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On this page, the deletion or merging of templates and modules, except as noted below, is discussed.

How to use this page

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What not to propose for discussion here

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The majority of deletion and merger proposals concerning pages in the template namespace and module namespace should be listed on this page. However, there are a few exceptions:

Stub templates
Stub templates and categories should be listed at Categories for discussion, as these templates are merely containers for their categories, unless the stub template does not come with a category and is being nominated by itself.
Userboxes
Userboxes should be listed at Miscellany for deletion, regardless of the namespace in which they reside.
Speedy deletion candidates
If the template clearly satisfies a criterion for speedy deletion, tag it with a speedy deletion template. For example, if you wrote the template and request its deletion, tag it with {{Db-author}}. See also WP:T5.
Policy or guideline templates
Templates that are associated with particular Wikipedia policies or guidelines, such as the speedy deletion templates, cannot be listed at TfD separately. They should be discussed on the talk page of the relevant guideline.
Template redirects
List at Redirects for discussion.
Moving and renaming
Use Wikipedia:Requested moves.

Reasons to delete a template

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  1. The template violates some part of the template namespace guidelines, and can't be altered to be in compliance.
  2. The template is redundant to a better-designed template.
  3. 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.
  4. The template violates a policy such as Neutral point of view or Civility and it can't be fixed through normal editing.

Templates should not be nominated if the issue can be fixed by normal editing. Instead, you should edit the template to fix its problems. If the template is complex and you don't know how to fix it, WikiProject Templates may be able to help.

Templates for which none of these apply may be deleted by consensus here. If a template is being misused, consider clarifying its documentation to indicate the correct use, or informing those that misuse it, rather than nominating it for deletion. Initiate a discussion on the template talk page if the correct use itself is under debate.

Listing a template

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Shortcuts

To list a template for deletion or merging, adhere to the following three-step process. Utilizing Twinkle is strongly recommended as it automates and simplifies these steps. To use Twinkle, click TW in the toolbar (top right of the page), then select XFD. Do not include the "Template:" prefix in any of the steps, unless specifically instructed otherwise.

Step Instructions
I: Tag the template. Add one of the following codes to the top of the template page:

Note:

  • If it is an inline template, do not add a newline between the TfD notice and the code of the template.
  • If the template to be nominated for deletion is protected, make a request for the TfD tag to be added, by posting on the template's talk page and using the {{editprotected}} template to catch the attention of administrators or template editors.
  • For templates designed to be substituted, add <noinclude>...</noinclude> around the TfD notice to prevent it from being substituted alongside the template.
  • Do not mark the edit as minor.
  • Use an edit summary like
    Nominated for deletion; see [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:name of template]]
    or
    Nominated for merging; see [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:name of template]].
  • Before saving your edit, preview your edit to ensure the Tfd message is displayed properly.

Multiple templates: If you are nominating multiple related templates, choose a meaningful title for the discussion (like "American films by decade templates"). Tag every template with {{subst:Tfd|heading=discussion title}} or {{subst:Tfm|name of other template|heading=discussion title}} instead of the versions given above, replacing discussion title with the title you chose (but still not changing the PAGENAME code).

Related categories: If including template-populated tracking categories in the TfD nomination, add {{Catfd|template name}} to the top of any categories that would be deleted as a result of the TfD, this time replacing template name with the name of the template being nominated. (If you instead chose a meaningful title for a multiple nomination, use {{Catfd|header=title of nomination}} instead.)

TemplateStyles pages: The above templates will not work on TemplateStyles pages. Instead, add a CSS comment to the top of the page:

/* This template is being discussed in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Help reach a consensus at its entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025_May_24#Template:template_name.css */
II: List the template at TfD. Edit today's TfD log and paste the following text to the top of the list:
  • For deletion: {{subst:Tfd2|template name|text=Why you think the template should be deleted. ~~~~}}
  • For merging: {{subst:Tfm2|template name|other template's name|text=Why you think the templates should be merged. ~~~~}}

If the template has had previous TfDs, you can add {{Oldtfdlist|previous TfD without brackets|result of previous TfD}} directly after the |text= before the why (or alternatively, after the }} of the Tfd2/Catfd2).

Use an edit summary such as
Adding [[Template:template name]].

Multiple templates: If this is a deletion proposal involving multiple templates, use the following:

{{subst:Tfd2|template name 1|template name 2 ...|title=meaningful discussion title|text=Why you think the templates should be deleted. ~~~~}}

You can add up to 50 template names (separated by vertical bar characters | ). Make sure to include the same meaningful discussion title that you chose before in Step 1.

If this is a merger proposal involving more than two templates, use the following:

{{subst:Tfm2|template name 1|template name 2 ...|with=main template (optional)|title=meaningful discussion title|text=Why you think the templates should be merged. ~~~~}}

You can add up to 50 template names (separated by vertical bar characters | ), plus one more in |with=. |with= does not need to be used, but should be the template that you want the other templates to be merged into. Make sure to include the same meaningful discussion title that you chose before in Step 1.

Related categories: If this is a deletion proposal involving a template and a category populated solely by templates, add this code in the |text= field of the Tfd2 template but before the text of your rationale:

{{subst:Catfd2|category name}}
III: Notify users. Please notify the creator of the template nominated (as well as the creator of the target template, if proposing a merger). It is helpful to also notify the main contributors of the template that you are nominating. To find them, look in the page history or talk page of the template. Then, add one of the following:

to the talk pages of the template creator (and the creator of the other template for a merger) and the talk pages of the main contributors. It is also helpful to make any interested WikiProjects aware of the discussion. To do that, make sure the template's talk page is tagged with the banners of any relevant WikiProjects; please consider notifying any of them that do not use Article alerts. Deletion sorting lists are a possible way of doing that.

