Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 April 17



Template:Infobox Chinese/China

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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 15:04, 25 April 2021 (UTC) Infobox unused in mainspace. Izno (talk) 21:52, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Infobox Chinese/China
 * Delete Infobox Chinese and associated templates is a big mess with mergers waiting to implemented since 2017. This template is part of a previous version of said template which has been superseded by Module:Infobox multi-lingual name. Some of the others in the family (such as the beautifully named Template:Infobox Chinese/Korean) are still in use on tons of pages. --Trialpears (talk) 22:11, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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Template:Avyear

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The result of the discussion was delete. Izno (talk) 00:26, 25 April 2021 (UTC) Links should always go to expected destinations, which this one does not, and its misuse within bodies of text precludes fixing it properly. There were also major issues with overlinking, and with pages being linked to having no relevant information leading back, and it has since been replaced with a category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NiD.29 (talk • contribs)
 * avyear
 * Delete: Date linking was deprecated many years ago on Wikipedia and we have been steadily removing date links like this. This template has been misused for years, mostly acting as an WP:EASTEREGG that confuses readers and sends them to pages that have no relation or mention of the article they were on. - Ahunt (talk) 22:09, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
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Module:Wordify

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 15:05, 25 April 2021 (UTC) This huge (and growing longer every day) module appears to consist almost entirely of features with no conceivable use case on the English Wikipedia. The only features that have some potential use here are the ability to convert a number to words in the English language, which is redundant to Module:ConvertNumeric, and the ability to display a number in lakh and crore, which, by itself is not sufficiently complicated to merit a Lua module and is already implemented in Wikitext via Template:FXConvert/Wordify * Pppery * it has begun... 20:20, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Wordify
 * This module is intended to be used also by INRConvert as well as copied by other wikis. The original motivation was to get rid of FXConvert/Wordify and INRConvert/Wordify as the parent templates run too deep. Trigenibinion (talk) 21:47, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The purpose of this module is not to display a number only in words, as Module:ConvertNumeric does, but to simplify a number converting only the order of magnitude into a word. It also supports the long and indian scales as well as linking the words to an explanation. When bigger numbers get supported by Lua it will be possible to to extend the scales by word formation, not by listing every word. It is now a framework for easily adding this functionality to new languages. Trigenibinion (talk) 22:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * As for my misunderstanding about the usage of Module:ConvertNumeric or it needing to be implemented in Lua for technical reasons, you have a point there, but you're still approaching this from completely the wrong direction. This module, at the time I write this comment, is 1411 lines of code doing something that I was able to rewrite in about 70 lines of code at Module:Sandbox/pppery/wordifyRewrite. It's kind of ironic that you are saying this module serves to simplify something, when it's that complicated. And yes, I am aware that my module doesn't support non-English languages, or numbers greater than 1 nonillion, or the long scale, as I see no use case for any of that functionality, an argument that you do not appear to have addressed at all. I would, in principle, be OK with something like Module:Sandbox/pppery/wordifyRewrite existing at the title "Module:Wordify" if a need were demonstrated, however the module is currently unused outside of sandboxes, testcases, and it's own documentation page so there is no demonsrated need. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:31, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It is not still in production in FXConvert because that template is waiting for the Module:Formatnum sandbox to be promoted. The module is intended to be the same for all wikis, English wikipedia is its home because the program is in English in correspondence with the Lua keywords, as well as English wikipedia being the most popular source for translations. The point is to avoid the need for every wiki to implement its own algorithm. Trigenibinion (talk) 20:59, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The purpose of the English Wikipedia module namespace is to provide code for pages on the English Wikipedia, not to serve as a template repository. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:02, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I only write on English wikipedia because it is more likely that what I do will get translated. Trigenibinion (talk) 21:09, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. Provides functionality that's absent in other templates, has potential, is in an area that's apparently being actively worked on. – Uanfala (talk) 01:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 13:30, 19 March 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep It has features not available in other modules or templates even if it's not use. It's plausible it will be used on a page or two or exported elsewhere which would give keeping it some benefits. Since the benefits of deletion are tiny that makes it a small net positive in my book. --Trialpears (talk) 22:00, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 17:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
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Template:Gaunt's Ghosts

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2021 April 25. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 15:05, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Gaunt's_Ghosts
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Template:Superfinalen
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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk) 16:32, 24 April 2021 (UTC) This template is an outdated version of Template:Mesterfinalen, so it should be deleted in my opinion. It is only used in two articles, and the other template that I mentioned could easily be used instead. Sørhaug (talk) 15:58, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Superfinalen
 * Delete If the template is outdated, then I would recommend yes. Delete. But first, recheck to make sure that the template is completely outdated. From Burgundian Feudalism (talk)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 11:52, 18 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as content already covered by Mesterfinalen. GiantSnowman 11:54, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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