Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User UdelaR

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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:  keep. ✗ plicit  23:25, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Template:User UdelaR

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I was just tagging Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of the Republic, Uruguay as an empty category (CSD C1) and noticed this template which isn't being used by any editor. Are these university userboxes typically deleted or retained in case there is a need for it in the future? By the way, Twinkle is posting this at MFD even though it is a template. I guess this is where userbox discussions go. Liz Read! Talk! 21:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Userboxes go to MfD, not TfD.
 * If the interest is in tidying up, Userfy the userbox.
 * What the userbox previously used? If yes, keep, so as not to break the old versions of the Userpage.
 * If the category is the issue, remove the autocategoriation code from the userbox. Done here.  Note WP:USERBOXCAT, autocategorisation should not be used without good reason.  There’s an historical problem that someone thought autocategorisation in Userboxes was a good idea, and it gets copied mindlessly. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Support userifying the userbox per WP:USERFY. Note: For future reference, please use Mfd-inline instead of Mfd when nominating userboxes for deletion as to not screw up the formatting. — MATRIX! (a good person!)&#91;citation unneeded&#93; 16:31, 19 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep = No need to delete; might be used again. Yes, User:Liz, all userbox deletions go to MFD, although I don't know why.  I don't think it is due to Coriolis force, which is reversed in Uruguay from what some of us are familiar with.  We see that Twinkle is clever enough to recognize that a userbox is a userbox and goes to MFD.  Robert McClenon (talk) 05:45, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * This whole time I thought it was due to Ekman transport or lunar occultation. Duly signed, ⛵ WaltClipper - (talk)  12:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Soft keep - It might not be in use now, but unlike patent garbage like the "trillionth edit pool", it is actually plausible that this could be used, and we don't have a server space limitation. Obviously one would prefer that a category have at least one user before creating one, but at the moment it's not causing any problems. Duly signed, ⛵ WaltClipper - (talk)  12:55, 21 November 2023 (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.