Multiple templates: There is no template for notifying an editor about a multiple-template nomination: please write a personal message in these cases.

Consider adding any templates you nominate for TfD to your watchlist. This will help ensure that the TfD tag is not removed.

After nominating: Notify interested projects and editors

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While it is sufficient to list a template for discussion at TfD (see above), nominators and others sometimes want to attract more attention from and participation by informed editors. All such efforts must comply with Wikipedia's guideline against biased canvassing.

To encourage participation by less experienced editors, please avoid Wikipedia-specific abbreviations in the messages you leave about the discussion, link to any relevant policies or guidelines, and link to the TfD discussion page itself. If you are recommending that a template be speedily deleted, please give the criterion that it meets.

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WikiProjects are groups of editors that are interested in a particular subject or type of editing. If the article is within the scope of one or more WikiProjects, they may welcome a brief, neutral note on their project's talk page(s) about the TfD. You can use {{subst:Tfd notice}} for this.

Tagging the nominated template's talk page with a relevant Wikiproject's banner will result in the template being listed in that project's Article Alerts automatically, if they subscribe to the system. For instance, tagging a template with {{WikiProject Physics}} will list the discussion in Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Article alerts.

Notifying substantial contributors to the template

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While not required, it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the template and its talkpage that you are nominating for discussion. To find the creator and main contributors, look in the page history or talk page.

At this point, you've done all you need to do as nominator. Sometime after seven days have passed, someone else will either close the discussion or, where needed, "relist" it for another seven days of discussion. (That "someone" may not be you, the nominator.)

Once you have submitted a template here, no further action is necessary on your part. If the nomination is successful it will be added to the Holding Cell until the change is implemented. There is no requirement for nominators to be part of the implementation process, but they are allowed to if they so wish.

Also, consider adding any templates you nominate to your watchlist. This will help ensure that your nomination tag is not mistakenly or deliberately removed.

Twinkle

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Twinkle is a convenient tool that can perform many of the posting and notification functions automatically, with fewer errors and missed steps than manual editing. To use Twinkle, click its dropdown menu in the toolbar in the top right of the page: TW , and then click 'XFD'.

Note that Twinkle does not notify WikiProjects, although many of them have automatic alerts. It is helpful to notify any interested WikiProjects that don't receive alerts, but this has to be done manually.

Discussion

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Anyone can join the discussion, but please understand the deletion policy and explain your reasoning.

People will sometimes also recommend subst or subst and delete and similar. This means the template text should be "merged" into the articles that use it. Depending on the content, the template page may then be deleted; if preserving the edit history for attribution is desirable, it may be history-merged with the target article or moved to mainspace and redirected.

Templates are rarely orphaned—that is, removed from pages that transclude them—before the discussion is closed. A list of open discussions eligible for closure can be found at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Old unclosed discussions.

Closing discussion

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Administrators should read the closing instructions before closing a nomination. Note that WP:XFDcloser semi-automates this process and ensures all of the appropriate steps are taken.

Current discussions

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May 24

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Template:Events at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games

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A sea of red links. Doesn't list a single existing article. TOOSOON probably. Liz Read! Talk! 22:40, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 23

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Template:Pullbox

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Header template that's not really used anywhere other than Help:Your first article. Could easily be replaced by plain HTML. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 15:08, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I replaced the template with the HTML code on Help:Your first article ApexParagon (talk) 21:12, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Calm

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I struggle to believe that this template has made any talk page discussions more civil. All it does is to clutter up talk pages and cause banner blindness. There is already a link to WP:Dispute resolution in {{Talk header}}. The banner also comes across patronizing to me; as User:InedibleHulk put it: That dove pisses me off. Ca talk to me! 03:27, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, the bullet points on the side of Template:Talk header make this largely redundant. The talk banner template already mentions “being polite”, “avoiding personal attacks”, and “seeking dispute resolution”, which is all of the things that the “Calm” banner covers.
(“Be patient when solving issues” is implied with the guidelines of being civil and being welcoming to newcomers.) ApexParagon (talk) 21:31, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 22

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Template:Party shading/People's Progressive Party (Malaysia)

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Unused political party color template. Gonnym (talk) 08:16, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to keep this one. As it serve usage on by election in Malaya/Malaysia from 1953 to 1973. If this is remove, the party color in election box result will be white, which is incorrect. Mrpresidentfaris (talk) 03:18, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This template isn't used. Maybe you meant some other template? Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Party shading/Independent (US)/current

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Unused political party color template. Gonnym (talk) 08:16, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would actually like to keep this one. There is someone who keeps going through and changing all instances of "Independent (US)" to "Independent" and therefore removing instances of this template. WMSR (talk) 12:19, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:20, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Parti Negara/meta/shading

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Unused political party color template. Gonnym (talk) 08:16, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to keep this one. As it serve usage on by election in Malaya/Malaysia from 1954 to 1967. If this is remove, the party color in election box result will be white, which is incorrect. Mrpresidentfaris (talk) 03:17, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:20, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Online remittance

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Propose merging Template:Online remittance with Template:Digital payment providers.
Continuing on from the previous merge, now that this covers digital payment providers, it should include these. Gonnym (talk) 11:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Article stub box/sandbox/styles.css

