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On this page, the deletion or merging of templates and modules, except as noted below, is discussed. To propose the renaming of a template or templates, use Wikipedia:Requested moves.

How to use this page[edit]

What not to propose for discussion here[edit]

Shortcut

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

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

Reasons to delete a template[edit]

Shortcut
  1. The template violates some part of the template namespace guidelines, and can't be altered to be in compliance.
  2. The template is redundant to a better-designed template.
  3. The template is not used, either directly or by template substitution (the latter cannot be concluded from the absence of backlinks), and has no likelihood of being used.
  4. The template violates a policy such as Neutral point of view or Civility and it can't be fixed through normal editing.

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

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

Listing a template[edit]

Shortcuts

To list a template for deletion or merging, follow this three-step process. The use of Twinkle (explained below) is strongly recommended, as it automates and simplifies these steps. Note that the "Template:" prefix should not be included anywhere when carrying out these steps (unless otherwise specified).

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

Note:

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

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

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

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

/* This template is being discussed in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Help reach a consensus at its entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022_March_12#Template:template_name.css */
II: List the template at TfD. Follow this link to edit today's TfD log.

Add this text to the bottom of the page:

  • For deletion: {{subst:Tfd2|template name|text=Why you think the template should be deleted. ~~~~}}
  • For merging: {{subst:Tfm2|template name|other template's name|text=Why you think the templates should be merged. ~~~~}}

If the template has had previous TfDs, you can add {{Oldtfdlist|previous TfD without brackets|result of previous TfD}} directly after the Tfd2/Catfd2 template.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After nominating: Notify interested projects and editors[edit]

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

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

Notifying related WikiProjects[edit]

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

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

Notifying substantial contributors to the template[edit]

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

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

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

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

Twinkle[edit]

Twinkle is a convenient tool that can perform many of the posting and notification functions automatically, with fewer errors and missed steps than manual editing. Twinkle does not notify WikiProjects, although many of them have automatic alerts. It is helpful to notify any interested WikiProjects that don't receive alerts, but this has to be done manually.

Discussion[edit]

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

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

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

Closing discussion[edit]

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

Current discussions[edit]

March 12[edit]

Template:2022 American Samoa Winter Olympic team[edit]

Unnecessary. Only one athlete competed for the country. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 01:14, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I added the chef de mission of the team. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 01:22, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Which is a red link. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 01:58, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 11[edit]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Europe medical cases[edit]

Table of cases by country. Abandoned in March 2020. Nigej (talk) 16:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep The numbers of PCR-confirmed infections - a total of 1524 for all of Europe (including UK, Russia) as of 2020.03.06 - seems ridiculously small in hindsight, and in today's context of the order of 10,000 infections or so per day being ordinary in each of the big European countries as of mid February 2022. However, Europe has been one of the hardest hit regions of the world (probably because of the demographic profile with many elderly people), and the early phase of the pandemic remains an important part of comprehensive encyclopedic coverage. I think that an appropriate title change is needed, e.g. to Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/initial phase of Europe medical cases. Balashov, Yuxing & Zhu 2021 used the early phase of the pandemic (per country, around the world) as a detector of which national health agencies are most likely to have fabricated their data, so this official data for the early phase (curated by Wikipedians and Wikipedian methods) remains significant. Boud (talk) 18:32, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete It makes absolutely no sense to deliberately keep out-of-date data in order to make some sort of point, and what Boud is suggesting seems too much like original research. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:55, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Boud. Ain92 (talk) 08:01, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • delete or userfy, but no reason to keep an out-of-date table in template space. Frietjes (talk) 17:07, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 20:47, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:MyBio[edit]

Replaced only use on User talk:Hawkwynd. Izno (talk) 05:23, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Live Earth[edit]

Single use template that duplicates in-article content for no obvious or needed reason. Suggest total deletion. Izno (talk) 05:29, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Native Kannada poetic metres[edit]

Single use template. Recommend subst and delete. Izno (talk) 05:35, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TIMSSScores2015[edit]

Single use template. Recommend subst and delete. Izno (talk) 05:41, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Subst/delete per nom. Relates to Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Nigej (talk) 06:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TIMSSScores2007[edit]

Single use template. Recommend subst and delete. Izno (talk) 05:43, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Subst/delete per nom. Relates to Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Nigej (talk) 06:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WokingCountryofBirth[edit]

Single use template. Recommend subst and delete. Izno (talk) 05:48, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Subst/delete per nom. Short table that can readily go in Woking. Nigej (talk) 06:21, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Rotten tomatoes scale[edit]

Unused after a couple weeks. Izno (talk) 06:02, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TelevisionTranslators[edit]

While {{RadioTranslators}} has over 1000 transclusions, this TV version has fallen out of use. Nigej (talk) 06:54, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Aviation/Any[edit]

Unused sub-templates of Template:WikiProject Aviation. Gonnym (talk) 08:04, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:IF Limhamn Bunkeflo squad[edit]

template is all red links; no need for a current squad template, as team plays in 5th tier of Swedish women's football [1] Joeykai (talk) 09:41, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. No use for navigation and unlikely to be so any time soon. Nigej (talk) 10:07, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Como Nuoto squad 2014/2015 Serie A1 (water polo)[edit]

Navbox with only one player linked. This is the only template of this style for an Italian water polo team. Nigej (talk) 10:05, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2019 World Beach Games Switzerland men's beach soccer team roster[edit]

Single use template. This is the only roster for this event and appears at Switzerland at the 2019 World Beach Games#Beach soccer. Content is thin on the ground and 2019 World Beach Games – Men's team squads doesn't exist. Suggest subst/delete to Switzerland at the 2019 World Beach Games. Nigej (talk) 15:21, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:3x3 basketball at the 2019 World Beach Games[edit]

There's only one article at the moment: 3x3 basketball at the 2019 World Beach Games, so currently it's more confusing than useful. Nigej (talk) 15:23, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:NATO Foreign Ministers[edit]

A navbox alleges that the foreign ministers of the member states of the NATO alliance are representatives of NATO as the "foreign minister(s) of NATO". But there is no such position in the NATO organization. Just a random grouping of the highest-ranking ambassadors of the countries. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 18:12, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Currently running editathons[edit]

Temaplate was used for a period at Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon but was removed in October 2017‎ with the comment "this template is not being maintained - remove for now..." It's not been maintained since either. Nigej (talk) 18:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Invention/Status box[edit]

No transclusions. This template has been replaced at Wikipedia:WikiProject Invention by {{WikiProject status}}, so it is not usable. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WP Pakistan action box[edit]

No transclusions, incoming links, or documentation. Created in 2019, looks like an abandoned experiment. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:31, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Writing/mainpagenav[edit]

No transclusions. This is an intrapage TOC for a single page, Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing that is not transcluded there. If it is needed, it can be coded directly onto that page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:26, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95, thank you for looking into this. We (WikiProject Writing) have been tinkering around with adding a site navigation but dropped the issue for a while after coming across a few formatting issues. This receives our O.K. for deletion (if at all relevant). Breadyornot (talk) 20:40, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Wikisourcecat inline[edit]

No transclusions, categories, or documentation. The only two incoming links are describing problems with this template. Created in 2016, no current uses. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:39, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Wrong AFC submission[edit]

No transclusions. Maintenance template for a bot that has not operated since 2013. I suspect that this template has been superseded by another template or by a change in process. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:41, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 10[edit]

Template:Continent/Complex[edit]

Unused sub-templates of Template:Continent. Gonnym (talk) 12:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete both per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, as noted on my talk page, these are referenced in a script as part of Template:Continent/Transcontinental via a switch statement. The continent template code I used from elsewhere a number of years ago so can't say if it could be made differently, but the script does have this as switch options. It can't be assumed unused on the basis of no direct link. Bungle (talk • contribs) 18:32, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Keep on the basis of my comment above which isn't disputed. Bungle (talk • contribs) 19:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:18, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 23:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Gary Young's Hospital[edit]

With only one album with an article, this is a WP:NENAN situation. Of the associated acts, Young is only mentioned in the Pavement article. Does not provide additional aid to navigation. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 03:36, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Much of this is covered by {{Pavement}}. Nigej (talk) 07:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Burger King talk page[edit]

Sort of a talk page navbox. Seems to duplicate {{Burger King}} but for templates and in a different form. Nigej (talk) 06:23, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:KP sandbox[edit]

Unused template from 2020. Seems to be some sort of abandoned idea. Nigej (talk) 06:27, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:KSZO Ostrowiec squad[edit]

Soccer squad template for a Polish 3rd division team. Not updated for many years and surely too low a level for a "current squad" navbox, with few blue links. Nigej (talk) 06:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:KYOVAWikiProject-Member-large[edit]

Unused user banner for a defunct project. Nigej (talk) 06:33, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ka fan[edit]

Perhaps an idea for a user box. Used in the talk page of the creator. Nigej (talk) 06:38, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Kenyan domestic football[edit]

Unused sidebar better covered by {{Infobox football country season}}. Nigej (talk) 06:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:King Arthur characters[edit]

Unused navbox covered by {{Arthurian Legend}}. Nigej (talk) 06:54, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Kings College DNA portrait[edit]

Unused sidebar from 2007 covered by the navbox {{King's College DNA}}. Nigej (talk) 06:56, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Knight Ridder Newspapers[edit]

List of newspapers for a defunct group. Was TfDed in 2006. Can certainly be deleted now. Nigej (talk) 07:00, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Korea current date[edit]

Unused template to give you the time in South Korea. Nigej (talk) 07:02, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:LDSCOTF[edit]

Suggest deletion per previous discussion Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 January 13#Template:MormonCollaboration. Nigej (talk) 07:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:LLamadas Presenciales[edit]

Foreign language text on "Face-to-face calls". Nigej (talk) 07:19, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:July in India calendar[edit]

Unused. Seems to be the only one in the series. {{June in India calendar}} was deleted previously. Nigej (talk) 07:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:JokeBanned[edit]

Too much of this already IMO. Really can't see the point in this one. Nigej (talk) 08:04, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Subst and delete. Created by one editor for use on their user page. This will finish the process. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:15, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I now feel guilty for making not just this, but also Template:Branch :P But I see your points on about 5 other trouting templates and this one, so Subst and delete I guess?
never thought i'd support the deletion of a page i created myself :'P --InterstateFive (talk) - just another roadgeek 15:32, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:JohnMcCainSegments[edit]

