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On this page, the deletion or merging of templates and modules, except as noted below, is discussed. To propose the renaming of a template or templates, use Wikipedia:Requested moves.

How to use this page[edit]

What not to propose for discussion here[edit]

The majority of deletion and merger proposals concerning pages in the template namespace should be listed on this page. However, there are a few exceptions:

  • Stub templates
    Stub templates and categories should be listed at Categories for discussion, as these templates are merely containers for their categories, unless the stub template does not come with a category and is being nominated by itself.
  • Userboxes
    Userboxes should be listed at Miscellany for deletion, regardless of the namespace in which they reside.
  • Speedy deletion candidates
    If the template clearly satisfies a "general" or "template" criterion for speedy deletion, tag it with a speedy deletion template. For example, if you wrote the template and request its deletion, tag it with {{Db-author}}. If it is an unused, hardcoded instance or duplication of another template, tag it with {{Db-t3|~~~~~|name of other template}}.
  • Policy or guideline templates
    Templates that are associated with particular Wikipedia policies or guidelines, such as the speedy deletion templates, cannot be listed at Tfd separately. They should be discussed on the talk page of the relevant guideline.
  • Template redirects
    List at Redirects for discussion.

Reasons to delete a template[edit]

  1. The template violates some part of the template namespace guidelines, and can't be altered to be in compliance
  2. The template is redundant to a better-designed template
  3. The template is not used, either directly or by template substitution (the latter cannot be concluded from the absence of backlinks), and has no likelihood of being used
  4. The template violates a policy such as Neutral point of view or Civility and it can't be fixed through normal editing

Templates should not be nominated if the issue can be fixed by normal editing. Instead, you should edit the template to fix its problems. If the template is complex and you don't know how to fix it, WikiProject Templates may be able to help.

Templates for which none of these apply may be deleted by consensus here. If a template is being misused, consider clarifying its documentation to indicate the correct use, or informing those that misuse it, rather than nominating it for deletion. Initiate a discussion on the template talk page if the correct use itself is under debate.

Listing a template[edit]

To list a template for deletion or merging, follow this three-step process. Note that the "Template:" prefix should not be included anywhere when carrying out these steps (unless otherwise specified).

I Tag the template.
Add one of the following codes to the top of the template page:
  • If the template nominated is inline, do not add a newline between the Tfd notice and the code of the template.
  • If the template to be nominated for deletion is protected, make a request for the Tfd tag to be added, by posting on the template's talk page and using the {{editprotected}} template to catch the attention of administrators.
  • For templates designed to be substituted, add <noinclude>...</noinclude> around the Tfd notice to prevent it from being substituted alongside the template.
  • Do not mark the edit as minor.
  • Use an edit summary like
    Nominated for deletion; see [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:name of template]]
    or
    Nominated for merging; see [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:name of template]].
  • Before saving your edit, preview your edit to ensure the Tfd message is displayed properly.

Multiple templates: If you are nominating multiple related templates, choose a meaningful title for the discussion (like "American films by decade templates"). Tag every template with {{subst:tfd|heading=discussion title}} or {{subst:tfm|name of other template|heading=discussion title}} instead of the versions given above, replacing discussion title with the title you chose (but still not changing the PAGENAME code). Note that TTObot is available to tag templates en masse if you do not wish to do it manually.

Related categories: If including template-populated tracking categories in the Tfd nomination, add {{Catfd|template name}} to the top of any categories that would be deleted as a result of the Tfd, this time replacing template name with the name of the template being nominated. (If you instead chose a meaningful title for a multiple nomination, use {{Catfd|header=title of nomination}} instead.)
II List the template at Tfd.
Follow this link to edit today's Tfd log.

Add this text at the top, just below the -->:

  • For deletion:
    {{subst:tfd2|template name|text=Why you think the template should be deleted. ~~~~}}
  • For merging:
    {{subst:tfm2|template name|other template's name|text=Why you think the templates should be merged. ~~~~}}

If the template has had previous Tfds, you can add {{Oldtfdlist|previous Tfd without brackets|result of previous Tfd}} directly after the Tfd2/Catfd2 template.

Use an edit summary such as
Adding [[Template:template name]].

Multiple templates: If this is a deletion proposal involving multiple templates, use the following:

{{subst:tfd2|template name 1|template name 2 ...|title=meaningful discussion title|text=Why you think the templates should be deleted. ~~~~}}

You can add up to 50 template names (separated by vertical bar characters | ). Make sure to include the same meaningful discussion title that you chose before in Step 1.

