that the edit notice is not generally known about, that it is not read by the vast majority of tools, and that it is ignored by many editors as being part of the "noise" outside the edit box.
- All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:45, 7 April 2019 (UTC).
- But if the templates are merged, then any bot that was able to read template A should be able to read template B. The only addition is the Edit notice part, which you can ignore or not, but that is the same with an invisible comment which is even less noticeable. --Gonnym (talk) 20:02, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Categories can be added to editnotices, but they categorise the editnotice itself, not the page that it's used on. Consider Category:Pages with Livescores editnotice: this contains a whole bunch of editnotices (for example Template:Editnotices/Page/2018 FIFA World Cup Group A); but the related articles (for example 2018 FIFA World Cup Group A) are not in the category. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that is because how those are coded. If I take your example then inside Category:Pages with Livescores editnotice I checked Template:Editnotices/Page/2015 FIFA Club World Cup, which uses {{Livescores editnotice}}, which has an includeonly Category:Pages with Livescores editnotice. However, if you add a category to {{Editnotices/Page/2015 FIFA Club World Cup}}, then pages using it will be added to that category. See for example User:Gonnym/sandbox which is placed in {{Test}}. --Gonnym (talk) 12:26, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- No, that's one page (User:Gonnym/sandbox) transcluding another (User:Gonnym/sandbox/tests3) as if it were a template. No editnotice is involved. Put it another way: if you add a category to Template:Editnotices/Page/User:Gonnym/sandbox, it will not affect the categorisation of User:Gonnym/sandbox in any way whatsoever. Also, what does {{Test}} have to do with anything? It's a notice that is normally WP:SUBSTd to a user talk page. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:07, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that is because how those are coded. If I take your example then inside Category:Pages with Livescores editnotice I checked Template:Editnotices/Page/2015 FIFA Club World Cup, which uses {{Livescores editnotice}}, which has an includeonly Category:Pages with Livescores editnotice. However, if you add a category to {{Editnotices/Page/2015 FIFA Club World Cup}}, then pages using it will be added to that category. See for example User:Gonnym/sandbox which is placed in {{Test}}. --Gonnym (talk) 12:26, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Categories can be added to editnotices, but they categorise the editnotice itself, not the page that it's used on. Consider Category:Pages with Livescores editnotice: this contains a whole bunch of editnotices (for example Template:Editnotices/Page/2018 FIFA World Cup Group A); but the related articles (for example 2018 FIFA World Cup Group A) are not in the category. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- But if the templates are merged, then any bot that was able to read template A should be able to read template B. The only addition is the Edit notice part, which you can ignore or not, but that is the same with an invisible comment which is even less noticeable. --Gonnym (talk) 20:02, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep While Koavf is correct that opening a section will ensure that you don't see the template I think that there is less change of seeing a notice tucked away on the talk page. I rarely look at the talk page before editing an article. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:59, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- @CambridgeBayWeather: No one is suggesting putting anything on talk pages. What are you talking about? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:17, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- The template states that it can be used on the talk page. I hope you weren't thinking of putting it at the top of an article. Sticking it in an edit notice is the same as the hidden one at the top of the page. I doubt many people read edit notices based on the number of times that people don't notify someone after opening a section at WP:ANI. Also when I open a page with an edit notice and glance away as it opens the editing area forces the notice up where I can't see it. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 21:15, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- {{American English}}, {{British English}}, {{Commonwealth English}} templates, destined for talk page, creates a banner about the English code used in the associated article. These should not be confused with the "Use [variant] English" templates, that have a script-based functionality. -- Ohc ¡digame! 20:51, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- The template states that it can be used on the talk page. I hope you weren't thinking of putting it at the top of an article. Sticking it in an edit notice is the same as the hidden one at the top of the page. I doubt many people read edit notices based on the number of times that people don't notify someone after opening a section at WP:ANI. Also when I open a page with an edit notice and glance away as it opens the editing area forces the notice up where I can't see it. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 21:15, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- @CambridgeBayWeather: No one is suggesting putting anything on talk pages. What are you talking about? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:17, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: I created the script which became the basis for some of these templates. I have not be able to come up with a way of replacing the functionality of these maintenance templates with categories. Having said that, the only templates named above that serve useful functions for my script and that are important to be kept are the major English code variants ({{Use American English}}, {{Use British English}}, {{Use British English Oxford spelling}}, {{Use Canadian English}}) – these codes all have distinct and more or less well-defined orthographies compared with each other. The other codes are merely "richer" (mostly just have an additional lexicon outside of mainstream British or Commonwealth English) but have no incidence on spelling variants that the script acts on. So the other templates, including I would say {{Use British English}}, can be simply consolidated under the {{EngvarB}} template. If you look in the category trees of the template, you will see that they are all grouped under same. My script already replaces these other templates, but to do this job wholesale requires a bot. I propose therefore that we delete all except {{Use American English}}, {{EngvarB}}, {{Use British English Oxford spelling}}, {{Use Canadian English}}, and converge all the deleted into {{EngvarB}}. Incidentally, I don't think it's helpful to entrench language ghettoes that these other templates seem to imply. -- Ohc ¡digame! 20:51, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep some of the templates. Redrose64 makes some good points. I think that we should definitely keep the {{Use American English}}, {{Use British English}}, {{Use British English Oxford spelling}} and {{Use Canadian English}} templates. Should the community decide to delete the rest, I would support the amalgamation of the deleted into {{EngvarB}} per Ohconfucius. Nevertheless, at this time, I don't see why the {{Use Australian English}}, {{Use Bangladeshi English}}, {{Use Commonwealth English}}, {{Use Hong Kong English}}, {{Use Indian English}}, {{Use Irish English}}, {{Use Jamaican English}}, {{Use New Zealand English}}, {{Use Nigerian English}}, {{Use Pakistani English}}, {{Use Singapore English}}, {{Use South African English}} and {{Use Trinidadian English}} templates should be deleted. When they are used, they provide the benefit of allowing an editor to see the variant of English an article uses by viewing the article in the wikitext editor. —Ntmamgtw (talk) 15:29, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
April 5
Template:Mss
- Template:Mss ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This template isn't really in use. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:17, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Implausible as it is for me to support keeping anything Neelix created, in this case I can see that even if it's not currently in use, it's a template with a legitimate use case that would be quite fiddly to recreate manually. If someone else has a claim for the name—as a three-character name it's quite valuable real estate—I'd have no issue with renaming it to something else. ‑ Iridescent 21:41, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CoolSkittle (talk) 22:24, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete: I think any applications of this template can use {{tts}} instead as necessary. --Izno (talk) 19:31, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Rfam box
- Template:Rfam box ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Infobox rfam ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Rfam box with Template:Infobox rfam.
Overlapping scope; "infobox done wrong"; latter is more systemic. Artoria2e5 🌉 13:55, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Rfam box | Infobox rfam |
---|---|
acc | Rfam |
description | Name |
type | RNA_type |
image | image |
abbreviation | Symbol |
Length, identity, and seed are specific to alignment in one database. SS is... usually published? Not much point in indicating. --Artoria2e5 🌉 21:33, 8 April 2019 (UTC) |
- Merge - {{Rfam box}} has only 30 uses while the other has over 1k. {{Infobox rfam}} is lacking in documentation, but going by the title and articles, it seems they serve the same articles. --Gonnym (talk) 15:42, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Infobox surname
- Template:Infobox surname ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Infobox given name ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Infobox surname with Template:Infobox given name.
Much overlapping variables, and for a reason. In fact in many if not in most cases historically and internationally, a surname is or was a given name. It might be time to finally merge this? PPEMES (talk) 11:22, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Hinduism in Africa
- Template:Hinduism in Africa ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navbox is redundant to just doing {{Africa in topic|Hinduism in}}
. Was previously unused and all current transclusions used the above code. I attempted to CSD under T3, but a user replace the code above with this template. No reason for this template to be used at all. In my opinion this still is a WP:T3. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:46, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
@Zackmann08: mistake? Christian75 (talk) 19:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)- (The TfD said template:example (or similar) in the original tfd Christian75 (talk) 08:12, 6 April 2019 (UTC))
- Zackmann08, I think you might find it that people will be a bit less exasperated if you listened to what they'd said to you before bombarding them with the next deletion notice. Now, as I've explained on my talk page,
{{Africa in topic}}
is a quick and dirty way to create a variety of navboxes that might be suitable for some circumstances, but it doesn't really wor here. See for example how this template appears on Hinduism in Sierra Leone: you see quite a few redlinks (most of them permanently so: they were formerly blue but got deleted at AfD or RfD), and most of the blue links are actually redirects, usually to broad articles where Hinduism (or the country) are only mentioned in passing. If you want a navbox consisting mostly of redirects and redlinks, then yes, {{Africa in topic}} will do just fine. But if you want a navbox that does what navboxes are expected to do – navigate between articles, then you can't easily avoid having a dedicated template like {{Hinduism in Africa}}. The situation, however, gets complicated by the existence of {{Hinduism by country}}, which I've just noticed now. In a way, this makes {{Hinduism in Africa}} (+ {{Hinduism in Oceania}} and the like) redundant. Its downside is that it is a sidebar. So the question is, do we prefer a sidebar or navboxes at the bottom of the article. Personally, I'd opt for the less intrusive navboxes, but I'd rather leave the issue to others to decide. – Uanfala (talk) 22:20, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Uanfala, way to Wp:AGF... I listened to what you said and I disagreed. Rather than leaving the WP:T3 template on the page, which I could have done as it is a hard-coded instance, I chose to move this to a TFD so that we could discuss the issue. Rather than doing so, you chose to accuse me of ignoring you and bombarding you with notices... --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:45, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 03:55, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose, the replacement gives a lot of red links and a lot of redirect to articles which barely mention the topic if at all. The red links will probably be (re)created. Christian75 (talk) 08:11, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Manichitrathazhu character map
- Template:Manichitrathazhu character map ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
If one intends to connect the various remakes of the same film, creating a character map is not the solution. Rather, one could consider creating a navbox. This film already has that. Kailash29792 (talk) 08:33, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
- Linking to the previous TfD from last year. – Uanfala (talk) 00:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 03:51, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- A delete here is reasonable. --Izno (talk) 16:17, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep: This template has a table which connects the actors who played the same characters different remakes. This could be useful for a film researcher or enthusiast who wants to understand the casting pattern in different film industries.Anoopkn (talk) 08:45, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana character map
- Template:Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana character map ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
I don't think character maps like this should even exist. The reason of connecting the different remakes of the same film should be solved by a navbox. Kailash29792 (talk) 08:26, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 03:51, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete is reasonable here, but I'd like to see the navbox first I think. --Izno (talk) 16:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep: This template has a table which connects the actors who played the same characters different remakes. This could be useful for a film researcher or enthusiast who wants to understand the casting pattern in different film industries. --Anoopkn (talk) 08:47, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Mosques in Lebanon
- Template:Mosques in Lebanon ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with only 4 links. WP:NENAN Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:51, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- It can be expanded with the dozen or so articles in Category:Mosques in Lebanon. – Uanfala (talk) 22:34, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Use - I've added the links to the template, which Uanfala refereed to, This seems like a decent scope template. --Gonnym (talk) 11:14, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Now has more links, but is still unused
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 03:47, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
April 4
Template:List of world's fairs in Nordic countries
- Template:List of world's fairs in Nordic countries ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:List of world exhibitions ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:List of world's fairs in Nordic countries with Template:List of world exhibitions.
Some duplicate entries. Seems like this could be merged? PPEMES (talk) 11:21, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Interesting. Some history. Originally there was a clear split in templates with the second one containing List of world expositions (We) (plus 1) and the Nordic (and others) containing the List of world's fairs (wFs).
- Then a lot of, (but far from all), wFs were added to the wE navbar.
- If all wFs were added to the big cat I think it would be unusable. But I think the wF navbars are fully populated they fulfil a useful purpose.Icarusgeek (talk) 13:09, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Apostles
- Template:Apostles ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:New Testament people ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Apostles with Template:New Testament people.