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Unused as the template uses the module namespace style page Module:Article stub box/styles.css. Gonnym (talk) 09:35, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:ESC-nq

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Unused table related template. Gonnym (talk) 09:28, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ja help icon

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Unused icon with help link template. {{nihongo}} was probably changed as this doesn't appear in an insource search. Gonnym (talk) 09:27, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Jiajing Wokou Raids

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Unused navigation template with no articles to navigate to. Articles should be created before the navbox. Gonnym (talk) 09:26, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Latest stable software release/macOS Ventura

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Unused after a series of edits by an IP at MacOS Ventura. Should probably be double checked to see if valid. Gonnym (talk) 09:25, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The edits appear to be valid, but the editor may not have known how to edit the template, or that the version number and date came from a template, so they just added them directly. I updated the template and got rid of the version and date in the infobox, so the temmplate is now used. Guy Harris (talk) 10:07, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Latest preview software release/Meadow

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Unused as Meadow (programming) was redirected. Gonnym (talk) 09:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:1999 Ontario general election

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Unused templates and also pretty pointless. As these don't do anything other than requiring more work. Compare:


May 21

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Template:Mdy category

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Unused maintenance templates. Seems Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Use mdy dates is the one used. Gonnym (talk) 11:25, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever happens to this one should be paralleled in Template:Dmy category I presume. I don't really get why that one is still used but this one no longer is, but I'm not going to dive into the module rabbithole to see when, how, and why this was changed. I don't believe that Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Use mdy dates has anything to do with this though, that is just a text message, not the complete template with a counter and so on included. Fram (talk) 11:45, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see: someone updated all the mdy categories earlier this year[1], but not the dmy categories. So, I guess that these should be made parallel again, either by reverting the mdy cats or by changing the dmy cats. The fate of this template depends on what gets chosen. Fram (talk) 11:49, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems User:AnomieBOT creates new categories with {{Monthly clean-up category}} (see Category:Use dmy dates from July 2017), so the rest of the categories should be switched as well. Gonnym (talk) 15:54, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Which way do we want to standardize this? In favor of {{Monthly clean-up category}} (even though these aren't really cleanup categories in the standard sense), or in favor of separate templares?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, * Pppery * it has begun... 14:53, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:49, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To answer Pppery's question, I personally don't mind either way, however if the monthly template isn't used, then AnomieBOT needs to be updated to create new ones with this template (not sure complexity or even if they want to edit their bot code). If this does get deleted, then I'll nominate the Dmy version so both will be handled the same. Gonnym (talk) 08:44, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Courtesy ping Anomie since changes to their bot are being discussed. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:30, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see any reason for this to be used over {{Monthly clean-up category}}. It seems this, Template:Dmy category, and Template:English variant category only exist because someone at one point decided that these weren't "clean up" categories and started swapping the templates, but then gave up changing them behind AnomieBOT after a few years. Anomie⚔ 01:09, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NFL Team Years

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The reasoning for the previous TFD was flawed and is not applicable. That said, these templates actually do not serve a useful purpose, which is reflected in their almost non-existent utilization. Of all the templates listed, only {{Steelers season}} is widely used (216 articles). Seven other templates have 3 or less uses in article space (Seahawks, 49ers, Vikings, San Diego, Colts, Lions, and Cardinals). Second, the templates are ostensibly used to shorten a string of text, but in reality it barely does this. As an example, the string {{PackersSeason|2025}} creates the code [[2025 Green Bay Packers season|GB]], but this is only a different between 22 characters and 36 characters! Thus, we have to decide whether 14 characters is worth additional template calls on a page. And let's say this template is used for its intended purpose, as an example, in Brett Favre, we are talking maybe about 300 extra characters, but 20+ template calls. Lastly, I will note that some of these templates don't act in the same manner. As an example, our Steelers example, produces the specific year for the team's season, similar to what {{nfly}} does, whereas the other templates create a season link but show the team's abbreviation instead of year (i.e. per the documentation, to be used in stat tables). So we have barely used, confusing, and minimally helpful templates here. As such, I recommend deleting and replacing with the relevant text string. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:13, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted all. Most if not all of the above are unused and have been unused for years. I've been hesitant to nominate them for obvious reasons but have kept on eye on them. Additionally, a general template does already exist (and has been for 7 years): {{NFL team season}}, so nothing is lost. Gonnym (talk) 08:46, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2025 in American soccer

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A recent discussion reached a consensus that U.S. and Canada soccer club seasons should be kept in seperate navboxes according to their leagues. What then are we to make of the "Club seasons" section of this navbox and its predecessors? Not only does it clutter the navbox, there already exists {{2025 MLS season by team}}, {{2025 MLS Next Pro season by team}}, {{2025 USL Championship season}}, and {{2025 NWSL season by team}}. I feel we should either split the "Club seasons" section of this navbox and merge it into these individual navboxes, or merge the individual navboxes into the section here.