Old style sidebar covered by {{John McCain series}}. Nigej (talk) 08:06, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:JapanEducationalScores2003[edit]

Unused table relating to Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study which covers this year already. Nigej (talk) 08:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:James Pullatt sandbox[edit]

Brief autobiographical details. No indication of notability. Suggest deletion. Nigej (talk) 08:17, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Jai Blizz[edit]

Unused except in creators own space. No obvious use. Nigej (talk) 08:24, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:JavaDeletionday[edit]

Unused except in one page in the inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject Java (the programming language) where is used to provide links to all AfDs etc for a few days in December 2009. Nigej (talk) 08:44, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Find medical sources mainspace/sandbox2[edit]

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 Moved without redirect to User:Mathglot/sandbox/Templates/Find medical sources mainspace with comment "Per Tfd." by Mathglot (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 01:04, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This should never have been closed by the editor as such. Template sandboxes without parent templates should not be created. If the user wants to work on this, it should be moved to their user page. Gonnym (talk) 08:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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:Italian cruiser Marco Polo[edit]

Unused navbox where everything links to the same article. No use for navigation. Nigej (talk) 08:49, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/The X-Files task force/Infobox[edit]

This is a template in the wrong namespace and is unused and redundant to Template:Infobox television episode. Gonnym (talk) 08:51, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Wiki4Climate welcome note (newbies)[edit]

An unused invite for an event that happened in 2020. Gonnym (talk) 09:01, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, no problem to delete it. It was useful for me back in 2020 but I haven't used it since then. EMsmile (talk) 09:22, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:1988–89 Seattle SuperSonics roster[edit]

Content has now been substituted at 1988–89 Seattle SuperSonics season#Roster leaving this unused. Nigej (talk) 09:01, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:MedalTable2[edit]

Unused medal table header. Nigej (talk) 09:18, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Current events/revisedlayout[edit]

Proposed new layout for Portal:Current events/Sidebar as used on Portal:Current events. Has a list of deaths etc from December 2005 so seems to be ancient history. Nigej (talk) 09:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Xinbenlv/WikiLoop Battlefield Champion[edit]

Seems unnecessary to have this when we have {{WikiLoop Battlefield Barnstar}} too. Nigej (talk) 09:59, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Vlci Žilina roster[edit]

Single-use. Suggest substitute/delete to Vlci Žilina#Current roster. Nigej (talk) 10:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Second Arab Cold War infobox[edit]

Unused duplicate. Qatar–Saudi Arabia diplomatic conflict has a similar infobox built in already. Nigej (talk) 11:23, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:San Joaquin Ridership[edit]

Unused ridership details that are already at San Joaquins#Transfer to local control. Nigej (talk) 11:39, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Regional corporations and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago[edit]

Content already exists in a very similar form at Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago#Trinidad. Nigej (talk) 11:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Rapid Penang 708[edit]

Unused route map for a bus service. Personally I'm not convinced that these are suitable for bus routes. Nigej (talk) 12:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Pcards[edit]

Unused playing-card related template. Seems unfinished and {{Cards}} seems a better alternative. Nigej (talk) 13:40, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Mutharika Cabinet June 2014[edit]

Orphaned template. I have copied the content to Malawian past cabinets and it can now be deleted. Nigej (talk) 14:17, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Montreal municipal election, 2021/Borough results/Ahuntsic-Cartierville[edit]

Incomplete results that exist in completed form at 2021 Montreal municipal election#Seat-by-seat results. Nigej (talk) 14:29, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Maybe2[edit]

Unused variant of {{Maybe}} with a different background color: mustardy rather than yellow. Nigej (talk) 14:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Kilmarnock and Troon Railway (Map)[edit]

Map of the route of the railway (additional to the route-map {{Kilmarnock and Troon Railway}}). Kilmarnock and Troon Railway has a map already. Nigej (talk) 16:19, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DUNSabah[edit]

Unused list better covered at List of Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (2018–2021)#Sabah. Nigej (talk) 17:36, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DUNSarawak[edit]

Unused list better covered at List of Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (2018–2021)#Sarawak. Nigej (talk) 17:38, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2007 POTD Templates[edit]

All unused templates for the Picture of the Day project and not used anywhere. All the credit templates have mostly just the creation as its major edit from fifteen years ago. If someone could add the Tfd tag to the template listed below the Jan 1, 2007 one, please do so as I'm unable at the moment. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 17:40, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tagged the others. Haven't done any notifying. Nigej (talk) 18:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:52nd New Zealand Parliament[edit]

Unused and covered already by 52nd New Zealand Parliament#Members and other content there. Nigej (talk) 18:54, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Timeline French Open Men's Singles Winners[edit]

Unused, and data is better presented at List of French Open men's singles champions. Letcord (talk) 23:09, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Common style at one time but now there are better alternatives. Nigej (talk) 06:11, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Timeline French Open Women's Singles Winners[edit]

Unused, and data is better presented at List of French Open women's singles champions. Letcord (talk) 23:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Nigej (talk) 06:11, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject California AbQ Category[edit]

Unused maintenance category template for assessing articles for the California Project. Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/California articles by quality statistics already exists to monitor such progress. Not used by the project. Asked the creator his intentions with this, but never got a reply. Maybe should be userfied if the creator is doing something that's different from the quality statistics. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:37, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 9[edit]

Template:Czech aircraft[edit]

Unused Navbox from 2007. Manufacturer-specific templates are used instead. Nigej (talk) 10:19, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Why delete? WP:Not paper. WP:Preserve. Template should be put has been placed into the specific aircraft listed. 7&6=thirteen (�?�) 15:00, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    See WP:NAVBOX. A Navbox is "a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles in Wikipedia". That's its only purpose. Having two similar navboxes can often make navigation more difficult., not easier. Nigej (talk) 14:45, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Still support deletion; this only because used because it was at TfD (in order to make a point), rather than because anyone independently thought it was useful, and the rationale provided for keeping is a complete non-argument that is out of touch with consensus. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:19, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Olympic medallists in Open 470[edit]

Single-use template. Propose substitution on List of Olympic medalists in sailing by class. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:26, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:SSL[edit]

Unnecessary template that clutters up external links section of articles, and doesn't seem to link correctly to their profile on that website. No reason why we'd need this on sailing articles, which have their World Sailing profiles with the non-cluttered template Template:World Sailing (either directly, or via Wikidata sports links) Joseph2302 (talk) 12:30, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: The function of this template is to show the Highest ranking in the worldwide Star Sailors League ranking list and the ranking per date of a specific sailor. In the World Sailing Template one can enter the WS identity number of a specific sailor. No ranking info! Therefor the SSL template gives additional information. You write that the template shows incorrect info. This is not true please check e.g. Bart Lambriex. The available links are to the Star Sailors League wikipage and to the SSL ranking website. Not to the exact page of the specific sailor. SSL ranking can be compared to the ATP Rankings. I agree that some improvements can be made to the template. Like less cluttering and maybe a direct link to the current SSL ranking database. The last mentioned improvement is however out of my programming skills league. But maybe someone can help out here.Dragon Genoa (talk) 12:46, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • No evidence that the Star Sailors League is important to justify this. And it didn't work on Eilidh McIntyre‎ where you added it, because she doesn't look to me listed anywhere on that website. And the fact that it's cumbersome and clutters up the bottom of the page is a reason to delete it- Template:World Sailing is a much better, and less obtrusive, external link. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:21, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well the template didn't link to that profile anyway, so my point stands. And those profile have very little useful information (just the rank at this one tournament), which is way less useful than the World Sailing Profile (which lists most of their tournament performances). Joseph2302 (talk) 14:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is what I explained earlier. The link goes to the wikipage an the other to the SSL webside. Just like the World Sailing template does not link to the actual info of the sailor. Also it does NOT relate to just one tournement. The SSL ranking is a continuous ranking off ALL sailors Worldwide over ALL regattas.Dragon Genoa (talk) 14:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Clearly one issue is the way it looks. I think it needs to decide what it is. At the moment it's just as funny box hidden away in the "External links" section with an unnecessary icon and microscopically small text. Personally it looks to me as if its the sort of information that would normally go in the Infobox (although there could be a link too in the External links section). I'd have thought a few extra parameters in {{Infobox sailor}} would do the job. This whole Star Sailors League area is starting to look quite promotional and being in the infobox would perhaps be more suitable that an obtrusive box. Nigej (talk) 13:53, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't at all claim to be an expert. Depends to a certain extent what sort of system you're thinking of. Are you thinking of having a centralised database (or even extracting the data automatically) or whether you're happy editing all the articles individually each week. {{Infobox tennis biography}} shows how to go about the manual process (they have parameters highestsinglesranking and currentsinglesranking). I know Tennis are thinking about trying to automate this area, although I don't think they've made much progress, see WT:TENNIS#Rankings, which notes a system they use for Darts. See also {{Infobox snooker player/rankings}} for a relatively simple system, where a centralised system is used to store the current snooker rankings, using a cut-and-paste-and-a-bit-of-clever-editing approach. Nigej (talk) 14:36, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
To start with I would be happy to have just 4 "| SSL ranking date = ", "| SSL ranking role = ", "| SSL ranking = " and "SSL highest ranking = " parameters in Template:Infobox sailor. Then I can ask the guys from SSL to come up with an auto update mechanism.Dragon Genoa (talk) 15:04, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Or I can use the current Template:SSL as in coded User:Dragon Genoa/sandbox to make it a integrate it in Template:Infobox sailor. What do both of you think of this idea?Dragon Genoa (talk) 15:28, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I'm still not keen. Text size is still too small for instance (small text is not allowed in infoboxes, MOS:SMALLFONT) Nigej (talk) 15:31, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Small text removed. How about now User:Dragon Genoa/sandbox?Dragon Genoa (talk) 16:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Still too "in your face" for me, but see what others say. Nigej (talk) 16:09, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your helping remarks.Dragon Genoa (talk) 16:18, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I will follow your advice if kept.Dragon Genoa (talk) 18:20, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Concur about renaming. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 00:49, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I also have an issue with this template. This is not an external link template as it claims to be, but a table with manual values and no references that is placed in various places - Peter Burling (sailor) inside an infobox; Anne-Marie Rindom at the navbox section. I'm leaning delete as I don't see how these issues can be solved with this template. Also, come on. A template created in 2022 without documentation? --Gonnym (talk) 11:44, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It does have an external liink to the ranking pages of SSL. Point taken on the documentation. I will add the documentation today.Dragon Genoa (talk) 09:31, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Documentation added!Dragon Genoa (talk) 11:00, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:USAC Races[edit]

