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Current discussions
March 11
Module:TemplateTools
- Module:TemplateTools ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused pre-alpha module; no edits since 2014. Elli (talk | contribs) 14:00, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:NorthSouth
- Template:NorthSouth ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navigation template for a rail line without an article. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:58, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Seems to have been split into two: NorthSide Corridor and SouthSide Corridor and left behind. Nigej (talk) 14:17, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:No space joiner superscript bullet no space non joiner
- Template:No space joiner superscript bullet no space non joiner ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Same reason as {{No space joiner bold superscript middot no space non joiner}} - excessively long name for something not particularly useful (and unused). Elli (talk | contribs) 13:55, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Nigej (talk) 16:16, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:NYCLcolor
- Template:NYCLcolor ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
No longer used. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:47, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Monument Morocco
- Template:Monument Morocco ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused; neither of the categories this template can categorize articles in exists or has ever existed. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:45, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Looks like some plan for Moroccan Memorials that never got off the ground. Nigej (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:MonitoredByBot
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template(s) or module(s) 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 delete. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:36, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Template:MonitoredByBot ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Entirely unused and linked to nowhere. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Nigej (talk) 16:18, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Speedy delete as creator, not sure why I created it --DannyS712 (talk) 16:28, 11 March 2021 (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).
Mongolian election data
- Template:Mongolian legislative election, 2012 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Mongolian legislative election, 2016 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Mongolian presidential election, 2009 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Mongolian presidential election, 2013 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Mongolian presidential election, 2017 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused. See previous nomination of Template:Mongolian legislative election, 2008. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:41, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete all All the corresponding articles (eg 2013 Mongolian presidential election) have these results, albeit in a slightly different style. Nigej (talk) 14:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Live at the World Cafe albums
- Template:Live at the World Cafe albums ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
No longer serves a purpose for navigation as the four blue links now redirect to World Cafe (radio program)#Live at the World Cafe, due to lack of notability of the individual albums of this series. Lennart97 (talk) 12:40, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete no longer navigates anything. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Substub
- Template:Substub ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
A previous version was deleted at TfD a long while ago (Wikipedia:Historical archive/Template:Substub is the historical version). The current creation misrepresents policy, saying that substub "will be deleted in 7 days". This has no basis in policy. A PROD may result in deletion in 7 days, however it is a separate process from this template and is not connected to substub status. Eostrix (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 12:02, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Clearly says something that is contrary to policy. Not sure "substub" is well defined anyway. WP:ACSD has the criteria for articles. Nigej (talk) 13:34, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- delete speedily, preferably. This has no place on WP as it contravenes existing policy. We have no deletion policy on substubs. CUPIDICAE💕 15:42, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per above. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Not a CSD. Anything that is really below a stub in size would be covered by CSD A1 (no context) or A3 (no content). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:33, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
- Template:Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Awards/Archive_2#Grammy_Award_templates there was discussion about deleting this template. When this template and other Grammy Award templates were nominated at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_July_13#Non-major Grammy Awards it was deleted. Therefore, I think it should be deleted again as it was later recreated. However, there has been new content added since 2014. Currently, other Grammy Award templates from the 2014 nomination are being deleted and orphaned. Example is Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2021_March_3#Template:Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Pop_Vocal_Performance. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:35, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Very little use as a navigational aid. One of many navboxes that are more "award banners" than navigational aids, cluttering up the articles, rather than aiding navigation. Nigej (talk) 08:27, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
March 10
Template:Script/BMP
- Template:Script/BMP ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Script/SMP ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Delete. Not relevant any more. Distracts from good script-to-font handling. No reason to support unused 'IE6-support' templates. Not maintained/tested. See also: Category:MSIE font fix templates (2) and MSIE 6 (2002–2016). DePiep (talk) 23:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete - According to this only 0.01% of people worldwide are still using IE 6 so deleting these may inconvenience those people however it seems stupid supporting a browser that pretty much died 10 years ago. –Davey2010Talk 00:47, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- We no longer serve to IE6 at all because it does not support TLS 1.2. --Izno (talk) 00:51, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- ... hence the template is clearly useless. Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:56, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Module:Wordify
- Module:Wordify ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This huge (and growing longer every day) module appears to consist almost entirely of features with no conceivable use case on the English Wikipedia. The only features that have some potential use here are the ability to convert a number to words in the English language, which is redundant to Module:ConvertNumeric, and the ability to display a number in lakh and crore, which, by itself is not sufficiently complicated to merit a Lua module and is already implemented in Wikitext via Template:FXConvert/Wordify * Pppery * it has begun... 20:20, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- This module is intended to be used also by {{INRConvert}} as well as copied by other wikis. The original motivation was to get rid of {{FXConvert/Wordify}} and {{INRConvert/Wordify}} as the parent templates run too deep. Trigenibinion (talk) 21:47, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- The purpose of this module is not to display a number only in words, as Module:ConvertNumeric does, but to simplify a number converting only the order of magnitude into a word. It also supports the long and indian scales as well as linking the words to an explanation. When bigger numbers get supported by Lua it will be possible to to extend the scales by word formation, not by listing every word. It is now a framework for easily adding this functionality to new languages. Trigenibinion (talk) 22:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Div DC
- Template:Div DC ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
{{div DC}} outputs </div></div>
to close two div's which were opened in different ways. Example use [2] by the template creator:
{{Div flex row}} <div> ... {{div DC}}
It looks like there is an open <div>
. It makes the wikitext confusing to editors and tools. Tags should be opened and closed in the same or similar way for source readability. The creator also made {{Div flex row}} with documentation to close it with </div>
. I made {{Div flex row end}} and changed the documentation [3] and all uses with a </div>
close. I suggest {{div DC}} is deleted and the 18 current uses are replaced with code matching the opening divs it closed, e.g. for the above example:
{{Div flex row}} <div> ... </div> {{Div flex row end}}
PrimeHunter (talk) 14:41, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:27, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Overly complex. Nigej (talk) 21:53, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- There are a couple others of this particular nature in Category:Wikipedia_XHTML_tag-replacing_templates that could perhaps use a deletion. --Izno (talk) 18:42, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:RWS
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template(s) or module(s) 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 delete. Speedy close, wrong venue, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:58, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Template:RWS ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Obsolete and unused. AlgaeGraphix (talk) 14:38, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Wrong venue Redirects go to RfD, not TfD. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:27, 10 March 2021 (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).
Template:Chilean Social Outbreak
- Template:Chilean Social Outbreak ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Template relies on overly general links to the recent history of Chile, and seem not neutral as it links a series of events, with no clear-cut connection to the topic, in the last 20 years with the 2019–2020 Chilean protests. Dentren | Talk 03:14, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Template header "Chilean Social Outbreak" links to 2019–2020 Chilean protests, which seems to be the primary topic here. The sidebar is much too broad in its compass, most of the articles are unconnected to the 2019–2020 Chilean protests. We have a good category Category:2019–2020 Chilean protests which currently has 9 articles. The sidebar is in 6 of these and nowhere else. Seems to me that the main article (2019–2020 Chilean protests - which is quite a detailed article) and the associated category are plenty. Nigej (talk) 06:33, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
March 9
Template:Stadium organists
- Template:Stadium organists ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Fancruft. Templatecreep. The Banner talk 10:31, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Just a duplicate of Category:Stadium organists with loads of unlinked names added. Nigej (talk) 16:38, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I'm the person who created it. I understand/appreciate the reasons mentioned. I think it's useful both as a reference point to who is currently working vs. who is retired (not in the category) and also the unklinked names--not all of whom are notable but many are--can serve as a reference point to other potential article writers which does more than just the category. One of the stadium organists made DYK in October and I think it's a topic underrepresented on Wikipedia. Jessamyn (talk) 17:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep Millions of sports fans will find this useful. This is an extraordinarily useful template. I shared with a stadium organist who was needing background for a bio in a sports journal. As I looked at the many newspaper articles about stadium organists they were filled with accolades from fans and players who claimed these musicians made whatever game it was they enjoyed--special, nostalgic, meaningful. What I like about this template is that it includes women and the first African-American stadium organist. Wikipedia has many many pages devoted to athletes who play various sports. These musicians are just as important.Kmccook (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- In fact you back up my claim of fancruft. The Banner talk 18:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Per WP:NAVBOX: we seems to fail #4 "There should be a Wikipedia article on the subject of the template." since there is no article Stadium organists. Also #3 and #5 are pretty doubtful here. All tends to indicate that we have a set of people with little connection between them, except for the obvious - they are Stadium organists. Nigej (talk) 19:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, an article could easily be written about Stadium Organists if that is the only objection (they've been seeing a resurgence where there had previously been a lot of pre-recorded music, and it's an interesting trend along with the use of social media to interact directly with fans) but I'll wait to see the outcome of this discussion first. Jessamyn (talk) 21:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Next step is a navigation template about stadium janitors, as they are essential? And a template for stadium ticket sellers? I maintain my stance that this is fancruft and template creep. The Banner talk 22:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- I appreciate that we're on differing sides of this, but you're coming across as needlessly insulting. There are twenty-two stadium organists who have articles about them on Wikipedia, all but one of which were written before I put this template together. They are working musicians who play music, usually live, for some of the largest sporting events in the United States. It's fine if you don't personally think the template should be on Wikipedia, but show me a single Wikipedia article about stadium janitors or stadium ticket sellers? Your stance has been noted. Jessamyn (talk) 23:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Next step is a navigation template about stadium janitors, as they are essential? And a template for stadium ticket sellers? I maintain my stance that this is fancruft and template creep. The Banner talk 22:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, an article could easily be written about Stadium Organists if that is the only objection (they've been seeing a resurgence where there had previously been a lot of pre-recorded music, and it's an interesting trend along with the use of social media to interact directly with fans) but I'll wait to see the outcome of this discussion first. Jessamyn (talk) 21:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep - I see this template as a useful way to connect together the pages about people working in this role. I would suggest an article be created talking more about this role and its resurgence. - Dyork (talk) 01:45, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep - As seen from a country where organists seem to be either general keyboard players or play in churches, an article about this position would be informative and educational, so please write it. Palnatoke (talk) 01:56, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment - Looks like this template will work out better 1) with a lead article about Stadium organists (can do) and 2) with all the non-notable organists not included for now. I can look and see if any of them hit notability requirements, but that's a larger project. Thanks for feedback everyone. Jessamyn (talk) 19:45, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. This fails the criteria at WP:NAVBOX, items 2, 3, 4, 5, and given the breadth and width, 1. I would not object to converting to category or similar. Certainly if no consensus or kept, it should have its non-links removed per WP:NAV. --Izno (talk) 01:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 01:21, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, Category:Stadium organists is better suited for this purpose. Renata (talk) 22:13, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment, As above, I feel like this template offers something the category doesn't (retired vs. working, and a full slate of people though that may be of questionable value) and could easily be supported by a Stadium Organists article but I haven't wanted to write one since I was waiting for the results of this discussion. Accordingly, if the template is kept, I will write a Stadium Organists article and elide the non-notable names from the template. If it's deleted, I won't. Jessamyn (talk) 21:44, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep or Listify. Might have been better to WP:Write the article first to establish notability. Still, a Template or a List Article would be more informative than just the Category. —24.191.101.223 (talk) 07:40, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. A list would be much better than a template to cover these people. In particular, a list could include a brief description after the names of those organists who don't have articles yet (along the lines of "organist at Comiskey Park, 1951-1960"), whereas that kind of information can't reasonably be included here. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:43, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Good point. If the Template ends up being deleted, I hope a sandbox copy can be saved somewhere as a good head-start on a List article. —24.191.101.223 (talk) 05:53, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Deleted pages are not gone. You can always ask an admin to mail you a copy of a deleted page. Or you save a copy now to your device. Paradoctor (talk) 07:48, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Particularly for more opinions/clarity on whether editors feel a navbox is the best representation, or if a category or list article may be more appropriate (per Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates).
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:06, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:One Schoolhouse Consortium
- Template:One Schoolhouse Consortium ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Single-use template with no article about to the One Schoolhouse Consortium, to its meaning is unclear. The Banner talk 12:57, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Classic case of cart before the horse. WP:Write the article first. Nigej (talk) 13:13, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Acid Witch
- Template:Acid Witch ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navigational template for band; listed albums now redirect to band, so the template no longer serves a purpose. Lennart97 (talk) 09:54, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:AKC standard
- Template:AKC standard ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Delete. Long unused inline template that was once used to link the urls for the American Kennel Club's breed standards into dog breed articles (it is unclear if as a citation or in the text). {{Infobox dog breed}} includes a parameter to link to AKC standards for American dog breeds, whilst if elements of the breed standard are being cited then {{Cite web}} is far more appropriate. Cavalryman (talk) 01:54, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- There's nothing wrong with custom citation templates for particular websites, like {{Cite Dictionary.com}} or {{Cite Rotten Tomatoes}}, but since this is unused I'm currently going with weak delete. Elli (talk | contribs) 03:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as unused, although potentially useful. Limited set of parameters (eg no access date) makes it really only useable in an external references section. A cite web wrapper but not in Category:Templates that wrap Cite web. Nigej (talk) 07:01, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as replaced across WPDOGS by "Infobox dog breed". William Harris (talk) 08:53, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Colombian dogs
- Template:Colombian dogs ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Delete, a nabox with only a single listing so is not used to navigate anywhere. Cavalryman (talk) 01:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete useless navbox. Elli (talk | contribs) 03:22, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per above. Nigej (talk) 06:55, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as per nom. William Harris (talk) 08:51, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org biblography
- Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org biblography ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused; unlinked; looks to be created in error instead of {{Dashboard.wikiedu.org bibliography}} and never cleaned up. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:48, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Church-building-disambig
- Template:Church-building-disambig ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused disambiguation template for nearly a decade. {{Disambiguation|church}}
is used instead. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:36, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Unclear why it was ever created, since it never had any content. Nigej (talk) 06:52, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
March 8
Template:SmartStop riders
- Template:SmartStop riders ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Team is defunct, so the template is no longer required. Craig(talk) 21:12, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Date=June 2016
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template(s) or module(s) 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 Delete; deleted as G2 by Plastikspork (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 20:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Template:Date=June 2016 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
As with the the one below, this has no clear use, and the only transclusion in the mainspace does not seem to fulfill any reasonably intended purpose. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 21:08, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Subst/delete; perhaps. Produces the text: "Indian Super League". Answers on a postcard. Nigej (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Fix it - The template link obviously from vandalism when lookikng at the article (and someone created the template afterwards). Fix it, and speedy delete the template. Christian75 (talk) 11:09, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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Template:Date=February 2019
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The result of the discussion was Delete; deleted as G2 by Plastikspork (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 20:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Template:Date=February 2019 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Eeeehhhhhhh This template does not look very useful – probably because it isn't. It has two mainspace transclusions, which seem to need to be cleaned up. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 20:55, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Subst/Delete Produces the text "Template:Date=February 2019". or perhaps just delete as nonsense. 21:27, 8 March 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigej (talk • contribs)
- Fix and delete' Should not be subst. This is from vandalism, look at the text in the article "{{date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}". Readd the {{dead link}} template Christian75 (talk) 11:07, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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Template:Circus–Wanty Gobert riders
- Template:Circus–Wanty Gobert riders ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Team is defunct, so the template is no longer required. Craig(talk) 20:20, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Rabobank cyclo-cross
- Template:Rabobank cyclo-cross ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Team is defunct, so the template is no longer required. Craig(talk) 18:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:American stations in Caribbean TV
- Template:American stations in Caribbean TV ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Template cruft; poorly created Mvcg66b3r (talk) 16:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 17:52, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:BWF World Superseries Champions in Women's Singles – Indonesian Badminton Players
- Template:BWF World Superseries Champions in Women's Singles – Indonesian Badminton Players ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Template says "Still no champions" and since the BWF World Superseries finished in 2017, there won't ever be any. Nigej (talk) 11:05, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete No links....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:03, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. A navbox has no navigational use if it doesn't include any links. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 16:27, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Mikuni Shimokawa
- Template:Mikuni Shimokawa ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Musical artist navigation template that no longer serves a purpose as the albums it contains are now redirects. Lennart97 (talk) 10:38, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Not a useful navbox if every link in it takes readers to the same article. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 16:28, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Cite conference
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Propose renaming Template:Cite conference to Template:Cite presentation.
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20210311223258im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png)
Please see Help talk:Citation Style 1#Requested move 8 March 2021.