If this is a merger proposal involving more than two templates, use the following:

{{subst:tfm2|template name 1|template name 2 ...|with=main template (optional)|title=meaningful discussion title|text=Why you think the templates should be merged. ~~~~}}

You can add up to 50 template names (separated by vertical bar characters | ), plus one more in |with=. |with= does not need to be used, but should be the template that you want the other templates to be merged into. Make sure to include the same meaningful discussion title that you chose before in Step 1.

Related categories: If this is a deletion proposal involving a template and a category populated solely by templates, add this code after the Tfd2 template but before the text of your rationale:

{{subst:catfd2|category name}}
III Notify users.
Please notify the creator of the template nominated (as well as the creator of the target template, if proposing a merger). It is helpful to also notify the main contributors of the template that you are nominating. To find them, look in the page history or talk page of the template. Then, add one of the following:

to the talk pages of the template creator (and the creator of the other template for a merger) and the talk pages of the main contributors. It is also helpful to make any interested WikiProjects aware of the discussion. To do that, make sure the template's talk page is tagged with the banners of any relevant WikiProjects; please consider notifying any of them that do not use Article alerts.

Multiple templates: There is no template for notifying an editor about a multiple-template nomination: please write a personal message in these cases.

Consider adding any templates you nominate for Tfd to your watchlist. This will help ensure that the Tfd tag is not removed.

After nominating: Notify interested projects and editors[edit]

While it is sufficient to list a template for discussion at TfD (see above), nominators and others sometimes want to attract more attention from and participation by informed editors. All such efforts must comply with Wikipedia's guideline against biased canvassing.

To encourage participation by less experienced editors, please avoid Wikipedia-specific abbreviations in the messages you leave about the discussion, link to any relevant policies or guidelines, and link to the TfD discussion page itself. If you are recommending that an template be speedily deleted, please give the criterion that it meets, such as "T3" for hardcoded instances.

Notifying related WikiProjects

WikiProjects are groups of editors that are interested in a particular subject or type of editing. If the article is within the scope of one or more WikiProjects, they may welcome a brief, neutral note on their project's talk page(s) about the TfD. You can use {{Tfdnotice}} for this.

Tagging the nominated template's talk page with a relevant Wikiproject's banner will result in the template being listed in that project's Article Alerts automatically, if they subscribe to the system. For instance, tagging a template with {{WikiProject Physics}} will list the discussion in Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Article alerts.

Notifying substantial contributors to the template

While not required, it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the template and its talkpage that you are nominating for discussion. To find the creator and main contributors, look in the page history or talk page.

At this point, you've done all you need to do as nominator. Sometime after seven days have passed, someone will either close the discussion or, where needed, "relist" it for another seven days of discussion. (That "someone" may not be you, the nominator.)

Once you have submitted a template here, no further action is necessary on your part. If the nomination is supported, helpful administrators and editors will log the result and ensure that the change is implemented to all affected pages.

Also, consider adding any templates you nominate to your watchlist. This will help ensure that your nomination tag is not mistakenly or deliberately removed.

Twinkle[edit]

Twinkle is a convenient tool that can perform many of the functions of notification automatically. However, at present, it does not notify the creator of the other template in the case of a merger, so this step has to be performed manually. Twinkle also does not notify WikiProjects, although many of them have automatic alerts. It is helpful to notify any interested WikiProjects that don't receive alerts, but this has to be done manually.

Discussion[edit]

Anyone can join the discussion, but please understand the deletion policy and explain your reasoning.

People will sometimes also recommend subst or subst and delete and similar. This means the template text should be "merged" into the articles that use it. Depending on the content, the template page may then be deleted; if preserving the edit history for attribution is desirable, it may be history-merged with the target article or moved to mainspace and redirected.

Templates are rarely orphaned—that is, removed from pages that transclude them—before the discussion is closed. A list of open discussions eligible for closure can be found at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Old unclosed discussions.

Contents

Current discussions[edit]

January 5[edit]


January 4[edit]

Element Infoboxes[edit]

I don’t think we need 118 separate templates for each element, since each is used only on the corresponding article. Instead, I suggest transcluding {{Infobox element}} on each page. For technical reasons, I can only go up to tin, element 50, in the initial nomination. I’ll add the remaining 68 later. LaundryPizza03 (talk) 21:02, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
EDIT: Added the rest, and three undiscovered elements. 23:02, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Short Circuit[edit]