Pinging Brindille1, GiantSnowman, PeeJay, and Vestrian24Bio as participants in the aforementioned discussion, and 2pou, Blaixx, EvansHallBear, GrouchoPython, Hey man im josh, Rylesbourne, and Tomrtn as major contributors to some of the five navboxes involved. WikiProject Football, its United States and Canada task force, and WikiProject Sports have been notified of this discussion, and has been listed in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. — AFC Vixen 🦊 18:36, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Danish colonial conflicts

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 18:08, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Portuguese battles in the Indian Ocean

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 18:00, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Russian colonial campaigns

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:59, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Japanese colonial campaigns

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:59, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, these all should not be being deleted as there is not an effective alternative for navigation CR055H41RZ (talk) 16:50, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Dutch colonial campaigns

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Portuguese colonial campaigns

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Spanish colonial campaigns

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:56, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per @RobertJohnson35's view Genabab (talk) 23:34, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Franco-Spanish wars

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. There is also a lot of WP:OR/WP:SYNTH going on, such as framing Albigensian Crusade as a "Franco-Spanish war" even though "Spain" didn't exist yet. Follow-up to:

Template:Campaignbox Spanish-Ottoman wars

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:32, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Spanish–Ottoman wars is a template created by spliting Ottoman–Habsburg wars one in it's Mediterranean theater. Nor to mention that legally the Spanish-Ottoman war declared by Charles I at the start of XVI century never ended until a formal peace treaty was done in 1782 at the time of Charles IV of Spain. So all those conflicts are completely related as campaigns and theaters of a 3 century war Sr L (talk) 18:08, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously. The House of Habsburg and the Ottoman Empire were constantly, uninterruptedly, ongoing, continuously, unendingly, without break or pause, at war with each other 24/7 for 300 years. Peace treaty? What is that?[Joke]
Kidding aside, this campaignbox simply does not conform to MOS:CAMPAIGN. NLeeuw (talk) 18:13, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I find the split necessary. The conflict between Spain and the Ottomans stopped being part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars when Spain ceased being ruled by the Habsburgs after the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. Baal Nautes (talk) 15:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wrong. per Template:Infobox_military_conflict it states the Campaignboxes may be used more rarely among plural campaigns or wars CR055H41RZ (talk) 16:56, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Russo-French Wars

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Propose deleting per MOS:CAMPAIGN—these conflicts do not constitute a "particular campaign, front, theater or war", but are unrelated to each other. Follow-up to:

NLeeuw (talk) 17:31, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Franco-Russian Wars fullfy the same conditions like other templates concerning geopolitical rivalries between 2 militar powers (which constitutes a particular conflict), like Anglo-Spanish War or Anglo-French Wars Sr L (talk) 18:12, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:SYNTH. NLeeuw (talk) 18:14, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per @Sr L(talk). Leutha (talk) 18:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Zal Batmanglij

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Links to two films; does not meet guidelines at MOS:FILM#Navigation. DoubleCross (‡) 14:06, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:10, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lok Sabha composition

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. 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 Delete; deleted by The Anome (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 14:12, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template is not used in any articles. TarnishedPathtalk 11:56, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template or module's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Template:Supermarket chains in Turkey

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Very incomplete template, full of external links and questionable links. Not of any value at the moment. The Banner talk 11:04, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cretaceous stratigraphy of the central Colombian Eastern Ranges

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This table is not going to be accessible to anyone with its chaotic arrangement of cells. It's also composed of more red links than not. I couldn't even begin to suggest what an appropriate replacement might look like, so I'm suggesting full deletion. Izno (talk) 04:36, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox road/shield/SAD

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No transclusions, documentation, or incoming links. Created in 2021. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:49, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Wikicite

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Propose merging Template:Wikicite with Template:SfnRef inline.
{{SfnRef inline}} and {{wikicite}} both allow the shortened footnotes created by Module:Footnotes to link to a full citation that is either handwritten or transcluding a template that does not yet create an anchor for short citations.

Wikicite can:

  1. Be placed after the full citation.
  2. Wrap around the full citation which creates popup tooltips on mouseover and highlights the full citation when clicked, similar to standard references.

SfnRef inline can:

  1. Be placed after the full citation.

I am proposing a merge rather than a redirect because SfnRef inline also:

  • Has the more clear name and should likely be the post-merge title. Wikicite's partner template {{wikiref}}, was deleted 15 years ago because it was never widely used.
  • Accepts the same numerical parameters as Module:Footnotes does in more common templates like {{sfn}}, {{harv}}, {{sfnp}}, and so on.
  • Has more clear documentation.

Both templates have the same code in their sandbox and testcases. If you have a "harv" errors script installed, you should be able to quickly see the differences in anchor creation on the testcases below. If you don't have any error script for shortened footnotes, you'll need to click the links in the "Short citations for testing examples below" to see the difference.

Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 13:40, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • I don't think that placing either of these after the full citation can be correct. For accessibility reasons, if nothing else, the emitted anchor should really be before the citation; and that is what happens when {{wikicite}} uses its |reference= parameter to enclose the full citation. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:13, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Redrose64, that's a good point, and one of many things to address in the documentation. It wouldn't affect how the transcluded template is written, though, would it? Rjjiii (talk) 00:49, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Regarding 2. Wrap around the full citation which creates popup tooltips on mouseover and highlights the full citation when clicked, similar to standard references., will this be lost with this merge? I'm rather a fan of this feature, so I wouldn't be thrilled to see it go. – Michael Aurel (talk) 01:17, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Michael Aurel, it will not be lost; the feature would be added to {{SfnRef inline}}. Check out the sandbox examples at Template:Wikicite/testcases. The merge would result in both of the below options to wrap the full citation: 
    • {{wikicite |ref={{sfnref|Buchanan|2023}} |reference=Buchanan, Abigail. (14 November 2023). "We are making bagpipes sexy again: Inside the late Queen's beloved Scottish music school". ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'') }}