Dublicate entries. Redundancy? PPEMES (talk) 13:30, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - redundant as all entries of {{Apostles}} are placed in {{New Testament people}}. No need for merging. --Gonnym (talk) 17:13, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. This template delineates the single most important group of New Testament people and makes a simple, recognizable tool for navigation. There are many instances where we don't put full, general, and distracting templates in place of narrower, more specific ones. SteveStrummer (talk) 05:38, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- You're missing the point that every single link in that template is also in the bigger one, which means that both templates appear on the same set of articles. That is not how we use navigation templates. --Gonnym (talk) 14:10, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Your point is "redundancy": I saw. However, there is nothing in WP:TG that says that's a reason for deletion. Compare the redundancy between Template:WWII history by nation and the larger Template:World War II, for example. SteveStrummer (talk) 15:19, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Actually see WP:T3. After re-checking, it seems the last bullet point in WP:TG does in fact say it:
Templates that misrepresent policy or substantially duplicate or hardcode the same functionality of established templates may fit the criteria for speedy deletion
, "substantially duplicate" is what happens here. --Gonnym (talk) 15:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)- Wrong venue for that argument. T3 is one of the criteria for speedy deletion: It's meant to get rid of obvious errors of template duplication. This is a unique template for a notable standalone topic. The actual TG rules are pretty inclusive of anything helpful to the reader. SteveStrummer (talk) 20:58, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Actually see WP:T3. After re-checking, it seems the last bullet point in WP:TG does in fact say it:
- Your point is "redundancy": I saw. However, there is nothing in WP:TG that says that's a reason for deletion. Compare the redundancy between Template:WWII history by nation and the larger Template:World War II, for example. SteveStrummer (talk) 15:19, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- You're missing the point that every single link in that template is also in the bigger one, which means that both templates appear on the same set of articles. That is not how we use navigation templates. --Gonnym (talk) 14:10, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep- I agree with SteveStrummer, both templates are useful to readers who are looking to find other articles. Apostles are distinct from the other people in the larger template. Again, why delete it? Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 21:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:List of world's fairs in Nordic countries
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 4
Template:Kim Dong-ryool
- Template:Kim Dong-ryool ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This musical artist's navigational template consists of two English Wikipedia articles, their article and one album. There are not enough links to justify a template per WP:NENAN. Aspects (talk) 03:51, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Template:Ole Miss Rebels head coaches ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
These navboxes provide navigation between the current head coaches of various sports teams at a given school. The connection between coaches of different sports, even at the same school, is rather tenuous. Furthermore, footers of coach bio articles tend be very crowded already with other more meaningful navboxes. These navboxes seem like unnecessary clutter and should be deleted. Jweiss11 (talk) 00:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep honestly, I think these are useful. I may be in the minority, but I think athletic programs should have navboxes like these.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:58, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I agree in principle on the athletic program navboxes but they have been suggested to merge in the past to the universities' navboxes because they typically link program articles anyway. Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 March 24#Template:Rhode Island Rams navbox.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 01:18, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom unlikely to have each coach linked regardless of notability, most won't be properly maintained.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 01:18, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. This is a case of WP:Template creep....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 01:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Template creep - we don’t need another template that just reiterates their job (there usually is a sport-specific one already in place and I wouldn’t presume some Olympic sport coaches are even notable). Rikster2 (talk) 02:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. There are no articles about the head coaches at a particular college. Likely to get out of date very quickly. Better to restrict these sort of templates to one sport; templates like {{University of Kentucky}} already list sports. Nigej (talk) 06:58, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - we should add the template for Texas A&M as well Rikster2 (talk) 12:54, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. I just can't see the encyclopedic navigational value of keeping these. We are not an almanac. --Tom (LT) (talk) 05:13, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:ŠKF Sereď squad
- Template:ŠKF Sereď squad ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:ŠKF iClinic Sereď squad ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:ŠKF Sereď squad with Template:ŠKF iClinic Sereď squad.
Duplicate templates. The "ŠKF iClinic Sereď squad" template uses the teams current name. DannyS712 (talk) 00:00, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 12:57, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge per nom at {{ŠKF iClinic Sereď squad}} to match the current parent article name. GiantSnowman 12:57, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and GiantSnowman. --Tom (LT) (talk) 05:13, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
April 3
Template:Scott Rudin
- Template:Scott Rudin ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
The navbox violates WP:FILMNAV, "Filmographies (and similar) of individuals should also not be included in navboxes, unless the individual concerned could be considered a primary creator of the material in question." As simply a producer, Scott Rudin is almost never the primary creator of the material in question. Furthermore, producer navboxes in general are inappropriate because per WP:NAVBOX disadvantages, they "may also incorrectly suggest that one aspect of a topic or a linked example is of more, less, or equal importance to others" and "can take up too much space for information that is only tangentially related" and "may not give the reader enough clues as to which links are most relevant". Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 20:09, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Question: There are over 100 templates placed in Category:Film producer navigational boxes. Is there any previous discussion on the matter of producers somewhere? --Gonnym (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- The language and interpretaion of WP:FILMNAV has been hotly debated several times. I am also kind of curious why these two of the 100+ were nominated. I think there should be a mass nomination of a whole slate rather than just isolating Rudin and Heyman now.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:21, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- I saw the Scott Heyman one at The Secret Garden (upcoming film), and the creator then suggested the Scott Rudin one. I didn't realize how many there were, but they should go per WP:FILMNAV and WP:NAVBOX. Maybe keep something like Spielberg? Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 21:51, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm conflicted here. On the one part, the producer is the person winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, which points to a significance to it. However, in more recent years there is a trend where a lot of famous actors can negotiate a producer credit, but it isn't our (Wikipedia's) place to question that. --Gonnym (talk) 11:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- The producers are always mentioned and linked in the film infobox at the very least. I don't mind them being part of "crew lists" in production sections (which I know is not a thing). It's a question of why we should insert the producer's whole filmography at the bottom of the article, especially when most films have multiple producers. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 12:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Commenting to Erik, but applies to Wood as well (don't want to duplicate it) - if this (and other TfDs) pass at deletion - how are producer credits handled in non-producer-only templates, such as {{Steven Spielberg}}? It would be very odd to remove production templates but leave production sections for other individuals, as the argument for removal or keep is valid for both. It seems to me that really the discussion should have been held first to determine if such lists should be included then brought to TfD. --Gonnym (talk) 14:01, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- The producers are always mentioned and linked in the film infobox at the very least. I don't mind them being part of "crew lists" in production sections (which I know is not a thing). It's a question of why we should insert the producer's whole filmography at the bottom of the article, especially when most films have multiple producers. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 12:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm conflicted here. On the one part, the producer is the person winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, which points to a significance to it. However, in more recent years there is a trend where a lot of famous actors can negotiate a producer credit, but it isn't our (Wikipedia's) place to question that. --Gonnym (talk) 11:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I saw the Scott Heyman one at The Secret Garden (upcoming film), and the creator then suggested the Scott Rudin one. I didn't realize how many there were, but they should go per WP:FILMNAV and WP:NAVBOX. Maybe keep something like Spielberg? Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 21:51, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- The language and interpretaion of WP:FILMNAV has been hotly debated several times. I am also kind of curious why these two of the 100+ were nominated. I think there should be a mass nomination of a whole slate rather than just isolating Rudin and Heyman now.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:21, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Producers are problematic as the extent of their involvement is not always known, and they are not always the "primary" creator of material. For films such as Fantastic Mr. Fox and Frances Ha, he is just one of four producers, others he is the sole credited producer. But, more importantly, are people really using film producer chronology navboxes like this as a navigational aid? I doubt it, and besides, filmography lists and categories exist (or should do, if they don't), so this is unnecessary. --woodensuperman 12:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Cleanup-SVG
- Template:Cleanup-SVG ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Cleanup image ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Cleanup-SVG with Template:Cleanup image.
Unused currently, and this template could easily be merged back into the other image cleanup template, by making that template accept a parameter as to the media-type. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:25, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Provisional keep. It's used by Twinkle, and (barring emergencies, which of course this isn't) we ought not make major changes to Twinkle templates without ensuring that we won't break anything. I agree with your point, so I can support merging once we know that everything's fine. I've left a note at WT:Twinkle asking for input here. Nyttend (talk) 16:42, 9 March 2019 (UTC)- No problem at all: right now, Twinkle just does the same thing for both. It's straightforward to remove {{Cleanup SVG}} if this is merged there. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:51, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Merge and keep as wrapper. If we merge the content into Template:Cleanup image, Template:Cleanup-SVG would still be a handy shortcut for
{{Cleanup image|type=SVG|1=Template:Cleanup-SVG}}
. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:33, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Interested in more comments re: wrapper vs straight deletion.
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Template:2016 NCAA Division I baseball independents standings
- Template:2016 NCAA Division I baseball independents standings ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused standings template. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:21, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- It is used now.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 20:15, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Chinese aeroengines
- Template:Chinese aeroengines ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused navbox. About half redlinks and no parent article. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:54, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
- Could maybe be kept, but only 5 of the links are actually Chinese made parts, so that navbox has very inaccurate information. --Gonnym (talk) 14:33, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Would like to get some more input on the "unused" aspect as well as the content issues mentioned.
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- Delete or trim the navbox is a mess as Gonnym points out. I'm on the fence whether it should be pruned significantly or just deleted; I don't think any useful navigational value is provided at the moment and frankly can't see the utility of the navbox overall for the vast majority of readers. --Tom (LT) (talk) 05:10, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Bengali desserts
- Template:Bengali desserts ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused navbox with no parent article. Mostly redlinks Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:20, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- Keep and add to articles as it's viable navbox. No opinion if the redlinks should be trimmed, but there are about two dozen valid links. One potential problem is that some of the desserts listed are not specific to Bengal, so it might make sense to expand the scope to cover all desserts of the subcontinent (I'm surprised such a navbox doesn't seem to exist yet). – Uanfala (talk) 00:08, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - There is a category Category:Bengali desserts which notes Bengali cuisine#Desserts. The template under discussion is much more extensive than these, so is essentially entirely unreferenced. There needs to be some content first - then we can have a template linking things. Nigej (talk) 17:56, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep and use serves an excellent navbox purpose. No reason to delete just because it's unfinished. Helps readers neavigate --Tom (LT) (talk) 06:57, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Still unused, still mostly redlinks, so relisting for one more week to see if it can be improved to a suitable standard.
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Template:Infobox South African municipality
- Template:Infobox South African municipality ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
As anyone following TFDs know, there has been a LOT of contention about {{Infobox settlement}} wrappers. I want to discuss this one in particular with no prejudice towards the other wrappers...
{{Metadata South Africa}} upon which this template is largely based is already in the process of being deleted per this tfd. Additionally, {{Inofbox South African town}} has already been deleted per this tfd. I feel that these show a clear precedent for up-merging this specific infobox.
To be clear, NO INFORMATION will be deleted from the articles. Once the merge is done, from the reader's perspective, nothing will have changed. Any questions or concerns, please {{ping|zackmann08}}
Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:51, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: South African articles, especially population and racial stats, are a magnet for vandalism. Including the figures directly in the article wikicode would make it harder to detect such changes, or to revert them.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 01:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: If data is in Wikidata then change detection can be done via a list updated by ListeriaBot. 78.55.28.200 (talk) 01:41, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep if there is a need to keep statistics in a single location for easy updating and to prevent tampering. Moving these statistics to wikidata, as suggested in the other TfD is laborious and it doesn't help with maintaining the long-term integrity of the data. Just a note that the outcome of that discussion might need to be revisited: these ramifications didn't seem to have been explored there, there's no reason I can see that two templates should have been nominated separately, and the other nomination was phrased in a way that implied that the deletion of the template we're discussion now has already been agreed on (and had that been the case, there would have been a much stronger case for the deletion of the other template). – Uanfala (talk) 02:19, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Replace and delete. Per nom. Except for {{Infobox Cape Verde settlement}} and {{Infobox South African municipality}} all of Africa is free of wrappers for {{Infobox settlement}}. Having one system for all of Africa makes editing much easier. Data can be stored in Wikidata, and imported there easily using the tool "QuickStatements". 77.11.129.17 (talk) 02:01, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
April 2
Defunct college football team with only 2 entries in the navbox. Unlikely to be expanded upon or used much. Natg 19 (talk) 20:28, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment The nominator did not post a notice on @MisterCake:'s talk page.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 19:25, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Chronology of military events in the American Civil War
- Template:Chronology of military events in the American Civil War ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused MASSIVE navbox. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:24, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep: First of all, this template is within the scope of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. Then, it is an extension at a chronological level of this template: Template:American Civil War wich it is linked: see navbox "Combatants Theaters Campaigns Battles States" in "Template:American Civil War". Furthermore, the number of its navbox is lower than that of "Template:American Civil War". It was more useful (for Wikipedia Community) "alive" than "dead": can, where appropriate, also be modified rather than deleted! Finally, this template is cleary designated to help the users to navigate in the American Civil War "in the timeframe" related to: "Campaigns", "Battles" plus one general "Appendix" >>> No valid reason for deletion: improve (it is possible) do not destroy! User talk:FDRMRZUSA (26 March 2019; 15,45 UTC+1).