I'm cross-listing this here due to the significance of the template. The move shouldn't be discussed here, but at the RM. Also testing {{Tfr}}
, though this isn't an ideal test-case for it, since this isn't a TfR being principally listed here, just as a cross-reference. — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 02:28, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
March 7
Template:Colombia riders
- Template:Colombia riders ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Team is defunct, so the template is no longer required. Craig(talk) 23:49, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Team Virtu Cycling riders
- Template:Team Virtu Cycling riders ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Team is defunct, so the template is no longer required. Craig(talk) 22:58, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Équipe Paule Ka riders
- Template:Équipe Paule Ka riders ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Team is defunct, so the template is no longer required. Craig(talk) 21:46, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Mate Bulić
- Template:Mate Bulić ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navigational template for Mate Bulić; no longer serves a purpose now that the listed albums have been turned into redirects and the 'related articles' listed have no use for this template. Lennart97 (talk) 14:18, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Ambiguous episcopal titles and sees in England
- Template:Ambiguous episcopal titles and sees in England ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
The template is certainly a good-faith creation, but it is most unusual to have a navigation box for dabs, per MOS:DAB#Images and templates. I'll notify WikiProject Disambiguation. Certes (talk) 11:11, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Seems an utterly useless navbox to me. Why would someone looking for the Bishop of Shrewsbury, and finding that it's ambiguous, then want to navigate to Bishop of Portsmouth because that's ambiguous too? Obviously we don't have an article on the subject: Ambiguous episcopal titles and sees in England, so fails WP:NAVBOX #4. Nigej (talk) 11:25, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete: There is no connection between the targetted dab pages, so it is difficult to imagine anyone wanting to navigate between them (except a Wikipedia editor wanting to compare how they had been capitalised or similar). Unnecessary clutter. A list article of Ambiguous episcopal titles and sees in England might possibly be of interest to someone, but not a navbox. PamD 12:06, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Extended periodic table (by Pyykkö, 50 columns, periods 8–9)
- Template:Extended periodic table (by Pyykkö, 50 columns, periods 8–9) ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Extended periodic table (by Fricke, 52 columns, periods 8–9) ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
No longer used, as instances in Extended periodic table have been replaced by images. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:16, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Hardcoded
- Template:Hardcoded ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
WP:T3 no longer exists as a criteria and this is unused. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:25, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:LibyaUsers
- Template:LibyaUsers ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
No reason to have this be a template; no uses; same list exists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Libya/participants. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Unnecessary duplication of information already on the wikiproject subpage, and unlikely to be used anywhere else. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 16:36, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Content now in Wikipedia:WikiProject Libya/participants so no problem with deletion. Nigej (talk) 20:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Lht
- Template:Lht ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused; seems to be a version of {{Pagelinks}} exclusively for help pages? No reason for this to exist. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: There is a whole suite of similar templates at Template:Ln/doc. Either all of them should be deleted/merged, or none of them should be. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:02, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- @King of Hearts: I guess this could get messy if we have to subst+delete ones with existing uses... but I really think these should not exist separately. It saves like five characters while making the source less comprehensible (everyone knows what Help:page is, not everyone knows that Lht means the page is in the help namespace). Elli (talk | contribs) 06:27, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Actually it seems to be a version of {{Pagelinks}} exclusively for help talk pages, as opposed to Lh. All of them call {{Lx}}. Nigej (talk) 18:08, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Life:)
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Unused navigation template; redundant to Template:Turkcell Group. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:51, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Life:) was an earlier name for lifecell now owned by Turkcell. Nigej (talk) 09:35, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Lightning
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Only used in one Wikipedia-meetup page from 2017 - hasn't found widespread use. Suggest to subst and delete for historical reasons. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:42, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as unused. {{Lightning/sign}} is related and can go too and probably {{Meetup/signup/editintro}} I suspect. Nigej (talk) 09:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:M class minelayer
- Template:M class minelayer ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused navigation template where the main article and all the sub-articles redlink. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:39, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Navbox with no navigation: WP:Write the article first Nigej (talk) 08:06, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Infobox unhexquadium
- Template:Infobox unhexquadium ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused infobox for an element (164) that's so far from what's known (118) that it's not particularly likely it'll become notable anytime soon, not to mention that all the data is hence quite speculative. Double sharp (talk) 03:30, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete clearly, unhexquadium is not an article (and when it is, this infobox could be refunded). Elli (talk | contribs) 04:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. We are very restricive with speculative elements. -DePiep (talk) 11:48, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, unfinished infobox for an element that has yet to be discovered. Prospects of notability are reasonable, as evidenced by detailed predictions of its chemistry and stability, but no article exists yet. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:32, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom (speculation and no corresponding article), but recreate if and when an article is written about this element. ComplexRational (talk) 20:43, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. I note that there are no other templates for systematic names above 128. YBG (talk) 01:40, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Leng Tch'e
- Template:Leng Tch'e ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Navigation template for band no longer serves a purpose as all listed albums redirect to the band itself. Lennart97 (talk) 00:36, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete redundant. Elli (talk | contribs) 04:45, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete navbox with no navigational use. Nigej (talk) 09:38, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
March 6
Template:2013–14 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule
- Template:2011–12 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2012–13 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2013–14 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2014–15 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2015–16 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:2016–17 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Single-use templates. Izno (talk) 23:50, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Subst/delete into 2011–12 Pittsburgh Penguins season etc where they ought to be. Nigej (talk) 07:49, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Fb report2 2t
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This is used on only 2 pages. I assume there's another template somewhere that could be used to perform the same work. Izno (talk) 23:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Replace with {{Fb report 2t}}, which seems to serve the same purpose with perhaps cosmetic differences. Nigej (talk) 07:59, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 18:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
NavFrame is deprecated (see WP:NavFrame) and we have other available templates. Izno (talk) 23:13, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete only used by Template:navigationbar (which is also nominated for deletion below) and pages that use it. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per above. Nigej (talk) 08:02, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
We have quite a few other Category:Collapse templates. We don't need Yet Another One. Izno (talk) 23:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as redundant to Template:Navbar/Template:Navbox * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as duplication of existing templates. Nigej (talk) 08:02, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- delete, not needed. Frietjes (talk) 16:03, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Alphabet nan kiril
- Template:Alphabet nan kiril ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Single-use template. Izno (talk) 23:11, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Subst and delete per nom. Would also be OK with userfying, since the only use is in the creator's userspace. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- move to user space. Frietjes (talk) 16:02, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Pyawbwe Township
- Template:Pyawbwe Township ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
List of red links with no reasonable chance of ever becoming an article. Bot created The Banner talk 21:04, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. As previously, most of the blue links relate to other places, not in this township. Nigej (talk) 08:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Collapsible section
- Template:Collapsible section ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
We should reduce the number of templates that can be used to collapse things. This template has no transclusions in main space (I removed a half dozen under MOS:COLLAPSE).
We have other collapsible templates where necessary. Izno (talk) 05:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- STOP: this template has been used with great success at many articles, and does have many main space uses, regardless of some edit warring at High Line and elsewhere. I don't see why you didn't raise a discussion first. MOS:COLLAPSE is merely a guideline, not a policy, and there is no logic behind removing it in many of the places you did. When further content can be displayed as desired (like {{adjacent stations}}/{{s-line}} has used for years), and when it is accessible from mobile, tablet, and desktop devices, there is no logical reason to remove these and make articles display far worse, at risk of fully cutting the collapsible content. This is also one of -very few- collapse templates that actually works on mobile devices, making it perhaps one of the best worth keeping. Your deletion proposal simply based on removing what you don't like really lacks the nuance of what benefits the readers and which templates work best. ɱ (talk) 14:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
great success at many articles
I removed a total of some 7 uses in article space. And that was the sum total of uses. If that's true, you would expect to see more.- In none of the places I removed it did I find sufficient cause to keep it. WP:SUMMARY is relevant in many of the cases. WP:NOTDIRECTORY others. Still others a general understanding that 'if you want to hide it away, then it may not be of an appropriate weight in the article.
- It's just a guideline is an argument to avoid.
I don't see why you didn't raise a discussion first.
Because I am not required, especially when MOS:COLLAPSE is a guideline. If you want to change its guideline status, your beef is with WP:MOS.- As for working on mobile devices, NavFrame is going away. I'm about down to some 2-dozen uses in template and module space and another 4000 in article space. While I can transition this template away from NavFrame, it still remains in violation of a guideline that we have moreover enforced more or less stringently, especially for content outside of tables and confined spaces like infoboxes and sidebars. And there is plenty of precedent for other collapsing templates not being used in the main space mainspaces, in general accord with our guideline on the matter. {{collapse}} and its content does not display at all. {{collapse top}} has some 700 uses, probably better removed. Both templates have a strong "Do not use in articles." statements in their documentation. {{Collapsible list}} has a marginally gentler recognition, but still limits itself to "use in small spaces".
removing what you don't like
Pot calling kettle black. Your 'stop' request amounts to "I like it" and "It's useful". Neither reason actually considers why our guideline is the way it is. --Izno (talk) 16:20, 21 February 2021 (UTC)- Yes, many articles can be seven, and similar templates would bump up the number far more.
- You don't need to be the one to "find sufficient cause to keep it". You are not the arbiter here for content inclusion; Wikipedia is a collaborative project. And no, many key facts about an article, like historical named trains that utilized Chicago Union Station, are lists enough that many readers don't care, but will be of essence to plenty of others. Collapsible templates have been devised for such purposes; if you don't agree with them create an RfC on whether or not to deprecate the whole system, not pick-and-choose removals and propose deletion of a single template.
- I don't care if "It's just a guideline" is an argument to avoid. Wikipedia's founding principle is that if there's a rule that stops us from better serving our audience, to ignore it. You can't require me to comply with a single guideline you support. And MOS:COLLAPSE allows for many uses of collapsible areas, making this deletion discussion pointless.
Collapsed or auto-collapsing cells or sections may be used with tables if it simply repeats information covered in the main text (or is purely supplementary
. This is what I have been using it for, and the MOS saysconsider raising a discussion on the article (or template) talk page about whether it should be included at all.
- NOT to be bold and remove it. - I don't know what NavFrame is, nor why it is going away - care to explain why you bring this up?
"violation of a guideline"
- MOS:COLLAPSE describes several ways in which collapsible content is acceptable, and thus ways this template can be used. It really seems like you are the one who needs to go to an MOS talk page to remove all of the portions of MOS:COLLAPSE that allow for article usage.Your 'stop' request amounts to "I like it" and "It's useful".
Yes, as a highly-active article creator, it is a useful tool for creating and displaying content, a web 2.0-like feature that innumerous websites use. I detest any and all attempts to fight against interactivity in articles, as we can create something far greater than just static essays if traditionalists stop fighting against things like {{mapframe}} and the likes. ɱ (talk) 16:48, 21 February 2021 (UTC)- We generally do not keep templates so-little used. Certainly not functional duplicates.
Collapsible templates have been devised for such purposes; if you don't agree with them create an RfC on whether or not to deprecate the whole system, not pick-and-choose removals and propose deletion of a single template.
No. The onus is on you, not me, to show that MOS:COLLAPSE does not enjoy consensus. But regardless, I can still take individual templates to WP:TFD, especially for other reasons, such as "not used (very much)" and "duplicates another existing template", under which this template qualifies.lists enough that many readers don't care
Either it has sufficient weight to be in the article, in which case it should be accessible to everybody, or it doesn't (or it truly is supplementary content, such as sidebars and navboxes, which that exception is actually for, not ad hoc use). Since you bring up the the particular article, I honestly don't care whether the content lives in the article, what I do care about is whether it's hidden away. You might persuade me it doesn't have the weight to be in that article, in which case you should remove it, or it does, and you should give it a shine. As it is, the content in question has 0 citations, so I would be justified in removing it without any hope of restoration Soon per WP:CHALLENGE. Are you interested in having that discussion? I usually don't take that path because it doesn't always apply and in this case I try to disturb an article least (or if I see some other reason some collapsible content is violating expectations of our articles per various WP:PAG, I do remove content I suppose; I just usually try to stay away from questions of sourced-ness). Fundamentally, it looks like you care that the content is there, not some abstract railfans, so don't hide behind the unseen them as an excuse. I think this paragraph also reasonably takes care of
, which is entirely related to the specific content and not the use of collapsibility.consider raising a discussion on the article (or template) talk page about whether it should be included at all.
- NOT to be bold and remove it.- WP:NavFrame is the particular CSS- and Javascript-supported functionality that this template relies on. I can change it to use the known replacement, but in this case this template duplicates another template uses outside mainspace and simply shouldn't be used in mainspace, so I submitted it for TFD. I would be extremely surprised if this actually does work on mobile (for collapsing at least) since MediaWiki:Mobile.js does not have the relevant JavaScript. NavFrame's replacement also does not (currently) work for collapsing on mobile, but does display as expected also.
IAR
See Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means. I find your vein there to be fully outside of what IAR means, so, I'm going to, er, ignore it.a web 2.0-like feature that innumerous websites use
I refer to to the onus here. I'm actually sympathetic to this line of reasoning in some ways and think that particular section of our guideline could use some revision on the point, but that's not really a revision I am interested in supporting right now and/or I would need to see some stronger preference to support allowing free use of collapsing elements in the main space. (go ham outside if you should please). --Izno (talk) 18:09, 21 February 2021 (UTC)- Jesus this is a wall of text that's hard to follow. I'll have to take time to look at it later, yet it seems pointless as we're both dead-set on opposite views that articles are [just for the general public vs. can have tools to allow for specifics for nerds]. I'm confused though how you think MOS:COLLAPSE does not permit any collapsed sections in articles, when, with consensus, it very well does. ɱ (talk) 18:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Um, you're posting blocks of text almost as large. Izno's total word count here is 879 words, and yours is 619 (before your apparently forthcoming additional reply). I think WP:KETTLE was already cited in this discussion. >;-) — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 05:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Nobody asked for a character count here; I also said it's hard to follow. Congrats on linking one of the snarkiest essays; my one response only had to be long in an effort to reply to all of their many points, but their two have broken records within this discussion. ɱ (talk) 14:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- The level of hypocritical hostility you bring to discussions of this sort (and then double-down after others point out you are being unreasonable) is looking more and more like a reason to see whether ANI should topic-ban you from XfDs. We all have better things to do that have our blood pressure pointlessly raised by WP:BATTLEGROUND-oriented ranting in everyday wikiprocesses. — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 06:17, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Nobody asked for a character count here; I also said it's hard to follow. Congrats on linking one of the snarkiest essays; my one response only had to be long in an effort to reply to all of their many points, but their two have broken records within this discussion. ɱ (talk) 14:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Um, you're posting blocks of text almost as large. Izno's total word count here is 879 words, and yours is 619 (before your apparently forthcoming additional reply). I think WP:KETTLE was already cited in this discussion. >;-) — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 05:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Jesus this is a wall of text that's hard to follow. I'll have to take time to look at it later, yet it seems pointless as we're both dead-set on opposite views that articles are [just for the general public vs. can have tools to allow for specifics for nerds]. I'm confused though how you think MOS:COLLAPSE does not permit any collapsed sections in articles, when, with consensus, it very well does. ɱ (talk) 18:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Redirect to Template:Collapse The bit about this not being allowed in article namespace is a tangential, since most uses are outside the article namespace (and were even before Izno's actions). What matters is that I see nothing that meaningfully distinguishes this from other templates for collapsing things, so it should not exist separately. Nevertheless, I feel the name "collapsible section" is a plausible name for a template, so a redirect is preferable to deletion. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- No - there are key differences. For starters, I do not believe {{collapse}} works on mobile devices. It also has a different style than this template, with a long gray bar that may not suit all articles or look as modern, and would look horrible in a table like the one here. If you want to combine the two, I find it imperative to keep this sort of style. Additionally, this template always uses a message "— View by clicking [show] —" that helps users understand how to access the content, where [show] might not always be too clear. ɱ (talk) 16:53, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Redirect per Pppery. The two seem very similar functionally, the differences being cosmetic (although I've no idea about the mobile issue). I'd have thought that options could perhaps be added to "Collapse" to make it more like "Collapsible section", and, at the end of day we're producing an encyclopedia, not running a beauty contest, so some differences are acceptable. Nigej (talk) 17:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's not about a beauty contest. {{Collapse}} is designed as a standalone segment to a page, with its own shading and borders. It is simply not applicable for use in other areas like tables and infoboxes, like in my example above. Unless and until {{Collapse}} is granted that functionality, I can't allow {{Collapsible section}} to be deleted. ɱ (talk) 17:44, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm a bit confused. When I change "Collapsible section" to "subst:Collapse" in List of COTA bus routes it looks ok to me. Nigej (talk) 18:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- It displays its weird own box with its own shading and borders that look terrible, and then when you expand the map, it forms its own bordered white box as well - it's so clumsy I wouldn't have even done any of this work if there wasn't a reasonable way to display it. No need to cut a perfectly-working preferable format. I'd be fine with merging the templates, so long as formatting options are preserved. ɱ (talk) 18:45, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Personally I'd put the differences in the trivial-difference category. Content is exactly the same. Nigej (talk) 18:59, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- (per image) Still look like trivial differences to me. Content is exactly the same. Nigej (talk) 19:07, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Cool, that's your opinion, and why Wikipedia will look like the 2000s-era site it always has - too many Wikipedians only care about content over design. 'Content exactly the same' is not a good argument, sorry. ɱ (talk) 19:23, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- It displays its weird own box with its own shading and borders that look terrible, and then when you expand the map, it forms its own bordered white box as well - it's so clumsy I wouldn't have even done any of this work if there wasn't a reasonable way to display it. No need to cut a perfectly-working preferable format. I'd be fine with merging the templates, so long as formatting options are preserved. ɱ (talk) 18:45, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm a bit confused. When I change "Collapsible section" to "subst:Collapse" in List of COTA bus routes it looks ok to me. Nigej (talk) 18:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's not about a beauty contest. {{Collapse}} is designed as a standalone segment to a page, with its own shading and borders. It is simply not applicable for use in other areas like tables and infoboxes, like in my example above. Unless and until {{Collapse}} is granted that functionality, I can't allow {{Collapsible section}} to be deleted. ɱ (talk) 17:44, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong keep I see no reasonable rationale for deleting this. Even if it comes in useful in a handful of articles then I see no point of deleting things just for the sake of it. Abcmaxx (talk) 02:03, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Merge-and-redirect of a redundant template because it is redundant is not "deleting things just for the sake of it", so you have not provided a valid opposition rationale. — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 05:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Merge or keep. It appears the templates have slightly different appearances, which I think can be relatively easily accommodated with conditional code. I oppose deleting this outright - that doesn't really help people if they wanted slightly different options like Ɱ mentions. However, the purpose of both templates is fairly similar other than the appearance. The fact that this isn't allowed in article space is a little offtopic given that it has almost 400 non-article-space uses. Epicgenius (talk) 05:03, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Redirect/Merge. We have no use for a redundant template that does the same thing as
{{Collapse}}
(and{{Hidden}}
, another template to probably merge away). The visual display difference can be resolved with a parameter. If the code of one is smarter and works across more user agents, in a standards-compliant and accessible manner (I remain skeptical), then use that code rather than the crappier code. This is not rocket science. The histrionics above appear to be grounded in the mistaken impression that collapsing material will suddenly become impossible. But that is not true, so the merge/redir. should proceed. I even think I detect a bogus argument that if some wikiproject would rather auto-collapse a bunch of things, like train-route tables or album track lists, that they're free to do so. That is a false assumption, per WP:CONLEVEL policy. The very reason that policy exists is to stop wikiprojects and other clusters of editors making up their own "anti-rule" directly against side-wide policies and guidelines. But it really has nothing to do with whether this template should exist as a stand-alone template.PS: To clarify, MOS:COLLAPSE does not forbid the use of collapsible content elements in mainspace, only the use of them to hide content by default. That is, any such element is to be "open" by default but may be coded to be collapsible by users with browsers that support that feature. An exception is made for navboxes, which may auto-collapse, since they are not part of the real page content but are a navigational interface element. We have these rules because the collapsed material cannot be read by users of screen readers, those without JavaScript on, and those with various mobile browsers that aren't as capable as desktop ones. They generally cannot make the content un-hidden, so an article with collapsed content is effectively censored to them. However, they and everyone else can read the content if not auto-collapsed, and any users who can use the hide/show widget will be able to collapse it, or can even use user JavaScript (in Special:MyPage/common.js or on the user-agent side, e.g. with TamperMonkey) to auto-collapse all such elements.
— SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 05:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC); added mention of additional redundant template 06:15, 1 March 2021 (UTC)- Don't put words in other editors' mouths, thank you! You're the first one to mention WikiProjects or groups of editors; stop. We also have to serve the general public as well as we can. Prominent websites utilize javascript and other interactive elements; likely 99.9 percent of readers have access to these things. If you uncheck the ability to display internet content, you should very well expect to see gaps in what appears in front of you, but it's not like we put ultra-essential content there anyway. As for screen readers, I doubt the usage is very high at all, and don't see how that would help those users see hidden maps like at the High Line and COTA routes articles. For the Chicago station article, it's also not ultra-essential content either. ɱ (talk) 14:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Your repetitive habit of telling other editors to "stop" (twice in this discussion already), is annoying, uncivil, and anti-collaborative. In point of fact, about 99% of the desire to inject auto-collapsed elements into article content is coming from, and always has come from, wikiprojects – especially those on music, TV shows, and companies/organizations. There is no magical requirement that someone prior to me has to have mentioned this first before I bring it up. — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 06:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- "Stop" is a perfectly reasonable request when a user removes (not replaces) a template in all mainspace pages just to be able to come here and say "no mainspace uses". Talk about pot calling the kettle black; your latest responses are the most dramatic and unwelcome here yet. Stick to the topic at hand here, please. ɱ (talk) 14:03, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Your repetitive habit of telling other editors to "stop" (twice in this discussion already), is annoying, uncivil, and anti-collaborative. In point of fact, about 99% of the desire to inject auto-collapsed elements into article content is coming from, and always has come from, wikiprojects – especially those on music, TV shows, and companies/organizations. There is no magical requirement that someone prior to me has to have mentioned this first before I bring it up. — SMcCandlish ? ¢??? 06:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Don't put words in other editors' mouths, thank you! You're the first one to mention WikiProjects or groups of editors; stop. We also have to serve the general public as well as we can. Prominent websites utilize javascript and other interactive elements; likely 99.9 percent of readers have access to these things. If you uncheck the ability to display internet content, you should very well expect to see gaps in what appears in front of you, but it's not like we put ultra-essential content there anyway. As for screen readers, I doubt the usage is very high at all, and don't see how that would help those users see hidden maps like at the High Line and COTA routes articles. For the Chicago station article, it's also not ultra-essential content either. ɱ (talk) 14:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Question: Why can't this be replaced by {{hidden}}? I tested replacing it in High Line and it looks basically the same to me. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- This is a very similar template! I'm pretty sure I chose the other one due to its instructions given, where this template doesn't immediately make it apparent that there is collapsed content. As well, I am not sure about its mobile applications, would have to test that out... ɱ (talk) 20:22, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Pppery, Nigej, Epicgenius, SMcCandlish, and Abcmaxx: your thoughts on redirecting this to {{hidden}}? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:54, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't have a strong opinion about where this is redirected to. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:35, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- As Pppery, I don't have a strong view. I just feel it's a bad thing to have two (or maybe it's three) templates doing such similar things. Nigej (talk) 09:18, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Redirect to {{hidden}} after adding some parameters to hidden. I have rewritten this as a relatively "clean substituting" wrapper for {{hidden}}. The only real syntax difference is the
|note=
option. I suppose this could be added to {{hidden begin}} but given how many of these collapsing templates don't have that, I don't think it's necessary. Otherwise, the syntax is similar enough that we could just redirect this template to {{hidden}} and add some parameter aliases to {{hidden}} for compatibility (e.g.,titlealign
forta1
etc.). Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)- Can you implement the changes to {{Hidden}} or {{Collapse}}? I can then use transfer over uses to these templates and would then be happy to vote for this template's deletion. ɱ (talk) 01:30, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, I added the alternative parameter names here. I didn't add the "note" since it's problematic for the print version. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:31, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Can you implement the changes to {{Hidden}} or {{Collapse}}? I can then use transfer over uses to these templates and would then be happy to vote for this template's deletion. ɱ (talk) 01:30, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Why is the note problematic for the print version, just because you can't click on a piece of paper!? People will realize that... The note makes it much clearer how to operate the template. Are we to forgo any instructions for interactive content? Maps, images, and audio templates often have similar instructions that help with operation, and it should be clear to readers of a printed copy that you can't click, scroll, drag, pan, etc. ɱ (talk) 19:39, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- The hidden template gracefully removes the [hide]/[show] links in the print version, expanding any collapsed content. Leaving a note behind that says "click here" is pointless when you can't click on the paper. This could probably be fixed using {{noprint}}, but I don't see why the note is needed when [show]/[hide] is pretty self-explanatory. Navboxes have existed for a very long time with out these extra instructions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:51, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Someone added the note as it makes it more clear how to show the content; in some areas the view button may be far off to the right or obscured among images or tables. I don't need to argue this with you, many people have found and will find it useful, that's why it was put in the template, and likely why this specific one was chosen for many articles. Yes, use {{noprint}}, there's no harm done there. ɱ (talk) 01:30, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- The hidden template gracefully removes the [hide]/[show] links in the print version, expanding any collapsed content. Leaving a note behind that says "click here" is pointless when you can't click on the paper. This could probably be fixed using {{noprint}}, but I don't see why the note is needed when [show]/[hide] is pretty self-explanatory. Navboxes have existed for a very long time with out these extra instructions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:51, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Why is the note problematic for the print version, just because you can't click on a piece of paper!? People will realize that... The note makes it much clearer how to operate the template. Are we to forgo any instructions for interactive content? Maps, images, and audio templates often have similar instructions that help with operation, and it should be clear to readers of a printed copy that you can't click, scroll, drag, pan, etc. ɱ (talk) 19:39, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Piranha249 (Discuss with me) 17:25, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- redirect to {{hidden}} as discussed above. with over 340k transclusions, the format used by {{hidden}} is clearly the preferred format. the addition of an optional
|note=
can be discussed at template talk:hidden. Frietjes (talk) 15:25, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Knorkator
- Template:Knorkator ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Proposal to delete: Navigation template for band Knorkator. I have turned the articles listed in the template into redirects as they are all albums that clearly fail WP:NMUSIC (and had been tagged for notability for a decade). This means there is no longer a use for the navigation template. Lennart97 (talk) 17:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete no longer navigates anything. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- delete Frietjes (talk) 16:05, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Akrotiri and Dhekelia English
- Template:Akrotiri and Dhekelia English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Alderney English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Anguillian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Ascension Island English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Botswana English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:British Indian Ocean Territory English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:British Virgin Islands English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Caymanian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Falkland Islands English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Gambian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Gibraltarian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Guernsey English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Jersey English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Malagasy English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Malawian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Namibian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Papua New Guinean English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Saint Helenian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Sudanese English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Tanzanian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Tristanian English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Turks and Caicos Islands English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:US Virgin Islands English ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
All but two of these templates are completely unused. Nearly all of these English variants have either no article, or just a redirect to a larger article.
Jersey English points to a disambiguation page; I assume the intended target for this template is Channel Island English, which like Alderney and Guernsey, does not seem sufficiently different from British English to warrant its own template. Most of the ones that apply to British holdings should just be using {{British English}} anyway.
Falkland Islands English, Gambian English, and Gibraltarian English do have articles, but all are extremely short articles that could stand a merge. And it still stands that their respective English-variant templates are completely unused anyway.
Namibian English redirects to Namlish, an informal portmanteau that does not seem to be in widespread use. This is also the only article that transcludes the template.
{{Malawian English}} and {{Botswana English}} are used on two or three articles each, but otherwise has the same problems as the rest. The Botswana one was previously TFD's in 2019 with a result of "no consensus" due to lack of participation, so it's had time to grow but has not.
{{Montserratian English}} is already at TFD for similar reasons. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:58, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Just a comment at the moment. It seems to me that many of these are simply dialects of British English. There will be different slang, turn of phrase, etc. in these places but, when writing an encyclopedic article, they are exactly the same. The other point is that they are nearly all unused and could be deleted on that basis. Nigej (talk) 07:52, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete all per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Delibes ballets
- Template:Delibes ballets ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Proposal to Delete—redundant to the more comprehensive {{Léo Delibes}}. Aza24 (talk) 03:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Clear duplication. Both navboxes appear in the three ballets. Nigej (talk) 20:09, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
March 5
BWF Indian Top 10 Singles Ranking
- Template:BWF Indian Top 10 Men's Singles Ranking ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:BWF Indian Top 10 Women's Singles Ranking ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
They appear in Badminton in India#Current ranking but are not current, with hardly any updates since 2017. There are new rankings each week, although there was a long hiatus due to Covid-19. Best deleted since there is no indication that they will be kept up-to-date. Nigej (talk) 20:18, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as single-use. Whether to subst the content first is not a matter for TfD, but I do agree that having these templates is a bad idea if no one is willing to update them. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Trimurti Films
- Template:Trimurti Films ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Yash Raj Films ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
We don't typically have navigation boxes for all the films by a particular studio, but instead use director boxes. If you split off all the director sections, I don't think there would be much left. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:40, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 20:11, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Hmmm
- Template:Hmmm ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Qmark ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Hmmm with Template:Qmark.
These templates are very similar. I'm not sure the difference in the alt text warrants the distinction. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 18:11, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nom. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 18:55, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Qmark seems the better name. Nigej (talk) 19:44, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Merge not meaningfully different. No opinion on which name is better. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nom. I also agree that Qmark seems the better name. Impru20talk 10:57, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- If {{hmmm}} weren't used on several thousand pages, I'd have suggested changing it to display "🤔". – Uanfala (talk) 01:47, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Latest preview software release/DOSBox
- Template:Latest preview software release/DOSBox ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
DOSBox has no preview releases; SVN revision number is not a release! One can easily browse through other articles using this template (Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Latest_preview_software_release) to see that normally, preview releases have proper version numbers, announcements, etc. In here refs are pointing to 3rd-party, unofficial, outdated builds. SVN revision will be increased automatically with every new commit, so information about this fake "preview release" is always outdated. Dreamer_ (talk) 16:12, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Template:Latest preview software release/* is a total misuse of template namespace anyway, as each template is only used on one page. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Old RfA vote templates
- Template:RfA spa ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:RfA sockpuppet ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:RfA no vote ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:RfA inappropriate vote ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:RfA canvassed ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Redundant to {{Rfan}}, which from what I can tell is what is actually used (these are linked hardly anywhere). Elli (talk | contribs) 06:41, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete all as unused. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete all per above. Nigej (talk) 19:10, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Math2english
- Template:Math2english ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused cleanup template; not included in clean-up project template indexes (incoming links are either discussions/lists from 2009/10 or lists of unused templates). Too specific to be often useful. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Feb#Math2English (from 2009) where it seems that someone removed all uses of it and it was agreed that it would be a good thing to delete it. Nigej (talk) 11:54, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Master Editor IV v2
- Template:Master Editor IV v2 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused duplicate of {{Master Editor IV}}; same results can be accomplished with {{Master Editor IV|align=center}}
. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Nigej (talk) 11:46, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
March 4
Template:Writing systems sidebar
Largely redundant to {{Writing systems}}, (to which the "major current examples" could be added, if desired). Such links a more likely to be useful readers when they finish reading an article, than just after they start reading it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Vital articles
- Template:Vital articles ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Unused and duplicates {{Core topics}}, which it was created from. Elli (talk | contribs) 19:55, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:Video games by country
- Template:Video games by country ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Duplicated by content in {{History of video games}} (note: I foolishly added this template to about twenty pages before realizing this). Elli (talk | contribs) 19:53, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Argubly I think the country block in the history of VG template should be removed. Not all the respective country articles have history sections (yet), so the history template is not the best place to catalog them, but the country template is appropriate to link them. Possibly, there is a nested navbox aspect here that should be done to potentially link the country one into the history one --Masem (t) 20:15, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Per Masem. --Izno (talk) 20:50, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Template:RTL Group
- Template:RTL Group ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Bertelsmann ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:RTL Group with Template:Bertelsmann.
Significant overlap between the two templates. –Piranha249 (Discuss with me) 17:02, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Merge Agreed. User:C0re1980 User talk:C0re1980 14:05, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Questionable navigational value due to the sheer size of these templates. But that remains true even if these aren't merged, I think. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm not a fan of either. I'm going to !vote to keep these separate. Consider a different path to duplication reduction. --Izno (talk) 15:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Piranha249 (Discuss with me) 17:32, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Latest preview software release templates
- Template:Latest preview software release/Acquisition ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Baltix ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/BitTornado ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Columba ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Folx ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Freeplane ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/GNU Octave ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/GTK+ ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/GnuTLS ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Gnuzilla ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Jitsi ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/MP3 Rocket ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Microsoft Edge ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Netscape Messenger 9 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Notepad2 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Project64 ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/Rational Team Concert ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Latest preview software release/ThinkFree Office ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
These are templates to move frequently-updated data out of articles, but none are used in said articles, either because said articles are deleted, the data has been returned to the article directly. Therefore, these templates have no reason to exist. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 00:04, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Old discussions
March 3
Template:Refsubst
- Template:Refsubst ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Reflist should not be substed in the general case as it introduces significant wikitext into the source, even with safesubst as this template is littered with. This also has not been maintained relative to the core template. Lastly, I'll be adding templatestyles to Template:Reflist soon (and removing it from Common.css), and I would rather not have templatestyles tags littering the mainspace anymore than it does for various other reasons. (There is a workaround for that last by introducing {{ifsubst}}, but the CSS will no longer apply as .reflist will no longer be in Common.css.)
I would not be against turning this into a simple subst of the tag (that is, subst of <references/>), but this template's name + subst ends up being longer than that text at the end of the day, which makes that an unfortunate offering. Izno (talk) 06:46, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- The intent of this template was to provide more customization options (such as setting the list type and number of columns) for those cases where the bare
<references />
tag has to be used, such as when a page is exceeding the WP:PEIS limit frequently (I will note that mw:Help:Cite strongly discourages using wrapper templates around<references />
, but weaning us off of that would require it to support setting thelist-style-type
). However, if your intent is to remove the reflist class from common.css, that would just leave this template with the ability to set the column width, which we frankly never should be doing since the<references />
tag now uses responsive column widths by default and mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns_for_references says that fixed columns should be deprecating or removed for accessibility reasons. To make a long story short, I support deleting this template. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:17, 3 March 2021 (UTC)- We should probably have a {{reflist begin}} and {{reflist end}} for cases where we are concerned about expansion limits. That would relieve at least one of them (argument expansion). --Izno (talk) 17:32, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete {{reflist begin}}/{{reflist end}} do indeed appear to be a better solution for this template's intended use case. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:41, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
March 1
Template:?
- Template:? ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This template is insufficiently complex to need its own template. It's also hard to access from the browser bar. Lastly, the last TFD's opinions look quite unpersuasive from a today's point of view. Izno (talk) 07:46, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
- Subst and delete Insufficient complexity of markup to warrant a template. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:50, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't know jack about templates, but this is used a lot at Contributor copyright investigations. Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI help 17:36, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep this is used 710 times and has no technical or other issues - while it might be simple, it's used enough to warrant keeping. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 01:57, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's current use in articles fails WP:MOSBOLD and WP:MOSITALIC as a start. There is a separate template for unknown in tables. Elsewhere it might be reasonable, but elsewhere doesn't need this level of 'standardization' as it was framed over a decade ago. Put a question mark in whatever you're working and be done. --Izno (talk) 02:03, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep In use at CCI. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:29, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Piranha249 (Discuss with me) 18:42, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep Intensively used in various lists within WikiProject Telecommunications. Nightwalker-87 (talk) 20:22, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Modify so that it makes use of
?
, facilitating the use of escaped question marks. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 03:50, 23 February 2021 (UTC) - Subst and delete - I realise I'm taking a contrarian position here, but I cannot see any reason to have this. Invoking the template (
{{?}}
) is 5 characters, and the inserted text ('''''?'''''
) is 11 characters. Do we need a template to 'save' six characters? You can click the "bold" and "italic" options in the editor to do this in two clicks anyway, if you're worried about aligning the number of quote marks on each side. ƒirefly ( t · c ) 16:40, 24 February 2021 (UTC) - keep - the road to deletion is to first get rid of the use of the template by substituting it with a better one (named "unknown" or something) - once there are almost zero uses of the template then come back and I'll happily vote delete. N.B. the value of the template is not the content, it's the fact that it gives a clear place to find unknown values in tables and then start doing research to fix them. StacksofHoy (talk) 18:42, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Just as an administrative note, this is absolutely not the way to proceed for a nomination; the discussion comes first, and then the outcome is decided. Substing a template with the intention of saying "it's no longer used" is disruptive and has caused some TFDs to swing the other direction. Primefac (talk) 01:39, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ping to StacksofHoy just in case they're not watching this page. Primefac (talk) 00:50, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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- Delete. Oh, no no no. Izno is absolutely correct, this is an accessibility issue. But this requires review. Usage as a symbol should be replaced with {{hmmm}}. Usage as text should be either substituted or replaced with a properly encoded strong-em. --Bsherr (talk) 18:13, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Bsherr perhaps subst then redirect to {{Hmmm}}? Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 18:18, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
,
, and ? appear visually compatible to me. ‹See TfM›
is not quite compatible (for the use in CCI, namely); it is a bit too prominent. I would be fine with another, smaller version, but I'm not aware of such a template, and this one could serve that purpose. — The Earwig (talk) 18:28, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- @The Earwig What about the (recently created) Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Tentative? 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 08:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's the right size at least. Still doesn't really fit with the other two visually (bare symbols, not encircled), but the image can be changed. The name, even with the
{{WP:CCI/T}}
redirect, is still longer than just typing'''''?'''''
and doesn't match{{y}}
and{{n}}
. Did you want to get rid of those templates as well? — The Earwig (talk) 14:31, 10 March 2021 (UTC)- Er, that's why I proposed to to retarget this there or that here. (And I do not want to get rid of these templates, if this is not yet clear after the first sentence.) 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 14:34, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, I missed that you said retarget! My bad. That makes more sense. We'll probably want to move it to the template space (and name it in a way that is not CCI-specific?), but keeping {{?}} as a redirect to something with a more descriptive name sounds good to me. — The Earwig (talk) 14:53, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- In my comment below, I tried to say that either retargeting the template to that page or moving the page into the template space is fine by me. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 14:56, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, I missed that you said retarget! My bad. That makes more sense. We'll probably want to move it to the template space (and name it in a way that is not CCI-specific?), but keeping {{?}} as a redirect to something with a more descriptive name sounds good to me. — The Earwig (talk) 14:53, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Er, that's why I proposed to to retarget this there or that here. (And I do not want to get rid of these templates, if this is not yet clear after the first sentence.) 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 14:34, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's the right size at least. Still doesn't really fit with the other two visually (bare symbols, not encircled), but the image can be changed. The name, even with the
- @The Earwig What about the (recently created) Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Tentative? 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 08:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep, but restrict to project space.
Do we need a template to 'save' six characters?
→ Yes, when used hundreds of times on a page. Typing'''''?'''''
manually is annoying; I don't see a compelling reason to break existing process for this.I assume a normal question mark would work in all cases.
→ Yes, we can replace all of our image templates like {{done}}/{{not done}} with text and the meaning would still be clear. We don't do this because we find the styling useful for a quick gloss. This should be a good enough reason to allow its use—in the project space—but it should be removed from articles for the accessibility reasons highlighted above. How to do this? One option would be replace existing uses with the correct table template and prevent its future transclusion by displaying a helpful error instead, like {{collapse}}. — The Earwig (talk) 18:23, 5 March 2021 (UTC) - Use Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Tentative (subst this and retarget there, or subst this and retarget that here). It uses the icon
as in {{Notsure}}, {{Question}}, and {{MoreInfo}}, and fits the other two templates used at CCI nicely in my opinion. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 08:50, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
February 28
Template:Infobox disputed islands
- Template:Infobox disputed islands ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
- Template:Infobox islands ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Propose merging Template:Infobox disputed islands with Template:Infobox islands.
