User:Zackmann08/unused templates/notes

This is based off of a quarry query. If you want to see the latest version of the query, please see https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/33749.
 * It currently ignores templates containing 'stub', '/sandbox', '/testcases' and a few other strings (shown below) in the title, along with templates in certain categories.

Suggested improvements

 * Please add comments below in bullet point form of any changes you would like to see to the query. I will strike as I implement them. Thanks!!! -- Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:06, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * Have a sub-page for Metadata templates. --Gonnym (talk) 15:47, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * This should exclude templates that transclude Subst only in the docs subpage or the template itself (with the possible exception of  Subst only itself, but this edge case is probably unlikely to fall to 0 transclusions.)  eπi  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 00:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * could you explain why these should be excluded? From what I understand of what nosubst means, it's just a notice that the templates should be transcluded and not substituted, which is what we are searching for. So a template that has that notice but has 0 transclusions is still unused. What am I missing? --Gonnym (talk) 13:38, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Oops, you're right, I meant to say Subst only. eπi  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 13:41, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Now that makes sense. I think that template is already coverd though. The doc at that template page says that pages using that template get placed in Category:Wikipedia substituted templates and that category appears in the query here. Did you find templates on this list that have that tag? --Gonnym (talk) 13:45, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure I did have an example, but unfortunately I don't believe I wrote it down specifically. I'll search around my browser history a bit to see if I can find it. eπi  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 13:48, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure. Also note that it might have been tagged with that template after the list was generated. Until Zack returns and generates an updated list, it will still be there. --Gonnym (talk) 13:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Funnily enough, it's one of your recent RMs: (unfortunately, this has now been completely replaced instead of moved; I'll probably set up a sandbox duplicate in template namespace soon to see if it's caught by the next run of the query.) has, but it's still on this list. I'm still trying to determine what caused it to show up.
 * It's not a caching with the Zack's list, because the doc had the note when the template was created. Maybe auto doesn't populate the template into Category:Wikipedia substituted templates? eπi  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 14:04, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Nope, it's definitely in the category (or there's the off-chance that it's cached in the category but it hasn't updated, but that seems unlikely). eπi  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 14:05, 5 May 2019 (UTC) (edited 11:30, 13 May 2019 (UTC))
 * Count templates that are used only on their own documentation/sandbox/testcases pages as unused. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:07, 8 June 2019 (UTC)