Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 April 1



Template:ICW Women's Championship

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2022 April 9. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 15:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ICW_Women's_Championship
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Template:OTRS topicon

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Feel free to enact the alternative renaming solution Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 15:25, 9 April 2022 (UTC) Propose merging Template:OTRS topicon with Template:VRT topicon.
 * OTRS topicon
 * VRT topicon

This one should be named VRT topicon as it is the primary one. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 21:04, 24 March 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 23:54, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment the new VRT topicon has poor contrast and doesn't pass WCAG contrast accessibility guidelines. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 22:14, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OPPOSE MERGE - the VRT topicon is easy to see - it’s used on other language sites - just delete the OTRS topicon as it is no longer valid.  Atsme 💬 📧 20:01, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * New suggestion I withdraw this merge nomination with the solution to move current Template:VRT topicon to Template:VRT topicon2 and Template:OTRS topicon to Template:VRT topicon per discussion. on my talk. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 21:16, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Template:Signpost welcome

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The result of the discussion was keep. ✗ plicit  23:44, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Does not appear to have been used since 2014 * Pppery * it has begun... 16:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Signpost welcome
 * Oppose It's still April Fools Day? That a template fell into dis-use doesn't negate its purpose. It should be used more, not deleted. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 16:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep I haven't interacted with this template in the past, but I plan on using it more often. It seems like it has a useful purpose. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 03:55, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep, per EpipPupper. Mjroots (talk) 12:28, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Alpine skiing at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  04:21, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused and redundant with noting but mainly red links. And created by sockpuppet. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 00:05, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Alpine skiing at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
 * Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Cross-country skiing at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  04:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused and filled with red links. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 00:26, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Cross-country skiing at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
 * Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  11:53, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Does not comply with WP:NAVBOX guidelines, which suggest that "the subject of the template should be mentioned in every article", "The articles should refer to each other, to a reasonable extent," and "If not for the navigation template, an editor would be inclined to link many of these articles in the See also sections of the articles." This collection of apocrypha (TLBotBatFBoE for short) is one of many, many published collections of apocrypha (if each collection had their own navbox, we'd have 10 similar navboxes at the bottom of a lot of articles). TLBotBatFBoE was merely reusing centuries old translations, was written millennia after these works were originally published, and is a rather eclectic set of works that would not easily be linked by a "See also" section (the letters of Ignatius are authentic letters by a 2nd century Christian; the Letter of Aristeas is a 2nd or 3rd century BCE Jewish work; the Gospel of Nicodemus is a medieval pseudepigraphic work; these aren't closely linked, and they're written over a millennium apart). The articles (correctly) don't generally mention their inclusion in this collection. It might be worth making an exception if TLBotBatFBoE was truly epicly popular, the authoritative 20th & 21st century source on these works, but a check of Amazon review count shows this collection with fewer reviews & ratings than other, more modern apocrypha collections. Anyway, apocrypha navboxes are fine, but the linked articles are already connected by Jewish Apocrypha, New Testament Apocrypha, and so on. This template is generally redundant to them with the exception of a few articles - and those articles (e.g. Odes of Solomon) should probably be included in a different navbox anyway with more directly related works. SnowFire (talk) 04:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden
 * Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:32, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:RTA infobox header
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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  14:16, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused rail template after the style was merged into the module. Gonnym (talk) 15:28, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * RTA infobox header
 * Delete per nom. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 16:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:GZM RDT
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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  14:16, 8 April 2022 (UTC) unused Frietjes (talk) 19:23, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * GZM RDT
 * Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:01, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:GZM color
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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  14:17, 8 April 2022 (UTC) replaced by Module:Adjacent stations/Guangzhou Metro. Frietjes (talk) 19:23, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * GZM color
 * GZM lines
 * GZM stations
 * GZM style
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 * S-line/GZM left/8
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 * S-line/GZM left/APM
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 * S-line/GZM left/GF
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 * Delete all per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:02, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Expand Bashkir
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The result of the discussion was keep. ✗ plicit  23:43, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused language expansion header. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Expand Bashkir
 * Keep as long as a Wikipedia edition in a language exists, then the Expand from Language template should exist, and would be expected to exist. ba.wikipedia.org exists. It should be marked as a low usage process. The general template Expand language recommends NOT using it directly, and instead creating wrapper templates like Expand Bashkir or Expand German instead, so these should all exist. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:37, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep This is yet another template of the sort that needs to be around before the first time somebody needs it. The alternative is for it not to exist when it's needed, which is worse than having a template that isn't currently being used. Largoplazo (talk) 03:00, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. It just needed appropriate documentation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:07, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Has a useful purpose, and having the template exist before usage is much more editor-friendly in this particular case. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 03:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:House of Bourbon ( Louis IX to Henry IV)
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The result of the discussion was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the template's undeletion. ✗ plicit  23:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused chart template. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * House of Bourbon ( Louis IX to Henry IV)
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Template:Imagemap Germany district MEI
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The result of the discussion was keep. ✗ plicit  23:45, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused Germany district image maps. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:45, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Imagemap Germany district MEI
 * Imagemap Germany district SHK


