User:Muhandes/deprecating

I would like to deprecate Certification Cite Ref as an external, usable template, keeping it only as an internal template of Certification Table Entry. Let me explain. I created Certification Cite Ref in 2011 for two purposes. The first was as an internal part of Certification Table Entry, used for easily creating named references through cite certification. The second was to allow reuse of references from Certification Table Entry inside the article. The first purpose is well served and used without a problem for the last 12 years. However, the second purpose has become problematic. First and foremost, it provides a non-standard solution to a problem which already has a standard solution. Named references can be created through the refname parameter (added in 2014) and reused explicitly. The solution used by Certification Cite Ref is unique for this template, unfamiliar to all but very few editors, and thus makes editing awkward for new editors. Second, it tends to break to easily. The named ref is, so if any of these parameters is changed in the table, the reference breaks. I've seen this quite often.