- Keep. The template is not unused but used subordinate to another template. However I agree that this is not optimal and could need some thoughts and work; e.g. usage on its own and the Appendix section being either deleted or replaced with a link to the aforementioned superior template. ...GELongstreet (talk) 15:31, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep – As GELongstreet says, it's not unused, it's linked through Template:American Civil War on 600 or so pages. But I agree it could use some rework, with the appendix surgically removed. Mojoworker (talk) 15:46, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Mojoworker, GELongstreet, FDRMRZUSA thanks for the comments... for the record, when I said it was unused, I was talking about transclusions. As you can see here, the template is not transcluded on any articles. It is generally not acceptable to link from an Article to a template for reference purposes. The way it is currently being used essentially is treating the template as its own article. I would argue that this navbox really needs to be converted to an article titled Chronology of military events in the American Civil War. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:12, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: The template is linked to repeatedly, but still has no transclusions.
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April 1
2012 AFC Champions League group tables
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group A ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group B ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group C ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group D ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group E ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group F ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group G ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012 AFC Champions League Group H ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Folk of Template:2012 AFC Champions League group tables and these templates uses non-standard format Hhkohh (talk) 06:39, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhkohh (talk) 06:46, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
- Replace with {{2012 AFC Champions League group tables}} and delete. GiantSnowman 07:57, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
- redirect for attribution. Frietjes (talk) 12:50, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
- Not quite sure I understand this. Isn't the consensus of replacing the templates altogether and place the tables directly in the article? Here we just replace these templates with another template. --Gonnym (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)
- Template:Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico) ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused navbox Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:19, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- Use? seems to link subjects in a notable fashion, should this be used?--Tom (LT) (talk) 04:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- Pretty similar to Template:PRPPDnominees in terms of the people listed there, but it has a different scope. I guess it can be used. --Gonnym (talk) 22:50, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
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Module:Listify
- Module:Listify ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Only used on several unused templates, redundant to Module:String {{#invoke:Listify|input|x|yyxyxyy}}
-> <ul>{{#invoke:String|replace|yyxxyy|x|<li>%1</li>|plain=false}}</ul>
. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:30, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- Not sure Module:String is the correct location. This is not a simple string, but rather a list, so maybe Module:List can work with this better. --Gonnym (talk) 07:25, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not suggesting a merge, I'm suggesting a deletion because the functionality in this module can already be implemented using Module:String. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 14:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- Not sure I agree. If instead of using the module directly, an editor now needs to surround it with a ul tag and then also add the logic for replace, that isn't helpful at all. If this is used, then the better solution would be to add this option to Module:List. --Gonnym (talk) 08:39, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not suggesting a merge, I'm suggesting a deletion because the functionality in this module can already be implemented using Module:String. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 14:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- I can't remember why I created this module. I tend to agree with Gonnym that the "string" module isn't really the most obvious name. Shrug. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:56, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
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March 31
Template:Haymarket Line Map
- Template:Haymarket Line Map ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused route map for an extension which will not be built; Haymarket Line is a redirect to Virginia Railway Express with a couple sentences and little potential for expansion. Mackensen (talk) 21:13, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment I tried to add this to the section of the main article, but it dind't work for some reason I haven't been able to figure out. Thryduulf (talk) 15:20, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
March 30
Template:List of rivers of Tajikistan
- Template:List of rivers of Tajikistan ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with no parent article (redlink). Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep and use - the template has enough links for a valid nav template and there are other country river nav templates. --Gonnym (talk) 17:22, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep and use - Has 14 rivers, so enough to use now.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:10, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Editors support using it, but currently it still has no transclusions in articles
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Template:Warning antisemitism Arabs
- Template:Warning antisemitism Arabs ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Very few transclusions, doubtful its useful outside of those pages. Can be substituted and deleted. funplussmart (talk) 01:58, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Oppose. Does not meet WP:TFD#REASONS. Few transclusions does not mean no transclusions, and it's quite useful on pages where the etymological fallacy is constantly being raised. Jayjg (talk) 17:02, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:GNF Protein box
- Template:GNF Protein box ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Infobox gene ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:GNF Protein box with Template:Infobox gene.
This template has been marked as deprecated and replaced by {{Infobox gene}} (which is used for proteins also) since august 2018 and has only 11 article transclusions left (and around 70 non-article ones). Gonnym (talk) 08:43, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per WP:TFD#REASONS. Few transclusions != no transclusions. VQuakr (talk) 05:55, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. The template should be kept for historical reasons (it is transcluded in several talk page discussions). Boghog (talk) 09:04, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Subst & delete No reason at all to keep this template. Its use on talk pages should have been substituted from the beginning. There is no reason to have a centralized template to update all these. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:29, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Subst & delete Per Zackmann08. Article ones should be replaced with Wikidata entries. --Artoria2e5 🌉 04:41, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Subst and redirect/merge per be all above rationales for deleting. The only reason I am saying redirect over delete is that the page history must be preserved for attribution if the template is merged. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 02:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- Replace and delete the protein box. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Odia language
- Template:Odia language ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Most of the links are red, so it's probably WP:TOOSOON to have this. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 16:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep, but turn into a bottom navbox, trim down and then expand with entries for Odia morphology, Odia script, Odia literature and the half a dozen or so existing articles about the dialects. – Uanfala (talk) 03:32, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:32TeamBracket-Compact-NoSeeds
- Template:32TeamBracket-Compact-NoSeeds ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Folk of {{32TeamBracket-Compact|seeds=no}}
Hhkohh (talk) 14:02, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment would the two work in the same way?-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 01:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- UCO2009bluejay, the only difference is that one invoke module while the other do not. But both output and usage is the same Hhkohh (talk) 02:12, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Free and open-source software
- Template:WikiProject Free and open-source software ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:WikiProject Computing ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:WikiProject Free and open-source software with Template:WikiProject Computing.
After a December 2018 requested move, WikiProject Free and open-source software was converted into the free and open-source task force. As the project is a task force (and not a WikiProject), its former WikiProject banner should be merged into the top-level WikiProject's banner, {{WikiProject Computing}}. (While the task force is directly under WikiProject Software, WikiProject Computing is the top-level project for both.)
No changes are needed to {{WikiProject Computing}}, but all talk pages using {{WikiProject Free and open-source software}} should switch to the {{WikiProject Computing}} template. If the talk page already uses {{WikiProject Computing}}, the template should have the free-software
and free-software-importance
parameters set. — Newslinger talk 07:50, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support in principle but what's the plan for the 2715 pages affected by this proposed change? ~Kvng (talk) 13:30, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
- The affected talk pages can be migrated over to {{WikiProject Computing}} with the assistance of AutoWikiBrowser or JavaScript Wiki Browser. (The articles can also be re-rated for quality and importance at the same time.) I'm willing to take on this task, and any interested editors are certainly welcome to join me. — Newslinger talk 01:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Newslinger: Seems like it would be an easier workflow and non-controversial merge if this work were done before merging/deleting the template. ~Kvng (talk) 20:32, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- I wasn't sure if there was consensus to merge, but this appears to be less controversial than I had expected. The template won't be redirected until the talk pages are migrated over. — Newslinger talk 20:56, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Newslinger: Seems like it would be an easier workflow and non-controversial merge if this work were done before merging/deleting the template. ~Kvng (talk) 20:32, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- The affected talk pages can be migrated over to {{WikiProject Computing}} with the assistance of AutoWikiBrowser or JavaScript Wiki Browser. (The articles can also be re-rated for quality and importance at the same time.) I'm willing to take on this task, and any interested editors are certainly welcome to join me. — Newslinger talk 01:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Support. If projects where merged/converted into taskforce, the WP template should follow suit. The above proposal of how-to is very reasonable. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:26, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Gibraltar Football League
- Template:Gibraltar Football League ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused and very out of date navbox Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:28, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. S.A. Julio (talk) 16:48, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - List of teams in the Gibraltar Football League in the 2010-11 season. Similar lists are not maintained for other seasons. Nigej (talk) 19:28, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge with {{Gibraltar Premier Division}}. GiantSnowman 13:24, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Comments on the usefulness of a merge would be helpful.
