Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 December 20



Template:Miss Earth titleholders 2001

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The result of the discussion was relist to Dec 30. Primefac (talk) 06:44, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

The titleholder templates simply display the 4 annual winners - info that is already in the article the template for that year is on. Plus the main winner is also in the Infobox. This makes the templates an unnecessary link farm.
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2001
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2002
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2003
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2004
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2005
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2006
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2007
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2008
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2009
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2010
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2011
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2012
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2013
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2014
 * Miss Earth titleholders 2015
 * Miss Earth 2011 delegates
 * Miss Earth 2012 delegates
 * Miss Earth 2013 delegates
 * Miss Earth 2014 delegates
 * Miss Earth 2015 delegates

The delegates templates are a massive list of every one of the 80+ girls that competed each year, plus all the girls that DID NOT compete. Many of these girls were simply cast by franchise holders to go to the global event without winning any local event. These lists were also in the article for each year but various editors determined the info was completely unsourced, overly detailed and promotional fancruft of no encyclopedic value. Both sets of templates display information usable only on one year article, which strongly suggests they are not required as templates. Their function as a navigation aid between event articles is already covered by yet another template.

These articles appear to be built out by professional paid editors (a number of whom were blocked as socks) that were very generous with links back to the sponsoring organization. Efforts to trim them are met with restoration by Single Purpose Accounts who rebuild them again without sources. I propose deleting all the templates listed, leaving the simple navigation template covering 15 years (not nominated) For an example see Miss Earth 2014. I also found many of these were not in use, and have removed most of the others from use other than in 2014. Legacypac (talk) 09:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, I know for a fact that the majority of the templates above were not created by a paid editor because I created them Miss Earth titleholders 2004 through Miss Earth titleholders 2012 were created by me. The delegate templates are very useful as they link articles of subjects with a common interst group making the navigational linkages important. The titleholder templates serve a similar purpose.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 09:36, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes I realize you created some of the templates but the mass of articles the link are often created by paid editors. The navigation function is provided by the simple year template. 09:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete The pertinent policies strongly support deleting the massive, entirely non-notable, grossly inadequately referenced, unverifiable delegates templates. These uncorroborated, trivial, fancruft lists give a long list of delegates for each year, some of whom are appointed arbitrarily, or who do not attend the final pageant etc. etc. These lists have Wikipedia act as an unpaid web hosting service for content of a type that absolutely needs to find a happy home on the commercial sponsor's own web page, or some similar venue, where it is secure, finalized and official. The titleholder templates are less egregious, in that they have some references (or can in principle be referenced and verified), but, as the nomination correctly states, their function has already been totally met by alternative (and already redundant) links. In addition to the two sets of linking mentioned in the nomination, there is also List of Miss Earth titleholders, so there are at least 3 ways to run the cross links already. (Off topic commentary about professional paid editor issues is entirely irrelevant.) FeatherPluma (talk) 03:51, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I think deleting the template is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. What we need to do is to delete all the non-notable delegates that have articles. If half of the delegate articles are for non-notable subjects that does not mean we should delete the templates. It means we should only link among the half that are notable and delete the rest of the articles. Navigation across the delegates that are in fact notable is valuable. I believe that all delegates are in fact titleholders in their countries. Also, problems at verifying which delegates should not be addressed by deleting navigational links between them.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:48, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


 * comment I created some of these for consistency (others already existed). I am not too concerned if these went away (it could be the right thing; I really have not investigated). That said, I believe this meta template should also be added to the list of those considered:
 * Miss Earth and runners-up titleholders
 * It will be totally unused and unnecessary if those considered in this listing are deleted. Uzume (talk) 14:28, 26 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I have just contacted, , , and who have also created some of the templates at issue.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:34, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * How is that not blatant canvassing? Each creator was properly notified by me already via Twinkle. Legacypac (talk) 03:56, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It is obviously not canvassing and never has been. I don't know what Twinkle is. However, it is always customary to notify creators of templates at TFD on their user pages. That is what I did.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:00, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Placing your canvassing effort right below my notification of this discussion. You also make it look like I did not properly notify by posting in this thread how you went out and notified the article creators. Legacypac (talk) 20:13, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Please learn the definition of WP:CANVASS. In no way is a notification of editors of content up for deletion a form of canvassing. I apologize for the redundant notifications. It is likely that most of them will not even be read. Of the four editors that I contacted, 2 are inactive and 1 is barely active.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:09, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
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Template:FBS Radio Network Inc.

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The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) sst ✈  03:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * FBS Radio Network Inc.
 * Delete. Fails WP:NAVBOX criterion 4. The subject does not have an article but the latter is a redirect. Sixth of March 09:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Template:UMBN

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The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) sst ✈  03:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * UMBN
 * Delete. Fails WP:NAVBOX criterion 4. The subject of the template has its article deleted. Sixth of March 09:10, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Template:South Africa cricket squad

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The result of the discussion was merge into South Africa Cricket Team. Primefac (talk) 06:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC) Propose merging Template:South Africa cricket squad with Template:South Africa Cricket Team.
 * South Africa cricket squad
 * South Africa Cricket Team

Nominating on behalf of SWASTIK 25. He requested to merge the templates in a move discussion. I closed the requested move and opened the merge discussion here. cyberdog 958 Talk 05:39, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge - Obvious. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:44, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge without changing the actual one. &mdash; Swastik Chakraborty (User talk)  08:14, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge - inevitable. Aliwal2012 (talk) 17:17, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
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