Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 October 27



Template:2020 XFL staff footer

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  14:52, 3 November 2022 (UTC) per NFL staff footer discussion, linking between staff templates is excessive. Frietjes (talk) 14:48, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * 2020 XFL staff footer
 * participants in the October 19 discussion. Frietjes (talk) 14:51, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete - template linking to templates is against policy  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 14:54, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - same issues as there were in the template noted. Nigej (talk) 15:05, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per NFL template. wjematherplease leave a message... 15:09, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as per the previous TFD. I was going to nominate this myself a couple of days ago, but forgot. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:37, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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Template:NJ Atlantic County Commissioners

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The result of the discussion was delete. Izno (talk) 19:41, 3 November 2022 (UTC) This is linked nowhere on WP. There is some utility, but none of the members on the commission have articles, and this is purely in violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Template is completely broken anyway, must've been made long ago and since it's not used in any articles as a template, its status must have been ignored. There are templates for every NJ county just like this. PerpetuityGrat (talk) 14:47, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * NJ Atlantic County Commissioners
 * Note, I will also be recommending the deletion of Template:NJ Bergen County Commissioners, Template:NJ Burlington County Commissioners and all the other ones that are also straight up orphans. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 17:56, 1 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete An article rather than a template. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep The nomination is based primarily on the claim that "This is linked nowhere on WP", though a look at the links to the template lists that the template is used in the articles for Atlantic City, New Jersey, Absecon, New Jersey, Brigantine, New Jersey, Buena, New Jersey, Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, Corbin City, New Jersey, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, Estell Manor, New Jersey, Folsom, New Jersey, Galloway Township, New Jersey, Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey, Hammonton, New Jersey, Linwood, New Jersey, Longport, New Jersey, Margate City, New Jersey, Mullica Township, New Jersey, Ventnor City, New Jersey, Weymouth Township, New Jersey, Northfield, New Jersey, Pleasantville, New Jersey, Port Republic, New Jersey and Somers Point, New Jersey.Read the articles. See how it's used across the county. Alansohn (talk) 11:48, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * This template is NOT used in any of these articles you linked. Edit source, search Template:NJ Atlantic County Commissioners is not used... so not sure why you would say otherwise. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 13:44, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, so since NJ changed the names of their county officers from county freeholders to county commissioners, I did not see Template:NJ Atlantic County Commissioners (since they're added as Template: NJ Atlantic County Freeholders). Regardless, this info should be integrated into the articles and not used in the form of a template. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 14:50, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * All of those listed above violate WP:TG, so the existence of them is not a valid reason to keep this one, which is also a clear template space violation. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:00, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete violates WP:TG, particularly Templates should not normally be used to store article text, as this makes it more difficult to edit the content. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:06, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Ford North America vehicles