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- Merge per GiantSnowman. --Tom (LT) (talk) 10:11, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- redirect to Template:Gibraltar Premier Division nothing to merge Hhkohh (talk) 15:44, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Governors of the Central Bank of Kenya
- Template:Governors of the Central Bank of Kenya ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with mostly redlinks. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:06, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - I have updated it. 5 links now. Seems worthy of keeping. See: Category:Governors of the Central Bank of Kenya. Nigej (talk) 19:17, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep per Nigej, and thanks for making the changes. Now in use. --Tom (LT) (talk) 10:11, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Zackmann08: now use and have several links Hhkohh (talk) 15:46, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Used. I have included it in the linked articles. I think this provides useful navigational value. Thoughts now Hhkohh? --Tom (LT) (talk) 05:00, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Basketball in Israel
- Template:Basketball in Israel ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused and overly-broad navbox. WP:NENAN Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - No idea why it would not be utilized but it seems to be a useful nav tool to me. I suggest keeping and populating the pages with it. - Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 19:03, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge- Seems to be doing the same or very similar function as {{Israeli Basketball Super League}} does. No point in having both on the same set of articles. --Gonnym (talk) 20:02, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep - I see articles here that are not included in and would not belong with the Super League template. Rlendog (talk) 15:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- I've taken the liberty to fill in the missing links, so you'll see that {{Basketball in Israel}} already has all the sections for the links of {{Israeli Basketball Super League}}. It already had "teams", "seasons", "final four/finals" and "awards", so currently it already has the entire scope of the other template. What it didn't have, was a full set of links (some seasons missing, some awards missing), updated article names and a better order so sub-sections are actually placed near the parent topic. --Gonnym (talk) 13:26, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Form factors
- Template:Form factors ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:07, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- We have Template:Computer form factors, Template:Computer case form factors, and Template:Form factors. They all do essentially the same function, and we probably only need one, so which do we keep? The navbox or the sidebar, and then the free-form or table sidebar? --Bsherr (talk) 17:58, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'd go with {{Form factors}} as it is the less intrusieve option. There is no need for this subject to be on the side. --Gonnym (talk) 20:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep Template:Form factors and use it to replace Template:Computer form factors and Template:Computer case form factors. Very few other computer hardware navboxes are sidebars. The listed dimensions just add clutter and are inaccurate in some instances (such as EATX which is not formally defined, NLX which can vary, and COM Express which comes in 4 sizes). Also, organizing by category instead of by size is more useful for navigation. --Abgnac (talk) 23:06, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
March 26
Template:Montreal municipal election, 2005/Position/Saint-Leonard borough Councillor, Saint-Leonard-Ouest
- Template:Montreal municipal election, 2005/Position/Saint-Leonard borough Councillor, Saint-Leonard-Ouest ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused election table. Results already present on parent article without use of this template. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge in article and delete - I couldn't find this specific table in the article. It should be placed directly in the article, like all the other tables and then deleted. Gonnym (talk) 20:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Montreal's local borough councillors don't qualify for articles under WP:NPOL the way its citywide city councillors do, so there isn't and won't be a standalone BLP of Mario Battista to use this in. But since this is just the regular municipal election and not a followup by-election to replace a deceased or resigned predecessor, integrating it into 2005 Montreal municipal election means converting it to the main results table format rather than just adding this to the bottom as a "post-election changes" footnote. Bearcat (talk) 17:51, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Montreal municipal election, 2005/Position/Ville-Marie borough Councillor, Peter-McGill
- Template:Montreal municipal election, 2005/Position/Ville-Marie borough Councillor, Peter-McGill ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused election table. Results already present on parent article without use of this template. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:26, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge in article and delete - I couldn't find this specific table in the article. It should be placed directly in the article, like all the other tables and then deleted. Gonnym (talk) 20:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Montreal's local borough councillors don't qualify for articles under WP:NPOL the way its citywide city councillors do, so there isn't and won't be a standalone BLP of Karim Boulos to use this in. But since this is just the regular municipal election and not a followup by-election to replace a deceased or resigned predecessor, integrating it into 2005 Montreal municipal election means converting it to the main results table format rather than just adding this to the bottom as a "post-election changes" footnote. Bearcat (talk) 17:52, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Montreal municipal election, 2009/Position/Councillor, Peter-McGill
- Template:Montreal municipal election, 2009/Position/Councillor, Peter-McGill ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused election table. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:26, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge in article and delete - a different table is already used in article, but it lacks the voting data, so if that is wanted, the data should be first merged, then the template deleted. --Gonnym (talk) 20:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Iranian legislative election, 2000
- Template:Iranian legislative election, 2000 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused Hhkohh (talk) 12:49, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Subst if needed then delete - 2000 Iranian legislative election has several tables of results, but none is this one. I have no idea difference is the result of new information presented in the article, or if the template table is actually missing from the article. If the template is missing, subst the actual table into the article then delete template. --Gonnym (talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Iranian legislative election, 1996
- Template:Iranian legislative election, 1996 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused Hhkohh (talk) 12:48, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Subst if needed then delete - 1996 Iranian legislative election has several tables of results, but none is this one. I have no idea if difference is the result of new information presented in the article, or if the template table is actually missing from the article. If the template is missing, subst the actual table into the article then delete template. --Gonnym (talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
March 21
Template:1500sProtestantwomen
- Template:1500sProtestantwomen ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
More suitable to categorise this as Category:16th-century Protestant women. Celia Homeford (talk) 14:10, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep--I made this template for women who were a factor in the Reformation, either theological or political. You can't call them all "Reformers" because that would be only the theologians and would also exclude the ones whose role included influencing which type of Protestant church there would be. I went through the plausible 16th century women by nationality categories as well as the list on Women as theological figures to find possibilities. I did not include ones that were women who just happened to be Protestant because it was common in their area. The title of the template is now 16th century Protestant women in the Reformation and I have added four subcategories--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 18:28, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - Just a seemingly random set of women from the 16th century. Either there should be article about whatever links them or, failing that, a category for them will suffice. Nigej (talk) 16:19, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:QMJHL trophies
- Template:QMJHL trophies ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with no parent article Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:30, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge. I fail to understand the nominator's rationale that it is unused, when transcluded to 20+ articles. It also has a parent article at the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. It should merged into {{QMJHL}}, as the league does not need multiple navboxes. Flibirigit (talk) 20:38, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Flibirigit: [7] actually it is transcluded on ZERO articles. Links are not transclusions and the parent article would be Quebec Major Junior Hockey League trophies which does not exist... --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:31, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Flibirigit: any response to your unsubstantiated accusation? --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:53, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Flibirigit: [7] actually it is transcluded on ZERO articles. Links are not transclusions and the parent article would be Quebec Major Junior Hockey League trophies which does not exist... --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:31, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- My vote to merge has not changed. The parent article the league. Consensus at WikiProject Ice Hockey when these articles were created was not have separate articles. Flibirigit (talk) 21:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Flibirigit: thats fine, but your statement
I fail to understand the nominator's rationale that it is unused, when transcluded to 20+ articles.
is just false... --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:44, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Flibirigit: thats fine, but your statement
- My vote to merge has not changed. The parent article the league. Consensus at WikiProject Ice Hockey when these articles were created was not have separate articles. Flibirigit (talk) 21:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep. It's not used, but there are 20+ articles where it easily and reasonably could be used. I'm perfectly fine with a merger, too, as removing "trophy" from each link would reduce the needed space by a significant amount. Wikiproject consensus notwithstanding, these articles exist, so there's no good reason to say that they mustn't be linked by a template; the only reason we should refuse to link them (as opposed to removing them from a template where they don't fit, or deleting a poorly made template) is if they get deleted in the future. Nyttend (talk) 16:04, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Per above, the guidelines for deletion says (emphasis theirs) "The template is not used [...] and has no likelihood of being used". I believe this template is likely to be used though I would support a merge as well. BLAIXX 15:04, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Steelers1946DraftPicks
- Template:Steelers1946DraftPicks ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with no navigational links Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:33, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Unused and not a navbox that should be.--Tom (LT) (talk) 23:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment the navbox is not unused but is only listed on 2-3 pages at this time, at the time it fails for the amount of links.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 15:04, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Navbox is now fully used. As far as this entire class of navboxes as a concept, a broader discussion would have to take place at WT:NFL before we should be taking any action there. Additionally, any WP:ACCESS concerns that may exist here actually involve a different template, not this one. Ejgreen77 (talk) 16:06, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Ejgreen77: I opposed the rest of these TfDs but on this one (at the moment) he has a point as only 3 pages are linked to this one, I thought 5 was the minimum.--UCO2009bluejay (talk) 01:17, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- Note while this is now used, it is mostly plaintext and redlinks. Only actually links 2 pages. WP:NENAN. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:52, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep. Seconding Ejgreen77 with the fact that further discussion should take place at WT:NFL, for there are a large amount of templates of this style and category that will need to be taken into account if we delete a small portion of the templates but not all of the templates. UtopianPoyzin (talk) 18:56, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Rand Paul series
- Template:Rand Paul series ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unnecessary template that just clutters the page. Everything linked here can be accessed via Rand Paul and {{Rand Paul}}. See WP:NENAN. Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 23:02, 13 March 2019 (UTC) Edit: Will withdraw this nomination if anyone can add more substance to this template. --Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 23:26, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - duplicate of {{Rand Paul}}. --Gonnym (talk) 07:35, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- Additional comment - seeing as how none of the comments are actually about the specific template but about the general issue, I'll also post about this in general. This sidebar navigation templates are not limited to one per page at the top of the page. This causes the page layout to be unnecessarily cramped. Now since this also follow (or should follow as some of these templates fail) WP:BIDIRECTIONAL, they are placed on pages which they link to. So if we take 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries as an example, we have the following currently available templates that should be placed here at the same section - {{Donald Trump series}}, {{John Kasich series}}, {{Jeb Bush series}}, {{Rand Paul series}} and {{Rick Perry series}}, with 11 more possible templates that are yet to be created. There is a reason these navigation templates are placed at the bottom of the page. --Gonnym (talk) 12:57, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gonnym: WP:BIDI is a principle, not a requirement. If it was required, we would have to nominate {{George Washington series}}, {{Abraham Lincoln series}}, and most of Category:United States political leader sidebars for deletion. Series would be unnecessarily limited ({{George Washington series}} could not include Valley Forge) and as you say, articles would be unnecessarily burdened (if every election results article included sidebars for each candidate). If a sidebar cramps an article, it can be removed or discussed. --Tvc 15 (talk) 23:30, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Further, as per WP:NOTDUPE, "[t]hese systems of organizing information are considered to be complementary, not inappropriately duplicative." The sidebar being duplicative of another template is not a valid reason for deletion. --Tvc 15 (talk) 23:30, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Please don't spam ping me again. Especially if you comment the same exact thing. BIDI is not a principle, it is the basis to how good navigation works (and also a guideline). You allow the user to navigate between a set of articles that all share the navigation tool. A bottom navigation template helps solves all and any issue of both BIDI and the mass of templates, as it allows, A) the templates to be placed in a non-intrusive place, at the bottom, and B) it allows to group templates and collapse them. Side bars don't allow any of that, so you either don't place them, which then fails to navigate, or you place them, which then spams them, as can be seen in some election articles. Also, it would be useful if you and the others start actually commenting on the actual template being nominated instead of keep bringing up different templates for your examples. As for "NOTDUPE", actually read what it says. I wasn't against having a navigation template, just not a side bar. These navigation templates aren't different than any other bottom navbox and should be placed there. --Gonnym (talk) 08:38, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Additional comment - seeing as how none of the comments are actually about the specific template but about the general issue, I'll also post about this in general. This sidebar navigation templates are not limited to one per page at the top of the page. This causes the page layout to be unnecessarily cramped. Now since this also follow (or should follow as some of these templates fail) WP:BIDIRECTIONAL, they are placed on pages which they link to. So if we take 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries as an example, we have the following currently available templates that should be placed here at the same section - {{Donald Trump series}}, {{John Kasich series}}, {{Jeb Bush series}}, {{Rand Paul series}} and {{Rick Perry series}}, with 11 more possible templates that are yet to be created. There is a reason these navigation templates are placed at the bottom of the page. --Gonnym (talk) 12:57, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep NENAN is not a policy. (x10) Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 20:14, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Technically, everything related to Barack Obama or Donald Trump could be accessed from their articles. Nav boxes are meant to help navigation so it is easier for people to find what they are looking for. This is extremely beneficial and should be kept. (x11) TheSubmarine (talk) 21:25, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete This one specifically. links to only 5 articles, plus one sub-section. All are easily and logically found on the original Rand Paul page, which also has {{Rand Paul}} Hydromania (talk) 09:19, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. As per TheSubmarine, this sidebar is beneficial to navigation. Although a separate Rand Paul category exists, this is not a valid reason for deletion as per Wikipedia:NOTDUPE. I will change my comment to Keep if we can WP:IMPROVEIT. --Tvc 15 (talk) 23:30, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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Module:Headless TOC
- Module:Headless TOC ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unnecessary Lua module, can be implemented in Wikitext. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 03:12, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep This template was converted to Lua to allow for unlimited heading levels. The original only had a fixed/limited number of available heading levels. Only Lua can accomplish indefinite levels. —CodeHydro 15:22, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Codehydro: That can be done using Module:String, obviating the need for a separate Lua module. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:33, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Would like an example of how this is proposed to be replaced. --Gonnym (talk) 00:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: See Template:Headless TOC/sandbox. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 19:55, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Our Peak
- Template:Our Peak ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused navbox Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:20, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- Use. Has a set of linked articles that don't have a current navbox. --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:05, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. I set this up as a personal nav box, designed not to be published but just used in my sandbox. I'd forgotten it existed. No good to anyone else. Hogyn Lleol (talk) 09:15, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Hogyn Lleol: you are welcome to WP:G7 the template if you want. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, you can't use G7 (or most other speedy criteria) if the page is under discussion and someone has expressed an opinion against deletion. – Uanfala (talk) 18:35, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Hogyn Lleol: you are welcome to WP:G7 the template if you want. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- Not sure if to delete or use - author says it doesn't help anyone else, and I don't know anything about that area. If the links actually belong to the same subject and are useful then it should be used, but if not, then deleted. --Gonnym (talk) 00:16, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Ælfgifu theories
- Template:Ælfgifu theories ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused chart template. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:07, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete This template just presents one possible answer to a web of hypothetical relationships for which there is no scholarly consensus, with as many different versions as scholars who have published on it. I suspect this chart was prepared by someone who was entirely unaware of the century of medievalists who have produced alternative reconstructions of the same set of vague relational statements and possible associations. It is inherently POV, and there is no way to fix it - one can't present in a single chart the different mutually-exclusive permutations, nor would having the numerous charts necessary to summarize all the alternative solutions workable. When it comes down to it, this template can't help but produce more smoke than light. Agricolae (talk) 01:56, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Now linked again from Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, as it was until November 2018 when User:Agricolae removed the svg of the chart and the link to the template it was based on. The section discussing these theories is well-referenced and notes that they are only tentative and not conclusive. They are not just some individual editor's flight of fancy. It is notable that Agricolae did not remove the text. Why then remove the diagram, which merely illustrates what is written in the text and makes it easier to follow? I have therefore restored the diagram to the text, and the link to this template which provides clickable links, and from which the svg diagram was created. Jheald (talk) 09:05, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- The template was also similarly linked from Æthelstan Half-King, which Agricolae also removed (diff). I haven't yet restored the revision there, but it seems to me it would be similarly useful to illustrate Æthelstan's direct family, and it did state that the possible connections to the Anglo-Saxon royal family should be regarded as tentative. That seems to me an appropriate presentation, so I would be fully minded to restore it there too. Jheald (talk) 09:17, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I removed it, because it gives a misleading simplistic representation of what is a very complex issue, even with a caveat (that we both know will be ignored) about it being tentative. Agricolae (talk) 14:06, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Agricolae: And you also removed it from Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, where it directly corresponds to what is written in the text there? Jheald (talk) 14:51, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I removed it. I thought I would have made this clear by saying in my previous response that "I removed it".