Essentially the same scope for the primary geographic parameter set (which I haven't analyzed but I would assume that the main template is a superset), the ownership of these islands is just kind of tacked on. Whether a territory is disputed should be a facet of the territory itself rather than its own infobox. Izno (talk) 01:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- Merge to Infobox islands, no reason to separate, however I do think that the disputed island template is pretty cluttered and needs to be simplified. Like "country_claim_largest_city_population" is pretty unnecessary to add to something that is about the island and not the country claiming it. PyroFloe (talk) 09:30, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- Merge per PyroFloe. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:21, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- Merge: per PyroFloe. Thanks, Ма?тер Шторм (talk) 09:23, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep
{{Infobox disputed islands}}
for the same reasons as previously mentioned in the last nomination (which wasn't linked here for whatever reason). To quote a number of the reasons given last time, as they still apply:- "
well-defined subset of articles with special requirements. Island box doesn't support the crucial "claimed by" fields.
" (Future Perfect at Sunrise) - "
That they are islands is secondary (and superfluous IMO) to their status as disputed territory.
" (Int21h) - "
It is absolutely not redundant. Before I decided to create this template, I tried to come up with a good way to incorporate it into the regular islands infobox template, but I could come up with a way to do so due to the reasons already mentioned above. I spent a lot of time researching how to do this and trying to figure out the best way to do it. There's really no efficient way to merge these templates.
" (Me)
- "
- I will say that I'm open to some sort of Lua module addition that incorporates and streamlines the functions of this template, though I don't know how to do that myself. However, as I mentioned the last time this template was nominated here (and contrary to the opinions expressed by PyroFloe and Izno), there are (currently) many reasons to keep this template separate, foremost among them the fact that the disputed nature of the territory is usually the thing that gives the territory its notability. Most disputes are decades or centuries long, and most of the places using this template are uninhabited (or barely inhabited). ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 04:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep separate. It's not just because this template needs to cover additional pieces of information compared to the standard islands box (those could obviously be merged into the generic template). It's more because some of the same pieces of information that the generic box also supports need to be presented differently – e.g., info about administrative parent divisions need to be integrated into the several "claimed by..." groups. If that were to be merged properly it would lead to an enormous piece of conditional clutter, which would presumably make the resulting super-box even harder to maintain. I just don't see the benefit in that. Fut.Perf. ? 10:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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Template:State results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election
- Template:State results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
The pages are already linked on {{2020 United States elections}}. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 07:34, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment We have similar templates for previous elections, see Category:United States presidential election navigational boxes. Previously articles like 2016 United States presidential election in Alabama only had the {{State results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election}} template whereas 2020 United States presidential election in Alabama has both. Seems to me that there's not such sense in deleting this template unless we delete the others too. Nigej (talk) 10:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete this is quite pointless. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 07:09, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I'm not endorsing whether to keep or delete, but the content of this template could also fit as a third section in Template:2020 United States presidential election, especially after I turned it into a navbox with collapsible groups. --RayneVanDunem (talk) 09:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Although now I'm leaning toward Merge all state result templates into the presidential election templates, with the latter being navboxes with collapsible groups. --RayneVanDunem (talk) 18:43, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm for the other direction. Templates like {{2020 United States elections}} aren't all that useful for navigation. I'd much rather see a constellation here, bisecting by kind of election results (as with the template nominated for deletion, i.e. keep) and by state (which we have another super-large template of e.g. {{Elections in California footer}}). It makes for madness actually trying to navigate from super-templates like these and doesn't actually build the web in any sensible fashion. --Izno (talk) 02:34, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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February 26
Template:ACArt
- Template:ACArt ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Recent and redundant fork of {{Authority control}}, to which any missing art-related identifiers should be added. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep, not a redundant fork. We are not supposed to be an indiscriminate collection of all possible identifiers. The template has been discussed at ANI, no objections were forthcoming.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:21, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Discussion at ANI (link?) is irrelevant. ANI is not TfD, and deals with matters requiring administrator intervention (which template forks generally are not) only. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Speedy keep. "Recent" is hardly relevant. I agree that all missing art-related identifiers should be added to Authority Control, as no identifiers are added to ACArt at all. All ACArt does is hide a number of less relevant identifiers for most art-related articles, and only show the ones that are most useful, using Authority Control. For example, at Pablo Picasso, this reduced the 43 identifiers (rough count to 17: so still plenty of identifiers, but just keeping these with most relevance for art and/or enwiki. As no real, accurate argument has been formulated why this would need deletion, and the deletion reason shows a misunderstanding of what happens with the template, I think this can be speedy kept. Fram (talk) 22:24, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Even more reason to delete it, then, since it seems this is just an attemt to run around your failed attempt to delete {{Authority control}}. There is no need to hide identifiers; and those hidden by this template are not "less relevant" - or do we have no articles on, (for example) Spanish, Catalan, or Australian artists? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep Basic misunderstanding of the template purpose. Only in death does duty end (talk) 22:54, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep This is not a redundant fork, because it is a wrapper template rather than a fork in the first place. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:10, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Being a wrapper does not preclude being a fork. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Redundant fork. Gamaliel (talk) 17:31, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Merge Unnecessary fork of {{Authority control}}. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:33, 28 February 2021 (UTC)- Delete On looking closer, it isn't a fork (as the 1st edit summary implied), but a wrapper to chose specific identifiers to show/suppress. In that case, it should just be deleted, or it should be argued on the authority control template talk about whether it's worth defining subsets of authority controls for specific topics (e.g., 'authoritycontrol|select=art'), although I generally think that would be a bad idea anyway. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:47, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Serves no useful purpose.14GTR (talk) 18:23, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Why on earth are we thrusting this machine-readable metadata gibberish in the faces of readers? Ideally keep it on wikidata where it belongs, or bury it in an infobox if you must, or the talk page, where it can safely be ignored.
Case in point: Vincent van Gogh is "BNF: cb11927591g (data)BPN: 32545490, 31473481GND: 118540416KulturNav: 2192c545-cc43-43b4-8abd-1cd22af701dcLCCN: n79022935NLA: 35130087RKD: 32439SNAC: w60g3k35SUDOC: 027176207ULAN: 500115588VIAF: 9854560WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79022935"
What? Theramin (talk) 00:08, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Theramin:; the template ACArt is an attempt to reduce the amount of gibberish: while it keeps the poor formatting (another aspect I want to improve one day), it tries to make sure that you get less of it, and that you no longer get the ones that are not useful for the subject of the article on enwiki (they are useful on Wikidata, and on some other language-wiki, but not here). Fram (talk) 08:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- The reduction is not sufficient. What is a reader meant to do with the dozen or two random alphanumeric strings we append to these articles? For whose benefit are we doing this?
- But in any event, this conversation seems to be proceeding on the mistaken assumption that the template is limited to biographical articles about artists. And in some cases that might make some sense, if we need to distinguish John Smith from John Smith from John Smith (although each has a different middle name and different dates of birth and death). But we don't need to indiscriminately spam each article with a dozen or more different and inconsistent ways to distinguish between them:
- John Smith (engraver): AAG: 10244AGSA: 5538BNF: cb14976542g (data)GND: 118797697ISNI: 0000 0001 1798 0891LCCN: no2004097781NLP: A2703768XNSK: 000625969NTA: 318564599PLWABN: 9810574858305606SNAC: w68r01t2ULAN: 500006468VcBA: 495/153815VIAF: 89128657WorldCat Identities: lccn-no2004097781
- John Raphael Smith: AAG: 2238AGSA: 3811, 10212BNE: XX1477259BNF: cb14958759t (data), cb135364416 (data)GND: 121151611ISNI: 0000 0001 1678 3773LCCN: n83013596NGV: 5386NKC: jo2004214942NLA: 36339895NLI: 000451836NTA: 137665938PLWABN: 9810621842105606RKD: 73455SNAC: w6699rkxSUDOC: 050664549TePapa: 14254Trove: ***:1248450ULAN: 500116497VIAF: 79202309WorldCat Identities: lccn-n83013596
- John Warwick Smith: BNE: XX1763808GND: 13335380XISNI: 0000 0000 6633 1823LCCN: nr91033082PLWABN: 9810546202705606RKD: 73458SNAC: w6jq1bxnTePapa: 2116Trove: 1257227ULAN: 500009954VcBA: 495/39708VIAF: 313041903WorldCat Identities: lccn-nr91033082
- I am not at all convinced that we need to distinguish Vincent van Gogh or Pablo Picasso from all the other artists called Vincent van Gogh or Pablo Picasso, or indiscriminately supplement the long lists of references and external links that those articles already contain with yet more links to bibliographic identifications for them.
- In any event, this template and its older sibling are not just appearing on biographical articles: they are also popping up all over the shop, including for example articles about paintings where the template displays nothing at all save an error message [4] (before I removed it) or adds just one external link which adds nothing helpful at all (ditto, again). There are examples of the templates on hisorical periods and musical instruments and concepts such as Curiosity and Eloquence. With all due respect to our colleagues in Germany, we don't need the Gemeinsame Normdatei and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek to tell us what these mean, or distinguish them from other things.
- Look, perhaps we could assign a unique identifier to each article - I don't know, perhaps unique number - and maintain a database somewhere that collects all the incompatible bits of "authority" information assigned by the dozens of different external institutions together in one place for ease of reference. Maybe also collect other relational information and metadata, such as references and dates and so on. But there is no need for all of that undigested information to appear on the face of the encyclopedia, and certainly not without some thoughtful selection of what should appear in each case.
- Oh, I give up. Why am I wasting my time on this nonsense. Theramin (talk) 01:29, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- If you wish to reduce the number of identifiers we use, raise an RfC. Template forking as fait accompli is not the way to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that we had some policy that decreed that all IDs available in Authority Control have to be shown on all pages. IDs are added all the time on the basis of a discussion between very few people at the template talk page (fine), but creating a wrapper which makes the template more focused for specific groups of articles is not allowed? No identifiers are being removed from authority control (never mind from Wikidata), but that doesn't mean that all of them have to be shown (when available) on all pages. Fram (talk) 12:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- We have them displayed by consensus. If you wish to change that consensus, start an RfC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Starting a TfD while misunderstanding what this template does, then changing your reason to something completely different (and also wrong), and at the same time demanding an RfC? No thanks. I have introduced this template at ANI, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts, and at Wikipedia talk:Authority control. It has been added to very high profile pages by multiple editors (though most by me, as I do it systematically). Others thanked me for these edits. Apart from a concern about the name of the template, no issues were raised, until out of the blue this misguided TfD appeared. If the people who actually edit these art pages have no issues with it and many seem to welcome it, then I see no reason to start an RfC based on your "consensus" based on a few editors and a lack of alternatives, or while your TfD is ongoing. Fram (talk) 14:12, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- I understand very well what this template does; it removes linked authority control IDs from biographies, without consensus to do so and as a work around to your failed - indeed, WP:SNOW-closed - attempt at deleting {{Authority control}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:35, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Starting a TfD while misunderstanding what this template does, then changing your reason to something completely different (and also wrong), and at the same time demanding an RfC? No thanks. I have introduced this template at ANI, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts, and at Wikipedia talk:Authority control. It has been added to very high profile pages by multiple editors (though most by me, as I do it systematically). Others thanked me for these edits. Apart from a concern about the name of the template, no issues were raised, until out of the blue this misguided TfD appeared. If the people who actually edit these art pages have no issues with it and many seem to welcome it, then I see no reason to start an RfC based on your "consensus" based on a few editors and a lack of alternatives, or while your TfD is ongoing. Fram (talk) 14:12, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- We have them displayed by consensus. If you wish to change that consensus, start an RfC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that we had some policy that decreed that all IDs available in Authority Control have to be shown on all pages. IDs are added all the time on the basis of a discussion between very few people at the template talk page (fine), but creating a wrapper which makes the template more focused for specific groups of articles is not allowed? No identifiers are being removed from authority control (never mind from Wikidata), but that doesn't mean that all of them have to be shown (when available) on all pages. Fram (talk) 12:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Theramin:; the template ACArt is an attempt to reduce the amount of gibberish: while it keeps the poor formatting (another aspect I want to improve one day), it tries to make sure that you get less of it, and that you no longer get the ones that are not useful for the subject of the article on enwiki (they are useful on Wikidata, and on some other language-wiki, but not here). Fram (talk) 08:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep' Per Fram; much less crufty than the full one. I see no editors who actually add content in this area want to delete. Johnbod (talk) 04:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Your lack of awareness is not evidence. I have already reverted the replacement of {{Authority control}} with the nominated template on biographies of artists which I created. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- To be precise, on "1" article, Paul-Albert Girard. Fram (talk) 12:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Your lack of awareness is not evidence. I have already reverted the replacement of {{Authority control}} with the nominated template on biographies of artists which I created. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- People are arguing for deletion (or merging, no idea how that would be done) because on the one hand it is a "redundant" or "unnecessary" fork, and on the other hand because it is an end run around the failed deletion of the main template. Obviously, it can be one or none of these, but it can hardly be both at the same time. Since ACArt is fully dependent on authority control, it is hardly an end run: deletion of authority control would make ACArt worthless, and ACArt shows AC identifiers, only not as many. So not an attempt to delete the template through the backdoor (like I said, something like Auguste Rodin now shows about 17 IDs, roughly half of what it showed before. Which also shows that it isn't a redundant fork, it has clearly different results, a different output. It is now used on some 8000+ pages, including many high-profile ones, and the editors of these pages seem either not to care or to approve. The template obviously still can be improved (which I plan to do this week), but deletion seems unawarranted. Fram (talk) 08:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Note; the template has been somewhat improved to now allow the addition of specific IDs for one country (e.g. the National Library of Japan can be shown for Japanese artists, but hidden for others). More improvements of the template are welcome! Fram (talk) 11:15, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. Speaking as an art historian and someone who works in the cultural sector: it is extremely useful for people like me to have a comprehensive selection of links to external datasets about an artist on Wikipedia. A comprehensive selection helps to demonstrate an artist's worldwide influence (or lack thereof). The links to authority control databases are a jumping board to other resources, usually via national libraries. Its comprehensiveness enhances Wikipedia's reputation as a trustworthy and useful resource for art history and in the cultural sector in general, especially as no other resources around the world provide this comprehensive interlinking. Reversely, if Wikipedians start making subjective selections of identifiers that are deemed OK and others that are deemed not, that's not doing Wikipedia's reputation as a neutral resource any good. Spinster (talk) 12:16, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Spinster:, "especially as no other resources around the world provide this comprehensive interlinking." is not true. The comprehensive interlinking is done at Wikidata: Wikipedia displays only a selection of these anyway (in the template authority control). Relying on Wikipedia for this functionality is not correct, this is something where you should rely on Wikidata (all the links are stored on Wikidata anyway, nothing displayed in either Authority Control or in ACArt is stored on enwiki). Fram (talk) 12:24, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Spinster, which other resources or information can you for example find through the two RERO links for Mark Twain? 12? How many enwiki readers will have any use, ever, from these links? And on the other hand, for the few people like you for which this is useful information, then why stop at the 40 or so links we already have in the authority control template of that article, and not add the countless others listed in the Wikidata item? Why is the selection made by authority control acceptable and your go-to place (instead of Wikidata directly), but the selection made by ACArt unacceptable? Fram (talk) 12:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep, but rename to {{Authority control (arts)}} per Template talk:Authority control#Template:ACArt name. Not a fork, but a wrapper. Some users have expressed a desire to truncate/only show a subset of IDs, usually as it relates to a/their particular subject area. I see no harm in this. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:30, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- User:Tom.Reding: Woulld it be practical to add a parameter to Template:Authority control to handle this? There are way too many templates at Wikipedia as it is. --Robert.Allen (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Robert.Allen: that depends on what you mean by practical. Can it be done? Yes. Should it be done? Probably not. It's better to build discrete systems on top of each other than to put them all together. See Template talk:Authority control#Template:ACArt name for some examples. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:49, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- User:Tom.Reding: Woulld it be practical to add a parameter to Template:Authority control to handle this? There are way too many templates at Wikipedia as it is. --Robert.Allen (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. As per Spinster, Gamaliel and 14GTR. Smirkybec (talk) 14:17, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. The guideline WP:EL states that "it is not Wikipedia's purpose to include a lengthy or comprehensive list of external links related to each topic." The previous TfD for the authority control template establishes that some or many of the links it provides are useful (and should not be deleted without replacement), but the assertion that the identifiers in that template must be linked in their entirety, rather than a select subset, is in plain violation of that guideline and lacks consensus. Obviously it would be impractical to specify exactly which identifiers to link for each individual biographical article, but creating wrappers like these for broad biographical categories (like artists) seem like a useful intermediate step to help bring our articles into compliance with WP:EL. I understand the appeal of "comprehensiveness" as an abstract quality, but Theramin's comments show very clearly how useless it makes this template for most readers. Choess (talk) 22:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. As an editor who works almost entirely on "artists", it seems like an unnecessary distinction. Also, I like having authority control information at the bottom of the article and do not consider it cruft. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:17, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @WomenArtistUpdates:, two questions. First, can you please give some examples of articles where the ACArt template is used (some 10,000 pages now) where some authority control has disappeared that you found useful? I tried to eliminate only those of no use in an enwiki article, but it may be that there are some I need to reconsider. You can see the full list here. Second, if I may; I can't help but notice that apart from Mike Peel and PigsontheWing, who are both heavily into Wikidata and templates and thus logical appearances here, all delete votes are from people who are either members of Women in Red or seem to be closely associated with it. It seems unlikely that only this group would arrive here to vote "delete" as a pure coincidence (it is not as if the template is directly connected to WiR in any way), so do you (or anyone else) know where and how this discussion was advertised? Thanks! Fram (talk) 17:07, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Fram It actually is a coincidence. I know there was a discussion because the articles I have created are on my watchlist and it has been lit up with changes to the authority control template.I will not engage further with you. I hesitated to even vote on this as your reputation precedes you. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- I just noticed this (I was mentioned, but not pinged). I think it's important to note that Andy posted to the GlamWiki facebook group about this template several days after starting this TfD. I'm saying this for transparency's sake, although I'm concerned that Fram will instantly pounce on it and try to yell conspiracy where none was intended, and I note that there seem to be past on-wiki discussions about this topic that don't seem to have been linked here (there was a deletion debate, something on ANI, and maybe other discussions - somewhere?). From my side, I was already aware of the template before then, and was going to look into it: the facebook post prompted me to look again a bit sooner, and led to me posting my !vote above, but didn't influence my comment - it just meant that I posted it a bit earlier than I would have otherwise. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:33, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @WomenArtistUpdates:, two questions. First, can you please give some examples of articles where the ACArt template is used (some 10,000 pages now) where some authority control has disappeared that you found useful? I tried to eliminate only those of no use in an enwiki article, but it may be that there are some I need to reconsider. You can see the full list here. Second, if I may; I can't help but notice that apart from Mike Peel and PigsontheWing, who are both heavily into Wikidata and templates and thus logical appearances here, all delete votes are from people who are either members of Women in Red or seem to be closely associated with it. It seems unlikely that only this group would arrive here to vote "delete" as a pure coincidence (it is not as if the template is directly connected to WiR in any way), so do you (or anyone else) know where and how this discussion was advertised? Thanks! Fram (talk) 17:07, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Neutral I would need some examples of what kind of identifiers are excluded by ACArt. Generally I work on fairly obscure artists and the more identifiers the better, but as long as useful information isn't being lost, I'd be in favour of keeping an an artist-specfic template. Curiocurio (talk) 18:27, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Curiocurio:: these are the ones excluded by default; ACM-DL, autores.uy, BIBSYS, BNC, BNE, Botanist, CANTIC, CINII, CWGC, DAAO, DBLP, HDS, IAAF, ICCU, ISNI, LIR, LNB, MBA, MBAREA, MBI, MBL, MBP, MBRG, MBS, MBW, NBL, NCL, NDL, NKC, NLG, NLI, NLK, NLP, NLR, NSK, NTA, ORCID, PLWABN, RERO, RID, RSL, SELIBR, S2AuthorId, TA98, TDVIA, TE, TH, TLS, Trove, UKPARL, USCongress, VcBA. In many cases, one or two can be re-included by adding a country-specific parameter, e.g. "country=ES" will also display BNE and CANTIC. (See Template:ACArt/doc for more on this). New IDs which are added to authority control are by default included in ACArt: they need to be explicitly excluded in the template code to be hidden. Fram (talk) 08:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Fram:: Thanks for providing the list. I went through it as best I could. There are many obviously unsuitable databases excluded, especially those concerning science and technology. I am somewhat troubled by the exclusion of many national libraries, although as you say many of them can be reincorporated by using a country-specific code. This requires a a level of sophistication on the part of the editor however. Curiocurio (talk) 13:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- The intention is indeed that the relevant national libraries will be shown by using the parameter. I plan to soon start on Spanish artists, and those I will by default give the "country=Es" parameter. As an example, I looked at article 1001 of the ones now using the template; Jean Raoux. It had 11 entries in the old version, and 8 in the new one, removing isni, a Polish database[5], and the Vatican library[6]. I don't think any of these three added anything of value to the article. Note that this person has 40 identifiers at Wikidata! Fram (talk) 13:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Fram:: Thanks for providing the list. I went through it as best I could. There are many obviously unsuitable databases excluded, especially those concerning science and technology. I am somewhat troubled by the exclusion of many national libraries, although as you say many of them can be reincorporated by using a country-specific code. This requires a a level of sophistication on the part of the editor however. Curiocurio (talk) 13:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Curiocurio:: these are the ones excluded by default; ACM-DL, autores.uy, BIBSYS, BNC, BNE, Botanist, CANTIC, CINII, CWGC, DAAO, DBLP, HDS, IAAF, ICCU, ISNI, LIR, LNB, MBA, MBAREA, MBI, MBL, MBP, MBRG, MBS, MBW, NBL, NCL, NDL, NKC, NLG, NLI, NLK, NLP, NLR, NSK, NTA, ORCID, PLWABN, RERO, RID, RSL, SELIBR, S2AuthorId, TA98, TDVIA, TE, TH, TLS, Trove, UKPARL, USCongress, VcBA. In many cases, one or two can be re-included by adding a country-specific parameter, e.g. "country=ES" will also display BNE and CANTIC. (See Template:ACArt/doc for more on this). New IDs which are added to authority control are by default included in ACArt: they need to be explicitly excluded in the template code to be hidden. Fram (talk) 08:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete
I sympathize with the above comment that many artists, especially Eastern and niche ones, are not in too many databases, so limiting the amount is unhelpful for them. Additionally,99% of readers don't even know the authority control links exist. Why limit links for the 1% that do? Users are making it seem like these links are causing readers seem internal pain or confusion on "There's too many links which do I click??"—but once again, most readers don't care (making this a useless distinction)and most artists are not Van Gogh (making limiting the supposably "overkill amount" of links unproductive).Aza24 (talk) 05:18, 4 March 2021 (UTC)- @Aza24: can you give some examples of artist articles where ACArt has (or would) remove identifiers you find useful? In most or all cases, the most likely, logical, prevalent links aren't removed (e.g. worldcat and VIAF are left alone, as are the Library of Congress and all art-related IDs), and for countries where an ID exists for e.g. their national library, an easy parameteris available to add that one (e.g. "country=CZ" for Czechia will add the NKC). So a few examples would help me to understand in what cases the template is actually unhelpful. Fram (talk) 08:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Fram, I made the mistake of doing little research before my comment and now find that some minor artists that came to mind are little effected by such a template (and have rescinded my comments above accordingly). However, I still question any positive impact the template gives the reader, and furthermore, it seems improper to create such a template as the result on an ANI discussion, which seemingly overturns a long term status quo on the use of authority control. What I would like to see, is a larger conversation on the subject, potentially exploring a realm of possibilities with creating equivalent templates for composers, writers, politicians etc. Before such a conversation, I don't know if I can support a specially curated template for artists and no others. Aza24 (talk) 23:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for re-evaluating. I created one for arts/artists, because this is by far the largest group of topic-specific authority IDs we now have. Other professions often only have one or no specific ID in authority control (e.g. for sports, we only have the IAAF, and nothing for other sports if I recall correctly). My plan was to build country-specific ones next, which only show the IDs from either English-language sources (e.g. Library of Congress), and from sources with a country- or language-connection to the topic (so for Belgium, I would show IDs from English language sources plus Belgium, France, the Netherlands, perhaps Germany, but not from elsewhere). But when this TfD is closed, I'll probably try to write an RfC to get wider input on this, as opinions are quite divided among this small sample of people. We'll never be able to please everyone (show nothing vs. show everything is hard to combine), so it would be good to know if the current situation pleases most people, or whether something different would get the most support. It will require a good explanation of the whole setup though, as I have noticed in many discussions that most people have no idea what happens and what is possible. Fram (talk) 08:13, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Fram, I made the mistake of doing little research before my comment and now find that some minor artists that came to mind are little effected by such a template (and have rescinded my comments above accordingly). However, I still question any positive impact the template gives the reader, and furthermore, it seems improper to create such a template as the result on an ANI discussion, which seemingly overturns a long term status quo on the use of authority control. What I would like to see, is a larger conversation on the subject, potentially exploring a realm of possibilities with creating equivalent templates for composers, writers, politicians etc. Before such a conversation, I don't know if I can support a specially curated template for artists and no others. Aza24 (talk) 23:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Aza24: can you give some examples of artist articles where ACArt has (or would) remove identifiers you find useful? In most or all cases, the most likely, logical, prevalent links aren't removed (e.g. worldcat and VIAF are left alone, as are the Library of Congress and all art-related IDs), and for countries where an ID exists for e.g. their national library, an easy parameteris available to add that one (e.g. "country=CZ" for Czechia will add the NKC). So a few examples would help me to understand in what cases the template is actually unhelpful. Fram (talk) 08:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete It is a bad idea to distinguish people, especially if their main notability is not based on being an artist. Now references to libraries are deleted. It would also set a precedent for even more subdivisions. KittenKlub (talk) 12:10, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- I have trouble understanding what you mean here. This template should normally be applied to articles about people whose main notability is being an artist. We distinguish people and articles in general all the time, no idea why this is a problem. We have e.g. specialized infoboxes for people based on their main claim to notability, and these show or suppress fields which other infoboxes may or may not have, based on what is most relevant for the person and their occupation. And no references are deleted, authority control are not references anyway: they are external links, taken from Wikidata (where they all remain). Do you have examples of articles where this template made things worse, examples of libraries which provided a valuable external link to that article for enwiki readers and which are now gone? Fram (talk) 12:31, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Ru Paré is known as WW2 resistance hero who happened to be an artist as well, and you changed her to Art, because she has an artists category, and thus deleted the references to the libraries. Besides that it is extremely unclear for most people who simply put Authority Control underneath a biography. There's no need whatsoever to have x versions whose purpose is to remove content. KittenKlub (talk) 12:36, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have added the "country=NL" parameter, the Dutch National Library is back in the authority control template now. People are still free to put authority control in their articles, nothing has changed at that template. But people now have a choice: opinions are clearly seriously divided over whether we should display as many authority IDs as possible (and note that there are many, many more than are being shown through the main authority control template anyway: e.g. for Ru Paré there are already 5 additional identifiers in Wikidata which aren't included anyway), or a select, more tailored subset. The division would be "full" at Wikidata (as it is now), and "precise" at enwiki (which it isn't now, it is now a rather random selection of IDs with a one-size-fits-all approach). And yes, "precise" would require either specific templates (like ACArt) or parameters at authority control (say, "authority control|art" or something similar). If the latter would get introduced, ACArt could very easily be changed to call that specific parameter. Fram (talk) 13:24, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- I remain with my delete vote. Before you know it, you have one for musicians, authors and who knows how many more. Besides that those acronyms are totally obscure for most people anyhow, so one or two more entries is no big deal. KittenKlub (talk) 13:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- I hope to change the acronym/ID combination in the template to a descriptive namelink, but I can't do it all at once. A template that said (with the names as links to the ID page) "Biografisch Portaal * Library of Congress * Royal Library of the Netherlands * Netherlands Institute for Art History * Virtual International Authority File * Worldcat" would be a lot clearer. If this improvement would be created at the authority control template, it would automatically also appear in the ACArt template. Fram (talk) 13:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- I remain with my delete vote. Before you know it, you have one for musicians, authors and who knows how many more. Besides that those acronyms are totally obscure for most people anyhow, so one or two more entries is no big deal. KittenKlub (talk) 13:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have added the "country=NL" parameter, the Dutch National Library is back in the authority control template now. People are still free to put authority control in their articles, nothing has changed at that template. But people now have a choice: opinions are clearly seriously divided over whether we should display as many authority IDs as possible (and note that there are many, many more than are being shown through the main authority control template anyway: e.g. for Ru Paré there are already 5 additional identifiers in Wikidata which aren't included anyway), or a select, more tailored subset. The division would be "full" at Wikidata (as it is now), and "precise" at enwiki (which it isn't now, it is now a rather random selection of IDs with a one-size-fits-all approach). And yes, "precise" would require either specific templates (like ACArt) or parameters at authority control (say, "authority control|art" or something similar). If the latter would get introduced, ACArt could very easily be changed to call that specific parameter. Fram (talk) 13:24, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Ru Paré is known as WW2 resistance hero who happened to be an artist as well, and you changed her to Art, because she has an artists category, and thus deleted the references to the libraries. Besides that it is extremely unclear for most people who simply put Authority Control underneath a biography. There's no need whatsoever to have x versions whose purpose is to remove content. KittenKlub (talk) 12:36, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- I have trouble understanding what you mean here. This template should normally be applied to articles about people whose main notability is being an artist. We distinguish people and articles in general all the time, no idea why this is a problem. We have e.g. specialized infoboxes for people based on their main claim to notability, and these show or suppress fields which other infoboxes may or may not have, based on what is most relevant for the person and their occupation. And no references are deleted, authority control are not references anyway: they are external links, taken from Wikidata (where they all remain). Do you have examples of articles where this template made things worse, examples of libraries which provided a valuable external link to that article for enwiki readers and which are now gone? Fram (talk) 12:31, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. This template appears to be unnecessary and possibly deleterious, since it may omit useful links. If pruning is needed, it should be done at Wikidata. --Robert.Allen (talk) 16:45, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- How would you omit links which Wikidata wants but we don't? We have no say over what Wikidata includes or not. The pruning is done at Template:Authority control (for all of enwiki), and then further here (for a specific, though large, group of articles) because we have no say over what Wikidata includes (and there is no reason that we should, they cater for more than just enwiki). If you want to include everything that Wikidata has, then perhaps it would be better to add that to the sidebar, similar to the way that interwiki links are shown, that way, no one here needs to maintain code, request addition (or removal) of IDs at template talk:authority control, ... Anyway, every attempt is made to not exclude useful links but only the (for these articles, and on enwiki) useless ones. For example, for Jacques Callot, ACArt keeps 14 identifiers, but omits 11 others, e.g. this, or this, or this. We can hardly ask Wikidata to remove these, as they are correct and necessary links for jawiki, sewiki, ... And we can hardly include all Wikidata IDs, they have more than 100 different IDs for Jacques Callot (and new ones are added all the time).
- TLDR: We can't do this at Wikidata, we already (in the standard template) omit many links, and the ones further omitted here are carefully chosen and are really of very little value for enwiki readers. Fram (talk) 17:19, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Perhaps you can explain why, for Jacques Callot, and for every other biography using this template, you think ISNI, Trove and Vatican library IDs, for example, are "useless"? Perhaps the Catholic church never employed artists? As for "How would you omit links which Wikidata wants but we don't?", that is already possible (albeit rarely desirable) in. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:43, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- The comment I answered was "If pruning is needed, it should be done at Wikidata": you reply about how it is done here, which doesn't answer the question, and is thus hardly relevant as a reply to me. Now, ignoring the snark in the questions, to Jacques Callot, and the suppressed entries: have you looked at them? The Vatican Library entry doesn't really tell us anything, not even whether he was ever employed by the Vatican or the Catholic Church in general. Take for example Rubens, obviously employed by the Catholic Church: his entry is not very informative or useful, is it? Even for artists who did work for the Vatican, the authority file doesn't give any additional information[7]. So yes, for nearly every reader of enwiki, for artist articles, this is a useless ID (I haven't checked if it is any better for e.g. writers). ISNI doesn't seem to have any information not already in an easier to read format in other entries of the authority files. Trove, I suppose I could add that one as it is in English and useful for Australian readers. Fram (talk) 17:28, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- The question you asked, and to which I responded (and indeed, quoted in my response) was
"How would you omit links which Wikidata wants but we don't?"
. So much for snark. Furthermore, I didn't ask you about the pages linked to; I asked you why you thought the identifiers are not useful. Not only have you ignored that question, but you are aware of the difference between the two, or should be, as it was the crux of opposition to your failed attempt to delete {{Authority control}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:49, 5 March 2021 (UTC)- Do you really think many people would support the AC template if it was just IDs as such and not links? I didn't realise that your question about the IDs was so literal and extreme. So no, I don't think the raw IDs (any of them) are useful in enwiki articles: we have Wikidata for that kind of stuff. The IDs as links are useful if the linked page has additional information, preferably in a manner understandable to most readers here. So e.g. the Vatican page is not useful as an ID nor as a link. Unless your answers are in a neutral, impersonal fashion, I'll not reply to further replies by you. Fram (talk) 19:29, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Right. So now we can see without doubt that you do not support the purpose of {{Authority control}}; and we already know that your attempt to have that template deleted failed as a snow close, because consensus to use as designed is massively agaist you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:52, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- The purpose? "Direct benefits to readers are direct access to these linked works where available (e.g. finding a library holding a particular book on a topic)." The links that have been removed do not have that benefit for our readers. The consensus here, even with your canvassed audience, doesn't seem to be that massively against me either. Fram (talk) 21:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Now you're reduced to selective quoting; and to making false allegations. For shame. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:10, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- The purpose? "Direct benefits to readers are direct access to these linked works where available (e.g. finding a library holding a particular book on a topic)." The links that have been removed do not have that benefit for our readers. The consensus here, even with your canvassed audience, doesn't seem to be that massively against me either. Fram (talk) 21:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Right. So now we can see without doubt that you do not support the purpose of {{Authority control}}; and we already know that your attempt to have that template deleted failed as a snow close, because consensus to use as designed is massively agaist you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:52, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Do you really think many people would support the AC template if it was just IDs as such and not links? I didn't realise that your question about the IDs was so literal and extreme. So no, I don't think the raw IDs (any of them) are useful in enwiki articles: we have Wikidata for that kind of stuff. The IDs as links are useful if the linked page has additional information, preferably in a manner understandable to most readers here. So e.g. the Vatican page is not useful as an ID nor as a link. Unless your answers are in a neutral, impersonal fashion, I'll not reply to further replies by you. Fram (talk) 19:29, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- The question you asked, and to which I responded (and indeed, quoted in my response) was
- I have readded Trove, it will again show up at all articles that use ACArt and where a Trove ID exists. Fram (talk) 17:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- The comment I answered was "If pruning is needed, it should be done at Wikidata": you reply about how it is done here, which doesn't answer the question, and is thus hardly relevant as a reply to me. Now, ignoring the snark in the questions, to Jacques Callot, and the suppressed entries: have you looked at them? The Vatican Library entry doesn't really tell us anything, not even whether he was ever employed by the Vatican or the Catholic Church in general. Take for example Rubens, obviously employed by the Catholic Church: his entry is not very informative or useful, is it? Even for artists who did work for the Vatican, the authority file doesn't give any additional information[7]. So yes, for nearly every reader of enwiki, for artist articles, this is a useless ID (I haven't checked if it is any better for e.g. writers). ISNI doesn't seem to have any information not already in an easier to read format in other entries of the authority files. Trove, I suppose I could add that one as it is in English and useful for Australian readers. Fram (talk) 17:28, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Perhaps you can explain why, for Jacques Callot, and for every other biography using this template, you think ISNI, Trove and Vatican library IDs, for example, are "useless"? Perhaps the Catholic church never employed artists? As for "How would you omit links which Wikidata wants but we don't?", that is already possible (albeit rarely desirable) in. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:43, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Suppression examples: for anyone wishing to see/find pages with suppressed IDs (i.e. the ID must exist on WD & be suppressed via this template), Category:Wikipedia articles with suppressed authority control identifiers (8,572) currently contains 7,578 pages, and 7,530 of them (99.4%) transclude {{ACArt}}. There are another ~3,200 {{ACArt}} transclusions that aren't currently suppressing IDs b/c they don't exist in WD yet, so looking at the transclusion list would not be efficient. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:39, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep per Fram. I'm sympathetic to the arguments that the normal AC is too bulky to the point of being useless. An attempt to improve relevance on a given article seems, to me, a good thing. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:09, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep and enforce replacement of templates with this template. Some articles are carrying authority control boxes which are out of control in size. Keep those identifiers to the point and selected. If the obscure number is needed in one case, it can be accessed through WikiData, and, alternatively, through the full template on the talkpage of the subject. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:28, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
February 22
Template:Round corners
- Template:Round corners ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
Insufficiently complex to require a template at this time. Izno (talk) 19:31, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Subst and delete - can't see why this requires a template. It's easy enough to add the relevant CSS, and thereby allow for customisations (e.g. radius) as needed. ƒirefly ( t · c ) 11:01, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- weak keep, used over 8000 times and much easier to type than the corresponding css, but I would support replacing this with something like
{{box|shadow=y|radius=1em|text=...}}
and/or banning the use of this in articles. Frietjes (talk) 16:52, 24 February 2021 (UTC)- Its uses are almost exclusively outside article space already. Box, among one or two other templates, does indeed exist for the person who wants round corners. Of the 8000, 5000 are in talk spaces, and nearly the entirety of the remaining 3000 are on user pages. This template is similar in sense to others I've recently nominated that can't use the more proper mechanism, which is templatestyles. --Izno (talk) 18:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep - This is an excellent support tool for use in the user namespaces. Lets you type in {{Round corners}} instead of the lengthy inline parameters border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);. That's quite a reduction in complexity, and a substantial convenience, especially for those who can't recall all that from memory (like me), or who do not have time to track down an example for copying and pasting. As this template greatly simplifies adding round corners, especially for new users, please keep. A bonus for having this in template form, is that if the code ever needs to be tweaked, you can do that for all 8400+ pages just by changing the template. Looking at the template's history, we can see that it has been tweaked many times over the years, making having this template well worth it. — The Transhumanist 12:46, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
February 16
Template:Members of the First Legislative Yuan
- Template:Members of the First Legislative Yuan ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
This is a massive template, with only a small fraction of the entries bluelinked. There is no reason to have something this large that does this little. Primefac (talk) 11:21, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I'm in the process of creating articles for around 85 of the people listed (who were the first women MPs in China). They're all valid redlinks as the people in question pass WP:NPOLITICIAN and 575 of them were linked to the zh.wiki articles using {{ill}}, but this has been removed for some reason. The zh.wiki template has a majority of bluelinks. It's fairly common to have these kinds of navigational templates (see e.g. {{Members of the 5th Bundestag}} which also appears to have a majority of redlinks) Number 57 11:24, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm happy to userfy until the majority of those pages are created. As per the usual arguments, the existence of one redlink-bloated template isn't a good reason to create another. Primefac (talk) 01:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- Recommend procedural withdraw and replace with wider RFC, without prejudice to re-listing in light of outcome of that RFC on issue of templates like these which are likely to have non-English blue-links available. If I had to take a position on this particular one case, I would say keep, as useful if it has or soon will have inter-language links assuming the 575 links are restored. However, this class of templates - templates which are mostly filled with links that will "always be red in English, not due to notability but due to lack of writers with the interest or the language skills to create a page, or if a page is created, it will be very small compared to the non-English page," should have a wider discussion. As for cases where there likely will NOT ever be inter-language links or English links, I usually prefer list-ification or category-ification. I say "usually" because there are some things, like Nth legislature of the state of Y or Yth parliament of the country of Z, where may of the "Nth" in the series are well-developed, but a few are not. In those cases, for the sake of consistency, I prefer keeping them all in the same format, even if many of the "older" (pre-20th-century?) ones are full of redlinks. As above, I'm also open to a wider RFC on cases like this. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 13:50, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Surely this should be a list article, eg. List of Members of the First Legislative Yuan. It serves no useful purpose being turned in a vast template, much too large to useful for navigation. Nigej (talk) 15:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- Comment the template is mistaking being complete from being navigation. Just strip the template of all redlinks, and reformat into a single listgroup of the exiting bluelinks. Thus it wil function to navigate between extant articles. Just as how musical band templates only list extant album articles and not every album the band published. -- 70.31.205.108 (talk) 22:26, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
- Delete – This navbox fails several points at WP:NAV. The majority of its links are red and provide no navigational aid; with >800 entries, it's too big. Several links point to a wrong target. It's also malformed, not using
hlist
properly. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:07, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:48, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
- Keep: but cut all redlinks template is useful in the quite a few articles it is used in. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 14:43, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
- Agree with davidwr. We should figure out whether we should link to other languages if it's the best option, especially now that browsers can translate pages as you read them. Now for something else: If it does get kept, some of the subsections should get merged, e.g. the "Frontier Ethnic Groups" section. That would reduce the length, which is definitely a problem. --Xurizuri (talk) 07:24, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete for size per WP:NAV and WP:NAVBOX. A constellation of navboxes might be reasonable from a NAV/NAVBOX perspective to resolve the size concern, but while WP:RED has a consensus that 'actively being worked on' be permitted, I still sit here and say 'what good is this navbox to me (in English, on that point)?' So I also tend toward removal of the redlinks not actively be worked either, should such a constellation be developed. --Izno (talk) 17:31, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
February 9
Template:Expert needed
- Template:Expert needed ( · talk · history · links · transclusions · logs · subpages · delete)
As I posted on the talk page in October:
[D]oes this template ever work? It doesn't seem to have a way of actively notifying WikiProjects or other circles where someone who says "Hey, I know a lot about X, let me help" can actually do so. It just sits there in a category. There is a "reason" field, but I never see that used either. I never see people who use this template bring it up on the talk page. It's just a drive-by tag that's slapped on for no reason because an article is underutilized, and it literally never seems to do any good.