    • {{wikicite|Buchanan|2023 |reference=Buchanan, Abigail. (14 November 2023). "We are making bagpipes sexy again: Inside the late Queen's beloved Scottish music school". ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'') }}
    Rjjiii (talk) 01:55, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Great, thanks for the clarification. No issues in my book, then. – Michael Aurel (talk) 02:05, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support merger, in every respect discussed above. This is a +5 Plan of Goodness.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:16, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I suggest to merge the other way: {{SfnRef inline}} -> {{Wikicite}} because a) the former has less than a dozen transclusions, the latter >2200; b) the name part "inline" doesn't describe how Wikicite is used, which is in the "Sources" section of articles, along with standard specific citation template, like {{Cite book}}, {{Cite journal}}. Checking 2 articles that use {{SfnRef inline}}, it's used there also in that section, not inline. The suggested new functionality of separating the citation anchor from the citation itself is a step backwards. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:04, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Michael Bednarek, thanks for the response. To better understand your positions, are you saying:
    1. That the merged template should be titled {{wikicite}} or something similar to {{Cite book}}? For transparency, there was another rarely used template called Template:Cite plain.
    2. That the merged template should continue to support wrapping the full citation, or that it should only support wrapping the full citation and existing transclusions of {{SfnRef inline}} should be converted to the {{wikicite|ref=}} format?
    Rjjiii (talk) 03:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    1.: Yes, it should be named {{wikicite}} because that's the overwhelmingly used name now.
    2.: Of course the merged template must continue to support wrapping the full citation. I'm indifferent (though disapproving) to the current possibility of {{SfnRef inline}} to stand alone. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:07, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Politics of ancient Rome

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There is no reason to deprecate a sidebar template. It either is useful and the deprecation template should be removed, or it should be replaced and the template deleted. Gonnym (talk) 22:20, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: this template has been in use for twenty years, has been regularly maintained, and is, if I understand the statistics correctly, used in about ninety different articles. The "deprecation" message says that it should be replaced by one of two other templates—only one of which currently seems to exist. At the very least, this move seems premature. P Aculeius (talk) 12:30, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: It appears that this notice was placed after a discussion on the template's talk page, but the rest of the process was not carried out. Pinging @Ifly6, Biz, and T8612:, the participants in that discussion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:38, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is there some other way to say "don't use this template, use these other templates"? The deprecation convention I am used to is persist-indefinitely. The number of pages on which that sidebar was semi-mindlessly dumped is very long. There was general agreement that the combined approach had gradually accumulated into a cruft of barely organised links. As to the replacement templates, I created the republican one; I am not an expert on the imperial period and deferred to others for creation of that sidebar. Ifly6 (talk) 20:12, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, send it here. Never place a deprecation template randomly as it does nothing to solve the problem that you wanted to solve. Gonnym (talk) 20:05, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If this is a deletion discussion, as indicated on the template page itself, I would think a deletion would have to wait for the imperial era template to be created and rolled out. Ifly6 (talk) 20:14, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I did make a start on an empire template, but realised we need a decision on what year we cut it off, and apologies have not continued on it. The previous template used the fall of the 5th-century Western Empire, which is an inappropriate reflection of current scholarship. That said, more important is that the Republic and Empire are differentiated, so I will request that, at minimum, Ifly6's work on those pages remain until more work is done for an empire template. I can work on the template if people here can help with a decision on the end date (it's either the 5th, 8th or 15th centuries). Biz (talk) 21:14, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn Deletion and Keep - Upon further thought it has some useful information. It is best kept. Reader of Information (talk) 15:50, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: If this template is kept, I'll be removing the deprecation tag. It can't be both ways. Gonnym (talk) 20:06, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I recommend we keep the existing template for pages that use it (ie, Empire content) and the new Republic template can gradually replace pages that relate to that period. In effect, we will now have three templates and over time, the new empire template will come into being, replacing the Ancient Rome template. Biz (talk) 04:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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May 20

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Template:Strip nomobile

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This hack lets navboxes be read on mobile, however, in every single case this was used in an article, the article reading experience is worse than with a standard table, and since references are never used in navboxes, then using these in articles leads to a giant block of unsourced data. Delete template and remove usages of navboxes mid-article, where used. Gonnym (talk) 13:59, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. The whole work around the WMF until it works just plainly sucks. Izno (talk) 18:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, possibly restricting to non-mainspace with {{main other}}. The template has been used poorly, but it also has legitimate use-cases – it's a tool like {{strip categories}}. jlwoodwa (talk) 23:05, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This template simply isn't necessary outside of (our) mainspace; the relevant code rips out content with certain classes (nomobile, navbox, vertical-navbox) only in content namespaces, of which we have only one: main. Izno (talk) 23:11, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Page creator here. Your statement doesn't seem to be correct as the demo linked in the documentation is in User: namespace. And it's legitimately used in that namespace:

    This is a local userspace copy of the code used by Template:Strip nomobile, which as of the time I am writing this page, is at risk of deletion. As my userpage relies on the existence of this code for its functionality on mobile (specifically with User:NegativeMP1/Contributions box), I have archived it here for my own personal use.