Unused and no articles in the navbox are directly related to the United States Auto Club. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:NE Negros Radio[edit]

Unused navbox made redundant by other templates covering the scope of the template already. One of them is Template:Radio in the Philippines. And most of the links in the navbox are to the same two/three articles. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:37, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Infobox road/name/SOM[edit]

Unused subpage template of Infobox road. Only edit has been creation. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:22, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Tetrapod osteology[edit]

Not used and contains mostly unrelated links to the subject of bones in Tetrapod animals. Mostly these are just articles about human bones. Few are related to Tetrapods only. If still a work in progress can be userfyed if requested. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 17:58, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article creator here—it's a work in progress that I haven't gotten around to working on recently. It's probably complete enough to add to articles as is. I think it would be useful to have a navbox connecting articles on bones to each other. Pinging Dysalatornis, who also contributed to it. Ornithopsis (talk) 18:09, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCleanerMan, I've added the navbox to several of the pages that should have it. Other than its lack of use, what exactly is your issue with it? The poor coverage of non-human osteology on Wikipedia is a separate issue from the quality of the navbox per se, and my hope is that the creation of this navbox will facilitate their improvement by making the pages easier to find. Ornithopsis (talk) 01:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PE W Coldwater Canyon[edit]

Unused railway template. Hollywood Line which is what the redirect on the template page leads to, already has a railway route template map. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Mahatma Gandhi sidebar[edit]

Only major edit has been the creation. Seems to be a work in progress, although a navbox Template:Mahatma Gandhi, already exists and contains hundreds of links. Not sure what the sidebar can minimize in terms of articles related to Gandhi for more direct navigation. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 17:25, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Db-wrongnamespace[edit]

Unused and largely duplicates Template:Db-error. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep it's not a duplicate, it's meant to be a more specific template. Also I forgot to tag it with {{transclusionless}}, but it should be apparent why CSD templates won't always be in use. Elli (talk | contribs) 04:02, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Db-error already cover pages created in error in the wrong space. I'm aware of it's transclusionless intention, but what's different from "because it is a page that was created in the wrong namespace." and "because it is a page that was obviously created in error."? --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:01, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Db-error has no documentation, so there is no clear list of usages it can be used on. Anpang01 (talk) 06:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete a page that was created in the wrong namespace is not a reason for speedy deletion. The correct procedure for such cases is to move the page to the correct namespace, and then delete the redirect as a redirect left over from moving a page that was obviously created at the wrong title. This leaves no useful use case for this template, and instead an encouragement to delete things that shouldn't be deleted. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:19, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Omeo & District Football League[edit]

Contains nothing but red links outside of the title page. None of these pages were created back when this template was in 2009. Fails everything required from a navbox. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 00:28, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. Parent article exists but nothing else. Nigej (talk) 08:01, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:55, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per nom. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:44, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Project Chanology protests, April 12, 2008[edit]

Single use template. IznoPublic (talk) 04:39, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Project Chanology protests, February 10, 2008[edit]

Single use template. IznoPublic (talk) 04:49, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Project Chanology protests, March 15, 2008[edit]

Single use template. IznoPublic (talk) 04:51, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Mwarn[edit]

This kind of template was -maybe- useful in 2007, but now the warning templates are used directly, either manually or with tools. There is no need for a template like this. Gonnym (talk) 08:14, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Automatic archive navigator/Next[edit]

Unused since the template was converted into Lua. Gonnym (talk) 11:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Broad-concept article short description[edit]

Unused. Was removed from Template:Broad-concept article footer in 2019. Gonnym (talk) 11:16, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Evolution and evolvability/sandbox/styles.css[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Delete; deleted as G7 by Izno (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 00:01, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unused style template. Seems to have been the creator's personal style, but left unused. Gonnym (talk) 11:26, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is fine to delete. It was some early tests for the front page of Rwandan language Wikipedia T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 22:09, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Header navbar community alt[edit]

Unused header template. Gonnym (talk) 11:27, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Largest airline alliances[edit]

Unused image template. Gonnym (talk) 11:30, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fine by me, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 00:41, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:New Caledonian legislative election, 2014[edit]

Unused as 2019 New Caledonian legislative election uses a different table (not a mistake, template name is "2014" but the content is for 2019). Gonnym (talk) 11:35, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete Unused/unnecessary. Number 57 09:02, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Article list[edit]

While I am generally a fan of Wikidata, I don't think this template is a good idea. There are a couple reasons:

  1. It basically makes the wikitext unreadable in navboxes, which will make it difficult to trivially update specific navboxes (to wit, "add to")
  2. Because it uses the wrapper template (generally a fine idea), it adds to the processing time of most uses, when (huge) navboxes are already often the cause of processing time issues.
  3. Because it fetches info from Wikidata, this also adds to the time needed to render and use navboxes on arbitrary pages.

I accept that it might be valuable to have a solution to the 'redirect in navboxes' problem and have something to that effect in my own CSS (that colors such links red and styles italic), but I don't think this is the way to go. Izno (talk) 21:54, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep because I genuinely believe this template/module has tangible benefits. (Please clarify, Izno, if you are nominating the module too or just the wrapper template?) It is currently in a limited trial after which I will initiate discussion before deploying further. Deletion would prevent this process. For those unfamiliar, the benefits are:

  • Automatic sorting of links alphabetically
  • Automatic update of link when article is moved
  • Automatic removal of link if article is deleted
  • Automatic display of link if article is created. For example, you could load up QIDs of all lighthouses in Tanzania, and if/when those articles are created they will display on Template:Lighthouses in Tanzania, without any further action.

I accept that it makes the wikitext less readable, but I hope people will agree that this slight downside is outweighed by advantages above :) This method may be too soon for the enwiki community, but I suspect it is the way that all linking will happen sometime in the future because of its robustness and stability — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:42, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The module as well, the template doesn't exist without the module. Izno (talk) 22:56, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Concur with MSGJ. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 00:47, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: I think that there are some good ideas behind this template/module, namely making it easier to keep lists of articles in navboxes up to date and, optionally, alphabetized. Using Wikidata IDs instead of article names makes the template basically unusable, however. If it could somehow perform the sorting and link-checking functions while preserving article names, perhaps with maintenance categories to track red links and page moves, that might be usable. I don't know if this means that the template should be kept because with some editing it can be saved, or if it needs to be wiped out and rethought. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:09, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for your comments. I do appreciate the concerns about wikicode readability, although I disagree that it makes the template "unusable". I have been including the article name in HTML comment (please see Template:Lighthouses in Tanzania for example) which certainly makes it easier to remove a link which is misplaced. There is also a helper module to automatically convert article names into QIDs and add the HTML comment. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restrict to WP-space and talk pages. Per Jonesey95, it isn't very readable or accessible, so will discourage participation in Wikipedia, reducing the editor population, and potentially relagating Wikipedia to becoming Nupedia or Citizendium (ie. moribund) if this were to be rolled out across the board as being suggested -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 05:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 8[edit]

Template:Birth name[edit]

Was being used on two articles, Bill Clinton and John E. Arnold. For the former, it created an unnecessary notes section which was redundant given the fact that Clinton's name change is mentioned in the first article section about his early life. For Arnold, just the reference is enough. Really unnecessary to have a template just to make note of a person's name. The same could be said if this was used on articles about women who changed their last names after getting married. Would be pointless considering how many women do change their name after getting married and such transclusions would be overkill. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: This would be the same case for {{'s}} which is used after italics. Once could argue that the characters 's can just be set directly and thus removing the transclusions. Do you have any rough statistics as to how many articles use "ne" directly [and could also be a transclusion? (I'm not suggesting we transclude, but wondering about the numbers.)] — DaxServer (t · c) 21:35, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
390 articles use the link to the birth name article with the ne text. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:43, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirecting is fine. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:B class destroyer[edit]

Unused navbox which has been subsumed into {{A class destroyer}}, which now covers A and B. Nigej (talk) 19:51, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Redirect per Frietjes. I see no reason to engage in 65.92.246.142's broader restruting just because an unused template was found. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Pavas-Curridabat Railway[edit]

Unused route-map for a Coast Rican railway service. Nigej (talk) 09:18, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment: I created the template in 2019 after a couple of similar route diagrams I also created were moved from the rail transport article to templates by another user, so I proceeded to follow what I thought was the convention for this route, but the other ones have now been deleted, and in the end, the diagram could have been always in the main article because they are not used elsewhere, so I would support deleting this template, but keeping the diagram/contents in the article. Or if now that it has been reused it can be kept as is, that's fine too. --Roqz (talk) 15:42, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Roqz: the settled practice is that route diagrams should be separate templates because even a single mis-typed character can otherwise render an entire page as incomprehensible. Useddenim (talk) 15:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Whether this should be a template or not aside (I'm on the "not" side), this template is redundant to the table immediately after it in the article. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The template is in use; whether it's redundant to the text in the article is up to the editors of the article. Mackensen (talk) 13:48, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India/Tamil Nadu medical cases[edit]

List of individual cases in Tamil Nadu. Surely too detailed to be useful. Nigej (talk) 06:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India/Lakshadweep medical cases data by district[edit]

The others in this series were deleted here: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 27#COVID-19 data by district in each Indian state. Nigej (talk) 06:32, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Kyrgyzstan medical cases chart/sandbox[edit]

Unused sandboxes for {{COVID-19 pandemic data/Kyrgyzstan medical cases chart}} and {{COVID-19 pandemic data/Mainland China medical cases chart}}. Nigej (talk) 06:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment No strong opinions either way, but sandboxes usually aren't deleted without good reason, as keeping them is harmless. --Ahecht (TALK
    PAGE    ) 14:37, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. There is no reason to delete a valid sandbox page. This would set a bad precedent. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete At the moment there are being used by their main template unless someone wants to add them. But we should probably discuss the issue of these COVID data templates with the COVID-19 Project. A lot of these were created for legitimate reasons, but so many have been left unused or were merged within the related articles. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:41, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @WikiCleanerMan Sandboxes are not supposed to be used by their main template. They are a place for experimenting with changes to the main template without affecting pages that use the template. --Ahecht (TALK
    PAGE    ) 19:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    That I'm aware of. But these haven't been used in terms of edits in over a year or nearly two years. By used by their main templates, I meant being trancluded directing users to test out potential changes without causing major disruption to the main template. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:02, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I think your probably right. I've nominated a lot that I think were clearly of no use, so that at some point we hopefully can see "the wood for the trees". Maybe we're getting to that stage now, although when you look at a lot of the articles there's even more "culling" to be done there. Nigej (talk) 21:15, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    WikiCleanerMan and Nigej, please provide a valid TFD reason. Sandbox subpages are nearly always valid and useful, and they are likely to be used, as sandboxes often are, for template testing and development. They do not violate any guidelines or policies, and they are not redundant. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:41, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Only the usual one that unused templates can be TfDed and can be deleted by consensus here. Nigej (talk) 06:56, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep No clear reason to delete sandboxes of existing templates. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Evaldemo/2[edit]

