Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 November 22



Template:Politics box

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 03:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * politics box
 * politics box end

the purpose of these templates is to generate the top and bottom segments of a sidebar covering the politics and government of a particular country, state, or region. it may seem as though this is a good idea, leading to uniformity in the presentation. however, a very larger portion of the former transclusions of this template were using collapsible lists, which required large chunks of very messy &lt;div&gt; markup. attempts were made to clean this up, with sandbox versions that turned this template into a frontend for sidebar or sidebar with collapsible lists, and that sandbox template was actively being used in live articles and fully protected templates. it would be possible to rewrite the template, but this doesn't really solve the problem that roughly half use a sidebar format and the other half use sidebar with collapsible lists. a better solution, is to simply use either sidebar or sidebar with collapsible lists directly and use very low-weight politics sidebar specific templates to generate the top and bottom sections (see, for example, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3APolitics_of_Malta&diff=523874218&oldid=523446564 Politics of Malta]). as full disclosure, I am the one who orphaned these templates, starting with the clean up to fix the transclusions of template:politics box/sandbox in article space, and then moving on to rewriting the rest for consistency. Frietjes (talk) 18:37, 22 November 2012 (UTC)


 * With all the heavy lifting done (thanks!) and my half-hearted transition to a more rigid format completed, this can finally be removed. Yay. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 19:24, 27 November 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 template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.