 * Keep. These templates were meant for use in the infoboxes for the muncipalities in these districts. For some reason the automatic transclusion of these templates from the infoboxes was broken, probably because the infobox uses the vehicle registration code (which was modified in the articles). Since I think these clickable maps are valuable, I have added them to the respective district articles (Meissen (district) and Saale-Holzland-Kreis). Markussep Talk 10:52, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Markussep if there is a bug in the functionally of the infobox you should post on it on the talk page so it can be fixed. Gonnym (talk) 11:08, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The problem is that since a few years several licence plate codes are possible in each district, so for instance Priestewitz now lists MEI, GRH, RG, RIE. The infobox doesn't find a template Imagemap Germany district MEI, GRH, RG, RIE, so no clickable map is given. Maybe we can think of something intelligent like looking for commas and ignoring everything after a comma. Markussep Talk 11:17, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep as now used. Gonnym (talk) 11:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Indian Air Force enlisted ranks
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The result of the discussion was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the template's undeletion. ✗ plicit  23:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused military rank template. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:49, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Indian Air Force enlisted ranks
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Template:Ipberemoved
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The result of the discussion was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the template's undeletion. ✗ plicit  23:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused message template. Not substituted anywhere if that was the intent. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:06, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ipberemoved
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Template:OG1color
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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  23:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Unused medal icon templates. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:12, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * OG1color
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 * OG3color


 * Delete. Regardless of being unused or not, we shouldn't be using these gold medal specific-type icons like those in Category:Medal icon templates (and which a few recent discussions have resulted in deletions). There are a few issues with these: the icon is just too small to be of use to a large portion of our readers; The color fails MOS:CONTRAST. Finally, these are pretty much redundant. The gold medal is not showing out of context and is showing in relation to a tournament so if it is an Olympic tournament it is obviously an Olympic medal. Creating medals for each tournament will be a huge maintenance burden instead of just dealing with 1 single gold medal template. Gonnym (talk) 08:15, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:A. Smith & Co.
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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2022 April 8. ✗ plicit  23:45, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * A._Smith_&_Co.
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Template:List of populated places in Colorado navbox
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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk) 15:11, 9 April 2022 (UTC) Can be replaced by the standard Compact ToC (see List of Xbox One games (A–L) as an example). Izno (talk) 23:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * List of populated places in Colorado navbox
 * Keep: This template works better than Compact ToC on these pages, so I think we should keep it. Thanks, Buaidh  talk e-mail 01:34, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * delete after replacing with Compact TOC or A-Z multipage list. also, it's very confusing that L-Z is split from the main page, but A-K is not.  they should either both be split, or neither. Frietjes (talk) 15:27, 4 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. ArvindPalaskar (talk) 17:33, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:AprilFoolsNotice
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The result of the discussion was April Fools' always. Until it's over (like now) (non-admin closure) Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis 02:23, 2 April 2022 (UTC) April Fools today, April Fools tomorrow, April Fools forever B2TF (talk) 05:54, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * AprilFoolsNotice
 * Oppose. I seem to get tired of it after 18:00 UTC in my experience. And it's not just me. It's only slightly past halfway, and likely 75% of what's going to happen has already happened. HotdogPi 12:51, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I personally don't like living in Groundhog Day, but I also personally don't like living in Groundhog Day. Oh right, I don't really want to live in Groundhog Day. Did I mention th – Toxi  Boi!  (public) 17:19, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Citation needed
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The result of the discussion was Citation added. April fools' is over. (non-admin closure) Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis 02:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC) Per WP:Citation needed. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis 04:35, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Citation needed
 * Delete as unnecessary and distracting. -KAP03 (Talk &#x2022;&#x20;Contributions &#x2022;&#x20;Email) 06:06, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unsourced since 2005. - Preceding signed comment added by Evil Sith Lord (talk • contribs) 07:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete It's only deleterious. Why draw attention to the fact that content is temporarily without sources? Just make up your own sources per WP:SOFIXIT. Content is meant to look good on the page; the act of tagging any article with this template is political dissent against the People and cannot be tolerated.  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 16:46, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Humor
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The result of the discussion was Hahaha. April fools' is over. (non-admin closure) Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis 02:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC) This template claims that the material tagged with it is not meant to be taken seriously. However, material tagged with this template is actually the only material on the entire site that is meant to be taken seriously. This needs to be fixed! - Preceding signed comment added by Evil Sith Lord (talk • contribs) 07:30, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Humor
 * Mark historical It used to be that the court jester could ridicule the king and get away with it by calling it comedy. Ever since the revolt of the proletariat, the king has been replaced by the oligarchy and the oligarchs seem to have less tolerance for comedy. Also pouring one out for, a former purveyor of humor for The Signpost as things got so serious. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 16:57, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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