- We do no favors by making a pretty chart template that hides the tenuous nature of these guesses (and completely ignores alternative reconstructions), a chart that can (and no doubt will) then be placed on other pages that lack even the context of the problematic discussion found on the Ælfgifu page. That one could select different sources and end up with a different chart with different relationships (e.g. with Æthelfrith the son of Æthelhelm and father-in-law of Æthelgifu via marriage to Eadric, thereby turning almost all the blue people green, or perhaps aqua) just demonstrates we shouldn't be memorializing any single set of hyper-speculative guesses in this way. Agricolae (talk) 17:38, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- The chart has faults but I do not agree that it is worse than useless and should be deleted. It does show the two alternative lines which are discussed by modern historians and in the article and will help the reader. The fact that other versions, which are not mentioned in the article, have been discussed by scholars is not a reason to delete the chart. The main fault with the chart is that it is not referenced. It is not satisfactory to rely on referencing in the article on Ælgifu, which in any case is very unsatisfactory. Also the article does not cover all the (possible) relationships shown in the table. The descent from Æthelred I is supported by Yorke and Wormald, but not that the line went through through Æthelhelm, which is claimed by genealogists and rejected by historians. It should be removed. The alternative of descent from Ealhswith's parents is supported by Stafford but only discussed in detail by Hart so far as I am aware. I am not familiar with the details of this theory and they need to be fully referenced to Hart. Dudley Miles (talk) 23:43, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Agricolae: And you also removed it from Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, where it directly corresponds to what is written in the text there? Jheald (talk) 14:51, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I removed it, because it gives a misleading simplistic representation of what is a very complex issue, even with a caveat (that we both know will be ignored) about it being tentative. Agricolae (talk) 14:06, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per Agricolae's analysis. I'm not qualified to assess the details of that analysis but I trust it particularly since the events occurred over a thousand years ago. Given that the template is unused and that it probably presents a misleading picture, it should be removed. Johnuniq (talk) 02:42, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- The template is not transcluded, but it is not unused -- it is linked to in multiple places where the SVG version is shown -- on the Ælfgifu page, on the Ælfgifu talkpage, and on the description page of the SVG itself. The advantage of the SVG is that it can be thumbnailed. But the advantage of the template is that it contains active links which the SVG does not; it is also the raw material from which the SVG was created, and from which any modified version (presumably) would need to be created. Jheald (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- And the disadvantage is that it allows the such widespread distribution of material that fails to meet some of the most basic standards of Wikipedia - the argument that it is helpful on the original page to show this one scholar's pet theory as described in the text is completely invalidated when the same context-free chart is then transcluded onto other pages that lack any description or relevant context whatsoever about the level of guesswork involved. It is engineered to propagate a POV. Agricolae (talk) 16:26, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- The template is not transcluded, but it is not unused -- it is linked to in multiple places where the SVG version is shown -- on the Ælfgifu page, on the Ælfgifu talkpage, and on the description page of the SVG itself. The advantage of the SVG is that it can be thumbnailed. But the advantage of the template is that it contains active links which the SVG does not; it is also the raw material from which the SVG was created, and from which any modified version (presumably) would need to be created. Jheald (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. The chart was unused at the time of nomination as it had been deleted from Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, but it is specifically intended to show the two lines of descent discussed in that article and in my view does help to explain them to readers, subject to the improvements I suggested above. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:16, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete if not used in article - a template is not an article. It should not be linked to from the article namespace, but should be transcluded. If it fails in this task, then there is no reason for it to be kept. --Gonnym (talk) 00:22, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Average temperature table
- Template:Average temperature table ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This seems totally redundant to Template:Weather Box/Module:Weather box. Also note that some of the subtemplates are making calls to a user's module sandbox. Only in use on 1 page. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:08, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- Replace uses with Template:Weather box if possible. @Johnuniq: can Weather Box handle this? --Gonnym (talk) 23:21, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- It looks like an experiment as people tried different things to see what would work for {{weather box}}. Let's wait to hear from Erutuon who will know what should occur. Johnuniq (talk) 23:26, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- Huh? This is very different from Template:Weather box. It generates the basic table structure for the six tables in List of cities by average temperature: a table caption and set of table headers followed by rows, followed by the end-of-table syntax. It could be renamed if the name isn't clear. If it isn't kept, the basic table structure will have to be duplicated in the six tables in List of cities by average temperature, which is not ideal since it's laborious and prone to error. — Eru·tuon 23:59, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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March 20
Template:Jets AFL All-Time Team
- Template:Jets AFL All-Time Team ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with no specific parent article. WP:NENAN Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:34, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. Template is now fully used. Whether or not this particular award is significant enough to justify a navbox, I take no position and am Neutral there. Ejgreen77 (talk) 17:21, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. Neutral leaning delete We've deleted such lists regarding College football before but the NFL is different. WP:NENAN is an essay However fails WP:NAVBOX 4 no parent article. We also have Template:Buffalo Bills 50th Season All-time Team, Template:Broncos50th, Template:Los Angeles Rams 40th Anniversary Team, Template:Patriots35th, Template:Patriots50th, Template:Patriots1960s, Template:Patriots1970s, Template:Patriots1980s, Template:Patriots1990s, Template:Patriots2000s, Template:Pittsburgh Steelers 50th season All-Time team, Template:Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Team, Template:Pittsburgh Steelers Legends team, Template:Seattle Seahawks 35th anniversary team, Template:Seattle Seahawks 35th anniversary team navbox, Template:The 80 Greatest Redskins, Template:The 70 Greatest Redskins, and Template:50Chargers which could be discussed.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 16:31, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Per WP:NAVBOX and WP:EMBED. The links found in a navbox should be expected to be found in a the "completed" version of the page. Not every player on a team like this would be found on the pages of the others. -DJSasso (talk) 18:06, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Aerospecs
- Template:Aerospecs ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Aircraft specifications ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Aerospecs and Template:Aircraft specifications with Template:Aircraft specs.
Templates have been marked as deprecated and should be replaced by {{Aircraft specs}}. See also Template talk:Aircraft specifications#Deprecation of this template. Gonnym (talk) 13:22, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Please note that the following Opposes are not in favour of a Bot carrying out the task, but are generally in favour of the nomination, if handled manually!!--Petebutt (talk) 05:55, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose, over 4,000 pages still use these templates, see Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Aircraft_specifications, [8], Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Aerospecs, and [9]. - ZLEA Talk\Contribs 14:16, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- You misunderstand. Of course they will not be deleted until the many pages that use them have all been transitioned to the new one, however long it takes.— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose, the templates differ significantly in their input parameters and conversion between them using bots is not feasible. {{Aircraft specifications}} does not specify a prime unit and conversion to {{Aircraft specs}} will require a human editor to look up the original source and identify the original units used to avoid loss of precision. —Gazoth (talk) 16:26, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Nobody said it was going to be simple.— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:38, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- First of all, it does not need to be a bot move if it can't. Some of the templates in the holding cell, like the football ones, are being converted manually, a few at a time. Secondly, looking at the specific example you gave, that actually can be done by a bot. While the template does not specify a prime unit, looking at North American B-25 Mitchell as an example, the values entered are
|length main=52 ft 11 in
and|length alt=16.13 m
. By using "ft", "in" and "m" a bot can know which value is what. --Gonnym (talk) 17:02, 20 March 2019 (UTC)- To be fair, some of the partially filled entries will be less tractable. There is also the issue of accumulated rounding errors in converting from one unit to another and then back again. I think that a bot would be able to convert a good many successfully, but would also need to back off and flag up the ones it has problems with. It would have to be some sophisticated bot! But really, this is irrelevant to the issue at hand. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:49, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gazoth, just because you can't write a bot to do it, doesn't mean that someone else can't. It is a mistake to oppose just because you don't think it is possible. Discuss the merits of the merge, not the feasibility of making it happen. If you think it SHOULD happen, then let others worry about how to actually make it happen. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:56, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, a bot can't extrapolate data from nothing. There is nothing in the parameters of {{Aircraft specifications}} to identify the original unit used. It requires a human editor to look up the original source and input the correct unit into {{Aircraft specs}}. This is not a trivial task that can be figured out after a decision is made, this has to planned for beforehand. Technical feasibility is an important part of the merits of a proposal. What is the point of deciding to merge a template when the merge might not be feasible? —Gazoth (talk) 19:29, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gazoth, could you give an example of a page which you think will be hard to convert? Also, remember, that no one promised a bot will do this and there are multiple examples of templates manually converted. --Gonnym (talk) 19:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gazoth again you are missing the point. As Gonnym stated, how the conversion will take place is irrelevant... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gonnym, are there examples of manually converting thousands of transclusions after looking up the original sources, a significant portion of which are offline and hard to find? —Gazoth (talk) 02:53, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- This really feels like WP:ICANTHEARYOU. I've already answered that, several times here. If there is no source available then it fails WP:V. The merge is not a "also, while you do it, add new information" - it is a simple, take what template A has and move it to template B. Last time I'll explain that. --Gonnym (talk) 06:26, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- What are you talking about? I never said that sources may not be available, I said that some sources will be hard to find. Per WP:SOURCEACCESS, it doesn't prevent them from being reliable. —Gazoth (talk) 17:05, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- This really feels like WP:ICANTHEARYOU. I've already answered that, several times here. If there is no source available then it fails WP:V. The merge is not a "also, while you do it, add new information" - it is a simple, take what template A has and move it to template B. Last time I'll explain that. --Gonnym (talk) 06:26, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gazoth, could you give an example of a page which you think will be hard to convert? Also, remember, that no one promised a bot will do this and there are multiple examples of templates manually converted. --Gonnym (talk) 19:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, a bot can't extrapolate data from nothing. There is nothing in the parameters of {{Aircraft specifications}} to identify the original unit used. It requires a human editor to look up the original source and input the correct unit into {{Aircraft specs}}. This is not a trivial task that can be figured out after a decision is made, this has to planned for beforehand. Technical feasibility is an important part of the merits of a proposal. What is the point of deciding to merge a template when the merge might not be feasible? —Gazoth (talk) 19:29, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Gazoth, just because you can't write a bot to do it, doesn't mean that someone else can't. It is a mistake to oppose just because you don't think it is possible. Discuss the merits of the merge, not the feasibility of making it happen. If you think it SHOULD happen, then let others worry about how to actually make it happen. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:56, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- To be fair, some of the partially filled entries will be less tractable. There is also the issue of accumulated rounding errors in converting from one unit to another and then back again. I think that a bot would be able to convert a good many successfully, but would also need to back off and flag up the ones it has problems with. It would have to be some sophisticated bot! But really, this is irrelevant to the issue at hand. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:49, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- First of all, it does not need to be a bot move if it can't. Some of the templates in the holding cell, like the football ones, are being converted manually, a few at a time. Secondly, looking at the specific example you gave, that actually can be done by a bot. While the template does not specify a prime unit, looking at North American B-25 Mitchell as an example, the values entered are
