Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Index templates

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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. T. Canens (talk) 03:55, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Index templates


A truly anaemic project page which covers a mere handful of "index templates", which are sort of half-and-half navboxes and TOCs. There's little point in grouping them this way as they're never going to be used on the same articles as one another. A good fix would be turning this into category:index templates, which can be automatically populated. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:37, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Request to withdraw the nomination: please do not delete this page. It was built for 2 very specific purposes: 1) for maintenance - having the class of templates displayed together on the same page to make it easy to inspect them periodically for problems such as damage, errors, formatting, overgrowth, etc.   2) for tracking the evolution of all of the templates of this type, so that any improvements can be spotted and applied to the other templates if desirable.  The point is to be able to see these templates for fast inspection and comparison.  It's a tool, and it's in the appropriate namespace.  There's no reason to get rid of it if someone is making use of it to maintain or develop the encyclopedia.  Please withdraw the nomination.  Sincerely, The Transhumanist 12:55, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The page was created five years ago and I'd wager that it covers less than half of the deployed instances of this sort of template. As a tracking tool it is ineffective. The appropriate way to track pages is by category, rather than through manual updates of a big table. In fact, a tool should probably be able to generate a page showing the templates' output automatically from an appropriately-populated category. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:10, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per Thumperward. No one indeed seems to be using it. It's incomplete and the topic is better maintained by a category than a dusty, unused project page that has to be edited by hand. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep and set a bot to keep it updated. It's helpful to have a page which shows how the templates are used and what they look like without having to go through each one individually. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:22, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * A bot can hardly keep it updated when there's no categorisation by which a bot can identify the pages in question. Conversely, the page can be trivially recreated if and when we have any degree of consistency in this area, but that's a long way off at the moment. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:59, 13 March 2012 (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.