With two films and one song, this just doesn't seem necessary. Navigation is really improved by having this. WP:NENAN. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 19:23, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NPSL South Playoffs[edit]

redundant tournament bracket template Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NPSL Winter[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NFL WR stats start[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NFL punting and returning stats start[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:42, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NDB/Nativeno[edit]

not used by Template:NDB Frietjes (talk) 15:42, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NaturalCompoundImage[edit]

unused; unclear purpose Frietjes (talk) 15:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Native[edit]

unused; unclear purpose Frietjes (talk) 15:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:National rugby union team templates[edit]

unused navboxes wrapper for a group of other navboxes Frietjes (talk) 15:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:National football top goalscorers player[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 21:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:National football squad break (debut)[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:29, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 21:02, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:National football squad player (light)[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:29, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

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Template:National Youth Competition season 2010 ladder progression[edit]

should be added to 2010 National Youth Competition (rugby league) season or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:28, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:National World University Championships baseball record[edit]

unused infobox Frietjes (talk) 15:27, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:National Rugby League Teams[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 15:26, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Named 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship[edit]

unused; appears to duplicate Template:2017 FIA World Endurance Championship Frietjes (talk) 15:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NYNH&H lines[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:04, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Were created in order to handle future articles on, and mentions of, NYNH&H stations that did not survive to be taken over by any other railroad or agency. Will certainly become used, most likely sooner rather than later (judging from the pace of recent pickups in activity in WikiProject Greater Boston Public Transit and its relations). Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 15:10, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NWLLR lines[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NS Sneltrein lines[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NSSR color[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:02, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NRW-Liga[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 20:36, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NRL map2[edit]

should be added to an article or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Added it to the NRL article.Fleets (talk) 20:12, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NRHP in Crater Lake NP[edit]

appears to have been replaced by Template:Crater Lake Frietjes (talk) 14:57, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete Per nom and the title s not good. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 20:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NIRDublinLineColor[edit]

unused; replaced by Template:NIRColor Frietjes (talk) 14:55, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NIRRail start[edit]

unused; replaced by other s-line templates Frietjes (talk) 14:54, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Page metrics 2013-2014[edit]

Outdated template which will probably not be used again in the future. Substitute all transclusions (less than 5 not counting the pages related to itself), then delete. Steel1943 (talk) 21:19, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Distilled beverages[edit]

unused; appears to duplicate a section in Template:Alcoholic drinks Frietjes (talk) 17:28, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 01:46, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:The X-Files RT scores S10[edit]

single-use templates, should be merged with the articles; there is no need to keep the scores in separate templates Frietjes (talk) 15:07, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Keep. Data is easily subject to vandalism so having it in a separate template prevents this. - Brojam (talk) 01:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 01:46, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Merge. I don't see how does using templates would prevent vandalism. It seems like in some cases it actually could increase the likelihood, as less people would be watching the templates than the articles themselves. Single use templates should generally be avoided, these seem to fit that criteria. Cheers, Dresken (talk) 02:04, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Merge per Dresken. I also fail to see how requiring editors to watch the templates and the article will help prevent vandalism. If you are having problems with vandalism, ask to have the articles protected. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:10, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

January 3[edit]

Template:Navbox VAHseDist 2017[edit]

unused; sublinks are either red or redirects which makes it redundant to Template:Navbox VAHseDist Frietjes (talk) 22:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Navbox Trinidad and Tobago[edit]

unused; replaced by Template:Trinidad and Tobago topics Frietjes (talk) 22:20, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Redirect Per nom. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:26, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:49, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Natural numbers[edit]

unused and appears to partially duplicate Template:Number systems Frietjes (talk) 22:19, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NI MLA table end[edit]

unused and no supporting "NI MLA table"" template Frietjes (talk) 22:18, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NIFMs[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 22:17, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NHL-cat[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 22:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete No need. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 09:17, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment Not a comment on it being needed or not, but I would note I don't believe this template wasn't intended to be linked ever, its a substituting template to quickly add some categories to pages, so its being unused is intended. -DJSasso (talk) 12:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
    • DJSasso, if that were the case, it would have "subst:" or "safesubst:" in the parser function. if you try to substitute it without that, you get a mess (try it with {{subst:NHL-cat|coaches}}). Frietjes (talk) 14:49, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
      • Ahh ok I didn't look at the code, just looking at the documentation on the page it looked similar to other templates I have seen that do that. -DJSasso (talk) 15:24, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Nexus 10 models[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 20:50, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Nancy Drew Video Games[edit]

unused; probably merged with Template:Nancy Drew Frietjes (talk) 20:47, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NPB managers[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 20:46, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NOe-Viertel[edit]

