Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User MIT Apply

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  Redirect. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 11:34, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Template:User MIT Apply

 * — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 06:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 06:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

old and unused. I don't think we need userboxes based on where a person plans to apply in the future, and also identifies the user as a high school student. Frietjes (talk) 17:15, November 10, 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Unused, so why is it a problem?  Graduating high school students are old enough to be responsible for self declarations, and identifying as a high school student is not revealing of personal data.  Intended tertiary institutional enrolment is probably not a good self-description for editor networking, but that could be fixed by editing.  eg change "This user is going to apply for MIT after he/she finishes High School" to "This user enrolled at MIT in 2008".
 * RE "unused"? It was used on past userpage versions.  The deletion of templates due to current non-use I often find very annoying as it wrecks the presentation of old page versions that used the template.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:46, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * if we make your proposed change, we should move it to Template:User MIT enrolled, which then make it redundant with Template:User MIT graduate or Template:User MIT which are used. the author of the userbox last edited here in 2009 ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:WikiZorro&diff=next&oldid=214607422 retired here]) and is using Template:User MIT.  the usage timeline for the Apply box on the author's page can be seen here [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AWikiZorro&type=revision&diff=208583132&oldid=207159073] [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:WikiZorro&diff=next&oldid=208585111] [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:WikiZorro/Userboxes&diff=next&oldid=224880451]. Frietjes (talk) 17:45, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Template%3AUser+apply&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=54wo56sr80a48pgo3jx79z0ky this search] returns no other "apply" userboxes. Frietjes (talk) 17:47, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Either redirect to Template:User MIT, or (now that we are here) "delete in favor of" Template:User MIT. Agree with discouraging userboxes based on future intentions.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:36, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.