    — NegativeMP1, User:NegativeMP1/nomobile

    It can also be useful for testing purposes. Keep. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 02:16, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The relevant code:
    The reason why it is not present on that page is instead simple CSS hiding the content. And indeed, in the rendered page of interest is 
    <table id="Container" role="presentation" class="nomobile toccolours searchaux"> ... </table>
    In namespaces other than the main namespace, simple TemplateStyles can be used to unhide the relevant content, whether exploratory or otherwise.
    I was precise in what I said regarding where MobileFrontend removes this content. Izno (talk) 02:37, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's been a while so thanks for refreshing my memory. Using TemplateStyles does bring some complications. It seems you can't create the needed .css in userspace:
    Page User:Alexis Jazz/Nomobile.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "CSS"). Changing the content model can be requested using {{edit interface-protected}} on the talk page.
    Beyond that, if you were to use TemplateStyles to force-display nomobile, if I'm not mistaken, it would render all elements with nomobile visible on that page, not just the ones you actually want. This could be solved with the introduction of some new class with the end result being that usage will be so cumbersome it'll require a template. And that TemplateStyles would have to do something like .nomobile{display:unset !important} or .nomobile{display:block !important}, but to the best of my knowledge such a solution overrides what nomobile does, whereas {{strip nomobile}} actually removes the nomobile class from whatever it encapsulates. If you want display to be what it would be if there was no nomobile class, frankly I wouldn't know how to make that happen using TemplateStyles. But if that is possible, I'd appreciate being enlightened. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 03:30, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, it's not just navboxes but also useful templates like {{Life timeline}} that require {{Strip nomobile}} to be displayed in articles. And re: references, there's a way to do this in a P&G-compliant way by simply including a cite after the template for cases where all the info is cited to one source.
I'm very interested in improving the article-reading experience, and would prefer to also have a template that converts navboxes to tables so we don't have to duplicate information. It's a relatively common practice to include navboxes in articles; see e.g. Mauritania at the Africa Cup of Nations#Squads, the issue is just in most of those cases the sections are completely unreadable on mobile. So while I agree using {{strip nomobile}} sometimes isn't ideal and we should work on improving those articles, there are valid use cases and it's always better than having a blank page anyways. --Habst (talk) 00:19, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Life timeline probably doesn't need nomobile at this point. It was probably added there because collapsing wasn't supported by mobile, but it is now. Izno (talk) 00:43, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, but as long as there are features that are locked out of the mobile view, there will always be a use-case for {{strip nomobile}}. The specifics of which templates are using those features at the moment can change and doesn't really affect the core issue. --Habst (talk) 02:46, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The core issue is that this template papers over what in most cases is an incorrect use of a template, categorically. The cited navboxes should not be used in the sections they are in, and that's the only case where this template is being used in mainspace.
There may be specific templates that need assistance, but what they definitely need is to ditch nomobile in most cases. Collapsing (or lack thereof) is no longer a sufficient reason to deny users access to whatever information, on any page, and not just the ones where someone has said "strip nomobile" should be employed here. So it goes for what I anticipate are most casual uses of the nomobile class. And separately, if any template is using one of the navbox classes and it's not derived from {{sidebar}} or {{navbox}}, it basically shouldn't be at this point (since I went through multiple years ago and removed classes used outside those templates). And uses otherwise are basically otherwise misuses of this {{strip nomobile}}.
IOW, remove navbox/vertical-navbox where it appears outside the relevant templates, remove uses of templates that are being misused (as in the cited example above), and remove nomobile everywhere that isn't navbox related (with potential replacement with WP:TemplateStyles. This template is simply technical debt and should be deleted for that reason if no others.
It is currently used on only some 50 templates and modules. We can most assuredly get that down to many fewer.
I will add "remove nomobile" to MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do regardless. There are a few templates/modules where it is appropriate and necessary and this workaround simply shouldn't exist for those cases anyway (navboxes/sidebars). Izno (talk) 04:42, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree it is in most cases incorrect. That isn't in conflict with a keep !vote, because if there is even one correct use-case, that case can be encouraged over incorrect ones. --Habst (talk) 13:47, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Forever Knight

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Three articles other than the subject, already sufficiently interlinked. WP:NENAN --woodensuperman 14:58, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep, useful, give a quick overview of what Wikipedia has on the topic.
Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:49, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Siah Jamegan F.C. squad

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Unused and blanked sports navigation template. Gonnym (talk) 11:38, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Unused with the documentation showing that the links result in dead links. Gonnym (talk) 11:37, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Recent AfDs/preload

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Can't find this template used with an insource search and has no incoming links. Gonnym (talk) 11:35, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PakistanCensusPop

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Unused census related template. Gonnym (talk) 11:16, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox medal templates/sandbox2

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stale sandbox from 2023. Gonnym (talk) 11:14, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to delete. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 11:28, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox German place/sandbox2

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Stale sandbox from 2013. Gonnym (talk) 11:13, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Korean age

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Age template which isn't used other than in two old talk archives. Subst there and delete template. Gonnym (talk) 09:59, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Film date and age

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Unused and absolutely pointless duplicate template. Film articles will never use this, as they only use {{Film date}}. If changes are wanted, they should be proposed over there. Gonnym (talk) 09:46, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Furry-con-list

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Single use templates only ever used for the associated lists at Furry convention. No other use for these templates. Jalen Barks (Woof) 03:24, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: The templates are also used on My Little Pony fan convention#Active events, created by GregariousMadness (talk · contribs) as of last month. Perhaps a rename to 'con[vention]-list-entry' or similar would be appropriate. The purpose of the templates was to remove duplicated and easy-to-mess-up markup required to display interleaved header rows and descriptions from Furry convention#Events, a layout which I was not able to find in existing templates at the time, and it still performs that function even if it was only used on one page. (I have however removed the width restriction intended to allow parallel display of images to the right from the start template, as it was causing overflow issues on Wikipedia's mobile skin, and most such images have now been moved - the default desktop skin also restricts width now.) GreenReaper (talk) 11:13, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I am not opposed to a rename to allow for inclusion across multiple convention lists and articles with lists (not just furry conventions). With the inclusion in the new article by Gregarious, the original purpose of the template now has room for expansion beyond this limited scope. Jalen Barks (Woof) 17:42, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 19

