Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Template standardisation

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy keep; 60 people voted for different proposals (See vote results). Reform should take place on talk pages, not VfD. Talrias (t | e | c) 01:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Template standardisation
This is instruction creep. It makes no sense whatsoever to standardize the color of templates. On the contrary, the rest of the world out there (afk and online designers) are talking about color coding and user-friendliness. Fenice 20:48, 17 July 2005 (UTC) I have also done some research on how this guideline was set up: the choice of having different colors was not even presented, and the voting system excluded opposing votes.--Fenice 21:22, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Um, no. Keep.  This is a worthy attempt to bring some kind of order to a horrendous mess.  It was chosen in a fair vote.  You, Fenice, are only making this allegation because it disagrees with you.  There are ways to change policy/guideline.  VfD ain't one. smoddy 20:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, obviously. May I also assume that most of the people that voted are also wanting this to be kept.  violet/riga (t) 21:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. Any disagreement with this page should be addressed in another way. Maurreen 21:32, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. I do not agree with the Template Standardisation guideline, but seeking deletion of the page is not the way to go about expressing disagreement. Courtland 21:42, July 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is in Wikipedia namespace and not an encyclopedia article, but apparently, an established style guideline. I am no fan of this template standardization, but I believe that guidelines are out of the scope of Vfds'. See the deletion policy.  Vfd'' is not the right place to propose changes to or removal of guidelines: the page should be retained in any case, even if a decision is made to remove the policy, purely as a matter of the  record Wikipedians can all see. --Mysidia 21:54, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * No, I checked this. You can list guidelines according to the deletion policy. It makes no sense to keep a guideline forever, does it?--Fenice 22:02, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. (Dare I say spurious nomination?) This is a recent guideline supported by consensus and a vote. The transition to the new standardized format isn't even complete yet. --MarkSweep 22:16, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


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