Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User SriLankan

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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:  userfy to User:NandanaM/User SriLankan.  —&#8288;Scotty Wong &#8288;— 19:59, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Template:User SriLankan

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This should probably be merged into Template:User proud sri lankan. Only visual difference is the bgcolor of the templates. --Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 04:03, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, no reason for deletion. If you’re not sure it should be merged, don’t. Colour might matter to someone. Try asking on the talk page. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:49, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * After doing whatever editorially, Userfy per WP:UBM. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The userbox migration was a project to move userboxes that were either controversial or unencyclopedic silliness out of template space and into user space. I don't see how "this user is proud to be nationality X" falls under either of the criteria for userficaton as part of the userbox migration. 192.76.8.73 (talk) 01:28, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * No, not quite right. It was about moving ALL Userboxes out of Template space.
 * Template aficionados don’t like user templates, and especially not unused templates and redundant templates. Templates are accepted in WikiProjects, userspace, and mainly as subpages of User:UBX. New users, like newer than fifteen years, don’t know this, and like this case, put the userbox in template space where it irritates the Template crowd, who themselves are not old enough to know the templates should be moved to User:UBX.
 * There is no deletion reason here. “Probably should be merged” means speedy keep WP:SK#1.  Just merge, or redirect, however, the proper thing is to move them both to under User:UBX. SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:52, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That is just flat out wrong. The original German wikipedia implementation of the userbox migration involved moving everything to user space. The english wikipedia decided to only move Controversial or Unencyclpedic userboxes, things that are potentially of use to building the encyclopedia (like telling people your expertise, languages and wikiproject affiliations) are fine to remain in template space. Telling people where you live is potentially of use in building the encyclopedia (e.g. finding people who could take a photograph of something) so it is fine to remain in template space. This is all quite clearly explained if you had read WP:UBX.
 * Your call for a speedy close is also completely frivolous. It is completely normal for templates to be sent deletion processes to discus merging them, see the literal first line of WP:TFD . Are you also planning on running round WP:TFD and WP:CFD telling them that the merge discussions there should be speedy kept? In either way I have given a rationale for deletion below, so, as stated in the policy, SK1 now does not apply. 192.76.8.73 (talk) 12:45, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * It’s my reading of WP:UBX and similar pages that basically every userbox was moved out of template space, and it is my observation for many years here that newer Userboxes put in template space get given a hard time. Yes, Userboxes remain in template space, but there are many more well organised under User:UBX, and the ones under User:UBX are not subject to deletionism by template aficionados.
 * “Should probably be merged” is definitely within scope of WP:SK#1. MFD is not for merge proposals.  At MfD, the D stands for Deletion.  At TfD and CfD, and RfD, the D stands for Discussion. SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * On the contrary, I think we should merge Template:User proud sri lankan into Template:User SriLankan, as the latter has more functionality and adds the user to a category for Sri Lankans. ☢️Plutonical☢️  ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵘⁿᶦᶜᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿˢ  15:37, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. or Redirect to Template:User Sri Lankan. Duplicate template created at a misspelled title created as the first edit of a brand new editor, it appears to be a test edit. Sure colour might matter to someone, but this template currently has 0 transclusions and isn't in use anywhere, even the creator is currently using Template:User Sri Lankan on their user page. Having duplicate templates at misspelled titles is completely unnecessary, if customising the background colour of this template is essential to someone (which it doesn't seem to be, given no-one is using this) then it can be done as a parameter of the main template. 192.76.8.73 (talk) 22:53, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * IP, please register to continue to participate in project space discussions like this. Long term person based accountability is required for these discussions, and by using a shared IP you are unconnectable to your history on the project. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Meh. Since it has no transclusions, there's no real need for it to be in template-space, but then again there's no real need for it not to be in template-space. As a courtesy, I'd probably be inclined, albeit weakly, to userfy to the creator's userspace. It would probably be best in future to just merge BOLDly (with perhaps a polite note on the creator's talk page): SmokeyJoe is correct that the letter of WP:CSK #1 is met when merger is proposed, and (as this discussion shows) bringing it to MfD is unlikely to be very helpful. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:56, 31 January 2022 (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.