unused; the article (Lower Austria) is using the map image directly Frietjes (talk) 20:46, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NMLink[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 20:45, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NLunarEclipse stat table[edit]

unused; probably replaced by other infobox templates Frietjes (talk) 20:43, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NCCAA Division II East navbox[edit]

unused (division no longer exists); schools are in different divisions Frietjes (talk) 20:43, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete Per nom and out of date. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Japan football clubs map 2010[edit]

unused and redundant to the smaller maps (e.g., Template:J. League Div 1 map 2010) Frietjes (talk) 17:07, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 19:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete as unsued and not needed. GiantSnowman 20:25, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete Per above and the template name is not clear and no need to exist in two templates. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:33, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Melb sister cities map[edit]

unused; the list of sister cities is sufficient Frietjes (talk) 17:03, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Melodifestivalen 2007 second chance round[edit]

replaced by bracket in the main article Frietjes (talk) 17:03, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Meralco Manila squad[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 17:01, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom and no need to exist these in a template. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:37, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
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Template:Mercury quadrangle category[edit]

no longer needed after the creation of Module:Celestial object quadrangle Frietjes (talk) 17:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Morocco Squad 2012 FIFA Futsal World Championship[edit]

unused; 23rd place finish; squad membership is saved in 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup squads Frietjes (talk) 16:58, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete, also absolutely no navigational use; no squad member has an article. Jellyman (talk) 17:01, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 18:47, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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  • Delete as unsued and not needed. GiantSnowman 20:24, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Muslim communities of Uttar Pradesh[edit]

unused fork of Template:Indian Muslim Frietjes (talk) 16:42, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:MyHSR[edit]

unused; if needed, should be added/replaced by {{rint}} (see here) Frietjes (talk) 16:39, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Mypoputable[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 16:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NBLPlayoffBracket2010[edit]

unused; there is already a bracket in the 2010 and 2009 articles. Frietjes (talk) 16:19, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:NBL Canada team standings[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 16:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Bruce Willis[edit]

Pretty pointless with these four mostly unrelated entries. Someone had created this as a producer navbox, which included a lot of films that Bruce Willis DID NOT produce!!! Facepalm --woodensuperman 15:05, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Eredivisie champions[edit]

Information of year-on-year winners can be better presented in list format (and already is, at List of Dutch football champions). Same links appear repeatedly, as most titles won by one of three leading clubs. Links to individual season articles are redundant to Template:Eredivisie seasons. Haven't seen a similar navbox format for any other football league. Jellyman (talk) 12:27, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 18:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete No need to exist both. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 18:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete as not needed. GiantSnowman 20:24, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2[edit]

Template:SFU/Text[edit]

Old and unused (replaced by {{infobox}}) Frietjes (talk) 19:19, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:1893 Northeast Independent Conference football standings[edit]

There was and is no "Northeast Independent Conference". This template purports to group historic football programs into the organizational structure of a non-existent conference. It violates WP:OR and/or WP:HOAX. Cbl62 (talk) 17:06, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. Jweiss11 (talk) 17:18, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 19:29, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete as OR/hoax. GiantSnowman 20:19, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Franchetti operas[edit]

unused; replaced by Template:Alberto Franchetti Frietjes (talk) 16:05, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:13, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Cilea operas[edit]

unused; replaced by Template:Francesco Cilea Frietjes (talk) 16:05, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:13, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Alfano operas[edit]

unused; replaced by Template:Franco Alfano Frietjes (talk) 16:04, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:13, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Alesso[edit]

unused; provides very little navigation Frietjes (talk) 16:03, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Teamnames[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Playersp[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:HiddenSort[edit]

unused fork of Template:Hidden sort key Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:PicksAndBans/Roles[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:AchievementStart[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:39, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:ARZC color[edit]

unused (articles are using the ATSF series instead) Frietjes (talk) 15:37, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:ALeague BR colour[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:36, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:5TeamBracket-Tennis3[edit]

unused; better to use Template:8TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3-Byes Frietjes (talk) 15:35, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:32SEBracketHL[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 15:33, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete it seems an error template. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 09:34, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2017−18 Liga MX Aggregate table[edit]

unused and out-of-date; duplicates Template:Apertura 2017 Liga MX table Frietjes (talk) 15:31, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 09:46, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Keep I think this template will be used in the future, like 2016–17. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 09:46, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete what purpose does it serve? OR! GiantSnowman 20:20, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Tennessee college preparatory schools[edit]

