Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 September 15



Template:Reference help

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The result of the discussion was Delete Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 04:41, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Unused; appears to be a help template, but Referencing for beginners is a much better resource. -— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 12:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It's unused because it's designed to be substituted, presumably. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 13:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Any clue as to how it is supposed to be used? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I tell a lie. It actually looks like you're meant to physically copy and paste the generated markup. This isn't a useful use of templatespace. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 21:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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Template:Infobox Big Brother contestant

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The result of the discussion was Delete with a recommendation to list and other similar templates. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 04:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Propose merging Template:Infobox Big Brother contestant with Template:Infobox person.

I feel Infobox person would be a much better template for these people. The Big Brother contestant infobox gives hardly any information, and is used in fewer than 40 articles. The only differences are that the Big Brother infobox uses "season" or "series" to signify which series of Big Brother they were in, but this can be changed to the "known for" field, and "finish" to say in what position they finished in the show, but that may not be necessary as it will be mentioned in the article. Also I think the "location" parameter is being used for where the person lived rather than where they were born. But infobox person would give a lot more information, and several Big Brother contestants already use infobox person instead. Also several contestants are known for more than just Big Brother as they go on to gain notability afterwards, such as Jon Tickle. Anemone Projectors  11:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. What exactly to merge here? Just delet and create a redirect if necessary. "location" should change to "birthplace" or "birth_place". Only Infobox actor was using the "location" parameter and now this changed after the merging. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete and replace. I'm also not seeing anything worth merging here. The television parameter in Infobox person would seem to be of use in this case. PC78 (talk) 01:33, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Can we do the same for The Amazing Race contestant? 69.254.131.54 (talk) 16:55, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I couldn't agree more. I didn't even know it existed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:59, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
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