- Nobody said it was going to be simple.— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:38, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support. Neither of the old templates can be made to do what the Project team has agreed is needed. The new one can and does.— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose This will break hundreds of pages if you do it by bot, including many of the most important high visibility pages (as these tended to be written first) and will take years if it is done properly by hand, as doing it properly really needs access to the sources originally used, and many of the original editors have moved on. In the mean time thousands of pages have unsightly deletion notices plastered all over them, often conflicting with other page content.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Nigel Ish, For the love of... It won't be done if anything is going to break!!! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- If a bot cannot do it, it will happen manually. The notice will not be there when it happens, that notice is only for this discussion. Also, there is no need for the original sources for the replacement, if there was need and no source was available in the article now, then that content should be removed anyways as it fails WP:V. Can't believe I need to explain this in a TfD discussion. --Gonnym (talk) 19:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- One reason why ideally the person making the changes should have access to the original source is to avoid additional rounding errors - in filling out the original specs template, the editor will often have had to convert between imperial and metric units - potentially introducing rounding errors (or calculation errors - having access to the originals will help to minimse this.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'll repeat myself - if there is no source, then the information should be removed per WP:V. This is irrelevant to this discussion though. --Gonnym (talk) 20:48, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- You do not seem to understand my comment - having the original source will help to minimise un-necessary conversion errors - the units used in the original source aren't necessarily what we would choose as the primary units - for example a pre-metric British or American source may only list dimensions in feet and inches, even for a European aircraft where we would normally choose to display metric first (i.e. as primary units). By working from the source, we minimise errors introduced by these sort of things. Another issue is there may be some edge cases out there that may not work well with the auto-converting aircraft specs template - certainly the talk page for that template has a few examples where it recommds using the free field aircraft specifications template where aircraft specs doesn't work very well - It may be worth considering retaining the aircraft specifications template to cope with these cases. template:aerospecs is much less flexible, and I don't think there will be much using that template that can't be worked into aircraft specs by someone who understands how the templates work.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:18, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- I understand your comment, I just this it is irrelevant and off-topic. The merge is not a "also, while you do it, add new information" - it is a simple, take what template A has and move it to template B. If the current template is incomplete, then the new template will also be incomplete. If the old template has only one type of data (say only inches), then {{convert}} will handle the conversion per the template. This is an acceptable way of doing this in Wikipedia. If the original data was rounded and no source is used and no note was given, well, like I said, the current information is itself wrong/misleading, so you can't expect the merge to be different. --Gonnym (talk) 06:34, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- You do not seem to understand my comment - having the original source will help to minimise un-necessary conversion errors - the units used in the original source aren't necessarily what we would choose as the primary units - for example a pre-metric British or American source may only list dimensions in feet and inches, even for a European aircraft where we would normally choose to display metric first (i.e. as primary units). By working from the source, we minimise errors introduced by these sort of things. Another issue is there may be some edge cases out there that may not work well with the auto-converting aircraft specs template - certainly the talk page for that template has a few examples where it recommds using the free field aircraft specifications template where aircraft specs doesn't work very well - It may be worth considering retaining the aircraft specifications template to cope with these cases. template:aerospecs is much less flexible, and I don't think there will be much using that template that can't be worked into aircraft specs by someone who understands how the templates work.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:18, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'll repeat myself - if there is no source, then the information should be removed per WP:V. This is irrelevant to this discussion though. --Gonnym (talk) 20:48, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- One reason why ideally the person making the changes should have access to the original source is to avoid additional rounding errors - in filling out the original specs template, the editor will often have had to convert between imperial and metric units - potentially introducing rounding errors (or calculation errors - having access to the originals will help to minimse this.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- If a bot cannot do it, it will happen manually. The notice will not be there when it happens, that notice is only for this discussion. Also, there is no need for the original sources for the replacement, if there was need and no source was available in the article now, then that content should be removed anyways as it fails WP:V. Can't believe I need to explain this in a TfD discussion. --Gonnym (talk) 19:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Nigel Ish, For the love of... It won't be done if anything is going to break!!! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
I like the new template idea, but we should make sure that it includes all of the many missing data categories. SFD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:3230:ECD0:8C2B:C5E2:E2BB:A54A (talk) 03:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- To whoever closes, please notice that the current opposes are not actually responding to the actual issue, but to whether a bot can or cannot do it, which is irrelevant. Remember that the number of votes does not matter, but the actual reasons behind it. --Gonnym (talk) 19:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'll second that. Despite endless clarifications, many editors are still misunderstanding the TfD process. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:29, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge/Support {{Aerospecs}} is deprecated, so by definition it should be merged. As Gonnym has pointed out, the only objections so far are that merging them will break the page. This argument is completely invalid. When merging two templates, the merge is not valid unless all data is merged and no templates brake. So if the decision is to merge, that means we put it in the holding cell and figure out how to do the merge. It doesn't mean we just redirect the template and break thousands of pages. ZLEA, Steelpillow, Nigel Ish & Gazoth you seem to misunderstand the process regarding merging templates. I'm happy to provide more information but please rest assured that when we merge two templates, it is not just a matter of redirecting one template to the other. Some mergers are easy, some are complicated. This is one certainly looks to be more complicated but that is the responsibility of WP:TPEs to figure out. At the end of the day, a merge WILL NOT take place if it breaks anything. Nigel Ish your comment in particular that
This will break hundreds of pages ... including many of the most important high visibility pages
. ANY edits that break hundreds of pages would immediately be reverted. That is NOT a valid case. I would encourage you each to set aside the "it could break things" part of this. For the sake of this discussion, assume that any merge won't break anything. The point of this discussion is SHOULD it be merged. Then we talk about how to actually make it happen. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:25, 21 March 2019 (UTC)- A bot simply isn't going to cope with many examples unless it is hideously complicated - it will have to deal with things like fraction characters, notes and references embedded in date fields and all sorts of other work arounds that people came up with to fit things into the old templates.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Nigel Ish, put aside the bot... No one said this has to be done by a bot... I've done hundreds of the these merges. Some are done with a bot, some are not and some are a combination. You continue to focus on how the merge will happen and not whether or not it should happen. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:21, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- A bot simply isn't going to cope with many examples unless it is hideously complicated - it will have to deal with things like fraction characters, notes and references embedded in date fields and all sorts of other work arounds that people came up with to fit things into the old templates.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose As too soon. Although both templates are deprecated and should be (in my opinion) deleted, they are each still in use on thousands of pages. The current request has come far too early in the removal process, which is likely the root cause of most of the discussion above. For now our efforts would be far better used by focusing on getting the articles switched over to the new template, rather than arguing in circles here about something that cannot and will not happen anytime soon. Sario528 (talk) 12:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- You misunderstand the TfD process. The whole point of the current proposal is to put more weight behind those thousands of page updates. As has been stated many times above, it is absolutely not the green light for immediate template removal. This is not too soon, it is years overdue.— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:29, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- Supportthe merge but oppose the bot, supporting conversion to Aircraft specs. This can only be done manually, but it would help if editors are unable to use the older templates for new articles.--Petebutt (talk) 20:56, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Petebutt: I think you mean "Support the proposed merge, but not the use of a bot that has been suggested in the discussion"? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:29, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- As one of the users that has been converting the templates it takes time and care but is not difficult, we just need to make sure the old templates are no longer used but they still need to exist while the conversion process is done. If the deprecation means we need to offically "merge" them so be it but I cant see why we cant just leave them tagged as deprecated and be left to convert them in our own time. MilborneOne (talk) 18:37, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose. As noted, the "old" templates are still used by many pages. The process of updating them is being done. There's nothing "broken" about letting depreciated templates be replaced through normal editing in editors' own time. There is no deadline. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:45, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Bushranger; the nomination is not that a bot do it. Just that they are replaced. It is widely accepted that this is only feasible if carried out manually. The issue of references is moot as there is no reason that a different, hopefully better, reference cannot be used!!--Petebutt (talk) 06:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Can you point out where I said anything about bots? - The Bushranger One ping only 06:33, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- Bushranger; the nomination is not that a bot do it. Just that they are replaced. It is widely accepted that this is only feasible if carried out manually. The issue of references is moot as there is no reason that a different, hopefully better, reference cannot be used!!--Petebutt (talk) 06:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose - "Old" templates are still being widely used. 111.68.115.165 (talk) 07:08, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
March 19
Template:Salem–Vriddhachalam–Cuddalore Port line
- Template:Salem–Vriddhachalam–Cuddalore Port line ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused rail route map. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Useddenim: Do you remember if this was used anywhere? Most of the diagram seems to be duplicated by {{Salem–Virudhachalam line}}, which is in use, but I don't think there's a route diagram for the rest of the line. It's not clear to me if the two apparently discontinuous segments are actually one line. Jc86035 (talk) 14:23, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- @GoldenDragon2293Return and Chandan Guha: can you answer this question? Useddenim (talk) 17:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Balablitz: I was not associated with these templates. Balablitz may be able to say, if it was used or not. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 23:54, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Useddenim, Chandan Guha, and Jc86035: My apologies for the delay in reply. I just had a look at various pages of Southern Railway. It seems that part of the line i.e Salem-Vriddhachalam section is already covered under the Template:Salem–Virudhachalam line template used in Salem Junction railway station page and the part from Vriddhachalam-Cuddalore Port Jn is covered under Chennai Egmore–Thanjavur main line template. We can either create a new page and link this template to it and in pages where it exist, we remove the stations and just add a connecting arrow (What is the usual Wiki convention here ? Do we create separate pages for terminus to terminus connections ?) or we can discard the template. I prefer the first way here as it reduces the size of the template and makes it a bit neat. Also a point to note is that there is a new line planned in between the Salem-Vriddhachalam part. I am planning to work on the Southern Railways after I have finished work under the Eastern & NE Railways. Please let me know what is your decision in this regards. ---- GoldenDragon2293Return
- @Balablitz: I was not associated with these templates. Balablitz may be able to say, if it was used or not. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 23:54, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- @GoldenDragon2293Return and Chandan Guha: can you answer this question? Useddenim (talk) 17:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Liloa/Piilani/Moana Family Tree
- Template:Liloa/Piilani/Moana Family Tree ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with mostly plainlinks (WP:EXISTING) Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:42, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep No plainlinks are used. These are explanatory notes/references. The family tree has sources so I have connected it to the intended page so that it is no longer orphaned. There are several other articles this is also intended for. Will fully reference the tree similar to the recently started Template:Kalaniʻōpuʻu, Kamehameha, Kānekapōlei and Peleuli family tree.--Mark Miller (talk) 22:45, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: I have a hard time understanding why this chart is inside a navbox and has a reference section (not a note section, as the head suggests). If this is to be kept, it should be changed to use normal tree chart syntax and not be a hybrid. Just to be clear - If this is the style that is to be kept, then I'm in the opinion that this should be deleted as it violates correct MoS sections, accessibility of font size and misuse of navbox that does not show up on mobile. --Gonnym (talk) 10:55, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:La Serena squad
- Template:La Serena squad ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
unused navbox with numerous WP:REDLINKS Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 08:56, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep and update to match Deportes La Serena#Current squad, and rename as {{Deportes La Serena squad}}. GiantSnowman 08:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Even if it were updated to match the article, we would be storing article content in an unused template. That doesn't make sense. The only reason to keep this is if it were going to be used in multiple articles. – Jonesey95 (talk) 09:44, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Jonesey95: once it is updated we would then add it to the relevant articles, so it's no longer unused. Squad navboxes are common and established (see eg Category:Association football squad navigational boxes by country). GiantSnowman 15:16, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:La Ronge Radio
- Template:La Ronge Radio ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:36, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Fixed it. It's used now... just forgot to put the template into its articles... RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 07:54, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. La Ronge is a small market which only has one true radio station of its own, and literally everything else here is a rebroadcaster of a station from another market. But per WP:TCREEP, radio stations are not supposed to contain an explosion of market navboxes for every individual city or town where they have a rebroadcaster — they are only supposed to have the navbox for their originating market. For example, the Prince Albert radio market navbox is the only one that belongs on CHQX-FM, not three additional submarket navboxes for Big River and La Ronge and Waskesiu Lake. So the only page this template belongs on is CBKA-FM, and a navbox for one page is not needed. CBKA is already navboxed for its network anyway, so deleting this will not depopulate the article's inbound links. Bearcat (talk) 16:27, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Super Over
- Template:Super Over ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Module:Super Over ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Template includes ball-by-ball detail which is excessive and no reliable source is providing for verification. SocietyBox (talk) 20:54, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Added the module, which should clearly suffer the same fate as the template. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:10, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete This is an overly esoteric way of essentially saying X team won in extra time. As the nom says, it fails WP:V. All the cricket scorecards will show that a team beat another team in the super over, and that's all we need to add to matches on WP when that applies. Adding the whole template for a single over for one match is a hugh distraction to the rest of the fixture. If someone wants a more detailed breakdown of what happened, ball by ball, they can find it elsewhere. There's no need to replicate it on WP. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:42, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete this is just WP:FANCRUFT, no need for such a detailed template on an over of cricket. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment I can see some very slight value in keeping it, but only for matches where there is detailed coverage of the match on the article page (including a full scorecard), which would typically only be tournament finals. Using alongside a standard {{Single-innings cricket match}} is completely disproportionate: the Super Over template is 10 lines long, a basic usage of the match template is 5 lines long. Spike 'em (talk) 08:46, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep This is similar to penalties in football. However, I agree that it need not be that detailed. 117.198.112.144 (talk) 19:00, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep , it's shows a special innings (Super Over) in T20 cricket. For a whole match we update the singl innings template, just like that super over is also should be shown. Nivas88 (talk) 19:21, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - Keep, How can you are not getting source about Super over for the inngings. Super over Scorecard is available in the original link of that match. It's so funny Lol...