The inclusion criteria depends on the vague definition of “college preparatory” school. The current schools are all private, but the definition could be interpreted to include any public school that has any elements of the college prep curriculum. We could rename the template “Private schools in Tennessee” to reflect the current contents, but I don’t think we need a navbox for Category:Private schools in Tennessee Billhpike (talk) 15:27, 2 January 2018 (UTC) Billhpike (talk) 15:27, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2016–17 Euroleague Regular season results[edit]

unused and out-of-date; results are already in 2016–17 EuroLeague Regular Season Frietjes (talk) 15:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Comment I have added template into article. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:03, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2016–17 MDFA Elite Division table[edit]

unused and out-of-date; duplicates Template:2016–17 MDFA Elite Division Table Frietjes (talk) 15:20, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Can we not merge instead? The lower case "t" in table should be used over the upper case "T". --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 20:06, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Merge the duplicates and delete one of them. GiantSnowman 20:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2015 AFC–CAF Inter–Confederation Cup qualification – AFC Group 1[edit]

unused; no idea where this would be used Frietjes (talk) 15:17, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • Delete as unsued and not needed. GiantSnowman 20:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2010 Olympics Barnstar[edit]

it's been 8 years, I don't think this is going to be used in the future. Frietjes (talk) 15:12, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:16, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom and out of date. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2014 NPSL team map[edit]

unused; duplicates the map in 2014 NPSL season Frietjes (talk) 15:12, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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Template:2015 Malaysia FA Cup[edit]

unused and won't work since it has the wrong prefix for an "fb competition" template Frietjes (talk) 15:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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Template:2016-17 MDFA Elite Division Result Table[edit]

unused; if needed, this can be added to 2016–17 MDFA Elite Division using the head-to-head option in the existing results table Frietjes (talk) 15:10, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Keep I have added template to the article. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 11:25, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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@ArsenalFan700 and Hhhhhkohhhhh: please provide a source for this table. it directly contradicts the table above it. clearly if Mumbai "didn't played due to other commitments" then there should be no matches for Mumbai in the head-to-head table. I found match results at soccerway.com (e.g., here) but no other good sources for these matches. clearly we should not be adding false or unsourced information to articles. Frietjes (talk) 14:23, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete - not needed, incomplete, unsourced. Why does this information (even if sourced/completed) need a template? GiantSnowman 20:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2017 PLA playoffs[edit]

unused; blank Frietjes (talk) 15:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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Template:1979–80 in Serie A[edit]

redundant to navigation found in Template:1979–80 in Italian football, Template:1985–86 in Italian football, Template:1986–87 in Italian football, Template:1987–88 in Italian football, Template:1988–89 in Italian football, Template:1989–90 in Italian football, Template:1990–91 in Italian football, Template:1991–92 in Italian football, Template:1992–93 in Italian football, Template:1993–94 in Italian football, Template:1994–95 in Italian football, Template:1995–96 in Italian football, Template:1996–97 in Italian football, Template:1997–98 in Italian football, Template:1998–99 in Italian football, Template:1999–2000 in Italian football, Template:2000–01 in Italian football, Template:2001–02 in Italian football, Template:2002–03 in Italian football, Template:2003–04 in Italian football, Template:2004–05 in Italian football, Template:2005–06 in Italian football, Template:2006–07 in Italian football, Template:2007–08 in Italian football, Template:2008–09 in Italian football, and Template:2009–10 in Italian football. Frietjes (talk) 14:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • Redirect all Per above. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 11:40, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete all as duplicates of exisiting, fuller templates. GiantSnowman 20:23, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2010–11 in Serie A[edit]

unused; replaced by {{2010–11 in Italian football}} Frietjes (talk) 14:50, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • Redirect per nom. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 11:42, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete as unsued and not needed. GiantSnowman 20:24, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:2008 RLWC map[edit]

unused; the maps in the article are sufficient Frietjes (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Keep - Could be put to good use.Fleets (talk) 21:39, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
Fleets, where? Frietjes (talk) 13:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Delete - Has been superseded by the image in the only article it would realistically be used in. J Mo 101 (talk) 23:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Konguta Parish[edit]

No longer a parish (merged into Elva Parish in 2017) Frietjes (talk) 14:36, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:User Battrick[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Withdrawn. per Frietjes's note. Thanks! Sandstein 13:59, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Aren't userboxes meant to be in userspace? Minimal use. Sandstein 10:46, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Sandstein, you need to discuss this at WP:MFD per the what not to propose for discussion instructions near the top of WP:TFD. Frietjes (talk) 13:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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deletion of little used, non-standard lang-xx templates[edit]

