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Special:PrefixIndex/Translations:Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy-summary[edit]
The page "Access to nonpublic personal data policy-summary/" has moved to the Foundation website, and we have all these unattached translations that people still are editing, which is valueless. Probably time for a cleanout, unless someone can think of a reason not to do so. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:22, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete all * Pppery * it has begun 04:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- +1, delete these useless pages --TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 06:14, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, I think that we should have a speedy criteria for stuff that has been moved to the Foundation site. Deleting the translation pages, only leaving the /en page as a soft redirect. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 13:07, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
- Deleted the unused units. The page display titles are still used, though they can be deleted too if @Minorax's suggestion is implemented. (FTR, right now translation of the page is marked as "discouraged".) ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC) - Delete the unused units per 1234qwer1234qwer4. Hide on Rosé t 04:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hold on. I think there is a defect here, aren't the foundation wiki imports of the translation units defective, in that they have not maintained authorship attribution? — xaosflux Talk 12:04, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Help:CS1 errors[edit]
This has no reason to exist on Meta - it's just a badly-munged copy of w:Help:CS1 errors, to which I've repointed all links. * Pppery * it has begun 01:29, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
- converted to interwiki redirect — billinghurst sDrewth 13:20, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Help:Handbook project/Templates[edit]
Ancient cruft from 2005 of no actual historical value. * Pppery * it has begun 02:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
- deleted — billinghurst sDrewth 13:18, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
History compression[edit]
Ancient crap from 2004 of no actual use. * Pppery * it has begun 05:10, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- deleted — billinghurst sDrewth 13:21, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Help:Semi-protected demo page[edit]
Ancient nonsense from 2007 (and actually fully-protected not semi-protected) * Pppery * it has begun 02:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
- deleted — billinghurst sDrewth 13:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Templates[edit]
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Template:Babel[edit]
- Template:Babel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Module:Babel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Appears superseded by {{#babel:}} (by the way could someone perhaps link me its documentation?) as this just produces redlinks. Perhaps we could convert to wrapper but I’m not sure how. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:50, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
- Hmm, it seems like this used to be an (ugly) wrapper before User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh misguidedly broke it by importing from Wikipedia. There's also diff but the diff in the edit summary does not appear to exist. Aaron Liu (talk) 21:12, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Aaron Liu: I edited the template on June 22, 2022. All but one current user page transclusions of this template were introduced later to that (old usages were manually fixed). The only exception is this one which transcludes {{Babel}} without providing any arguments. That this template produces nothing but red links is merely the result of it not being used correctly and should not be a basis for deletion. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 05:08, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- @NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh What is the correct use then? After you fixed them, new usages such as User:Rhyswynne have still popped up. The existence of this template is confusing and actively hurts those new to meta. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:14, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Deleting the template will only create more red links. I don't see how that resolve the problem (if there is one). NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 15:39, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- I believe that reverting the template to a wrapper with a deprecation message is essentially the same as deletion. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:54, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Deleting the template will only create more red links. I don't see how that resolve the problem (if there is one). NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 15:39, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- @NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh What is the correct use then? After you fixed them, new usages such as User:Rhyswynne have still popped up. The existence of this template is confusing and actively hurts those new to meta. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:14, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Aaron Liu: I edited the template on June 22, 2022. All but one current user page transclusions of this template were introduced later to that (old usages were manually fixed). The only exception is this one which transcludes {{Babel}} without providing any arguments. That this template produces nothing but red links is merely the result of it not being used correctly and should not be a basis for deletion. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 05:08, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose For the same reason en:Module:Babel is still useful. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 05:11, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- The English module is only useful because every language code is a template. On meta, most templates do not exist, and the magic word transcludes template when it can’t find the language code anyways. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:12, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Then those should be created instead. Or the module should be modified. There's no need for deletion. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 15:59, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Why do you need the module when you can quite easily wrap the template around the magic word? Why do you want to rely on the module? Aaron Liu (talk) 16:00, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Then those should be created instead. Or the module should be modified. There's no need for deletion. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 15:59, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- The English module is only useful because every language code is a template. On meta, most templates do not exist, and the magic word transcludes template when it can’t find the language code anyways. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:12, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
- Delete - redundant to the magic word. – Ajraddatz (talk) 18:35, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
- Noting Billinghurst's comment, I have no objections to keeping the template with a note that it has been deprecated. – Ajraddatz (talk) 22:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Could you explain what they mean? How does the template or the module leverage the extension? Aaron Liu (talk) 22:31, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Noting Billinghurst's comment, I have no objections to keeping the template with a note that it has been deprecated. – Ajraddatz (talk) 22:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- Keep: To preserve historical content. Could be reverted back to a revision that works like before. —— Eric Liu(Talk) 09:09, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Ericliu1912 You mean the version that was basically a wrapper? Aaron Liu (talk) 12:44, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Per Ajraddatz, no need to keep redundant codes, such codes, if still need to keep, shall be happened at MediaWiki.org. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:50, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- How exactly is this related to mw.org? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:22, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- How exactly is this related to mw.org? ~~~~
Comment The template and the updated module, both leverage the extension. If we delete the template and the module, then we need to go and edit all the pages that we've broken, which is pointless. May as well deprecate the use, and leave it as is. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Keep This is churn for the sake of churn, as Billinghurst points out. * Pppery * it has begun 04:40, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst Sorry for the late reply, it looked like it was for a separate section.I don't see how the template and the module leverage the Babel extension; there are no references to the parser function, the extension does not provide anything else, and the module seems to quite standard-ly transclude the template User langcode dash number; all of the latter for natural languages were deleted when the extension was introduced. Thus, most pages using the template look like this, a box of redlinks. If anything, deleting this and migrating to the extension would unbreak pages and reduce confusion. Aaron Liu (talk) 00:34, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Ajraddatz @Pppery Could one of you explain what @Billinghurst meant by "the module leverages the extension"? Aaron Liu (talk) 12:05, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- You'd need to ask him. Replacing the existing template sounds like a lot of work for little benefit, but if someone is willing to do it I have no big objections. – Ajraddatz (talk) 14:34, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- It'd be pretty easy with AutoWikiBrowser. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- You'd need to ask him. Replacing the existing template sounds like a lot of work for little benefit, but if someone is willing to do it I have no big objections. – Ajraddatz (talk) 14:34, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Template:MediaWiki delete link 1, Template:MediaWiki delete link 2, Template:MediaWiki revert link[edit]
- Template:MediaWiki delete link 1 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Template:MediaWiki delete link 2 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Template:MediaWiki revert link (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Mediawiki messages that are not working. They are just replaced by the Mediawiki main page. 阿南之人 (talk) 10:32, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Delete Ancient cruft from 2006. * Pppery * it has begun 22:10, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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