Template talk:Infobox volleyball biography/Archive 1

Best results
Is there any reason the bestresults variable is needed? It should be changed to result, so that bestresults is not needed. Any objection? -- ReyBrujo 17:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No, no objection at all. As you can see I created the template today. I just did some copying from other infoboxes. This variable wasn't needed in the first place. I'm just a noob when it comes to things like this. Thanks for solving this, SportsAddicted 21:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. I removed it. Whenever the infobox has the resultyears variable set, it will show the information. This should be more user friendly. -- ReyBrujo 21:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Perfect, thank you. SportsAddicted 23:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Deletion?
Why is this template being deleted? beach volleyball and volleyball players are so much differents. Beach have partners, indoor have national teams and club, and numbers, club awards, national team awards. Templates are not even close the same, stop this deletion please. Oscar987 03:57, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Template:Infobox Volleyball biography
 * Template:Infobox Volleyball player


 * The proposal is to merge the two templates. The two templates are mostly the same, with some minor differences.  I would be happy to mock-up a merged version so you could see how the same template could be used for both cases.  Thanks for your input. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  04:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Why are the same?
It is because include the name volleyball? They just share name, birth and dead info, about 45%, can't you just leave the two of them the way they are, why do you insist in deletion? Are you going to fix all the articles? Oscar987 16:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not deletion, it's merging, and yes I am willing to sort out all the details to make it happen. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 17:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * So yo are agree to change every single 90+ player using beach volley template and the 202 using the volleyball one? And yes it is deletion, because you haven't nominate the template for merge, it was for deletion! Oscar987 02:53, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am agreeing to change all of them. I had over 16000 edits just last month, mostly cleanup up articles using WP:AWB. The number of transclusions of the volleyball templates may not be that high due to double counting of redirects, but you are correct that there are under 300 total. We are working to correct the misconceptions about WP:TFD being only about deletion.  See Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion.  Once the merger is complete, the two templates will point to the same place. Thanks Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  05:29, 9 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Update As a proof-of-concept, I merged the two templates in the sandbox. It appears that both templates could use this common sandbox version, with no changes to the individual transclusions.  A couple results are show on the testcases page.  I also changed the  to a  to make it more clear that this is a merger proposal. Please let me know if there are specific testcases that you would like me to try. Thanks. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  01:38, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that transclusions looks fine. I have no futher questions. Oscar987 19:09, 15 October 2009 (UTC)