Unused subpages of Template:Evaldemo. /2 was marked as deprecated. Gonnym (talk) 13:42, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:HTC Wildfire series[edit]

Only used in one draft article. {{HTC Android devices}} seems to be preferred. Nigej (talk) 14:04, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DAS[edit]

Unused wrapper from 2008 of {{days ago}} with short=yes. Nigej (talk) 14:14, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DEHistory[edit]

Delaware template from 2005. Sort of a cross between a sidebar and a navbox. Nigej (talk) 14:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Db-Aziz 0026[edit]

Pointless wrapper for {{retired}}. Nigej (talk) 15:14, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Dec2roman[edit]

Unused duplicate of {{Roman}}. Nigej (talk) 15:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Nigej: Are you only nominating the documentation page, or are you nominating Template:Dec2roman too? GoingBatty (talk) 15:42, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@GoingBatty: Oops. Hadn't realised I was in the doc page. Have added the one I intended. Nigej (talk) 15:45, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DecadesAndYears US state[edit]

Unused century related templates. Nigej (talk) 15:30, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Decade list[edit]

Unused template for producing a list of decades in a particular century. Nigej (talk) 15:35, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DeeRae Ceriesse[edit]

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The result of the discussion was speedy delete. Speedy deleted as CSD G2. Liz Read! Talk! 01:17, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Biographical content. Nothing is mainspace. Suggest deletion. Nigej (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Deepak bhagwat[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Delete; deleted as G3 by Bbb23 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 03:05, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Biographical content. Nothing is mainspace. Suggest deletion. Nigej (talk) 15:46, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:DefBoyProductions LLC[edit]

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The result of the discussion was speedy delete. Speedy deleted, CSD G2. Liz Read! Talk! 01:19, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Short description of a company. Nothing is mainspace. Suggest deletion. Nigej (talk) 15:48, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:DemogFR[edit]

Unused template, except in two user pages, to display the population of places in France at various census dates. See eg Biarritz#Demography which uses an alternative approach using {{Historical populations}}. Nigej (talk) 16:04, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Dentistry trophy box[edit]

"Trophy box" of a couple of articles improved in 2005/2006 as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry/Current Collaboration. Difficult to image any interest in it. Nigej (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Members of the Swiss National Council/Schaffhausen[edit]

No transclusions. Navbox with no blue links and no main article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Members of the Swiss National Council/Thurgau[edit]

No transclusions. Navbox with no blue links and no main article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Members of the Swiss National Council/Neuchâtel[edit]

No transclusions. Navbox with no blue links and no main article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:MEXint[edit]

No transclusions. This appears to be a test that was made in 2016 (discussion link). It looks like the main template, {{jctinit}}, has been improved to include the features that motivated this template's creation, so this one is not needed. See this Mexican highway page, where {{jctint}} appears to be working fine. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:59, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2005 America East Conference baseball standings[edit]

No transclusions. Do not appear to be usable in any existing articles. The college baseball teams listed in these templates sometimes do not have individual articles for the teams, and their individual seasons are unlikely to be notable. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:02, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2019 Prince Edward Island provincial election/Belfast-Murray River[edit]

No transclusions. Content exists in a reasonable form in 2019 Prince Edward Island general election, so these templates are not usable. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:07, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep all - the templates are normally transcluded into the articles on the electoral district and any notable candidates, render somewhat different information depending on which article they're in, and are part of a very large system of templates (with about 12,000 transclusions for the base template) ensuring consistency of presentation across Canadian election articles. The table in the main article does not include information on vote swing, vote change from the previous election, and campaign expenditures (which wasn't available when I started making these but should be by now). Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I have no objection to these templates being kept if they are transcluded in articles at the end of the normal TFD discussion period. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:42, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all The information is already on the respective article as part of the article. No need for more single-use templates. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all as they are not transcluded. If they do happen to be transcluded by the end of this TfD in only 1 article, then subst and delete. Gonnym (talk) 08:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The fact that the information is already present in the election article doesn't invalidate these templates in and of itself, because the information also has to be present in the articles about each individual electoral district (tracking its historical election results across the entirety of its existence) and the MLA who represented it (tracking his or her electoral record across the duration of his or her career in politics) — and the entire purpose of using templates, instead of hardcoded tables, in each pair of relevant articles, is so that Wikipedians can't mess stuff up by editing the tables in contradictory ways. The lack of transclusions on this batch wasn't because the templates are inherently "useless", it was simply because the process of actually applying them to the relevant articles for their intended purpose was never completed — but that has now been done, and each of these templates now has two transclusions each, on the electoral district and on the MLA who won the vote, exactly as they're meant to be used. Bearcat (talk) 14:42, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, it hasn't been completed exactly. The 2019 electoral officer's report has more info on voter turnout and on campaign expenditures and limits, and as is to be expected the official results differ from the initially posted results in a lot of cases. I've updated Stratford-Keppoch just now and will do the other 5 later today, plus there's the other 22 districts (each with at least 2 transclusions, more often 3 since this was a protest vote election and most incumbents were not re-elected) to do. Much easier to do these corrections on 27 templates and transclude to the 54 or more articles than to update each article individually. Plus, the CEO reports are available going back to 1966, if anyone's feeling ambitious. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:07, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I meant "completed" in the sense of "the templates have been added to the pages that they were meant to be added to", not in the sense of "all the information that could possibly be placed in the template is already there". After all, the beauty of templates is that if you change the template after it's been transcluded into articles, the change automatically propagates to the relevant articles through the template. Bearcat (talk) 15:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:FarCry CMS version[edit]

No transclusions. The relevant article was deleted, and this CMS is not listed on the List page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:21, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lletra[edit]

No transclusions. No substantive edits (only maintenance edits) since creation in 2008. Does not appear to be useful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:25, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. It's used on a lot of pages now, and I'm adding more. I'm pretty sure it was used in the past, and I'm not sure why did it disappear from pages. In any case, it's used now. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:29, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:NYCS Kings Highway[edit]

No transclusions. Replaced by Module:Adjacent stations. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:26, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Na orange[edit]

No transclusions. Intended to be part of a set of table cell templates with icons and colored backgrounds, but this one, created in 2020, is not used, so it appears to be unneeded. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete Gives an X with an orange background rather than the usual red that {{Na}} gives you. Nigej (talk) 19:26, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:NowikiAlt[edit]

No transclusions. Created in 2016, so it does not appear to be useful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:30, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Nutritionalvalue/test1[edit]

No transclusions. This was an alternate sandbox that was used in 2008 for development of a template that has since been turned into a redirect. The page is no longer needed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:33, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Full echinoderm phylogeny[edit]

Unused evolutionary tree. Gonnym (talk) 18:35, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:HURDAT reanalysis[edit]

Unused cite template. Gonnym (talk) 18:35, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Pfam2pdb[edit]

No transclusions. This template appears to have been used for a while in 2011 in Template:Infobox protein family, but it is no longer used. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Endogenous estradiol production rates and plasma estrogen levels[edit]

Unused medication template. Gonnym (talk) 18:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Signcomments[edit]

No transclusions. Created in 2018, but it does not appear to have been adopted anywhere. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:38, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unused and not required. Nigej (talk) 19:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SouthVietnam[edit]

No transclusions. There is no need for this template, per WP:NOTCENSORED. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:39, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom and many previous discussions in this area. Nigej (talk) 21:19, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Solomon Islands parliamentary election, 2014[edit]

Unused as 2014 Solomon Islands general election#Results uses a different table. Gonnym (talk) 18:41, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Content already exists. Nigej (talk) 19:31, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Metro Tunnel 2 map RDT[edit]

Unused route map for a metro that doesn't exist. Nigej (talk) 19:22, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Swiss Federal Council composition[edit]

Single use template. Izno (talk) 20:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Subst/delete per nom. No reason for this single-use article content to be in a template. Nigej (talk) 21:21, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Limestone Way[edit]

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 withdrawn. Going to pull this back. Perhaps the fact these keep getting nominated indicates that they shouldn't exist in single-use templates. Izno (talk) 06:11, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Single use template. Izno (talk) 20:24, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Subst/delete per nom. Quite a short article so that this route map can easily be added there. Nigej (talk) 21:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep unless there is a valid reason to make this template an exception from the ten thousand or so other route templates that serve the same purpose. It is useful to have this intensely fussy code stored outside of the article, on a page where links to documentation about the route templates can be provided. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:47, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I recommend a Withdrawal or a Snow Keep based on this December 2020 discussion and the many previous discussions linked from that one. Nothing has changed since those discussions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:49, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • In the previous discussion, I said

    Subst and delete I've read through all of the linked discussions and not seen any actual valid arguments as to why RDTs should be stored in separate pages, only a ton of "we've always done it this way", arguments that could also be applied in favor of keeping templates like {{cite doi}}/{{cite pmid}}/{{cite isbn}} (which were all deprecated or deleted), and an apparent desire to own the content of RDTs by deliberately making them even harder for unfamiliar users to edit (in the 2016 Teahouse discussion). * Pppery * it has begun... 04:28, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

    My opinion has not changed since, and I still feel that this and all its brethren should be substituted and deleted. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Reasons for keeping this route code in separate templates are detailed in my comment above, and in the previous discussions. I welcome a wider discussion about those reasons, but I do not think that a single TFD is a good place to have a discussion about the validity of an approach used by ten thousand templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:24, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. It's a well-established principle that route diagram templates are maintained in the template namespace and that many if not most will be single-use with their parent article. If there needs to be an RfC to reify this outcome (or overturn it) then we should figure that out, but as Jonesy95 said this isn't the place to do it. Mackensen (talk) 02:55, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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March 7[edit]

Template:Lynching in India[edit]