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Template:Correlation and covariance/styles.css

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Unused style template. Gonnym (talk) 16:04, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cistercian number

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Unused template for a numeral system. The template itself is also using images instead of characters so is also not accessible (doesn't allow for copying the 'text' and might also fail to be read by screen readers correctly). Gonnym (talk) 15:58, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Chinese Taipei national baseball team roster

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Unused as Chinese Taipei national baseball team#Current roster uses different data. Gonnym (talk) 15:51, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Per capita/death calculator

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Unused sub-pages of the deleted Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Per capita. Gonnym (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bare URLs chart for May 2022

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Unused as Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations from May 2022 was deleted. Gonnym (talk) 15:42, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Great Intelligence stories

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A recently redirected navbox for appearances of a Doctor Who character. Now that the character lacks an article, a navbox is not useful for navigational purposes and should be deleted. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 13:46, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PATCO Speedline stations

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No transclusions, documentation, incoming links, or template parameters. Appears to be article content. Created in 2022. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:28, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Leland Bulldogs football navbox

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Navbox with no main article and no blue links in the body. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:27, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Humorgreen

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No transclusions, documentation, or incoming links. Redundant to {{Humor}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:27, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TfC submission/draft

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Unused and abandoned template in an irregular sub-page. Gonnym (talk) 10:12, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Time zone/zoneinfo

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Unused time zone sub-template. Gonnym (talk) 10:10, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Unused time zone sub-template. Gonnym (talk) 10:10, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Portland Hearts of Pine

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This team played its first match in March 2025. There are not enough articles to justify a navbox yet. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:06, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Despite the team being new, there are four articles linked by the navbox already, and that is likely to grow if a list of players is created or as the team has more seasons. I’m also not aware of a strict minimum number of articles Brindille1 (talk) 12:30, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Br separated en dash

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This template's only use was to separate a daterange in table cells (and was only used in 1 article). This use was only for manually visually formatting table contents. It violates MOS:DATERANGE; manual breaks are bad for accessibility MOS:ACCESS, interrupt the flow of screen readers, making their use particularly problematic in the only case this template was used in.  — sbb (talk) 00:59, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

note from nominator: example of usage with and without this template, see:
This was the only article using this template.  — sbb (talk) 01:04, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I fail to see how this violates DATERANGE; this is essentially equivalent to an snd, just with brs instead of spaces, and I find an snd to be somewhat ugly in a table (especially one with limited space). While I was unaware brs messed up screen readers, surely there is a way to emulate the break with CSS (thus not messing up screen readers while keeping it the same visually)? Also note there are articles which use the syntax <br />–<br /> manually (ie list of presidents of the United States). Diverging Diamond (is Queen of Hearts's alt; talk) 08:30, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a valid argument, when the other stuff also violates the MoS. If you disagree with the MoS, get it changed, then you can create templates to follow that style. Gonnym (talk) 12:39, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unfortunately, there really isn't a way to do linebreaks with CSS, that don't introduce all sorts of layout issues, inconsistencies between browsers, etc.
  • Manual linebreaks are generally bad use (WP:LINEBREAK). In the linked examples (where you applied them), it completely prevents the HTML renderer from deciding if the line even needed to be wrapped (wide browser screen). Furthermore, placing the en-dash on its own line violates the MOS rule of keeping punctuation (including those with space before, like en-dashes and ellipsis) together with the text that precedes it.
 — sbb (talk) 13:41, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 18

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Template:Film draft edit notice

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No transclusions. Proposed in 2018, but apparently never adopted. It is possible that a more general template is used instead. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:10, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Because {{Draft notice}} exists and any mainspace redirects with relevant drafts may be linked to via tagging them with {{R with possibilities}} instead. Trailblazer101 (talk) 15:19, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: RealOlivierCarrard (talk) 18:19, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 17

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Template:Book of the Week

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. 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 delete. ✗plicit 04:34, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Navbox with an unsourced main article and no blue links in the body. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Related links were deleted here. Gonnym (talk) 17:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Old discussions

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May 8

Template:Demotivator

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No transclusions. Created in March 2025. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:42, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

keep transcluded jp×g🗯️ 19:12, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep nomination rationale no longer the case, plus this is totally harmless. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:01, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and move to userspace if they want. These kind of fluff templates are actually harmful as they don't confirm to accessibility guidelines. The colors there can (and will) easily fail contrast for almost zero benefit. Gonnym (talk) 20:03, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gonnym: I do not even remotely understand this claim. What in the world contrast standard could conceivably claim that pure white on pure black is an accessibility failure? jp×g🗯️ 03:18, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I checked all the colors. All of the ones this template generates by default -- #FFFFFF #AAFFFF #FFAAFF #FFFFAA #CCCCFF #FFCCCC #CCFFCC -- have extremely high passing scores on every standard I could find. What are you referring to? jp×g🗯️ 03:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 6