- If super over template will delete then add another single innings template to show super over details... 2405:204:610F:AC6A:97F9:E182:439A:E12F (talk) 08:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - this is way too much detail and would be better served by a sentence of prose added as a note, if necessary, to the template dealing with the match scorecard. Even that is essentially a MIRROR of something that would be even better served by an external link to one of the many places that cricket scorecards are kept online. Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
And associated template Template:Navbox Province of Italy/testcases. For reasons stated at Template talk:Navbox Province of Italy - overly complicated and unnecessary template; can just have individual province templates. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 20:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- There appears to be a misunderstanding here; this is a metatemplate used by indivudal navboxes like Template:Province of Nuoro. Nevertheless, delete, as this template appears to exist only to call on templates used to store data which has no possibility of being changed. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:18, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- And what will happen to {{Province of Nuoro}} if you do that, Pppery? – it's marked as under consideration for deletion. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:20, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Justlettersandnumbers: It will be converted to call Template:Navbox directly ({{Province of Nuoro}} itself isn't marked as under consideration, it's transcluding a notice from {{Navbox Province of Italy}}, as is standard for TfDs). {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:22, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I should’ve asked this question here instead of on the template in question:
- @Pppery: Deleting this meta template won't thereby delete the individual templates, right? Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 20:42, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Vaselineeeeeeee: No, they'll get converted to call Template:Navbox directly. Also, we seem to be having a discussion fork here, and further discussion should take place at the TfD. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- So it's transcluding a message that doesn't concern it? Isn't that just a little misleading? I suggest that that should be fixed before we spend any more time deleting templates that appear to be working perfectly well. If someone wants {{Province of Nuoro}} to call {{Navbox}} directly, couldn't they just edit it so that it does so? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:34, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- That's just the way TfD works. As the message clearly states, "the template Navbox Province of Italy ...", which is the template it applies to. The arguments for converting {{Province of Nuoro}} apply just as well to all other uses of the template, which means a TfD is necessary, and the custom is to TfD first to avoid a fait accompli. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:26, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- So it's transcluding a message that doesn't concern it? Isn't that just a little misleading? I suggest that that should be fixed before we spend any more time deleting templates that appear to be working perfectly well. If someone wants {{Province of Nuoro}} to call {{Navbox}} directly, couldn't they just edit it so that it does so? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:34, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Justlettersandnumbers: It will be converted to call Template:Navbox directly ({{Province of Nuoro}} itself isn't marked as under consideration, it's transcluding a notice from {{Navbox Province of Italy}}, as is standard for TfDs). {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:22, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- And what will happen to {{Province of Nuoro}} if you do that, Pppery? – it's marked as under consideration for deletion. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:20, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete this template, and keep the individual province navboxes separately.--Darwinek (talk) 23:25, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- The fate of the individual province navboxes is not in dispute. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:05, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:If affirmed
- Template:If affirmed ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:If declined ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Yesno ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:If affirmed and Template:If declined with Template:Yesno.
Duplicate templates, it seems undesirable to me for there not to be a consistent definition of what values been "yes" and what values mean "no". {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 19:08, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- If merged then do not call the template yesno. E.g. does "remove", "exclude", "include", "on", "off", "add", "none", means yes or no? Christian75 (talk) 10:02, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose Your proposal would affect a template transcluded on almost a quarter of all pages on Wikipedia. Such a huge change needs a much wider discussion than an ordinary TFD; please go to WP:VP/Pr or something of the sort, so that you can get a wider audience. Nyttend (talk) 11:55, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Merge. I think the proposal makes sense. Care must be taken in its implementation, of course. TfD is the correct forum for this discussion, as that's exactly its purpose; posting notice of this discussion at other forums can resolve any concern this this discussion is not visible enough. --Bsherr (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
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- Merge. Makes sense. Extra care must be taken, and a better name may be needed. Rehman 12:54, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: While there does appear to be the beginnings of a consensus to merge these three templates, the (currently sole) opposition makes a valid point that a template family that affects 10 million pages should receive a little bit more discussion than is currently present. TFD is the proper location for this discussion to take place, but I will place notices at WT:WPT and WP:VPT in an effort to drum up more comments from potentially interested parties.
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- If this can be done without touching anything on yesno, then sure start replacing the others - but touching yesno is pretty much a no-no. — xaosflux Talk 01:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support merger; just don't break anything. @Pppery: Is Module:Yesno relevant to this discussion in any way? The only differences between the module and {{Yesno}} (as far as I can tell) are that "t" and "f" are accepted as true/false inputs in the module and not in {{Yesno}}, and that the module does not handle blank/¬ inputs specially. Jc86035 (talk) 14:16, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Samanid Provinces
- Template:Samanid Provinces ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:12, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose It's used in the Samanid Empire article, and will eventually be used more places in the future. --HistoryofIran (talk) 11:12, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment: The links in this navbox appear to go to articles about modern cities in the region, not to articles about the provinces within the Samanid Empire. I looked at a few of the linked articles, and they do not mention this empire or the city's role in it. This linking may violate MOS:EGG or a similar guideline. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:18, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Huh? The majority of the links don't. And if there are cities, that because the province was situated at those cities. --HistoryofIran (talk) 23:39, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose Per HistoryofIran. - LouisAragon (talk) 16:41, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per User:HistoryofIran. Benyamin-ln (talk) 18:44, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
One Nation party templates
- Template:One Nation/meta/color ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:One Nation (Australia)/meta/color ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Pauline Hanson's One Nation/meta/color ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:One Nation (Australia)/meta/shortname ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Pauline Hanson's One Nation/meta/shortname ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:One Nation/meta/color and Template:One Nation (Australia)/meta/color with Template:Pauline Hanson's One Nation/meta/color
Propose merging Template:One Nation (Australia)/meta/shortname with Template:Pauline Hanson's One Nation/meta/shortname.
Outdated and duplicate color templates. All three represent the same political party, albeit one which changed its name in 2015. A mixture of all three templates are linked to in political articles spanning more than 20 years. --Heyitsstevo (talk) 06:04, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support, except use the yellow colour in Template:One Nation/meta/color. For most of their 20-year history, they have used the yellow. They have recently been using an orange, which is difficult to differentiate from another significant minor party, the Democrats, in elections from 1998 to 2005. With minor parties especially, we sometimes need to depart from the exact colour that they use in order to help differentiate them from other parties. We should maintain the yellow for now. Frickeg (talk) 07:36, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Unnecessary file wrappers
- Template:Now commons dated ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Now Commons ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:OP ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:OTRS pending ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Now commons dated and Template:Now Commons
Propose merging Template:OP and Template:OTRS pending.
Needless complexity, see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 September 5#Unnecessary file wrappers {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 23:45, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- I've noincluded the tfd tags, given that this proposal causes almost no user-visible changes ({{subst:OP}} and {{subst:Now commons dated}}/{{subst:ncd}} will continue to work). {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:56, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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- I don't know much about how these work, but either way, at the end of the day I would like to keep the OTRS pending over OP, and redirect OP to OTRS pending. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 15:43, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Keepall of these as they are. The purpose of {{OP}} is that you use {{subst:OP}} to get {{OTRS pending}} with today's date. {{subst:OP}} will expand to {{OTRS pending|year=2019|month=March|day=19}}, Tomorrow, it will have day=20, etc. {{subst:ncd}} works the same way. ({{ncd}} is a redirect to {{subst:now commons dated}}.) Nobody actually types out the full template - they use {{subst:ncd}}. I'm sure that magic could probably be done to make {{subst:OTRS pending}} render as {{OTRS pending|year=2019|month=03|day=19}} and I thought from @Pppery:'s nomination that that is what you were saying you had done. But I just tested it in my sandbox and {{subst:OTRS pending}} renders a subst'd version of the mbox template. --B (talk) 16:05, 19 March 2019 (UTC)- @B: I was saying that I will do that if the TfD closes as merge; doing it now would be improperly preempting the outcome of this TfD discussion. See Template:Dfu for an example of what the new style looks like; you can substitute it and it comes to a dated transclusion. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 18:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Coded at Template:OTRS pending/sandbox {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:09, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Pppery: Looks good - Works for me. I think this is fine to do. I don't know that it even needs to be !voted on - since {{subst:OP}} is still going to work, then there is no change in functionality - it's a non-controversial technical improvement to a template with no adverse consequences to anyone. --B (talk) 10:58, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:Urban public transport in Algeria
- Template:Urban public transport in Algeria ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox with no parent article. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:14, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- Merge to mass transit in Africa template. --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- Merge per Tom or keep and use --DannyS712 (talk) 23:30, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete not a useful template. The other two links could be added to Template:Rapid transit in Africa. BLAIXX 16:02, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
March 18
Template:Municipalities in Tyrol
- Template:Municipalities in Tyrol ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox. This duplicates multiple other templates by combining them all into one massive navbox. For example, the first row, Imst District is covered by {{Cities and towns in Imst (district)}}. The second row Innsbruck-Land District is covered by {{Cities and towns in Innsbruck-Land (district)}} etc. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- At least sort out all the articles linked in it with categories, a lot aren't even categorized, perhaps Ser Amantio di Nicolao can help. Personally I think on a global level tiny district templates tend to be of limited use, best to be able to browse larger regions. You can always sub collapse the big template.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:04, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Much more useful to browse a state wide area, suggest reintroducing it and sub shrinking it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Surely what we don't need are two parallel systems (Category:Tyrol (state) templates) Either 1 big one or 8 small ones, not both. Generally the district level seems to be preferred for other states. Nigej (talk) 09:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm talking about article categories, ones like Karres aren't even categorized so how are people supposed to navigate the wider area? Dumb. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I was aware that your comment related to categories. However the topic at hand is about the template. Karres does include template {{Cities and towns in Imst (district)}} and is in Category:Imst District so I'm clearly missing your point anyway. Nigej (talk)
- Only because Wooden added it after I said the others aren't. Think globally. There's currently no way for people browsing to access these articles from the parent categories.There should at least be a Category:Municipalities of Tyrol. Ser Amantio di Nicolao can you sort out the categories for this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:07, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- I was aware that your comment related to categories. However the topic at hand is about the template. Karres does include template {{Cities and towns in Imst (district)}} and is in Category:Imst District so I'm clearly missing your point anyway. Nigej (talk)
- I'm talking about article categories, ones like Karres aren't even categorized so how are people supposed to navigate the wider area? Dumb. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Surely what we don't need are two parallel systems (Category:Tyrol (state) templates) Either 1 big one or 8 small ones, not both. Generally the district level seems to be preferred for other states. Nigej (talk) 09:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as unused. If the articles for all Austrian municipalities are employing the district level templates, then those are the ones that are needed. We don't need both. --woodensuperman 11:13, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Template:KSH code
- Template:KSH code ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
All this does is provide a 5 digital value that is used by the currently being deleted {{Infobox Hungarian settlement}} to format a URL. For example: [http://www.ksh.hu/apps/!cp.hnt2.telep?nn={{KSH code|name={{PAGENAME}}}}]
. Since the template was created in 2014, the values have not been updated a single time. There is no reason to store them in a massive switch statement. This slows down the performance of the page dramatically as it must parse this switch statement up to 3 times depending on how many times it is called. The 5 digit value should just be directly provided by the page that is creating the link. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:28, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Rewrite to retrieve values from KSH code (P939) instead of storing them locally. That will save us the hassle of having to create a new template, and then use AWB to deploy it.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 19:38, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Underlying lk: there is no reason to retrieve the values from Wikidata. This is for a source url. Just put the value in the url, it isn't going to change. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:43, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: if deleted, make sure Category:Hungarian settlements with KSH code lacking footnote is deleted as well. --Gonnym (talk) 21:27, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball) teamlist
- Template:Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball) teamlist ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox that just links teammates from last season. WP:NENAN. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:30, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Reuse See Category:Hungary handball navigational boxes. Given that no one needs a navbox of this type for old seasons, I would prefer that {{2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (Women's handball) teamlist}} was moved here (to {{Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball) teamlist}} - the 2018-19 template was created in Sep 2018). I have updated {{Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball) teamlist}} to reflect this style, which was presumably what was intended anyway.Nigej (talk) 10:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Module:WLink
- Module:WLink ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This module has two seperate usecases.