Unused navbox with all articles covered by the category that's linked in the title. Better to navigate through the category as there is no mainspace article for such a subject. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 00:33, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Lynching is an issue in India and there had been many incidents, so I have created this template. Still, the choice of Wikipedia editors is respectted. Nadiallah (talk) 10:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. A navbox has significant advantages that make it distinctly more useful than a category. a nav box is highly useful in its own right for some purposes, such as, for example, topics that are highly relevant to social concerns and to public policy, such as this one, which is indeed highly relevant to major societal issues. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:15, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with your claim that navboxes have a significant advantage over categories when it comes to navigation, after all, they are called navboxes for a reason. But this basically copies all the articles in the category. The major social issue is not of concern with this nomination. Completely irrelevant. Template:Lynching in the United States is a far more useful navbox for one reason, it provides easier navigation you can't get from its relevant categories. The U.S. navbox is far more useful than this one. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 18:40, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 13:04, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:The edit-summary field/old[edit]

Unused sub-templates of Template:The edit-summary field. Gonnym (talk) 07:37, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:49, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Clips of tics[edit]

This template just contains a link to a now deleted YouTube video; I don't really see the point. Endwise (talk) 05:53, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Yep, Delete; all three clips are now gone, and a video has replaced them. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:01, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I should probably note that I was the creator of the template, in 2006, when there were three clips and the template was used in many articles. Now there are none, and I have removed it from all articles. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:01, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:U.S. Supreme Court composition 1812–1823[edit]

Unused completely or used only in a talk page. The rest of the set was deleted here. This style of templates was not wanted. Gonnym (talk) 06:31, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, before doing mass deletes of a large number of templates, especially those related to a high-popularity page or pages relating to a subject like the Supreme Court of the United States and cases decided there, might break who knows how many pages. May I suggest the following: There is a "feature" - I'm not sure what it's called - where someone can receive a notification when someone refers to them on their own talk page. Now I may be completely wrong, but, if it does do that, put these flags on those pages, there's only what, about 10, 20 of them and see over some period, a week or 30 days, some reasonable number dependent on traffic, and if no notifications occur then you've proven your case and I'd have no objections. My concern is that dozens or potentially hundreds of pages are broken because these are removed. Sure, there are no direct references on articles, but as someone who has edited hundreds of templates, especially to add a feature or correct something, I am aware that some templates indirectly invoke others through macro substitution, meaning one template references another as a parameter rather than a link, and the linkage is programmatically created at page rendering time, not when the page was composed, built, or published, and thus no database references are present. That is what worries me; you make one otherwise innocuous change, and it cascades to break hundreds of pages.
As I see it, this many pages on a related subject must have been created because someone (or multiple people) felt they needed something to be inserted or calculated, to put on an article page. If it can be reasonably shown doing this doesn't break something else, then I say fine, round them up and put them against the wall to be shot, err I mean deleted. It is possible it could be that these were used for some purpose, then deprecated in favor of replacing them with something else, but never bothered to delete it or ask for it to be deleted; that's also a case where it will not cause a problem.
Let's not find out through excessive zeal that we break things.
I have another suggestion. Copy the text of these to the same page in the Drafts namespace. Then blank out the template except for having it put a huge jarring message block telling the reader this page uses something that was thought to be unused, and they should contact you immediately so this can be fixed. If nobody at all complains after a month or whatever is reasonable, then yank these pages.
Maybe I've gone on too long, but I just don't want to see something unexpected get broken.

"Understanding of things by me is only made possible by people — who read my comments — like you."

Thank you.
Paul Robinson Rfc1394 (talk) 18:32, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • We've already deleted a huge chunk of these already, so I'd expect that if there was a major issue, we'd have found it by now. Nigej (talk) 20:39, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
None of the above templates are used, either directly or indirectly, other than 1 or two talk pages. This does not break anything and no research is needed. As I've stated in the previous batch, most of the templates were used in a single article which was deleted via AfD with editors specifically opting not to use this style of templates. Gonnym (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:14, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. I wasn't able to parse any valid concern from the above wall of text. --Paul_012 (talk) 07:04, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WIKISOO/Round 4[edit]

Unused and since the Education Program was removed, the notice at the top is not relevant anymore. Gonnym (talk) 06:46, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WIKISOO self-paced[edit]

Unused external link navbox. Gonnym (talk) 06:47, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Visible short description[edit]

Unused and not likely to be used either. If a user wants to see the short description, they can always add .shortdescription { display:block !important; } to their css page. Gonnym (talk) 07:01, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:15, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep If I'm understanding this properly, you should be able tu use it thusly {{about|{{Visible short description|place description here}}|other uses|example (disambiguation)}} -- thus this should be documented into the hatnote system -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 04:49, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • delete not used and difficult to understand why it would be used. Anybody interested in short descriptions will have the gadget enabled anyway — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 08:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • If it is used in my suggested way, it would not work if you set the gadget, since it wouldn't tell anyone who didn't set the gadget why the disambiguation hatnote was missing an about term -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 05:06, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete unless better explanation arises as to its purpose. 65.92.246.142's suggestion above does not seem particularly sound semantically. --Paul_012 (talk) 07:13, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Chris Evert start boxes[edit]

Unused and seeing as how Chris Evert is bombed was so many achievements templates already, it's good that there isn't yet another one. Gonnym (talk) 07:08, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Christian navboxes[edit]

Unused and at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 4#Template:Judeo-Christian navboxes there was no consensus to split Template:Judeo-Christian navboxes. Delete without redirect. Gonnym (talk) 07:11, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Jewish navboxes[edit]

Used, however at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 4#Template:Judeo-Christian navboxes there was no consensus to split Template:Judeo-Christian navboxes. Replace usages and delete without redirect so we won't end up at a situation like this again. Gonnym (talk) 07:13, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Branch[edit]

Both created in December, a few days a part. As evidenced by the delete results of Stink bomb, OverdoneStinkBomb, and Elephant there is no need for new templates like these. Gonnym (talk) 07:25, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:16, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom, or userfy at creators' request. Proliferation of these isn't going to help communication, though there's nothing wrong with retaining them for personal use. --Paul_012 (talk) 07:08, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Gibraltar Second Division[edit]

Gibraltar Second Division is a former Division and hence no longer needed Zanoni (talk) 08:32, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep just because it doesn't exist anymore, that isn't a valid reason for deletion. It has 5 season articles links, which is enough links for a template. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Has enough articles at the moment. Others have yet to be created. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 12:41, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into {{Football in Gibraltar}} - I don't think this merits a separate article. GiantSnowman 12:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Major non-NATO ally[edit]

Not appropriate topic for a Navbox, as it only concerns each country's relationship to the United States, not with each other, failing WP:NAVBOX. Previous TfD in 2013 had three delete and three merge suggestions, but was closed as no consensus since it was part of a huge mass nomination. I suggest deletion, since it's unclear how linking directly to these countries would be appropriate for Template:Foreign relations of the United States, and their US relation articles are already part of the template. Paul_012 (talk) 10:31, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Pinging still-active previous participants Nick-D, Dimadick, Orlady and Chrism. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:39, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • My previous Merge !vote still stands, for the same reasoning as it did back then. - Chrism would like to hear from you 10:52, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • Chrism, how would you suggest the merge be carried out? It wouldn't be appropriate to include individual countries in the US foreign relations template per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. I guess one thing that could be done instead would be to add an asterisk to each of these countries' entries in that template, plus a link to Major non-NATO ally (which is missing and should be added anyway). This wouldn't merge any content from this template, though. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:33, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete If the actual effect is listing these countries' US relations twice, then it is simply redundant. Dimadick (talk) 12:07, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete As noted it fundamentally a poor topic for a Navbox. A navbox is there to aid navigation. Are readers of the Japan article really going to want to jump to another country article because they're both non-NATO allies of the United States? Also gives a very US-centred view of the world. Why not templates with lists of allies of France or the UK or China, etc. We'd end up with country articles containing countless navboxes of this type. Nigej (talk) 15:48, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rewrite into a Cold-War-era Western bloc template that doesn't need to repeat the NATO countries by just including "NATO" as an entry -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 04:57, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't quite see how that would work, seeing as major non-NATO ally is an element of US foreign policy and not a description of the Cold-War Western blocs. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:33, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Shin Japan Heroes Universe[edit]

Entirely reliant on WP:SYN. Fico Puricelli is jumping the gun. It’s only been recently confirmed that “Shin Japan Heroes Universe” is a collaborative project. It has not been confirmed whether this is an ongoing film series or a shared cinematic universe. The only source I come across that reported neutrally on this project without jumping to conclusions is Crunchyroll (1).

The only thing that has been confirmed is that the project will focus on “merchandise, special events and tie-ins” (2). Thus far, details are scant but will be revealed later this year (3). Therefore, this nav-temp should be deleted until more details emerge as to what this collaborative project is.

Keep in mind, Toho and Kahara launched collaborative projects in the past, such as GODZILLA X EVANGELION (3), a line of merchandise, and GODZILLA VS. EVANGELION (4), a 4-D ride at Universal Studios Japan. For all we know so far, this could be something similar rather than suddenly making these unrelated films (owned by separate studios) cinematically canon. Again, which the announcement did not confirm. Armegon (talk) 18:16, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Adjacent stations/Transport in Bus Driver[edit]

Bus lines for a video game, which are listed here and are pretty much trivia which should be deleted. Gonnym (talk) 10:39, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DPCLEANUP category header[edit]

Now that all sub-categories were deleted, this template is only used on one category. Should be subst there directly and deleted. Gonnym (talk) 11:33, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete (I am the creator). Subst'ed in 1 page as proposed. No further use. Speedy=OK. DePiep (talk) 11:44, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:ICC Women's Associate player of the year[edit]

Cricket Navboxes with only one entry. Really no use for navigation. Nigej (talk) 14:06, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:India Squad 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup[edit]