Template:English legislation

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Template:England laws was sent to TfD here as they were pretty much the same scope. While looking at the pages linked from those templates, I noticed that the above 3 are all pretty much included in Template:UK legislation. We don't need 5 navigation templates for the same scope if Template:UK legislation already has all of the links. Gonnym (talk) 14:17, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - these have different scopes. Template:UK acts of Parliament lists is purely acts of Parliament from the UK, whereas Template:UK legislation covers all legislation from the UK and its predecessor states, and hence is a much heftier template. The same applies to the templates for English and British legislation - it is unhelpful to claim that one 'mega' template is better than more focussed ones. Mauls (talk) 14:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)][reply]
The 'meta' template exists and is in use (and I did not create it). Since it exists, it isn't useful for our readers that we have navigation templates that don't follow WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. And it's a complete burden for our editors to have to maintain 4+ copies of the same list. Ah, I just noticed it was you that created 3 of these templates. Can you point me to a prior discussion which lead to the split? Any TfD? Gonnym (talk) 16:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gonnym: what exactly is the proposal here: deletion or merge...? Vestrian24Bio 11:23, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A few points: I didn't create three of these, I created two of them; they do all follow WP:BIDIRECTIONAL (the meta template and 'English legislation' as collapsed horizonal at the bottom of each of their listed articles, the two other vertical templates at the top, uncollapsed in each of their listed articles - per WP:SIDEBAR). There is no need to maintain four of the same list, as it's three lists (England/Great Britain/UK), and one template combining three. See the bit in WP:NAVBOX about sidebars with a smaller, more tightly defined set of articles, and less-tightly defined lists being in a footer template - as is the case here. How is the change you are proposing in line with WP:NAVBOX? How will it benefit the reader? (I also have to confess that I'm a bit unclear what you feel the 'burden' is in maintaining a list of laws passed in years before 1707 and before 1801 respectively? As far as I was aware, there aren't any more years being added to past centuries?) Mauls (talk) 11:57, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep It is very misleading to name pages and categories here after the United Kingdom when they are defined as stretching back centuries before it existed - it treats the community as simple-minded, which it isn't at all. No harm in re-naming, if a better name can be found which avoids that trap. Moonraker (talk) 13:23, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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April 20

Rugby union squad navigation templates

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Rarely used and updated templates for teams that all feature in competitions previously deemed non-notable or get little coverage, or no don't compete in the top tier of their domestic competition. I don't see how they bring any help to a reader in terms of navigation anymore. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 08:38, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: the templates for clubs competing in the Pro D2 and Japan Rugby League One competitions (Divisions 1 and 2). I have no opinion about the others. It's fundamentally untrue that the Pro D2 and Japan Rugby League One (JRLO) are non-notable competitions. There's more than enough coverage of them if you look at more languages than just English. This type of template is only used in player biographies. If the templates of – for example – JRLO clubs are not used frequently, it's because many Japanese players don't have biographies in the English version of Wikipedia, but that is IMO no reason to delete the templates. They'll still be used in the biographies of (non-Japanese) players with a biography. There seem to be editors keeping squad lists of (some of) the clubs up-to-date. Why not ask those editors to also keep the templates up-to-date as well? They may not even be aware of the templates' existence and will possibly be happy to do it. I'm happy to keep a few of them up-to-date (I have done so in the past), but won't commit to doing all of them. Ruggalicious (talk) 12:25, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    No point in having a navbox if it's filled with non-existent pages. Vestrian24Bio 12:32, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    My only issue with Pro D2 and JRLO Div 2 teams is that only some of them include enough links to players with articles to make them worthwile to keep. If it was all of the teams then I wouldn't have included them. Part of the problem though is they haven't been updated in a number of seasons and so most of the links are no longer accurate and irrelevant. If there is consensus to keep these ones I'll remove. As a note there are no JRLO Division 1 templates here, only Division 2 and 3 (I guess there is no issue with Div 3 as there are barely more than 1 to 5 links max in these ones, again usually out of date) Rugbyfan22 (talk) 17:51, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:54, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Comment Any views on whether a closure is likely on this. Personally I don't see objection to deletion of the majority of templates here (only one vote against 20 of the templates here, other 30 have no keep votes at all) but if it is likely going to be no consensus, I'm happy to relist in smaller groups. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:55, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. There isn't enough to keep any template. But even the one keep vote does not still address the major issue with these templates. 2 votes to delete all. This should be enough to close as delete. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:15, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd have no objection to Pro D2 or JRLO Div 2 templates being recreated if they can be shown to include more than 6+ links to articles on English Wikipedia, and are then regularly updated and transcluded to articles properly. At the moment though too many red links and out dated squad lists being included and I don't see an appetite to update these templates (especially compared to Top14 or JRLO Div 1 templates where there are more links and active editors patrolling/updating them). Rugbyfan22 (talk) 18:40, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 15

Template:CompUnits

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No transclusions. No incoming links to explain why it was created. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:03, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 26

Template:Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. 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 delete. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:03, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant to Template:Teen Titans --woodensuperman 14:19, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, this doesn't seem to be redundant AHI-3000 (talk) 06:40, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes it is, all valid links are included in the wider navbox. --woodensuperman 13:04, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • If the larger template were nominated, I'd be advocating for a delete or a stripping. It's far too large at this point. Alas... I don't really get this template, and that's why I think I'll comment in favor of delete. It's not serving some overarching purpose but instead appears to be an entire duplicate of the other. There might be a valid template regarding solely the Go! brand, but this ain't it. Izno (talk) 23:38, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment It is been over a month and both keep votes don't address the issue of trimming down the template and both (mine included) address the issue and lack of links if the template was stripped or trimmed down. A no consensus may be the outcome but all links in this template are already on the main Teen Titans template thus making this redundant minus the keep vote that doesn't address how it isn't. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:05, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete since all of the links here are already on that template. If you tried trimming down “the redundant content” from Template:Teen Titans you’d have nothing left. The entire template is redundant ApexParagon (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 1:17, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
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