Recently the 650+ {{lang-xx}} templates have been converted to use Module:lang. There are a few that, for one reason or another, have not been / should not be converted. The new templates provide parameter support that was not available to the old templates so some of these are forks that support functionality that was not available in the base template; some of these misuse {{lang}}; some of these misuse/redefine language codes/names defined by international standards. Details in rationale below.—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:45, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

  • rationale:
    {{lang-cdo-hani}} – unused; can be implemented with {{lang-cdo|script=Hani|...}}
    {{Lang-cdo-latn}} – 1 transclusion; can be implemented with {{lang-cdo|script=Latn|...}}
    {{Lang-deu}} – unused; redefinition of international standard deu 'German'; used for 'early German' but links to Early New High German
    {{Lang-kmr-at}} – 1 transclusion; as an IETF language tag kmr-at means 'Northern Kurdish as spoken in Austria'; misuses {{lang}} by giving it the result of a call to {{transl}}; no documentation so no clear indication of the purpose; can be implemented with {{lang-kmr}}
    {{Lang-ku-at}} – 2 transclusions; same reasons as {{lang-kmr-at}}; can be implemented with {{lang-ku}}
    {{Lang-mis-Cyrl}} – unused; mis is the ISO 639-2/-3 code for 'Uncoded languages'; {{Lang-mis-Cyrl}} is used to label Montenegrin which, apparently, does not have a language code; a search of sil.org finds little mention of Montenegrin; the ISO 639-2 custodian lists cnr as Montenegrin; this code has not percolated to current ISO 639-3 or IANA
    {{Lang-mis-Latn}} – unused; same reasons as {{lang-mis-Cyrl}}
    {{Lang-naz}} – unused; purportedly to be used for North Azerbaijani but uses the code for Coatepec Nahuatl
    {{Lang-roa}} – unused; IANA/ISO 639-2 define roa as 'Romance languages', a collective of individual languages; at this writing Module:lang does not have specific support for collective languages though support is planned
    {{Lang-son}} – unused; IANA/ISO 639-2 define son as 'Songhai languages'; same as {{lang-roa}}
  • delete as nominator —Trappist the monk (talk) 10:47, 25 December 2017 (UTC):
  • Conditional delete -- I would expect that the remaining uses of these templates are re-implemented as proposed before deleting the template. (IMO this should have been done before proposing the templates for deletion, because now the articles that use them have ungainly jargon in their lead sentences.) Warren -talk- 18:01, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
    I will certainly re-implement the templates with transclusions where it makes sense to do so with the appropriate {{lang-??}} template. Yeah, this is my first TfD but the instructions do not say that {{tfd}} should be hidden (in fact, the documentation for that template says: "Unless you do something unusual such as enclosing in noinclude tags, articles that use the nominated template will provide a notification and link to the discussion"); isn't the purpose of {{tfd}}? to draw attention to this discussion? How to do that if we don't somehow announce to the world that this discussion exists? —Trappist the monk (talk) 19:22, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
    We generally avoid removing templates before deletion, otherwise it looks like a fait accompli. We also avoid noincluding the deletion notice to advertise the discussion, which is often quite hidden relative to normal readers and even editors. --Izno (talk) 14:49, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
    I get that, but if the functionality of one template set has been replaced by something else, it's better to just get the migration done first, especially when it's technical minutiae like these lang templates. Warren -talk- 14:54, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
  • {{Lang-deu}} – Redirect to {{lang-de}} or delete. Don't keep the status quo as it entails a confusing redefinition of a standard code.
  • {{Lang-naz}} – Rewrite to use the correct language. It's a valid template; if deleted it will sooner or later get recreated.
  • {{Lang-roa}} – Keep as a useful template with a valid code. If its current use ultimately invokes Module:Lang causing it hiccups and sneezes, then the template can be changed, for the time being, not to invoke it until the module has been extended with support for collective codes.
  • {{Lang-son}} – Keep: the same situation as {{lang-roa}}.
  • The rest – Meh. These templates aren't individually harmful and they're even marginally useful. However, I wouldn't like to see the logic behind them getting extended into the creation of similar templates for all possible combinations of lang-Script codes as the resultant proliferation will become unmanageable. – Uanfala (talk) 18:27, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
    {{Lang-naz}} – no need to rewrite because {{lang-azj}}. —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:46, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
    {{lang-azj}} is for Northern Azerbaijani. {{lang-naz}} should be for the language with ISO code naz: Coatepec Nahuatl. – Uanfala (talk) 18:52, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
    Point. I read your comment as arguing for a North Azeri rewrite. Still, I don't think that we should rewrite and keep an unused Coatepec Nahuatl template just because maybe, because someday, it might be needed. If that rationale holds then we should be creating {{lang-??}} templates for all other ISO 639-2/-3 codes that do not yet have templates. An insource: search seems to indicate that naz is not used with {{lang}}; similarly, another insource: search finds four articles that use the text "Coatepec Nahuatl" but of these, three don't seem to require a language markup template though the fourth, Nahuan languages, could and probably should – in which case, it would seem that {{lang|naz|...}}} would be preferred over {{lang-naz}} (because we already know that we're talking about Coatepec Nahuatl). —Trappist the monk (talk) 19:25, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
    Yes, there isn't going to be any immediate loss in the case of deletion, and probably it doesn't make much of a difference in the general scheme whether the template is tweaked and kept, or deleted and then possibly recreated at a later point. If there's any particular argument for preferring keeping, I think it's the fact that the existence of a functional template linking to Coatepec Nahuatl is a stronger disincentive for its repurposing into a template about North Azeri than is a deletion log entry pointing to this mass nomination. This template's creator isn't the first, and is unlikely to be the last to squat on what must appear like a perfectly unoccupied language code. – Uanfala (talk) 19:37, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
    Doesn't the 'keep-to-preclude-squatters-from-misapplying-language-codes' argument, by extension, then argue that we must (as a preventive) go ahead and create new templates where there are none now, even if those templates don't ever get used? (Rather impractical, I think, because there are some 7900+ language codes in the IANA registry.) Just delete; if, in some version of a future, we need it, we can recreate it then. —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
    North Azerbaijani is a member of a messy (in ISO code terms) dialect cluster with unintuitive choice of codes, and it's not surprising that someone would have thought of using something as straightforward as "naz". A similar state of affairs holds with respect to the varieties of Punjabi, which led one user to come up with "pun". But these situations are rare, and in the vast majority of cases the combination of responsible factors (messy language situation + counterintuitive codes) does not occur. There's no need to pre-emptively create any such templates. – Uanfala (talk) 16:35, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Looking for a more solid consensus.
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  • Delete (or redirect, as described above) after fixing the very few transclusions to use existing properly constructed templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:27, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Campaignbox Peasants' revolt in Palestine[edit]