Generally consensus is that these sort of "squad" Navboxes for a particular event should be restricted to those teams that have done particularly well (winner or medalist). Producing these before the event finishes seem to go against that principle. Nigej (talk) 14:43, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep all There was a previous discussion with the consensus to keep them all for the men's tournament, so the same should apply to the women's tournament too. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:40, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all as per the previous TfD for the men's equivalent templates. There's only 8 teams in this competition, and so being selected for this competition is a noteworthy event, and the templates connecting these players are relevant. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:59, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all in line with Men's CWC and Women's and Men's FIFA World Cup: this is the top level of competition and happens every 4 years. Selection to these squads is significant and these templates are a useful form of navigation. Spike 'em (talk) 10:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all. These navboxes fail the criteria of WP:NAVBOX. 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup squads is the only means of navigating players in relation to this tournament we need. Having decorative navigation templates for all teams for all tournaments simply generates clutter – some of these players have over a dozen squad templates! Per nom, only the members of the winning team are likely to have the tournament squad as a reason to be closely associated with each other but even then we're really just hindering navigation by having so many of them for dominant teams (Australia in this case), so I really don't see the case for them then either. wjematherplease leave a message... 10:34, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment My concern with these is that I'm not convinced that they're at all useful for navigation. At Mithali Raj#External links you have to click "show" on Links to Mithali Raj-related articles, then click "show" again on India squads, scroll down, click "show" for the third time, on India squad – 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup and finally you're shown a list of names and you can then click on one of those names to get to another article. It all looks like WP:TCREEP to me. Nigej (talk) 10:50, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    That's exactly what it is; and it applies equally to the other stuff mentioned by others. wjematherplease leave a message... 10:52, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The existence of all the entries in Category:Women's Cricket World Cup squad navigational boxes show that there is an implied consensus that these navboxes are useful. Spike 'em (talk) 12:11, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    That is a completely fallacious argument. There is no logical inference to be drawn from the existence of a category. wjematherplease leave a message... 12:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The existence of all the entries in Category:Women's Cricket World Cup squad navigational boxes. I'm not using the existence of a category as an argument, but the fact that its members show that every single team entering a Women's World cup has a navbox. If you want all of them deleted, create an RfC to explicitly prohibit these for all sports, as there have been many related TfDs which have consensus to keep similar content. Spike 'em (talk) 12:31, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree, this is a wide issue on how templates for sports competitors are used, so it would make sense to be discussed in a general setting, rather than trying to delete a few templates here (which is inconsistent with the previous discussion from a couple of years ago, which said these types of templates should be kept). It's not WP:OSE to refer to a previous TfD on almost identical templates... Joseph2302 (talk) 12:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    You are inferring usefulness from existence – to repeat, that is a completely fallacious argument. Yes, proliferation of these navboxes is such that centralised discussion is probably needed to draw clearer boundaries than currently exist. wjematherplease leave a message... 15:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all as per the previous TfD. I understand the criticisms of the navboxes, but surely that should be dealt with via a discussion about all the templates, as before? Otherwise a weird hole will be left specifically for the 2022 World Cup, when all other major men's and women's tournaments retain the squad navboxes. Mpk662 (talk) 12:19, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Ideally, however discussion would unquestionably be met with complaints that they should be discussed separately (as groups). Anyway, "other stuff" is not a reason to oppose cleaning up these first. wjematherplease leave a message... 12:27, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment We should wait until after the tournament. And only keep the navbox for the team that wins. And if the other teams' navboxes are still around, then they should be renominated because those templates would represent cruft since they would be non-notable in terms of having a navbox since they didn't win. And we keep navboxes for teams that win torunaments/championships. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:22, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not true, we have navboxes for every men's and women's FIFA (association football) and Cricket World Cup squad in recent times. This is a wider issue that needs a proper centralised discussion/RFC about which templates should be kept/deleted, rather than randomly picking a few templates and shouting delete at them. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:29, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. We should have an RFC about this. Because there is some confusion about what should be kept or not kept. But a larger issue seems to not be what should be kept or be deleted, but also the issue of creation. Users who create templates for all team squads in tournaments are doing so in good faith, but there is a colossal amount for non-winning teams across all sports not just for the ones nominated here. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all Previous consensus was to keep these navboxes, and until there's consensus otherwise they should be kept. More than happy for a discussion to be had on this though. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 18:49, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:RSIGN/Europastraßen[edit]

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. No substantive edits since creation in 2014. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:03, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Puerto Princesa TV[edit]

No transclusions. This navbox contains no main article and no links to articles about the stations that it lists (all links are redirects). – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:04, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:RecentUpdates[edit]

No transclusions or incoming links. This page just transcludes Special:NewPages and attempts to transclude Special:Log (which does not appear to work). This appears to be an abandoned page from 2010 that has been superseded by better options. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:12, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Recent changes window[edit]

No transclusions, documentation, categories, or incoming links. The only substantive content is a transclusion of "Special:Recentchanges/30", which is straightforward enough to do on a given page if someone wants to show that content. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:16, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Redirect more info[edit]

No transclusions. I was unable to find any incoming links to this template in template code, and I found no trace of it in, for example, {{R category with possibilities}}. The documentation links to an apparently incorrect page that does not explain how this template is used; I assume that these project pages have been reorganized, and this template is no longer part of the rcat system. If I am wrong, let me know where this template is used and I will fix the documentation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:19, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment it looks like a hatnote rather than an RCAT template, something of a hash-up between {{redirect}} and {{further}} perhaps? (redirect Y points to page X, more information for redirect Y, see category Z) -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 19:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Delete I can't fathom a use of this, either the way I interpret it, or the way the documentation seems to indicate -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 19:21, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Reforder[edit]

No transclusions, documentation, or categories. This template was apparently designed to demonstrate a proposal at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 41 in 2016, but that proposal was not accepted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:25, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Request list[edit]

No transclusions, documentation, incoming links, or categories. For some reason, the "under construction" tag placed on this article at its creation in 2014 was removed in 2015 instead of the template being sent to TFD. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:28, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sandbox box[edit]

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. No substantive edits since creation in late 2017 and early 2018. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:33, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is ok to delete it, it is not used.   ManosHacker talk 19:29, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Snooker season points/2020/2021[edit]

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. Some other template appears to be preferred to this one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:38, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network[edit]

No transclusions. This is a map of the reserves listed here, and each individual reserve has a nice map, but there is no main article for this region/network of reserves, so there is no place for this template to be used. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:42, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WWAcourse banner Round 5[edit]

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. Created in 2017. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Welcomelaws-rand[edit]

These three templates were part of a 2011 experiment. It looks like we missed this set of templates in this November 2021 discussion, which resulted in a mass delete of these templates. I propose deleting this set as well. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:18, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Seems these are also part of that group: [list removed by Jonesey95] Gonnym (talk) 17:39, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Good find. I have nominated them above and remove the duplicate list from Gonnym's comment. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:47, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Delete all per previous TfD. Gonnym (talk) 20:53, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts/potential[edit]

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. The parent template does not appear to use this subpage and has no documentation to provide a clue as to how it might be used. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Val/sandboxlua[edit]

nominating per creator's note. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DLRexits2012[edit]

These templates are no longer used by {{Infobox London station}}, where only the most recent five years of data are shown. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:11, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Versiontracker[edit]

No transclusions. No longer useful, per VersionTracker. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Tubeexits2010[edit]

No transclusions. Removed from the {{Infobox London station}} template in January; the template shows only the most recent five years of data. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Typo (software) version[edit]

No transclusions. The main article for this template, Publify, was deleted, and neither Typo nor Publify are listed on the List of CMS page. Not usable. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:26, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Welcomeanon2[edit]

These variations of Template:Welcome-anon haven't received updates in years while the main one is consistently being updated and tweaked. We should not keep these forks around and should instead focus updates to a single template. Gonnym (talk) 21:00, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Current CSB COTW[edit]

Inactive collaboration since around 2005. Remove single example usage and delete templates. Gonnym (talk) 21:08, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Crowded House Collab[edit]

Inactive since 2007 as with the others, should be deleted. Gonnym (talk) 21:12, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hendrick Motorsports Car No. 5 in the NASCAR Cup series[edit]

Used in only one page. Izno (talk) 21:55, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Merge back into Hendrick Motorsports. I originally created this template in an effort to reduce the size of the article, but now that it's small enough, I'm not opposed to merging back. Jalen Folf (talk) 21:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2017 NASL fall season results[edit]

Single use template Izno (talk) 21:56, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Maria forced Puerto Rico FC to move its remaining home games to neutral sites. That's why the table is different than the usual. Also, results tables appear on all NASL season wikipedia pages. If this one get deleted, than all of them must deleted in order to remain consistent. GrouchoPython (talk) 04:52, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This discussion is to delete the template, not to delete the content on the template page. It will be kept on the article of interest. Izno (talk) 05:15, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 6[edit]

Template:Saltillocap[edit]

Unused character template. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose Although it may be unused currently, it forms a casing pair with {{saltillo}}, which is used. The reason for using these templates rather than simply typing the characters (or using char-insert) is that with some fonts, it may be difficult for editors to distinguish the saltillo from the ASCII apostrophe, and therefore difficult to proofread an article. Also, people who prefer Unicode periodically go through and 'clean up' the articles, replacing the templates with the characters, so whether the template is used may ebb back and forth. — kwami (talk) 23:10, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There really is no reason to use templates for Unicode characters which can be easily be entered. Gonnym (talk) 14:30, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 09:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CA Bastia squad[edit]

Unused squad template for a French football team. CA Bastia was merged into FC Bastia-Borgo and {{FC Bastia-Borgo squad}} covers the new team. Nigej (talk) 07:30, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CIFSSTopScorers[edit]

CIF Southern Section Basketball Top Career Scorers. CIF Southern Section exists but no specific basketball content. Little prospect of being used. Nigej (talk) 07:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COI-thanks[edit]

Standard message relating to WP:COI. Can't see any point in it, especially since hardly anyone knows it exists. I'd have thought a short personal message was better, if required. Nigej (talk) 07:59, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COTW Arena Football League[edit]

WP:Arena is defunct, so these won't be required again. Nigej (talk) 08:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Gonnym (talk) 15:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CS Luceaf�?rul Oradea squad[edit]

Unused roster for a Romanian football team playing in Liga III. The roster is at CS Luceaf�?rul Oradea but doesn't contain a single blue link. Nigej (talk) 08:13, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CTrain ridership[edit]

Unused "ridership" data from 2007 for Calgary CTrain system. Nigej (talk) 08:18, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CWC Advert[edit]

Appeal related to the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Won't be required again. Nigej (talk) 08:20, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cabinet of Joe Biden[edit]

Infobox which is already at Cabinet of Joe Biden, so this won't be required. Nigej (talk) 08:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Canada National Football Junior Team roster[edit]

2012 roster and staff for the Canada national junior football team. Not used at that article and seems too much detail for this level. Suggest deletion. Nigej (talk) 08:31, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Capitals in Africa[edit]