For instance, Music of Arkansas has had an "expert" tag since 2012, but the tagger never said anything on the talk page, nor did anyone else. I sampled a whole bunch of uses of this template, and not a single one had anything in the "reason" field, nor any relevant discussion on the talk page. It also doesn't seem like one has to be an "expert" to improve an article[...]It seems that the mere purpose of this template is redundant; in the Music of Arkansas example, {{tone}} and {{reorganize}} seem to do a better job at explaining the issues in the article.
Is this just my confirmation bias, or is this a valid concern? Is there any proof that its use actually helps in any scenario, or is it just 100% prone to drive-by tagging and superfluous to other maintenance tags? I saw the same thing happen with {{expand}} ages ago for much of the same reasons (excessive drive-by tagging, little to no explanation whenever the tag was used, redundancy to other tags).
In short, Is there a way to fix this template and make its presence more prominent to alert users who might actually be experts in the field, or should it just be deprecated?
Everyone involved in the ensuing discussion seemed to have a similar take to mine: that they've never seen it actually result in an article getting improved, that the template itself is prone to drive-by tagging, and that there are far better ways of notifying relevant editors of an article's need for improvement. Even the addition of a "reason" field does not seem to have helped any, as no one ever seems to fill it out (or worse, as on Alcoholic lung disease -- that one had both {{expert needed}} and {{cleanup}}, whose reason field stated "this article needs an expert").
The 2017 MFD, closed as "keep", had similar discussion points:
- Whatamidoing:
I've been watching this template on medicine-related articles for much longer than five years, and its actual effect appears to be: absolutely nothing. Outside experts don't edit it, and usually nobody else does, either. I suspect the tag of discouraging some less-than-supremely-confident editors from even trying to improve these articles. There is often no apparent rhyme or reason why the article was tagged, but there is a small tendency to tag "expert needed" when the problem is "the current version of the article doesn't agree with my POV"[...]or "I didn't understand this article, so I'm asking for an expert, even though subject-matter experts often fill articles with incomprehensible jargon"[...]But my main problem is that they just don't work.
- Nyttend:
I've never seen improvements resulting from using this template, and while that can't be extrapolated as far as "improvements have never resulted from using this template", I expect I'd be aware of occasional benefits if they exist. This template is about as useful as {{expand}}[...] it says "It would be nice if this article were better" but doesn't give any details, and in fact it's even less useful, because at least "Please help improve this article by expanding it" specifies how to fix the identified problem. This one doesn't even address what's wrong.
Nyttend had previously nominated the template for deletion in 2013 based off the precedent of {{expand}} being deprecated, but that discussion also closed as "keep".
In both cases, most of the "keep" votes were WP:ITSUSEFUL, or vague support like "I've seen it work before", "it's used on a lot of articles" (so was {[tl|expand!), or "it might be useful to someone" without any evidence of the sort. The 2013 TFD suggested making the "reason" field mandatory, but this does not seem to have been implemented, and people are still using it without filling in the "reason" field at all.
tl;dr: The issues dictated in the previous two MFDs still seem to be valid, and have not changed one iota since 2013. With all of the above in mind, plus the precedent established by the deprecation of {{expand}} way back in 2010, I think that this template should be deprecated. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:27, 9 February 2021 (UTC)|1=Expert needed}}
- Comment: Template:Example doesn't seem to be the template you mean. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺?𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮?𝙠) 22:29, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
- @1234qwer1234qwer4: Thanks, fixed. I think Twinkle had a glitch due to the template being fully protected. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:30, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecate and create new templates There is, in some cases, a genuine need for an expert eye on articles, but Music of Arkansas is definitely not such a case. Rather, certain topic areas are very technical and complex and a non-expert wouldn't even know where to begin. I would suggest a template series, including things like {{expert math}}, {{expert physics}}, {{expert computer science}}, and since these templates would be specific areas, they could have a mechanism for notifying wikiprojects. That said, the existing template uses should not be deleted in mass, but instead any new uses should generate an error message while old uses remain as is (if this is technically feasible). Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:53, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- That would be a very bad thing, and offer nothing that cannot be done by parameters in a single template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
CommentDelete I agree with what's said above. My impression is that it's often not true that the article/section needs an "expert", it just needs someone to do some work on it. For highly technical subjects it could be appropriate (I'm thinking of something like Hungarians#Ethnic affiliations and genetic origins - a meaningless rag-bag of statements), but even then more specific hatnotes would perhaps be better. Not keen on the template series idea above - I just think we need to stop this template being used inappropriately. Maybe some firm wording - and make the person adding the hatnote look for experts. Sometimes I think that adding hatnotes is just laziness. Nigej (talk) 07:31, 10 February 2021 (UTC)- Delete As I commented on the talk page when this was first mooted:
- Thinking it might be useful, I've attempted to use it a few times, with a both a reason and discussion on the talk page, but I fear I was wasting my time. One of the instances you deleted earlier today (at Henry Eccles) does have a very good reason posted to the talk page, but it's not been addressed since 2011. At least in its present form I can't see that this template has any utility.
- There have been plenty of suggestions over the years for ways to get the template to actually do something useful, but when the evidence shows that it's failed over a 15 year period it needs to go. I'd also agree with the speculation that it may well be having a negative effect in that it implies to editors that only an expert can deal with whatever problems someone has noticed. MichaelMaggs (talk) 10:21, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep and make it work Have a bot post announcements on relevant WikiProject talk pages, and put a note on the editor's talk page saying which WikiProject talk pages it put the bot-notice on and whether those WikiProjects are active, semi-active, or inactive. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:27, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Davidwr: People have been trying to "make it work" since 2013. The last two MFDs had similar suggestions to yours, but no one has wanted to put in the effort to implement any kind of solution that'll raise this template's profile. It's clear from that big a length of time that no one wants to maintain this. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:05, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep Consider adding a stipulation that it can be removed if no talk page discussion is started. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:16, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Pigsonthewing: As many other people have proven in this and the last two TFDs, that would mean removing literally every single instance. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:20, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- No, not "literally". I took a quick look at articles using the template, and there are absolutely instances where reasons are given. And even if 90% were to be removed, what would be the problem? Wouldn't that make the tag more useful by removing instances where it's unhelpful? I think such a stipulation would be a good idea. Prinsgezinde (talk) 06:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- An aside I work more with categories than templates but I thought I'd add that Wikipedia has dozens of empty categories for articles that need an expert's attention (Category:All expert subject categories). If this template gets deleted, I might see if something should be done about them as well. Liz Read! Talk! 00:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecate while occasionally useful, Wikipedia does not rely on expert editors - and there aren't really any experts looking at these queues, making this one of the worst "wishful thinking" cleanup templates. Other templates should generally suffice, with appropriate reason parameters. However, this shouldn't be substituted or deleted until all existing transclusions are evaluated and either removed or converted to a more relevant cleanup template. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 04:58, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I do admit it's often in need of a stated reason, but I would say that about a lot of templates. I don't think that's a very strong reason for deletion. Besides, I still think it calls attention to an important state (one that many articles are in) between "This article is a mess" and "This article is great", somewhere in the range of "This article is okay, but suffers from a range of complex issues". I've often seen it used as "I'm not familiar enough with the topic to be certain, but I'm 90% certain parts of this article are bullshit". In topics like history, it can be very difficult to find out for a layman what 14th century source is or isn't reliable. Same goes for other expert fields. In cases like this, an expert could much more effectively check the quality and reliability of the article. The first problem here is that when you get too specific, an expert will never be found. There are no experts on "Hills in Vermont" on Wikipedia, but there are plenty of experts on Geography. The second problem is that experts aren't typically going to stumble upon these articles, especially since the tag is often added to relatively low profile pages. I'm certain many people add the tag believing this will bring special attention to the page from an expert, and why shouldn't that be made possible? You mention that the template doesn't post to WikiProjects. Why wouldn't this be something that could be done technically? Prinsgezinde (talk) 05:57, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I can agree with the original reason for suggesting deletion, but I think there is still a need for keeping the template. From what I take out of the responses so far, it says just as much about the use (or lack thereof?) of talk pages and WikiProjects. This template serves a dual purpose; along with improving highly technical articles, this is a resource for (re)building articles out of stubs or start-class status. Does Wikipedia have expert editors? On an official basis, no, since all of us can edit (nearly) any article; in practical terms, this is not true, since we have to take into account the resources, knowledge, and interests that each editor brings here. Unless using source-editing to add this tag, the reason parameter is essentially mandatory, which goes a long way in better justifying its use (answering "Why?" for everyone at a glance). Instead of deleting this outright, this template may be in need of some updating to improve its functionality; this is a discussion for its own talk page, of course. --SteveCof00 (talk) 09:31, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The last two TFDs have had people suggesting improvements to its functionality. None of these have been implemented except for a "reason" field, which no one ends up using. I have asked for examples of this template providing the intended result and gotten literally zero evidence. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment, I would support making the reason field mandatory for new instances between a finite number of possibilities (maybe mapped to wikiprojects?) that add the article to a subject-specific list. That way experts in the field can find them. If there is no mechanism for experts in a particular field to locate articles requiring an expert in their field, then I agree the tag is pretty useless. If there is no technical way to do that or no will, then maybe change them all to {{too technical}} or {{cleanup}}. Jdcooper (talk) 02:29, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment. I think we can more or less agree that the intention of this template—having someone qualified review and/or rework an article—is a valuable one; the issue is whether its execution and implementation as is actually end up solving those issues, and especially whether there are better ways of making that happen with the other tools we already have.
- The biggest issue is that {{Expert needed}} has no effective means of contacting those experts. This seems to be because this template occupies a weird non-committal space between your average cleanup template and a proper workflow—it lacks the specificity and urgency that would accompany something like a request for comment, for example. There are a handful of processes that fulfill a lot of what {{Expert needed}} is trying to do; I'll list the ones that come to mind first (and please feel free to correct/add on after me):
- Flagging
attention=yes
on an appropriate WikiProject template on the article's talk page. This is slightly more useful than {{Expert needed}} because it at least theoretically notifies that WikiProject (more like putting a request in the mailbox than dumping it in the driveway), but it has the same issue of "passing the buck" and hoping that someone is monitoring the "needs attention" category. Other issues: it doesn't show up in the article itself (though that could be considered an upside, considering that burying it in the talk page leads to slightly less drive-by tagging), and it doesn't allow for naming a reason (although that's (hopefully) subsumed by discussion on the talk page). It also is supposed to be used "sparingly," but then again so is {{Expert needed}}, so that doesn't mean much for our purposes. - Adding a request for comment from an appropriate WikiProject. This has the benefit of actually being tracked by Article Alerts, which means that there's a high chance that someone will actually respond to your query. The issue, of course, is that "query" is the operative word—RFCs are for specific questions and their resolutions, not general issues—and this doesn't end up in the article text itself, either.
- Submitting the article for peer review. This solicits advice, but from a general audience—not experts in the field.
- Flagging
- All this is to say that this template is trying to handle quite a few things at once, in subsuming both general verification and RFC-lite, and without any of the multi-step parts that make those less prone to the sort of spamming and stagnation that this one is. You can make the argument that {{Expert needed}} occupies a unique niche amongst these other processes; you can just as easily make the argument that it doesn't—what's most important, though, is that at the very least we know exactly what we're losing.
- The main unanswered question, then, is simple: in deprecating this template, what would take its place?