Per WP:TFD#REASONS. The template has only valid 4 articles, is about an occurrence that already has a category of its own, and has multiple in-links at the main Peasants' revolt in Palestine article. Yambaram (talk) 08:59, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:People involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict[edit]

This template should be deleted on different grounds. Firstly, no other template of "People involved in ___" exists on Wikipedia, and probably rightly so. This should especially be the case in a subject so complex and as this topic: Who would qualify to be listed? What are the requirements and how are they actually measured? There are none. The template just lists former presidents and head of states; why ignore thousands of politicians, writers and activists who have been heavily involved in the Arab/(Palestinian)-Israeli conflict at one point or another to different degrees - they could all be added. The latter's actual influence may have been greater than some rather formal names on the list, which is at a messy and useless state. Yambaram (talk) 09:26, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

January 1[edit]

Template:NCAA Division I volleyball programs[edit]

Unused, not the standard. This is very the reason why we make individual team navboxes and conference navboxes. Corky 20:11, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete, splited templates are in use because they work, for example Template:American Athletic Conference navbox, just conferences. This one is not being used and its work it is being done already. Duplicated, long and useless. --Osplace 21:50, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Lahore metrobus[edit]

unused; probably replaced by Template:LahoreMetrobus Frietjes (talk) 14:41, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Landesliga Niederrhein 3[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 14:37, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • Delete Per nom, and no reason and no need to exist. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:38, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete - unused and no likelihood of being used in the foreseeable future. Fenix down (talk) 11:40, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete as unsued and not needed. GiantSnowman 20:19, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:LangBengali[edit]

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The result of the discussion was delete. per author request Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:29, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:37, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Agreed! --nafSadh did say 17:49, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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Template:Languages of South America[edit]

unused; articles are using {{South America topic|Languages of}} and {{North America topic|Languages of}} directly Frietjes (talk) 14:22, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Languages of Tamil Nadu[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:20, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Larestan towns and villages[edit]

unused; duplicates Template:Larestan County Frietjes (talk) 14:19, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Largest and smallest census divisions of Canada[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:18, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Largest provinces of Turkey[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 14:18, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Larissa Regional Unit[edit]

unused; duplicates navigation found in other navboxes (e.g., Template:Agia div) Frietjes (talk) 14:17, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Late Egyptian Dynasty list[edit]

unused; generally duplicates Template:Ancient Egypt dynasties sidebar Frietjes (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Latin American migration to Mexico[edit]

unused; generally duplicates Template:Ancestry and ethnicity in Mexico Frietjes (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Latin America and the caribbean homosexuality laws map[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:14, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Latest stable release/SIP Communicator[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Latin row[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Latino World Order[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:12, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Latvian Association of Regions/meta/color[edit]

