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NCAA Division I athletic director navboxes

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. So many were removed or changed during the discussion. Please feel free to renominate any that you still wish to have deleted. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 21:52, 14 June 2018 (UTC) Fails WP:EXISTING... only one active link in which this template is used in... needs at least 4 to pass. Corky 17:14, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Bucknell Bison athletic director navbox – one active link, needs at least 4.
 * Seton Hall Pirates athletic director navbox – one active link, needs at least 4.
 * Dartmouth Big Green athletic director navbox – one active link, needs at least 4.
 * South Florida Bulls athletic director navbox – one active links, needs at least 4.
 * Ohio Valley Conference athletic director navbox – two active links, needs at least 4.
 * Please userfy any of these that come up delete to my userspace. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 17:42, 6 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Dartmouth ADs. It now has four articles linked. Cbl62 (talk) 18:14, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have withdrawn Dartmouth. Corky  18:56, 6 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Bucknell and USF ADs. Each now has four articles linked. Cbl62 (talk) 11:31, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have withdrawn Bucknell and USF. Thanks, Corky  03:06, 9 June 2018 (UTC)


 * keep, clearly more articles are being created, and Ohio Valley Conference athletic director navbox is used on 4 pages. Frietjes (talk) 12:49, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
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Template:Maintained portal flag

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The result of the discussion was delete after replacing with Portal maintenance status Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 22:18, 14 June 2018 (UTC) Internal maintenance items should not be visible to readers when no action is needed. Remove the visible component (flag) or restrict use to talk pages. (Portal flag talk exists for the latter.) Additionally, tagging something as maintained is misleading since when it becomes unmaintained, the nonexistent maintainer doesn't remove it. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:58, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Maintained portal flag
 * The primary reason for developing a flag specifically for the portal page was to provide an indicator to AWB and other auto-editing tools of the Portal's status. Such as the flag that a page met certain criteria that makes it exempt from batch maintenance runs. These portals will be checked periodically to ensure the flags are still relevant. It was specifically requested that the indicator be visual, and not just in the source, however, if there is significant objection to this, it can be changed. IIRC, there were technical reasons mentioned regarding why placing the flag on the talk page was insufficient, although if that could be solved, we wouldn't need to use flags on the portal page itself. If you'd like, you can join the discussion here on the WikiProject Portals talk page. &mdash; AfroThundr (u &middot; t &middot; c) 13:03, 6 June 2018 (UTC)


 * delete. That is not the way to flag things for internal maintenance, especially as there is no indication what it actually does, so will likely be clicked on more often in error than by someone actually using it as intended. The proper way is a category. An hidden category is hidden from readers but visible to anyone who wants to see it, has a descriptive name so is unlikely to be clicked in error, as well as being easily browsed via the actual category. Whatever the specific request this is the wrong way to do it.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 10:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The flag templates add the page to hidden tracking categories already. As I mentioned above, there was originally a need to have some visible indicator on the portal page itself, if not a top icon then maybe somewhere else. We are currently discussing potential alternatives to a visual flag, and whether tagging the portal page instead of the talk page is necessary on our talk page. To prevent a fractured conversation, please join the discussion there. &mdash; AfroThundr (u &middot; t &middot; c) 13:17, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 'our talk page' ? There was and is no need for any visual indicator; please link to the discussion where this was requested as I have been unable to find it. But the indicator, and so the template, is not needed. Just add them to the category. Easy, much clearer, and much easier to remove 18 months from now when someone notices a redundant category on a portal.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 16:47, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks/Archive 1 and the following section. Removing a template is not particularly hard – no harder than removing Use British English, Use DMY dates, nobots, or any other maintenance template. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 02:11, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Note: I've started working on Portal maintenance status as a proposed merged template that also addresses issues raised both here and on the Wikiproject talkpage. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Technical for discussion. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 02:57, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep for now, noting that (a) issues with the template can be resolved by editing, (b) there is a current discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Technical, and (c) there's no reason not to help out those performing portal maintenance if it can be done without affecting readers. Editing is preferable to deletion per WP:ATD; deletion while discussion is ongoing would be disruptive, and assuming the issues do get resolved, it would cause a lot of "busy work" of both deleting and then re-adding templates to hundreds of pages. No prejudice to renominating following the discussion, if the issues don't get resolved. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 15:41, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * How is tagging something as maintained is misleading since when it becomes unmaintained, the nonexistent maintainer doesn't remove it addressable by editing? —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:04, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The template just needs a date parameter, automatically filled in by AnomieBOT, and a process for removal, such as a portal_talk page message after some reasonable amount of time (e.g. six months), requesting that the maintainer update the date if they're still active, and automatic removal of the maintained status a short time later (e.g. one month) if not updated. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 00:40, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Or even skip the talk page message, as long as removal is done without a bot flag, and with a very clear edit summary. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 00:44, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - as above Dreamy Jazz talk &#124; contribs 14:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Replace with and then delete – a better template that makes this one redundant and deprecated. (Note that it's only the bureaucracy of TfD that's stopping such improvement from happening now) - Evad37 &#91;talk] 00:37, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Replace per Evad37. We're ready to roll over to the new template now. &mdash; AfroThundr (u &middot; t &middot; c) 02:36, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
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Template:Non-standard portal flag

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The result of the discussion was delete after replacing with Portal maintenance status Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 22:20, 14 June 2018 (UTC) Internal maintenance items should not be visible to readers when no action is needed. Remove the visible component (flag) or restrict use to talk pages. (Portal flag talk exists for the latter.) —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:58, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Non-standard portal flag
 * See above response on the other portal flag. &mdash; AfroThundr (u &middot; t &middot; c) 13:03, 6 June 2018 (UTC)


 * delete as above.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 10:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per above - Evad37 &#91;talk] 15:49, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - as above Dreamy Jazz talk &#124; contribs 14:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Replace with and then delete – per above - Evad37 &#91;talk] 00:38, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Replace same as above. &mdash; AfroThundr (u &middot; t &middot; c) 02:37, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

This should really be part of the above TFD, all the arguments that apply to that template also apply to this template, and merging is a possible outcome per the discussion on the wikiproject talk page. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 15:49, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
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Template:Newarticletext-confirmed

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The result of the discussion was merge and delete. This was a relic from before WP:ACTRIAL and WP:ACREQ were a thing. I've merged it into MediaWiki:Newarticletext''' &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  20:49, 7 June 2018 (UTC) Single use template, should be merged with the article MediaWiki page. &#123;&#123;3x&#124;p&#125;&#125;ery (talk) 00:09, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Newarticletext-confirmed
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