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  14:52, 3 November 2022 (UTC) Only used in three pages, and all those pages also have the more commonly used and updated Template:Ford vehicles. If it weren't redundant, I would just redirect this template to that one. Vossanova o&lt; 14:00, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Ford North America vehicles
 * Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant to Template:Ford vehicles. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 11:28, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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Template:School-leaving age
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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit  11:54, 3 November 2022 (UTC) This template is almost unusual rather than a plain table. 202.164.39.147 (talk) 02:19, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  06:38, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * School-leaving age
 * Keep pending a comprehensible rationale. This is a typical special-purpose table row template that makes it much easier to set up and maintain a wikitable than it usually is. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:44, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Or should just merge into plain table instead, without age gap? 103.38.5.226 (talk) 23:09, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Subst and delete single article template used to generate boilerplate. -- 65.92.244.114 (talk) 11:09, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Subst and delete per 65. I don't see the necessity of setting the colors in a template. (OSE argument: everyone else who uses a color in their tables gets along just fine.) --Izno (talk) 03:32, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Catholic bishops and archbishops in Scotland
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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  02:29, 3 November 2022 (UTC) Unused and same list of articles already transcluded using Template:Catholic dioceses in England and Wales and Template:Catholic Church in Scotland. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:46, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Cross posted to
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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  02:28, 3 November 2022 (UTC) Unused. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:44, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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Module:Afghanistan conflict detailed map
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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk) 15:53, 6 November 2022 (UTC) Totally fails WP:V. The war is over and this map has outlived its usefulness. People are updating control of towns based on hearsay (from Twitter, including citing rebels themselves!) that there was a clash in the town with rebels. A clash does not mean control, and these reports are unverified. RS tell us the Taliban have effective control of the whole country. Many of the reports being used are wildly out of date. These clashes need to be discussed in prose; there is not enough verifiable information for a map. 25stargeneral (talk) 21:20, 19 October 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  00:11, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Afghanistan conflict detailed map
 * Afghanistan conflict detailed map
 * Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:37, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not entirely sure what effective control means, but consider putting any recent info from RS into Republican insurgency in Afghanistan, as its tone seems to imply there's a reasonable area not under their control, and its lead seem to be over half a year out of date. If poor info is being put into the detailed map, it likely is ending up there too. Banak (talk) 00:07, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 *  Keep Comment Yes there is a thing with being out of date due to the poor information environment (this is why the idea of removing non-NRF rebellions from the map after a certain amount of inactivity has been floated before). However, tweets are used in compliance with WP:TWITTER and WP:SPS (I don't use anything that isn't from a news outlet or a verified journalist.) I don't see anyone citing the NRF spokesman either (he's a clown but that's besides the point).
 * Regarding clashes, I think we're well-aware that they don't mean control. There was a questionable addition of "clashes" to the map at the beginning of October, which was reverted. However, I don't see anyone purporting that "clashes = control." Firestar464 (talk) 03:56, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You cited the NRF spokesman by using this source:, and there are others like that. These are unconfirmed reports with no follow up. This map is unencyclopedic. 25stargeneral (talk) 19:29, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, that one? I didn't cite him in the actual edit; I simply found an article with the names of the villages so that I could search for coords. --Firestar464 (talk) 03:36, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep While the map most certainly may be somewhat out of date in some areas, the claim against us using twitter as a source doesn't make sense as we have only been using (as Firestar said) either tweets coming from Afghan journalists, or news sources and we have even reverted some territorial changes on the map which aren't covered by any RS. Cryw 9 (talk) 18:50, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The key point is that the war is over, so the map is no longer needed. No insurgent group is holding significant amounts of Afghan territory for any substantial amount of time. I would like to see an actual RS article saying otherwise, since there hasn't been anything other than clashes described since Panjshir Valley, last resistance holdout in Afghanistan, falls to the Taliban. This is a low-level insurgency, and it is misleading to be portraying it as a full-scale civil war. 25stargeneral (talk) 18:58, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Not per the nominator's rationale, but per Talk:Taliban insurgency establishing this map shouldn't be used. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 01:28, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That was referring to the map on Commons, not the template map. --Firestar464 (talk) 03:39, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Are those different? My understanding was that the map on Commons was generated from the template map, and thus the two are the same. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 04:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The Commons map was entirely based on some Twitter dude, while the one currently being discussed was obviously better sourced (albeit somewhat polluted as well) AFAIK. Hence the debate about the Commons map. Firestar464 (talk) 09:30, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The one currently being discussed has no sources, other than edit summaries, which are not accepted as sources under Wikipedia policy. See my comment below. 25stargeneral (talk) 01:14, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Where are the sources for this map contained? The template doc says we should click on the link for the town/village and the article will have a source saying who controls it. Clicking on several towns marked as under resistance control, I am not seeing that information. So, as of now, the map appears to have few to no references. The bottom line is all content MUST have inline citations—edit summaries are not that. From WP:CS: "Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations, anywhere in article space." Please explain how you intend for the map to comply with this requirement, since you believe it should be kept. 25stargeneral (talk) 00:51, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I do see your point. Maybe we could have a CoC page like for Ukraine? Firestar464 (talk) 02:16, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, if you want to keep the map then you should probably create a page like that. That will give a venue to challenge the verifiability of the content. Though, I strongly suspect there is not enough sourcing to support a map, and I don't see the need for one. 25stargeneral (talk) 03:20, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete as no longer necessary in a template form. --Izno (talk) 03:35, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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