Unused navboxes. Duplicates of {{List of African capitals}}, {{List of Asian capitals by region}} and {{List of European capitals by region}} which are used. Nigej (talk) 08:39, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Carnaval[edit]

Unused navbox from 2008. {{Carnival around the world}} covers the area. Nigej (talk) 08:44, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Intercontinental Cup (India)[edit]

Unused Navbox with no links. May relate to 2017 Hero Tri-Nation Series (football) but not instantly obvious. Nigej (talk) 09:03, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: I have revised the template to include the two tournaments that did happen until 2020 was pushed back. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 11:10, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The issue then is whether a navbox with just 2 articles is useful. Nigej (talk) 11:50, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 22:17, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - only links between 3 articles, including parent, not needed. GiantSnowman 22:18, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Chanel West Coast[edit]

Unused Navbox for Chanel West Coast, "an American television personality, rapper, and singer." Nigej (talk) 09:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Château-Salins communes[edit]

Unused Navbox for the former Arrondissement of Château-Salins, now merged into Arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins. Nigej (talk) 09:23, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cities and towns in Osterode (district)[edit]

Unused Navbox for the former Osterode (district), now covered by other district. As a result {{Cities and towns in Göttingen (district)}} etc are used instead. Nigej (talk) 09:28, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Clandestine Revelation[edit]

Unused Navbox for "an American Blackened Death Metal band" with no links in mainspace. Nigej (talk) 09:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:College football coach by team category header[edit]

Header from 2011, only used at Category:Michigan Wolverines football coaches. Category:College football coaches in the United States has a similar description and that is perhaps sufficient to cover the 1000-odd categories in this area. Nigej (talk) 09:50, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Userfy to my user space. This was an experiment of sports I threw out there to standardize descriptions for this class of categories, but never rolled out widely. Happy to take out of the published space for now and, perhaps, reintroduce the idea at later date for discussion. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 00:33, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:College of Herbal Physicians Pakistan[edit]

Unreferenced article content but there is no article on this topic. Suggest deletion. Nigej (talk) 09:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Colleges affiliated to King George's Medical University[edit]

Unused Navbox that was used at these colleges but has been removed with comments like "now affiliated with Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University". Nigej (talk) 09:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Commercial Resupply Services missions[edit]

Unused Navbox covered by {{SpaceX Dragon}} etc. Too many navboxes just causes confusion for the reader anyway. Nigej (talk) 10:03, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Comparison of macronutrients in common foods[edit]

Article content from 2012. Unused except in creator's sandbox. Creator has been inactive since 2016. Nigej (talk) 10:54, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Comparison of preferential voting systems[edit]

Unused from 2016. Seems too similar to {{Comparison of Schulze to preferential voting systems}} to be usable. Nigej (talk) 10:59, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Computerdogs517[edit]

Unused duplicate of {{Southern Jiangsu transit}}. Nigej (talk) 11:03, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Concentric Software[edit]

Unused Navbox with no real content to link between. Nigej (talk) 11:05, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Constituencies in Eastern England 1918-1945[edit]

Navbox, one unused, the other with 5 transclusions. Nearly always this style is a bad choice for a navbox. The bottom of articles get clogged up with whole series of these. Nigej (talk) 11:34, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Short description/styles.css[edit]

Not used on Template:Short description. Gonnym (talk) 11:42, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Contract bridge articles by quality and importance[edit]

Unused and broken from 2011. Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge/Assessment has a working system. Nigej (talk) 11:43, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Contract bridge grading scheme[edit]

Single use at Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge/Assessment. No reason for this to be in template space. Nigej (talk) 11:46, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Meta color[edit]

A remnant of the old meta system. Usages should be replaced with Template:Party color cell without leaving a redirect and with the following updates:

  • |1= unchanged.
  • |2= add "px" as that is what the Template:Meta color has hardcoded. While converting this take care to not add "px" to a width that already has this.
  • |3= seems to only be used in one userpage. Values should just be removed. Gonnym (talk) 12:19, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cooperatives task force assessment[edit]

Relate to the inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperatives. Nigej (talk) 14:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CornellCollaboration[edit]

Relates to the inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornell University. Nigej (talk) 14:19, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Unused and won't be used. Gonnym (talk) 15:02, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Council of Ministers Government of Tamil Nadu[edit]

Long out-of-date and unused list of Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers. Nigej (talk) 14:28, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Taxonbar/Property[edit]

This was a WikiTable helper template long since superseded by Module:Taxonbar/confdoc in April 2018.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:14, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Passer rating[edit]

Unused templates to calculates a passer rating (American football). NFL and college. Nigej (talk) 17:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Brahmi-Gupta-Tocharian[edit]

Unused table. See the similar Tocharian script#Evolution from Brahmi to Tocharian. Nigej (talk) 17:42, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Datecnum[edit]

Unused template to sort dates. I'd have thought that {{dts}} would be preferred. Nigej (talk) 18:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I don't understand the choice of numbers, why not just calculate the unix epoch time or Julian date? -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 04:43, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Delete there are other better ways to do this, like just concatenating the formatted yyyymmdd string of digits -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 04:43, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Editing Friday Chosen[edit]

Relates to the short-lived Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Editing Fridays from 2011. Marked as historical per a previous TfD in 2015, but based on recent TfD there's no reason to keep it. Nigej (talk) 20:05, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Connected contributor/refactored[edit]

No transclusions. Appears to be an abandoned experiment from 2015. See this talk page section, which is the only incoming link to this template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:49, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as creator. If nobody saw fit to comment on it then or since, I have no need to keep it around. DMacks (talk) 00:47, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 5[edit]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Europe medical cases[edit]

Table of cases by country. Abandoned in March 2020. Nigej (talk) 16:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep The numbers of PCR-confirmed infections - a total of 1524 for all of Europe (including UK, Russia) as of 2020.03.06 - seems ridiculously small in hindsight, and in today's context of the order of 10,000 infections or so per day being ordinary in each of the big European countries as of mid February 2022. However, Europe has been one of the hardest hit regions of the world (probably because of the demographic profile with many elderly people), and the early phase of the pandemic remains an important part of comprehensive encyclopedic coverage. I think that an appropriate title change is needed, e.g. to Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/initial phase of Europe medical cases. Balashov, Yuxing & Zhu 2021 used the early phase of the pandemic (per country, around the world) as a detector of which national health agencies are most likely to have fabricated their data, so this official data for the early phase (curated by Wikipedians and Wikipedian methods) remains significant. Boud (talk) 18:32, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete It makes absolutely no sense to deliberately keep out-of-date data in order to make some sort of point, and what Boud is suggesting seems too much like original research. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:55, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Boud. Ain92 (talk) 08:01, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • delete or userfy, but no reason to keep an out-of-date table in template space. Frietjes (talk) 17:07, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Seattle Wiknic 2015[edit]

Unused templates for events that were already held, so won't be used in the future. Gonnym (talk) 06:58, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete both per nom. Nigej (talk) 07:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I created both of them, but they are time-bound. I have saved the code. If I need to create a new one, I will create a more generic version, perhaps in a different namespace. Peaceray (talk) 02:27, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Str character set documentation[edit]

Unused documentation for an unknown template. Gonnym (talk) 06:59, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Color list row[edit]

Unused color table templates. Gonnym (talk) 07:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:ColorToLum[edit]

Unused color converter template. Gonnym (talk) 07:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Colors of the rainbow[edit]

Unused color template. Gonnym (talk) 07:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Elizabeth line color[edit]

Unused transport color line templates. Only usage is in a general /doc page. Gonnym (talk) 07:23, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hair color swatch[edit]

Unused template for hair colors. Nigej (talk) 07:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hallucinogentasks[edit]

To-do list for a defunct wiki-project. 3 transclusions in user space for inactive users. Nigej (talk) 07:32, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:JRT color[edit]

Unused JRT transport templates. Gonnym (talk) 07:35, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hand measurements[edit]

Unused wrapper for File:Hand Units of Measurement.PNG. Nigej (talk) 07:36, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Gauteng Rail color[edit]

Unused Metrorail Gauteng color template. Gonnym (talk) 07:36, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Euskotren Trena color[edit]

Unused Euskotren Trena color template. Gonnym (talk) 07:37, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Kenosha Transit color[edit]

Unused Kenosha Transit color template. Gonnym (talk) 07:37, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Harlequin Romance novels released by year[edit]

Unused duplicate of {{Harlequin}}. Nigej (talk) 07:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Istanbul Metro infobox header[edit]

Used only in one talk page. Subst there and delete. Gonnym (talk) 07:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hasaan[edit]

Unused template that does nothing, only used in the creator's own space. Nigej (talk) 07:50, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hawaii legal status overview[edit]

Potential content from 2012 relating to the Political status of Hawaii, but seemingly never used. Nigej (talk) 07:56, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hawaii talk[edit]

List of browser issues relating to Hawaii, from 2008. Difficult to imagine any possible usage. Nigej (talk) 08:06, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Head collage[edit]

Unused collage of "heads" from 2015. Nigej (talk) 08:15, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Heads of GRU[edit]

Unused Navbox of the heads of the GRU (Soviet Union) and GRU. Nigej (talk) 08:28, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep And add to the articles. Useful navbox. And should be divided into two groups to disassociate the GRU under the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:18, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment if this is to be used, someone should split the list row into two rows, one for USSR one for Russia -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 16:44, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Heads of State of Ireland[edit]

Unused Navbox covered by {{Presidents of Ireland}}. Nigej (talk) 08:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment what about the Irish Free State? That isn't covered by the suggested replacement, which only covers the Republic of Ireland. (Both templates also ignores all the heads of state prior to home rule during the Union, and the high kings prior to the union.) -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    In some ways the {{Governor-General of the Irish Free State}} are more related to the Presidents than, say, George VI. Are George VI and Douglas Hyde really "related"? Navboxes work best when the entries are closely related. Nigej (talk) 06:36, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, it could be rewritten, to replace the kings with the GGs for that period. And then add the missing high kings for the period before being annexed. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 16:46, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Heads of State of the Free City of Danzig[edit]

Unused Navbox covered by {{Gdańsk}}. Nigej (talk) 08:37, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Heart diagram[edit]

Unused clickable diagram of the heart from 2007. The image is well used but not this feature. Nigej (talk) 08:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hebert Memorial Park[edit]