- The use of the ansiPercent function to encode URLs. This should be moved to Module:String as it is a string-formatting function, not one having to do with wikilinks
- The use of the rest module as a former dependency of Module:Format TemplateData (originally called Module:TemplateData): see #Module:Format TemplateData dependencies above
{{3x|p}}ery (talk) 15:54, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- See one above.
- The Module:Format TemplateData used here is of 2017 and lacks a lot of recent functionality.
- As soon as upgraded to a current version (e.g. to show intermediate headlines on a very long parameter list, which is scrollable as well, navigating to headlines from TOC), all these dependencies will be required again.
- You won't be able to rewrite each new release of Module:TemplateData and insert other function calls again and again.
- Therefore, opposing as in 2018.
- Regards --PerfektesChaos (talk) 21:34, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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Module:Format TemplateData dependencies
- Module:Multilingual ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Module:Text ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Imported as dependencies of Module:Format TemplateData (then called Module:TemplateData), which has been rewritten by me to no longer need them, so these modules are now unnecessary. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 16:02, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- See Module talk:Format TemplateData. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 16:18, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- @PerfektesChaos: (this was an import request from dewiki). — xaosflux Talk 16:23, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- Strange that they weren't pinged in the previous nomination but are now. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 16:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- @PerfektesChaos: (this was an import request from dewiki). — xaosflux Talk 16:23, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- Please note that de:Module:TemplateData does many, many, many things more which you definitely don't have rewritten.
- See doc for the full picture, which has been rewritten here only with a very poor and small piece of available functionality.
- Wrt “Multilingual” issues please see Test case or an internationalized global template on Bihari Wikpedia with Italian description, or Dutch, depending on current user language, or the similar thing in German Wikipedia but with English description.
- Naturally I am opposing, since that is cutting down internationalized templates.
- Note that you are using an 2017 fork of de:Module:TemplateData which lacks a lot of recent features, while the “rewritten” things are left at 2017 functionality and do not support newer developments.
Best, --PerfektesChaos (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Display
- Template:Display ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Show by date ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Display with Template:Show by date.
No need to have two separate templates for the purpose of showing text at specific times. Given that the template is used in MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages and therefore a TfD notice would show up on everyone's watchlist, I have noincluded the TfD tag. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:34, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Except Template:Display is not intended to be substituted? As indicated by its use in the watchlist notice? :) --Izno (talk) 00:35, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, meant Template:Show by date. (And, to reply to the edit summary, I decided the TfD tag should be noincluded shortly after starting the discussion) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:36, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- If this goes ahead please ensure that Template:Display/watchlist is properly supported and moved to a suitable location — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:16, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment {{show by date}} is indeed subject to bot substitution when the by date has passed (e.g. @Anomie:'s ShowByDateSubster), a useful feature that should at least be retained by option if merged to {{display}}. Another possibility is to rename sbd to a variant like {{display-temp}} which will help bots to properly detect instances. Dl2000 (talk) 22:40, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Personally, if this is merged I'm hoping the merge goes the other way: keep {{show by date}} and merge {{display}} to it rather than the other way around. Anomie⚔ 22:54, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) As I was planning to do (I originally proposed this a deletion of Template:Display, but then realized that it did support some features that Template:Show by date didn't. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:57, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Personally, if this is merged I'm hoping the merge goes the other way: keep {{show by date}} and merge {{display}} to it rather than the other way around. Anomie⚔ 22:54, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- On further examination, the templates provide substantially different functions - {{display}} displays one text between two given dates, {{show by date}} displays one of two texts depending on whether a single given date has passed. Not sure how these two distinct behaviours can easily be merged, and combined with the bot substitution differences, would oppose merge as planned. However, this need not prevent development of more elaborate date-sensitive text templates and functions, and without prejudice to making other adjustments such as changing the vaguely-named {{display}} to something like {{show between dates}}. Dl2000 (talk) 01:05, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
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- Could an admin edit the log date on Template:Display? CoolSkittle (talk) 05:24, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
March 7
Module:Find sources template pages
- Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources mainspace ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources video games ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Overcomplicated, see no reason that this information needs to be in module data pages rather than the wikitext of the template itself. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:42, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- All relevant code changes to accomodate the new style of been written to the sandboxes. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:52, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- Could you please elaborate? What templates should the code go into? what sandboxes have you edited? --Gonnym (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- Template:Find sources, Template:Find sources mainspace, and Template:Find sources video games, with changes to the backend modules at Module:Find sources and Module:Find sources/autodoc (to be renamed Module:Find sources/template) to match. I've edited the sandboxes of all of those pages {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:10, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- Could you please elaborate? What templates should the code go into? what sandboxes have you edited? --Gonnym (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- The advantage of the current system is that it is known to work. It is more complex than required because it's creator aimed for generality with an extensible system, although not much has been needed since creation. As usual, Pppery poses an enigma whereby each onlooker would need to spend half an hour working out what templates/modules are proposed to be replaced with what templates/modules. What existing pages would be deleted? What new pages would be created? What existing pages would be edited? (I can work out some of that, but the information should be presented clearly.) What is the proposed benefit of this turmoil? Johnuniq (talk) 22:28, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- The existing pages that would be deleted by this are exactly the ones I listed above, as they will be rendered obsolete. No new pages are created by this TfD, and the edits made are to sync the sandboxes of Module:Find sources, Module:Find sources/autodoc and all three templates that invoke it (Template:Find sources, Template:Find sources mainspace and Template:Find sources video games). One can't exactly say that my proposed system is not known to work, given that it exists in the sandbox without producing any errors. (Template:Find sources/testcases is yellow because of a trivial encoding difference of a literal space versus  , it's HTML entity form) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:37, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- One thing to be wary of with putting the config in the templates themselves is that it will increase the post-expand include size. I remember there were problems with the daily AfD log pages going over the limit, which I helped to fix by converting Template:Find sources AFD to use Module:Find sources. Also, parsing the template parameters in wikitext will be slower than using the config modules, as a) parsing Lua tables is generally quicker than parsing wikitext, and b) the config modules are only loaded once per page with mw.loadData, although the post-expand include size is probably more important. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 14:18, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- I don't seem to be able to reproduce any significant change in post-expand include size via testing. (A page containing only "{{find sources}}" uses 2,130 bytes, whereas a page containing only {{find sources/sandbox}} uses 2,139 bytes. ) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 16:46, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hmm, looks like you're right. I think what must be happening is that parameters to #invoke aren't counted towards the limit. 5 bytes of the 9-byte difference can be attributed to the the use of
 
instead of a regular space, and the extra "q" before the start of the template (I'm guessing the "q" was just for testing something). The other 4 bytes, I'm not so sure. But 9 bytes isn't something to be worried about, I agree. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 00:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hmm, looks like you're right. I think what must be happening is that parameters to #invoke aren't counted towards the limit. 5 bytes of the 9-byte difference can be attributed to the the use of
- I don't seem to be able to reproduce any significant change in post-expand include size via testing. (A page containing only "{{find sources}}" uses 2,130 bytes, whereas a page containing only {{find sources/sandbox}} uses 2,139 bytes. ) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 16:46, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- leaning oppose - If a template has been converted to use a module, then it is more correct to have that module handle everything, with the template just being used as an access point. In the case of Wikipedia template code, for me, that makes it an even stronger case, as template code is much harder to read than module code. Why can't these be under Module:Find sources/data if the 3 separate sub-modules are the issue? --Gonnym (talk) 17:07, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- The module is still handling all of the logic of creating the find sources links, and each template is an access point. While you may be right about the readability of Lua vs. Wikitext as a general rule, in this case,
|introlink=google
is just as readable asand all this TfD does is convert the latter to the former. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:21, 18 February 2019 (UTC)introLink = { code = 'google' }
- If the template passes data then it isn't only an access point. Design pattern-wise, if we already have a module, let the module handle everything, including a sub-module for /data information. That's at least how I view them. Regarding the readbility of the template code, when you have only one line, then maybe they are the same, but here it becomes harder to read, while the lua code stays the same. --Gonnym (talk) 21:08, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- Including lots of extra curly brackets and quotes is not "more readable". {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 04:42, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- If the template passes data then it isn't only an access point. Design pattern-wise, if we already have a module, let the module handle everything, including a sub-module for /data information. That's at least how I view them. Regarding the readbility of the template code, when you have only one line, then maybe they are the same, but here it becomes harder to read, while the lua code stays the same. --Gonnym (talk) 21:08, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- The module is still handling all of the logic of creating the find sources links, and each template is an access point. While you may be right about the readability of Lua vs. Wikitext as a general rule, in this case,
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- Support. The module provides the tool, and the template provides the implementation. That seems more efficient than these intermediary module subpages. --Bsherr (talk) 19:23, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Old Bara District
- Template:Old Bara District ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navbox, replaced with {{Bara District}} Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:24, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - Old Bara District template does not relate to "Old Bara" but is simply an old version of the Bara District template. Nigej (talk) 20:10, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- Reverse move (that is, move Template:Old Bara District back to Template:Bara District) and restore to this version. I'm not sure why Haribanshnp made the changes that they did, but whatever their intentions they don't seem to have seen them through. If the idea was for this navbox to exclude the villages, then the appropriate action is to create another navbox specific for the villages and have it replace instances of this template on the village articles. If the goal was not to have a navbox on the village articles, then this navbox ought to be removed from them. What we have at the moment is a bit of a mess: {{Bara District}} is used on a very large number of articles that aren't included in the current, trimmed, version of the navbox. – Uanfala (talk) 23:52, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- OK, in light of the comments by Haribanshnp and Nyttend, I'm not that sure anymore. If it's not desirable to have the former VDCs listed in this template, then we'll need a separate template for that, which can be be added to the the articles of the VDCs. – Uanfala (talk) 02:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Here in Nepal, all the former VDC's have been modified to rural and urban municipalities; with different names and numbers. Thus, I created Template:Bara District which is used and we certainly need to show what we have here at Nepal. Similarly, the contents of former template, i.e. Template:Old Bara District, we need it too, since this is about the place and history must not be deleted. Thus, both may not be used now, but we must need to keep it and may be used in future. Haribanshnp (talk) 2:40, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hhkohh (talk) 19:03, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support Uanfala's position - this was done badly. --Gonnym (talk) 09:36, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
- Rename to {{Villages in Bara District}} or something of the sort. {{Bara District}} links a bunch of current local governments, and {{Old Bara District}} links a bunch of former local governments that happen to correspond to villages (e.g. Bhuluhi Marwaliya), as far as I can see. Merging them into a single template would be a bad idea, as it would make all of them look like they were current, and we ought to have a navbox to permit navigation among the former local governments. It's only unused because {{Bara District}} is placed on a lot of articles, including Bhuluhi Marwaliya, to which it doesn't link and which would be better served if the nominated template replaced the current template. Nyttend (talk) 02:27, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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