- –LogStar100 (talk) 04:06, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. I saw this TfD from the template in Linearized gravity. It's been there for 12 years. Clearly it didn't work. Tercer (talk) 19:25, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. The template has been placed without clear action to follow. Not working. JohnThorne (talk) 02:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecate in favor of Template:Disputed and cleanup templates. fgnievinski (talk) 04:24, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. Although many of these templates have been on articles for a long time, it does have a good reason, because someone who is an expert on one of the subjects might see it as they are reading a page, and edit the article because of it, when they easily might not notice there is any problem at all if the template isn't there. This isn't really able to be measured, and probably happens a lot. Many other templates also don't have descriptions on the talk pages, so that isn't unique to this one. I don't see a real need to get rid of this now. Eric Schiefelbein (talk) 09:20, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- You're just restating what the template is supposed to be for but ignoring its inherent flaws. It was on an article for twelve years where nothing happened. I get that there is no deadline, but that doesn't mean that maintenance templates can just sit gathering dust forever like this. I have seen zero evidence of any so-called "experts" coming to rescue an article, and no one has ever been able to come forth with a single instance of this template serving its intended purpose. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:29, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecate. For anyone who's on the fence about this one, I implore you to compare the current set of articles using the template and the historical backlog (WikiBlame to see when the template was removed), because it is painful. Stuff like Arizona Stadium (inexplicably) is the most notable, but most of it is just removal because of how vague and unhelpful it ends up being—let alone the fact that in actuality it means "soft rewrite, but I don't want to do it." I can't think of any circumstances where this template isn't superseded by one of the myriad other better ways of soliciting help. –LogStar100 (talk) 04:25, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. If the help of an expert is needed, it will be apparent to the expert, almost by definition. So it's not just that it doesn't serve any purpose. But it also cannot serve any purpose. It's had its time in the sun. It's had its chances; people have tried to improve it. Please remove it. Run to the hills! (talk) 19:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- On the rare occasions where I've encountered this template, my impression has been that a major aspect of its function is to inform readers. Its message is fundamentally "This article treats its subject matter in a superficial way, and it may outright misrepresent it." The implication of this template for editors is that the problems of the article aren't reducible to issues of completeness or sourcing, and that they aren't fixable in a day spent thumbing through textbooks. What other templates are there that convey the same message? – Uanfala (talk) 19:39, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Uanfala: Template:Disputed, Template:Confusing, Template:Technical, etc. fgnievinski (talk) 21:50, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm struggling to see any sort of overlap – even partial – between Template:exert needed and these templates: the last two indicate issues with style, while Template:Disputed is used, according to its documentation, when an article's
truth or factual nature is in dispute
. There are many disputes that can be resolved without any special expertise (e.g. by simply looking up a reference work), and conversely, the sort of issued flagged up as needing expert input don't necessarily involve disputes, and only very rarely boil down to a simple problem with factual accuracy. – Uanfala (talk) 22:41, 21 February 2021 (UTC)- You said: Its message is fundamentally "This article treats its subject matter in a superficial way, and it may outright misrepresent it." Misrepresention allegations are synonym to content dispute, no? And for allegations of superficiality, there's Template:Missing information. fgnievinski (talk) 01:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Template:Missing information is used when there are concrete gaps in an article's coverage, not when the coverage is present but it's superficial and not sufficiently informed by the literature on the subject. – Uanfala (talk) 01:57, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- You said: Its message is fundamentally "This article treats its subject matter in a superficial way, and it may outright misrepresent it." Misrepresention allegations are synonym to content dispute, no? And for allegations of superficiality, there's Template:Missing information. fgnievinski (talk) 01:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm struggling to see any sort of overlap – even partial – between Template:exert needed and these templates: the last two indicate issues with style, while Template:Disputed is used, according to its documentation, when an article's
- @Uanfala: Template:Disputed, Template:Confusing, Template:Technical, etc. fgnievinski (talk) 21:50, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete . I don't think you need to be a expert to edit a article. Second, there are a lot of people trying to improve it. We don't need to be a expert to edit Wikipedia. Larry Z Contact me my edits 22:21, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecate. If a article needs expert attention then the expert should go through proper channels like the respective WikiProject or through other templates like Cleanup/Disputed in addition experts will find which articles need their attention in relation to the existing templates regarding quality of articles. - || RuleTheWiki || (talk) 06:16, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia would be a very different place if we had expert editors like this template is calling for. Whether better or worse is a good question. But we don't, partially because of what happened with Essjay 14 years ago. And we're never going to, in this iteration of the project anyway. On that basis, the template has to go. ◦ Trey Maturin 18:39, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. Useless. Action is never or hardly ever taken on it. (I say "hardly ever" just because one should "never say never".) Kill it. Lou Sander (talk) 03:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete serves no purpose other than to put off likely editors who feel that they are not the called-for expert. and as per other comments is a very vague tag and as mentioned above wikipedia is not for expert editors.--Iztwoz (talk) 09:34, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. I'm leaving aside the perceived failure of this template to attract editor attention (and isn't that a problem with most content-related maintenance templates anyway?). The real issue is that it's used to flag up a serious problem with an article's content, and one that is addressed to the readers first and foremost – removing this template from any of the 4,300 articles it's used on is completely out of the question. Replacing it with another template wouldn't work either, as there don't seem to be any that come close. Changing the template's wording may, however, be an option – its message can easily be rephrased to avoid the taboo word "expert", or to give a clearer statement of the article's failings. – Uanfala (talk) 22:41, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. I do agree that it currently lacks effectiveness, but as Prinsgezinde mentioned there indeed are a lot of things that can really only be described as "it's clearly bad but I don't have enough time to find out how" in the site. I recommend making
|reason=
mandatory just like what's already been done with{{cleanup}}
. --Artoria2e5 🌉 09:57, 23 February 2021 (UTC) - Delete. We already have other templates for the vague "someone should do something here" that do not imply you need to be an expert to do it. This is Wikipedia, after all. Zarasophos (talk) 21:14, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Drive-by tagging is problematic because it is useless if we don't know why it needs "expert attention". For the less technical topics, Google Scholar will work as long as you have at least an undergraduate-level understanding of the subject, and overly-technical articles already have their own tag for when we do need an "expert" to clarify the article; {{Disputed}}, {{Confusing}}, and {{Missing information}} are likely to be useful as well. I've got a feeling that nobody is trying to process these tags... –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Category:Articles needing expert attention | |
Fig. 1: Graph of the number of articles having the {{Expert needed}} tag, by month. Total is 4,474. |
- Many of the most unsuitable tags do date back 10 years and more. See eg Barnard Stadium (from 2009) which apparently "needs attention from an expert in Rugby union or South Africa". Nigej (talk) 08:31, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete except where reason is set. All articles not assessed as being "good" or above should in an ideal world get attention from an expert, but orange banners everywhere won't make that any faster. Tagging articles ad hoc as needing attention is superfluous; it's not a proper triage system to find the articles most in need. OTOH if someone has written in a reason then the template should be substed onto the page so it can still be acted upon. User:GKFXtalk 17:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Pause I think there is room for more creative solutions, rather than the one-size-fits-all choice of deletion/keep. I looked in one of my areas of interest and found Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics#Things_to_do which lists on its third line "Apply your expert knowledge to improve an article Category:Mathematics articles needing expert attention" There I found over 160 articles, many with specific concerns raised. I don't think all that information should be thrown out. On the other hand I would agree with removing tags with no further information and more than a couple of years old, if there is a way to do that. We could also encourage other projects to adopt some existing expert needed categories like Mathematics has. Is there a tool that would list the number of items in such categories so the backlog might be more apparent? The total number of articles tagged Expert needed is small enough for a concerted cleanup project. Let's give this some more thought.--agr (talk) 21:35, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Perhaps it does just need a massive purge. eg Boy, List of newspapers in Canada "The specific problem is: Canada doesn't have just one faith-based newspaper, right?" Ice hockey in Bosnia and Herzegovina "The specific problem is: inadequate content on the historical and cultural aspects of the subject". The question is whether that really solves the fundamental problems - it's too easy to tag and nothing ever happens. Nigej (talk) 22:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, cleaning up questionable existing uses of the template is definitely a good idea. On List of newspapers in Canada, for example, it should probably be replaced with something like {{expand list}}. Ice hockey in Bosnia and Herzegovina could simply have all its maintenance templates removed: it's a stub, so these problems are obvious without banners at the top. Boy, on the other hand, looks like a good use – the placement of the template in April 2019 was accompanied by a talk page post which triggered a series of discussions, touching on the very point of the article's existence. – Uanfala (talk) 15:01, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- The trouble with the Boy example is that it although there was a general discussion, it's not obvious that it did get edited by an expert, and now the tag is simply a reminder of that discussion, serving no useful purpose. Seems to indicate that perhaps there needs to be a time aspect to the tag. Delete after x months but let it be readded. We need to force the tagger to do some work. Nigej (talk) 18:05, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, Boy is probably not the clearest example, as the tag is used in conjunction with other tags (for completeness and style). Still, setting an expiry date on the template is, in my opinion, a solid no-no. The template is not a time-limited request for assistance (at least it's not just that), it primarily signals to readers that something substantial is off in the article's content. This sort of message shouldn't be removed until and unless the issue has been resolved (WP:DETAG). Would we ever dream of automatically removing {{unsourced}} or {{POV}} from articles that have remained unsourced or one-sided after x months? – Uanfala (talk) 18:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm of the view that leaving large numbers of inappropriate "expert" tags around, because there's a chance we might delete an appropriate one, a much worse approach. Some sort of review is needed when the tag is added and then at intervals thereafter. And if people are not prepared to do that, it should be removed. Nigej (talk) 20:29, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, Boy is probably not the clearest example, as the tag is used in conjunction with other tags (for completeness and style). Still, setting an expiry date on the template is, in my opinion, a solid no-no. The template is not a time-limited request for assistance (at least it's not just that), it primarily signals to readers that something substantial is off in the article's content. This sort of message shouldn't be removed until and unless the issue has been resolved (WP:DETAG). Would we ever dream of automatically removing {{unsourced}} or {{POV}} from articles that have remained unsourced or one-sided after x months? – Uanfala (talk) 18:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- The trouble with the Boy example is that it although there was a general discussion, it's not obvious that it did get edited by an expert, and now the tag is simply a reminder of that discussion, serving no useful purpose. Seems to indicate that perhaps there needs to be a time aspect to the tag. Delete after x months but let it be readded. We need to force the tagger to do some work. Nigej (talk) 18:05, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, cleaning up questionable existing uses of the template is definitely a good idea. On List of newspapers in Canada, for example, it should probably be replaced with something like {{expand list}}. Ice hockey in Bosnia and Herzegovina could simply have all its maintenance templates removed: it's a stub, so these problems are obvious without banners at the top. Boy, on the other hand, looks like a good use – the placement of the template in April 2019 was accompanied by a talk page post which triggered a series of discussions, touching on the very point of the article's existence. – Uanfala (talk) 15:01, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- keep but update the template. Updated template shouldn't work without "reason=" parameter, and at least one wikiproject. The mentioned wikiproject should either be notified, or there should be an automated list displaying the articles with the tag. —usernamekiran (talk) 04:05, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. I just came here from an article that did have the reason set, and even in that case I feel it wasn't specific enough to be actionable. How is it intended to encourage experts to make an edit? If someone is reading about a subject they are an expert on, they won't need a tag to tell them it is rubbish. If categorization is the goal, then a category without a tag accomplishes that (though cleanup categories are their own kind of disaster). If a non-expert sees the tag, is there a desire to have them take some kind of action? Seems to me the only effect it might have is to act as a "someone at one point thought this article was crap" warning. I will admit that I come at this with the opinion that most other cleanup tags are not helpful and should be deleted, though this one is worse than most. — RockMFR 14:22, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep and update the template. I agree that the updated template shouldn't work without "reason=" parameter, and at least one wikiproject. Why throw the baby out with the bathwater here? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 18:08, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I'm the notorious drive-by flagman. But I think this behaviour is widely underrated. I'm able to contribute as much as I do mainly because I actually use Wikipedia heavily in my own research; I'm never at Wikipedia for Wikipedia, but for myself first of all. And that's a good thing, because I'm using Wikipedia while scratching a real itch and it puts one into an entirely different mindset about what issues need resolution in the here and now. As they say, with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. Except that didn't always turn out to be true. But there is a strong analogy, and it does work here: with enough orthogonal agendas, most problems will finally come to light. I'm big into comparative advantage. There's no point in me fixing what any other editor might notice. There is a point in my addressing what only I am happening to notice, because my present mission has just rubbed my nose into it. In the large, my mission is to build a giant map of all the knowledge I need to integrate together according to my particular vantage point on how systems theory plays out in the modern world. Well, systems theory is found everywhere, and therefore so am I. I'm depressingly well travelled, almost to the point of self-mockery.
- Generally I'm mainly trying to use the Wikipedia leads to establish my coordinate system, so the majority of my edits address problems with the lead. But I often come across sorry articles in a terrible state of affairs, and when I can, I try to break the back of what's preventing other editors from chipping in. Some articles are in such a sorry state, the casual editor simply doesn't know where to begin. There are those here who believe that all editor projects begin by starting a homestead on the talk page. Yeah, no. If I did that I would soon be a citizen of Wikipedia, and unemployed in the real world. A wizard arrives exactly when he means to, and then he buggers off ASAP. Maybe I launch a couple of fireworks with my bushy eyebrows to delight the children, but then I'm off to the next page. I do some of my "back breaking" work because I can (there's the comparative advantage term kicking into action). Because I have actively engaged with with ten of thousands of Wikipedia leads, I know a right proper mess when I see one. I didn't pick that number "tens of thousands" out of the air. I maintain my own personal wiki, where I often copy key sentences from Wikipedia leads into what amounts to a shadow wiki. Today I have 24,974 pages in my personal wiki invoking template:Wikipedia, which is what I do to mark the page as a shadow page to (usually) the same page name on Wikipedia.
- Sometimes I come across pages where I would like to break the back of the existing gridlock, but I simply can't, because I can't even fake knowing enough to not potentially make the situation worse. For these I often slap on an "expert needed" template, always with a reason, rarely with an associated talk entry. I'm not trying to justify my behaviour, I'm merely offering up honest description. Just in my last 1500 edits or so here on Wikipedia (less than two years most likely), I see edit comments about my use of the "expert" templates on the following articles:
- I'm not here to advocate that my judgement is generally steady and sound. On the contrary, my wiki travails continue morning, noon, and night, come rain, sleet, or snow. But I do generally try to do mostly the right thing while passing through. 25,000 pages actively pillaged (countless more visited without the T-shirt), and the six above pages had me entirely stumped as to how to fix the central problem. I think there's a tremendous amount of non-survivorship bias at play in this discussion. The whole point of expert needed is that some pages become mired in non-productive quagmires and that you really do need to pass the torch to some future editor—quite possibly some long future editor, because we don't actually compel participation (though we grind hard on people for not homesteading on the talk pages). You can make these templates go away, but you can't make the underlying problem go away. Think about it. The reason= default text could easily be "this foe is beyond my powers", aka I'm not the right wizard for this mission, aka this ain't my particular Balrog. Without delving into my particular wizardly powers, what I can say at least is that I have impressively bushy browwicks, and generally my browwicks don't sag unless the "wizard wanted" sign is one for the ages.
- I've finish off by saying something about "expertise" in general. I've read two book in over the past two years on the subject: The Death of Expertise (2017) and Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts (2012). I don't recall these books clearly now, but the general tenor was that expertise is a complicated construct. Remember how we forked off that otherpedia that never found its wings? It was all about toeing the line of traditional expertise and authority. I think the real problem is that few people want to ride into the fray under the banner of "expert for general hire". And we don't actually need a true expert, what we actually need is someone who is sufficiently immersed in the topic area to be fluent in snipping the right colour wire, so as to put the article back on its feet again, when no-one else dares to pick up the wire cutters; I'm rarely trying to summon an actual "expert" so much as an ecosystem appropriate Crocodile Dundee. G'day mate! Crikeys, this page is a right mess. Toss me a shrimp on the barbie—actually a prawn, but he's not sure we're not American—while I snip a few of the worst wires and trim a few of the worst barbs in this soupy brier patch. If it were up to me I'd rename these template pages "Crocodile needed" and be done with it. Taht's the real problem here, IMHO: we're trying to summon an Oxford bow tie (see The Russia House (film)) when what we actually need is a Bowie knife.
- Meanwhile, the bullhorn itself is not the problem. It mainly needs to be pointed better; and even then don't expect miracles, because many of the pages this gets slapped onto are legitimately hurting units. Are you thinking that if we eliminate these templates, people who are now doing template drive-bys are suddenly going to start homesteading on the talk pages and really finally at lost last roll up their sleeves to fix the problem? If so, I respectfully submit that you're completely off your rocker. This whole expert-needed mechanism is orthogonal to homesteader culture, and not in the least antithetical. Just my long-winded two cents. — MaxEnt 21:51, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- You should consider making a TLDR summary. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 21:55, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- You mean you can't understand "This whole expert-needed mechanism is orthogonal to homesteader culture, and not in the least antithetical."? Me neither. I'm a "brevity is the soul of wit" man myself. Nigej (talk) 21:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- "Homesteader culture" is the fantasy some various proposed change to Wikipedia culture (e.g. nuking the expert needed editorial template system) with result in more constructive volunteer contributions through increased participation and settled discussion on the talk page. These are the editors I referred to as homesteaders: they stay for a drink or two and socialize.
- I am very much a tumbleweed editor. I leave comments on the talk page, but I then I blow town, because I have fish to fry in the next town over, and there are in excess of 5 million towns, each with its very own talk page whistle stop (of these 5 million towns, I don't intend to visit more than about 100,000—and in doing so I could feasibly leave an edit on 20,000 of these). I made that comment because I skimmed the other comments before me, and picked up the gist of a certain sentiment cluster that progress is more readily made when people stick around the talk page, rather than flagging and
fufarting off. - When a tumbleweed flags a page, it's in the context of tens of thousands of other pages visited. That ought to be worth something, but how to capture it? I know: create a quick and dirty flagging system that passes the torch across the cultural divide from tumbleweeds to homesteaders. We could call it, hmm, "expert needed". Yeah, sure. That might even work. Only is hasn't worked great. I get it. But this is what I'm referring to as the orthogonal issue: that you aren't helping the tumbleweeds at all by removing something that's within their flighty wheelhouse in the expectations that they will settle down and join a different culture. Less brief, perhaps more clear—yet no apparent gain in the wit department for all that.
- I really came back to confess that I have again resorted to my least favourite tool, and slapped expert needed computer science on Classification scheme (information science) (which is freshly renamed from something ghastly; see my one-and-done comment on the talk page there). This instance does nothing for my argument keep (already registered above) as computer science is the wrong discipline, but next best is Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries and that really looked wrong. This is precisely the kind of nasty page where we need some kind of effective solution, yet it's probably out of reach for the average person who drifts along. The overlap with semantic spectrum is conspicuous, yet I haven't the faintest idea of where to begin the surgery.
- I pretend not to know much about this sphere, only I'm not quite as clueless as all that. When it comes to something in the JavaScript world (gigantic) you can pretty much count on some intrepid coder who cranks out JavaScript for a living (with a secret fetish for computer science legalese) to come along and sort the subject matter boundaries out with verve and dispatch. But not for this sad duckling: it's simply not ANSI- or W3C- or WHATWG-adjacent enough to attract that kind of definitive attention.
- I don't have a solution. But this is another fine example of the problem space, IMHO. Just today I read through the whole of MOS:NUMBERS. It would be heavy going if I didn't already know most of it. I love that document, because it's a fine example of a document written in the aftermath of what people who showed up actually did (every single counterexample has probably occurred in a real edit).