Article content from 2018. Linked from North Las Vegas, Nevada. Reads like a eulogy, so not really suitable for adding there. Nigej (talk) 08:50, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Taxonomy/preload/???[edit]

Unused preloads which aren't used at Template:Taxonomy preload. Gonnym (talk) 09:52, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment they were deprecated in 2017, when the entire system seems to have been rewritten (the templates these three depend on were deleted in 2019, as part of a cleanup) -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Human face[edit]

Unused sidebar from 2018 on the human face. Nigej (talk) 10:04, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Human appearance[edit]

Sidebar only used in one article, so fails WP:SIDEBAR "a grouping of links used in multiple related articles". Nigej (talk) 10:10, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hume on induction[edit]

Unused content from 2008. Duplicate of content at Popper and After. Nigej (talk) 10:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hussein Khan[edit]

Unused content. The article Hussein Khan has been WP:BLARed to Kashmir Daily so on that basis this should be deleted. Nigej (talk) 10:24, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hyderabad FC head coaches[edit]

Unused duplicate of {{Hyderabad FC managers}} (soccer). Nigej (talk) 10:31, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hydrobatidae list header[edit]

Unused text only used in one talk page. Text is hardwired at articles like List of seabirds of Goa#Storm petrels. Nigej (talk) 11:07, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bollnäs GIF squad[edit]

Bandy squads. Not updated for 4 years and was mostly red links, even when they were created. Some of these had 1, 2 or 3 transclusions (which I have removed) but mostly for players who are no longer at these teams. Nigej (talk) 13:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all not enough blue links, and out of date so completely useless, as incorrect. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:56, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:High Schools in Paraguay[edit]

Template now seems to be redundant since all bar one of its contents have been deleted through AfD. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 13:42, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment the single blue link, Lists of high schools in Paraguay is also bereft of entries, ao should also be deleted, as a list of nothing -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:47, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Tagged the list article as DB-G14/A3 -- list with no list entries -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:51, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • Comment nominator rolled the list article back to before it was split into sublists (that were then deleted) ; that was then trimmed to just a couple of places in Asunción -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 21:33, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:INCOTW[edit]

Templates relating to the India Collaboration of the week, abandoned in 2009. Nigej (talk) 13:50, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete alongside Template:Old India COTW. Gonnym (talk) 15:29, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've added it. Nigej (talk) 15:55, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Icabob the witch[edit]

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. This was going to finish up as deletion one way or another, so rather than waste time on it we may as well get rid of it now. It's about a 500 year old person, etc etc, and I reckon it qualifies for CSD G3 as a hoax. JBW (talk) 22:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unused "biography" of Icabob, a witch formally known as Isabel. Nigej (talk) 15:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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:First ScotRail color[edit]

Only used in an old talk page. Template creator said they aren't needed anymore. Gonnym (talk) 15:27, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GAA panel start[edit]

Unused suite of templates from 2013 relating to Gaelic games teams. Nigej (talk) 15:45, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GBNewYorkState[edit]

Template which is a map of NY state and a movable red dot. Unused from 2005 (documentation is in the talk page). Nigej (talk) 18:00, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GB station number[edit]

Unused template related to passenger numbers at railway stations. Presumably {{Rail pass box}} is used instead. Nigej (talk) 18:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Gagan TV[edit]

Unused template with some stuff about Gagan TV, a youtube channel. No obvious use. Nigej (talk) 18:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Galkotdi[edit]

A few words about Galkotdi in India. Won't be useful. Nigej (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GameMill Entertainment[edit]

Recent Navbox related to GameMill Entertainment, the article for which is at Draft:GameMill Entertainment. Certainly won't be useful until the article is created. Nigej (talk) 18:18, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Georgia David IV[edit]

Unused from 2006. Relates to Orders, decorations, and medals of Georgia#Order of David IV The Builder but the template seems of no use. Nigej (talk) 18:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Green Parties in Canada/proposal and current versions jan 2008[edit]

Comparison of old and new Navbox from 2008, which is now at {{GPC}}. All the old versions are in the history there. Nigej (talk) 18:52, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bantayan islands[edit]

Unused article content now that I have copied it to List of islands of the Philippines. Nigej (talk) 19:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Grey shades[edit]

Unused template that "Changes CSS colour names to RGB." Nigej (talk) 19:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Gogame[edit]

Sidebar from 2005 now superseded by {{Go (game) series sidebar}}. Nigej (talk) 19:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Graphic novels by year[edit]

Unused category navigation template. {{Graphic-novel-year}} is used. Nigej (talk) 19:38, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Eight Masters of Xiling[edit]

Navbox on the Eight Masters of Xiling. However, we don't have enough content to justify a navbox, including the absence of a parent article. Nigej (talk) 20:18, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Eismall[edit]

Unused and unneeded variant of {{externalimage}}. Surely a smaller font is the last thing we need. Nigej (talk) 20:22, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Electoral methods[edit]

Duplicate of the earlier {{Electoral systems}}. Unused except in the creator's own space. Nigej (talk) 20:35, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Jason Wade[edit]

I redirected the one album with a blue link in this template, as I believe the album is not notable, but even if the album is restored, this template is still redundant: the only other link is to the singer's main band, and this is already referenced in the singer's article, so no additional navigation is provided by this template – fails WP:NENAN. Richard3120 (talk) 21:59, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. Not enough related articles to justify a Navbox. Nigej (talk) 06:39, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lang-mis[edit]

This template originally speedy-nominated but apparently something about that broke or disturbed something at WP:CfD; see User talk:Trappist the monk § Help!. So, nominating here. This template is not used. This template is patently wrong. Hiberno-English is not a language that has been coded by the ISO 639-3 custodians. Because of that, using mis (the ISO 639-3 code for uncoded languages) is inappropriate – Hiberno-English is not the only uncoded language that en.wiki recognizes.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:38, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Rewrite get rid of Hiberno-English and rewrite it for specifiable language, link to ISO 639:m and the missing language table entry as the language link gloss for why this is "mis".
 [[{{{langlink|{{{lang}}}}}}|{{{lang}}}]]<sup>[[ISO 639:m#mis|?]]</sup>: {{{1}}}
so that it works with any missing language, and recategorize to only lang-x templates -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 03:18, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment it would be useful to standardize the format of missing language presentations, when they are written out in articles for the same functionality as lang-x templates, so rewriting this template to do so would rationalize all the missing language glosses with standard formatting consistent with languages that are coded in ISO 639 for which we have a standard format for. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 03:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
When would that be used? When formatting text in a language that doesn't have an ISO code, there's no need to advertise (even in a tiny superscript) that the language hasn't got an ISO code: that's completely irrelevant to any text you'll be writing. If you take away the superscript, then the result is similar to what people would write out manually anyway: instead of writing [[Fooian language|Fooian]]: {{lang|mis|bar}}, they would now write {{lang-mis|lang=Fooian|langlink=Fooian language|bar}}. That's a tad more complicated, but it's got one small advantage: it may allow for some monitoring, so that if an ISO code eventually gets created, it will be easier to track down those uses and replace them accordingly. – Uanfala (talk) 23:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Then we could just drop the question mark, and format it as you wrote, allowing for RTL formatting from {{lang}} etc. Which would allow tracking, and consistent formatting -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 16:51, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Old discussions[edit]

March 4

Template:Laser Types

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This is only directly used in a half dozen navboxes, which really don't need a specific template to contain a half dozen links. Subst and delete is the recommendation here. Izno (talk) 19:42, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete without subst. Template:Lasers should handle laser types. Gonnym (talk) 06:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Works for me. Izno (talk) 08:10, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This is used in various laser navbox templates, such as Template:Gas lasers. Blindly deleting without subst is not an option. I reverted the ill-advised change in formatting, which affected all the pages on which it is included. I think this proposal needs more thought, and perhaps a review of all the laser templates. I'm no fan of navboxes, but using a template to keep common text the same across a set of navboxes is a sensible use of the template feature. --Srleffler (talk) 03:36, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I know that it is used in various laser navbox templates, I firmly oppose that design which is why I said "Delete without subst". Template:Lasers is the correct place for those links. Gonnym (talk) 07:15, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose deletion, for the reason I explained above. --Srleffler (talk) 03:36, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 10:42, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:&numero

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MOS:NUMERO clearly states do not use the symbol №. Gonnym (talk) 09:16, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete Encouraging bad habits. Nigej (talk) 19:07, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Nigej: Like {{xt}}? Not allowed in project space. Also there are even limited exceptions to the MOS rule. When you are directly quoting, for example, or you're quoting a text in Russian, which uses this symbol regularly, it is even on their keyboard. Replacing with "No." in a Cyrillic text alleged to have come from the Soviet Union would make no sense. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 14:20, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep—a template does not need to follow the MOS. Plenty of our templates are made for talk pages and project pages. This is a useful template and you can track its inclusions and remove them where inappropriate. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 14:18, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Can you point to where templates are excluded from following the MoS? Gonnym (talk) 09:39, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Gonnym I believe that it is in the first sentence of the Manual of Style; This Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles (though provisions related to accessibility apply across the entire project, not just to articles). (emphasis mine) As there is no concern here regarding the accessibility of the template, I think that this template is excluded from the MoS, similar to {{tq}}. �?� EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 19:35, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:33, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - why not just add a namespace check that displays a warning if used in an article, like {{tq}} does? After all, WP:MOS is clear that besides accessibility issues, it only applies to articles, and {{&numero}} doesn't violate MOS:ACCESS. I don't see why it should be deleted just for MOS reasons, though I guess an argument that it's also unnecessary for discussions could be made. eviolite (talk) 03:43, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment, adding namespace restriction like {{tq}} seems like a reasonable compromise, but deleting it due to low usage seems reasonable as well. Frietjes (talk) 18:09, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: To get further thoughts on the namespace restriction idea.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 10:36, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. This template has existed for almost two years, and it has almost no transclusions (I count three actual usages). Each of those transclusions would be better served by writing "No." as recommended by MOS. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:20, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Coronavirus data/Patients characteristics2

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Unused variant of {{Coronavirus data/Patients characteristics}}. Was intended to be a more detailed version but seems like it was never completed and used. See Talk:Coronavirus disease/v2.0. Nigej (talk) 12:06, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi. I m the creator and author of 97.6% of that page. Could we move it to my user space ? Yug (talk) �?� 13:32, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Userfy per creator's request. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Completed discussions[edit]

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