Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:UBX/Northern Premier League Division One South

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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 delete. Salvio Let's talk about it! 11:03, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

User:UBX/Northern Premier League Division One South


Used in an ill-advised series of edits which added userboxes to article infoboxes. These pertain to article content rather than to users and can't obviously be repurposed (users would have userboxes for teams they support rather than the leagues said teams played in). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 08:20, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Is there a better way to do this? All I wanted to do was have a small infobox for each team telling the reader very quickly where the team fits in with the entire English Football structure. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 08:55, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * A small roman number after the leagues name achieves the same thing, e.g.  Northern Premier League Premier Division (VII). -Koppapa (talk)
 * Let's not go introducing new conventions lightly. One Salient Oversight: if you believe this is a good idea in general for team articles, please consider proposing it at WT:FOOTY. I don't disagree in principle, though Koppapa's suggestion is preferable to userboxes. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 09:41, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that I like the idea of using Roman numerals to signify what tier of the English football league system a club plays at. Although it may be a fair point that it could be useful for people to see this information straight away, I think that many people would be completely lost as to what some apparently random Roman numerals could mean. I think that it could be better if the information was displayed as "Premier League (level 1)". However, that might still be unclear to some people. Also, we have the added confusion in England of the Conference National being designated as 'step 1'. Therefore, if someone made the easy mistake of confusing a step with a level, then they could think that the club could be playing at a very different standard to what is actually the case. Red  v  Blue  13:24, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete It says very clearly in the club's infobox which division they play in. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 09:11, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Totally unnecessary. Number   5  7  10:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete A simple bit of linked text is all that is needed in the infobox. This would be a precedent that could turn all infoboxes (currently neat summary factfiles) into hideous columns of brightly coloured outsized boxes. That would be a radical change to the nature of Wikipedia presentation, and if that is desired, it should be proposed at the appropriate level. WP:UBX clearly states "Userboxes may only be created or displayed in the User, Project, or Template namespaces."  Kevin McE (talk) 10:59, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete When used in the infobox they are just a bright and distracting box in the middle of a neat summary of the article's subject. Userboxes shouldn't be used in article space anyway.  Del ♉ sion 23  (talk)  19:34, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, for same reasons as Delusion above. It's Malpass93! (drop me a ___) 21:58, 25 October 2011 (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.