- For this debate, the pages to consider are not the ones where expert needed was ill advised (which happens with every mechanism to some degree), but the pages where alternative solutions are far from obvious—without simultaneously presuming that more participation on the talk page solves everything, because that mode of engagement is far from reflecting the whole of the productive culture here. — MaxEnt 01:35, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- You mean you can't understand "This whole expert-needed mechanism is orthogonal to homesteader culture, and not in the least antithetical."? Me neither. I'm a "brevity is the soul of wit" man myself. Nigej (talk) 21:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- You should consider making a TLDR summary. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 21:55, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. Very discouraging to new/non-expert editors. Articles with the tag almost never get proper attention with the template and simply scares people away from editing articles in need of attention. Wretchskull (talk) 19:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete tagging seems to be completely arbitrary. Any article would theoretically benefit from an "expert" on the topic. This template does not help in any way to attract these experts or help other editors. --Ita140188 (talk) 01:47, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. I see no persuasive reason to remove this. It's perceived failure to attract attention doesn't seem a good reason to me - that's a sign that people ought to be more familiarized with it, not that it should be removed. Besides, the same argument could be made for virtually any template about the needs of an article, yet I don't think anyone would want to remove them all. Second, the notion that it scares off editors is not a concern to me. If an editor does not possess expert knowledge when it is required, then it's good that they don't edit. If someone possesses expert knowledge, they won't be scared off. If the template was improperly applied then I trust that anyone with enough knowledge to contribute to the article would realize this. --Karlshammar (talk) 10:51, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete - can attract COI editors and say they are experts on the subject. 🔥LightningComplexFire🔥 15:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Comment This does look like it's heading toward "delete" or at least "deprecate". Those saying "keep" are calling for improvements that were suggested in the last two TFDs (e.g. making the "reason" field mandatory, notifying WikiProjects) but never implemented then either, which shows a clear lack of interest in maintenance. (Nor do I see how notifying WikiProjects would help; I post on WikiProject talk pages all the time and not once have I ever gotten a response.) So far, not a single person suggesting "keep" has shown any evidence that the template has ever carried out its intended purpose, while many people saying "delete" have shown evidence that it has not. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- If you're looking at the raw vote count, yeah – more people want it deleted. But that's overlooking the fact that pretty much none of the serious concerns raised by the "keep" comments have been addressed. – Uanfala (talk) 14:29, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- I think the point of the comment is that the main (or perhaps only) argument of the "keeps" is that it could be turned into something useful, but based on previous evidence that won't happen. Surely it's up to keeps to show that something will happen this time. Nigej (talk) 10:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- If you're looking at the raw vote count, yeah – more people want it deleted. But that's overlooking the fact that pretty much none of the serious concerns raised by the "keep" comments have been addressed. – Uanfala (talk) 14:29, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete - Think why would an article need an expert's attention. It is either (partially) unreferenced, better references are needed, disputed, POV-pushing or incomplete - and there are templates for all of those conditions. If the template is meant for issues other than referencing, the expert needed template may be interpreted that an expert is needed to weigh in with their original research or a synthesis - none of which are permitted by wiki policies. I assume particularly complex issues listed in appropriate categories/wiki projects will draw attention from willing expert contributors with or without this template. --Tomobe03 (talk) 11:57, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- In addition to the above, how would a non-expert contributor even know that an expert is needed? I can see how such a determination could be made by an expert, but then the template is redundant. Wouldn't the addition of the template by a non-expert mean "I personally don't understand this sufficiently to contribute and have no time/will/resources to read about it in sufficient detail"?--Tomobe03 (talk) 12:05, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I'm not familiar with the information regarding particular instances of an article being improved, but that isn't the sole purpose of the template. Additional purpose of the template is to inform the reader that editors involved in the article's creation might lack the expertise and understanding of the topic that might just be too complex for everyone to comprehend. Vs6507 18:51, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Template expert needed documentation says otherwise - and there is the {{technical}} for that.--Tomobe03 (talk) 19:31, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Well, yes, but {{technical}} is generally used for articles already written by an expert, whereas this template applies to non-expert written articles. It isn't in the documentation, but I think that it should be included as this template can also be a good indicator to the reader. Vs6507 22:04, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Template expert needed documentation says otherwise - and there is the {{technical}} for that.--Tomobe03 (talk) 19:31, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, for the most part when I’ve seen this tag its been redundant. I also agree with the suggestions that it is perhaps a bit demeaning and discouraging. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 04:02, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, It's not useful and there are more specific templates available that are often more helpful as they let editors know exactly what issues need fixing rather than just saying there are issues. I don't think deprecate would solve anything as it would also potentially put off some editors from improving articles. Suonii180 (talk) 09:05, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Completed discussions
If process guidelines are met, move templates to the appropriate subsection here to prepare to delete. Before deleting a template, ensure that it is not in use on any pages (other than talk pages where eliminating the link would change the meaning of a prior discussion), by checking Special:Whatlinkshere for '(transclusion)'. Consider placing {{Being deleted}} on the template page.
Tools
There are several tools that can help when implementing TfDs. Some of these are listed below.
- Template linking and transclusion check - Toolforge tool to see which pages are transcluded but not linked from/to a template
- WhatLinksHereSnippets.js - user script that allows for template use to be viewed from the Special:WhatLinksHere page
- AutoWikiBrowser – Semi-automatic editor that can replace or modify templates using regular expressions
- Bots – Robots editing automatically. All tasks have to be approved before operating. There are currently four bots with general approval to assist with implementing TfD outcomes:
- AnomieBOT - substituting templates via User:AnomieBOT/TFDTemplateSubster
- SporkBot - general TfD implementation run by Plastikspork
- PrimeBOT - general TfD implementation run by Primefac
- BsherrAWBBOT – general TfD implementation run by Bsherr
Closing discussions
The closing procedures are outlined at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Closing instructions.
To review
Templates for which each transclusion requires individual attention and analysis before the template is deleted.
- Merge into {{Aircraft specs}}:
- 2019 March 20 – Aircraft_specifications ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- There's a discussion about this merger at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft/Archive_45#Template:Aircraft specs merger bot --Trialpears (talk) 15:52, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
- I'm giving this another go with an extra year of experience and this time it seems a lot more manageable. I've made a mostly working AWB setup based on my old bot code for Aircraft specifications. Should be done with that run in a few days. Aerospecs should be about the same complexity but with significantly more transclusions. --Trialpears (talk) 22:45, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- 2020 October 25 – Wt ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- For anyone looking to review these, check out User:Bradv/Scripts/WhatLinksHereSnippets.js, which expands the template usage when using "what links here" - this way you can see if {{wt}} is being used by itself (and can be left alone) or is nested inside another template (and thus has to be modified per the discussion). Primefac (talk) 02:54, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- See discussion at Template_talk:Lang#Wikt-lang,_wt,_and_language_tags about how the merge is being dealt with. Primefac (talk) 23:22, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- For anyone looking to review these, check out User:Bradv/Scripts/WhatLinksHereSnippets.js, which expands the template usage when using "what links here" - this way you can see if {{wt}} is being used by itself (and can be left alone) or is nested inside another template (and thus has to be modified per the discussion). Primefac (talk) 02:54, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- 2020 October 25 – Pp-move ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases ) - remove icon for a minimum of non-confirmed users, but no prejudice against wholesale removal if necessary.
- 2020 November 17 – Dashboard.wikiedu.org_assignment ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- 2020 December 20 – Columns ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Don't delete Template:Column/styles.css as it is not part of this template (and should probably be renamed).
- This is the basic gist. It won't work for columns 6-10 in Columns. The set wherein it won't work is currently 0. --Izno (talk) 07:13, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- I found that sometimes a mix of replacements would be good. See this change as an example. In other news, basically the only cases left to deal with are 2 and 3 columns, as I have sorted everything with more. --Izno (talk) 20:47, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- Scratch the news, I just filed phab:T271071. --Izno (talk) 22:29, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- Down to article space col4 and lower. I'm working my way down from the top. --Izno (talk) 03:58, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
- Just 2/3 cols now which is apparently the vast majority of use. Sorted out some regexes so here we go! --Izno (talk) 03:58, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
- Down to col2. Some 600 in mainspace and another 700 elsewhere. Article, Elsewhere --Izno (talk) 01:18, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- 2020 December 19 – Hover_title ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- 2020 December 19 – Tooltip ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
To merge
Templates to be merged into another template.
Infoboxes
- 2020 March 18 – Infobox_German_railway_vehicle ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- 2020 March 18 – Infobox_locomotive ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Pigsonthewing, a mapping for the params would help for this. I don't know anything about trains, but here's what I've figured out so far:
Param mapping
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mapping = {
# Header / misc
'boxtype' => nil, # only support boxtype = 'locomotive'
'Farbe1' => nil, # color
'Farbe2' => nil, # color
'Baureihe' => 'name',
'Abbildung' => 'image',
'Name' => 'caption',
# General
'Nummerierung' => '', # "Number(s) allocated to the vehicle(s)"
'Hersteller' => 'builder',
'Baujahre' => 'builddate',
'Indienststellung' => 'firstrundate',
'Ausmusterung' => 'retiredate',
'Anzahl' => 'totalproduction',
'Wheel arrangement' => 'whytetype | aarwheels', # ambiguous? which one is it?
'Achsformel' => '', # same as above
'Gattung' => '', # some form of class (eg "S 37.19")
'Spurweite' => 'gauge',
'Höchstgeschwindigkeit' => 'maxspeed',
# Wheels (should wheelbase sub-params be used in [[Template:Infobox locomotive]]?)
'Laufraddurchmesser vorn' => 'leadingdiameter',
'Laufraddurchmesser hinten' => 'trailingdiameter',
'Laufraddurchmesser außen' => '', # Outer carrying wheel diameter, Garratt locomotives
'Laufraddurchmesser innen' => '', # Inner carrying wheel diameter, Garratt locomotives
'Laufraddurchmesser' => '',
'Treibraddurchmesser' => 'driverdiameter',
# Weight, dimensions and Axles
'Leermasse' => 'locoweight', # "Total weight of vehicle when empty"
'Dienstmasse' => 'tenderweight',
'Reibungsmasse' => 'weightondrivers',
'Radsatzfahrmasse' => 'axleload',
'Höhe' => 'height',
'Breite' => 'width',
# Steam traction / cylinders
'Zylinderanzahl' => 'cylindercount',
'Zylinderdurchmesser' => 'cylindersize',
'Kolbenhub' => '', # "[[Piston stroke]] - I think current template requires this to be <br>'d onto cyclindercount, if so, that should probably be changed in template"
'Heizrohrlänge' => '', # Heating tube length. totalsurface/tubearea is provided, but this is an area, not a length?
'Rostfläche' => '', # "Grate area"
'Strahlungsheizfläche' => '', # "Radiative heating area, Firebox + combustion chamber"
'Überhitzerfläche' => '', # Superheater area
'Verdampfungsheizfläche' => '', # Evaporative heating area, Firebox heating area + combustion chamber + heating tubes + smoke tubes (total heating area)
# Misc
'Steuerungsart' => 'valvegear',
'Tenderbauart' => '', # Tender
'Wasser' => 'watercap',
'Brennstoff' => 'fueltype + fuelcap', # in practice, may solely be 'fuelcap'
'Lokbremse' => 'locobrakes',
'Bremsen' => 'trainbrakes',
# Undocumented
'VorneLaufraddurchmesser' => '',
'HintenLaufraddurchmesser' => '',
'LängeÜberPuffer' => 'length/over bufferbeams', # ?
'Kesseldruck' => 'boilerpressure',
'AnzahlHeizrohre' => '',
'AnzahlRauchrohre' => '',
'IndizierteLeistung' => '',
'HDZylinderdurchmesser' => '',
'NDZylinderdurchmesser' => ''
} |
- A number aren't documented in Infobox Schienenfahrzeug, others I can't figure out the proper mapping. Those would be any empty with '' or with comments left after #. This also isn't a complete list of all params, just a handful I found were common across ~5 transclusions I checked. I imagine a mapping of these should be enough to handle the majority of templates, and rest can be done by hand. Would appreciate a hand filling in the blanks, and checking over the mappings made. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: Please see User:Slambo/DE infobox. Does that answer your questions? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- Pigsonthewing, thanks for that! Yes, it fills in most of my list. Some further params didn't match up, so I made some educated guesses. There's a number which need to be added to {{Infobox locomotive}} on that list (ignoring the train infobox for now). Perhaps it's faster to just add the most common ones, as I think a number aren't used. Some adjustments to existing params would help too (eg I've made a request at Template talk:Infobox locomotive for a change to cylindersize).
- Besides the ones that need to be added/adjusted, an immediate issue that pops up to me is that the page maps 'Brennstoff' to 'fueltype', but a number of pages use this param as if it were 'fuelcap' instead, e.g. DRG Class 05. Also, is "Wheel arrangement" necessarily always Whyte and never AAR?
- Also pinging Slambo, since you have more experience with this template (and can edit it), if you'd be willing to add/adjust those parameters to infobox locomotive? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:31, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: Please see User:Slambo/DE infobox. Does that answer your questions? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- A number aren't documented in Infobox Schienenfahrzeug, others I can't figure out the proper mapping. Those would be any empty with '' or with comments left after #. This also isn't a complete list of all params, just a handful I found were common across ~5 transclusions I checked. I imagine a mapping of these should be enough to handle the majority of templates, and rest can be done by hand. Would appreciate a hand filling in the blanks, and checking over the mappings made. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- 2020 June 3 – Infobox_reality_talent_competition ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- 2020 June 3 – Infobox_reality_competition_season ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- To the helping editor, per the TfD, because there are some parameters that overlap, some that are new, and some that are not needed, the result of each parameter from "reality talent competition" into "reality competition season" is as follows. Please ping if there are any issues (and remove this table if its inclusion here is inappropriate): - Favre1fan93 (talk) 03:07, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Parameter comparison
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- Template updated with the new parameters, just need to convert old uses now. --Gonnym (talk) 09:25, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
- Soon as my other bot run finishes I'll get on it. Primefac (talk) 14:20, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Primefac: Thank you! Let myself or Gonnym know if you have any questions. I hope my table above will be useful in figuring out what needs to be kept, replaced, or outright deleted. And as Gonnym said, the new parameters are all ready to go once the merge has been made. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:38, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- I'll have to re-think the usage of the bot, though... {{Infobox reality talent competition}} is an infobox proper, while {{Infobox reality competition season}} is designed as a child/subbox. Some might be easy enough to convert into an {{infobox television}} usage, such as at Singapore Idol, but in places like World Idol it will need merging into the main IB. Primefac (talk) 15:53, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
- Correct. Whatever had {{Infobox reality talent competition}} will ultimately now need to have {{Infobox television season}} as the infobox proper, and the {{Infobox reality competition season}} as a child/subbox through
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. If I can help define or clarify anything for you to help you with the bot, let me know. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 02:19, 24 June 2020 (UTC)Doing... TheTVExpert (talk) 15:18, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- Correct. Whatever had {{Infobox reality talent competition}} will ultimately now need to have {{Infobox television season}} as the infobox proper, and the {{Infobox reality competition season}} as a child/subbox through
- I'll have to re-think the usage of the bot, though... {{Infobox reality talent competition}} is an infobox proper, while {{Infobox reality competition season}} is designed as a child/subbox. Some might be easy enough to convert into an {{infobox television}} usage, such as at Singapore Idol, but in places like World Idol it will need merging into the main IB. Primefac (talk) 15:53, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Primefac: Thank you! Let myself or Gonnym know if you have any questions. I hope my table above will be useful in figuring out what needs to be kept, replaced, or outright deleted. And as Gonnym said, the new parameters are all ready to go once the merge has been made. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:38, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- Soon as my other bot run finishes I'll get on it. Primefac (talk) 14:20, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- Template updated with the new parameters, just need to convert old uses now. --Gonnym (talk) 09:25, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
I've written some regex for AWB but my problem is that I don't know how (or even if it's possible) to set a whole row as a conditional check. Currently this fails if the template isn't written in this exact order. Any ideas? @Primefac: have any ideas?
Find: \{\{Infobox reality talent competition\n.*\|.*name.*=.*\n.*\|.*logo.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*logo_alt.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*first_aired.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*last_aired.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*judges.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*coaches.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*host.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*cohost.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*broadcaster.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*competitors.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*finalsvenue.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*num_tasks.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*image.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*caption.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*winner-name .*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*winner-origin.*=\s?(.*)\n\|winner-genre.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*winner-song.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*runner-name.*=\s?(.*)\n.*\|.*runner-image.*=\s?(.*)\n\}\}
Replace: {{Infobox television season\n| image = $1\n| image_alt = $2\n| module1 = {{Infobox reality competition season \n | host = $7\n | judges = $5\n | num_contestants = $10\n | winner = $15\n | runner_up = $19\n}}\n| network = $9\n| first_aired = $3\n| last_aired = $4\n}}
--Gonnym (talk) 21:27, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
- Oof, that's a bit nuts. I'll try to dig into that regex soon, but I'm starting to think that using an AWB module to save, store, and modify those parameters to convert the template use might be the best way forward. The other thing we should probably do is find out where the template is used alongside {{infobox television}}, since we shouldn't convert it to "season" if that's there (instead, just folding it in). Primefac (talk) 22:10, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Gonnym and Primefac: maybe an oversimplification, but since {{Infobox reality talent competition}} is now converted into a full wrapper, can't we just subst it? (after cleaning it up for subst, ofc)? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 15:28, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
- Template substitution isn't my strong side so if you know how to do it, then I'm all for it. --Gonnym (talk) 11:47, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- I know how to turn it into a subst-able wrapper, however I don't know how if it achieves the acceptable results here. Primefac has looked at specific cases above it seems, so he may be better placed than me to answer that part. But if it works, that makes achieving the merge easier than regex-hell. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:27, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- In a word, yes; I think cleaning up post-merge will be easier than all of the complex silliness above. I'll put it on my list of things to do. Right after I make my list of things to do... Primefac (talk) 15:45, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Gonnym and Favre1fan93: I've made a substable wrapper in the sandbox based on your wrapper. Go to any transclusion, plug a /sandbox on the end (or change to {{Infobox reality talent competition/sandbox}} if it's using a redirect) and preview. This should be how it looked pre-wrapper. Then chuck a subst: in front and preview, and this is how it'd look being substed. By my eye, testing on a couple of pages, this all looks correct, however the winner's national origin isn't being mapped in the wrapper (Gonnym?). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:24, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
- In a word, yes; I think cleaning up post-merge will be easier than all of the complex silliness above. I'll put it on my list of things to do. Right after I make my list of things to do... Primefac (talk) 15:45, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
- I know how to turn it into a subst-able wrapper, however I don't know how if it achieves the acceptable results here. Primefac has looked at specific cases above it seems, so he may be better placed than me to answer that part. But if it works, that makes achieving the merge easier than regex-hell. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:27, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- Template substitution isn't my strong side so if you know how to do it, then I'm all for it. --Gonnym (talk) 11:47, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Gonnym and Primefac: maybe an oversimplification, but since {{Infobox reality talent competition}} is now converted into a full wrapper, can't we just subst it? (after cleaning it up for subst, ofc)? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 15:28, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
@Gonnym: is there consensus to remove the various parameters removed in the current wrapper? See eg pages in Category:Pages using infobox reality talent competition with unknown parameters, for example The X Factor (British series 11) when previewed with the sandbox version (which will show the old template v before your wrapper convert). It seems like many labels missing? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 07:37, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
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- I've closed the RfC. Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:15, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
- At this point this is ready for large scale replacement. I said a while ago that I could do it but due to me being quite busy IRL this seems unlikely to get done in a timely manner. If you feel like doing a large scale replacement job feel free to take this one. --Trialpears (talk) 17:34, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- Trialpears, what large-scale replacement? I (foolishly?) jumped into this rabbit hole, and have been in it for over a day now. This is a very complex merge; I've got the documentation diff to show fewer differences, but there's still more to be done. – wbm1058 (talk) 15:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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- I've set up some testcases and it outputs the same thing as the old one except for the autoblock thing which I assume was intentionl since it doesn't work. I think it could be completed now. --Trialpears (talk) 13:37, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, removal of the broken autoblock link was intentional. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:04, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
- Pppery, I know this was a while ago, but did this ever get implemented fully? Primefac (talk) 02:26, 29 November 2020 (UTC) (please do not ping on reply)
- No, I never got around to doing it, partially due to general lack of confidence in editing really-high-risk templates, partially due to the above unsureness about Module:UserLinks/extra, and partially because I realized why Module:Vandal-m was created in the first place: because it was invoked by Module:Protection banner. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:34, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
- Pppery, I know this was a while ago, but did this ever get implemented fully? Primefac (talk) 02:26, 29 November 2020 (UTC) (please do not ping on reply)
- Yes, removal of the broken autoblock link was intentional. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:04, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
- I've set up some testcases and it outputs the same thing as the old one except for the autoblock thing which I assume was intentionl since it doesn't work. I think it could be completed now. --Trialpears (talk) 13:37, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
- Merged module written in sandbox (although much of the coded I added to Module:UserLinks should probably be in Module:UserLinks/extra instead. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 15:13, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
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