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The result of the discussion was withdrawn Frietjes (talk) 15:25, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:12, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Template:Latvian route member sign[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:11, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Leaders of the Liberal Party in NSW[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:10, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Leicestershire Labelled Map[edit]

unused; replaced by the map in the Leicestershire article Frietjes (talk) 14:09, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Liberal Integrity Party/meta/color[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:08, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Liberal Party (UK, 1989)[edit]

unused; replaced by Template:Liberal Party (UK, 1989)/meta/color Frietjes (talk) 14:07, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Liberal Party NL[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 14:06, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Liechtenstein parliamentary election, 2005[edit]

unused and generally duplicates the results table in Liechtenstein general election, 2005; should be merged with Liechtenstein general election, 2005 or deleted Frietjes (talk) 14:06, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete No point in keeping this. Number 57 12:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Liechtenstein parliamentary election, 2009[edit]

unused and generally duplicates the table in the main article; should be merged with Liechtenstein general election, 2009 or deleted Frietjes (talk) 14:05, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

  • Delete No point in keeping this. Number 57 12:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Ligat Al Map 2015-16[edit]

unused; appears to duplicates the map in the 2015–16 Israeli Premier League article. Frietjes (talk) 14:04, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

In this edit someone decide to put the template directly in the article. In other article, like 2008–09 Israeli Premier League the map are in Template:Ligat Al Map 2008-09. both way are find for me, but maybe it better to decide if the map are in template included in the article or in the article for this kind. Yona B. (discussion) 09:52, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:List of Buffyverse episodes[edit]

unnecessary wrapper for two other navboxes Frietjes (talk) 14:01, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:List of Puteri Indonesia winners[edit]

unused; the articles are using succession links instead Frietjes (talk) 14:00, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:List of Nepalese actresses[edit]

unused; and provides only one link to a list of Nepalese actresses Frietjes (talk) 13:59, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:List of UFC Current Champions[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 13:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:List of Unicode characters/1[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 13:45, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:WebSlice-begin[edit]

Web Slice technology is only supported in Internet Explorer 8 and 9, so no longer a need for these templates. WOSlinker (talk) 12:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

December 31[edit]

Template:New Year's 2018[edit]

Editor tried creating a HNY template however a lot of works need to be done before they or anyone uses it, This is how it looks on my talkpage so obviously it needs A LOT, Editor can use the other NY templtes provided here until they have a better understanding of templates, Thanks –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 19:49, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Eastern Independent Conference football standings[edit]

"The "Eastern Independent Conference" does not appear to be an entity that actually existed in the 1890s. Rather it seems to be a grouping invented by some guy on the internet name Soren Sorensen for the purposes of his own original analysis. Jweiss11 (talk) 17:43, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

@Cbl62: we'd need to have a separate TfD for all of the standing templates found at Category:NCAA Division I FBS independents football records templates for seasons prior to the creation of the University Division classification in 1956. Jweiss11 (talk) 18:31, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
I think it may be better to start with a couple easy ones. 1893 and 1905 are good candidates. Cbl62 (talk) 20:49, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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  • Delete as hoax/OR. GiantSnowman 20:19, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Football (soccer) table Northern Italy 1912-13 Final Round results[edit]

unused; replaced by other templates/modules Frietjes (talk) 16:50, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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  • Delete all - not needed. GiantSnowman 13:33, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete all - unused and no likelihood of being used in the foreseeable future. Fenix down (talk) 11:39, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Flags of Africa[edit]

unused; articles are using {{Africa topic}} directly Frietjes (talk) 16:49, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Fisher Cats Alumni With Major League Experience[edit]

unused Frietjes (talk) 16:48, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Delete - unused and unnecessary. NatureBoyMD (talk) 19:37, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
  • comment I'm userfying. Thanks. South Nashua (talk) 01:10, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Fethiyespor squad[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 16:46, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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  • Delete - not needed. GiantSnowman 13:37, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Unused fb competition templates[edit]

unused and deprecated in favour of the LUA-based sports tables. Frietjes (talk) 16:39, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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  • Delete all per nom. GiantSnowman 13:39, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete all - unused and no likelihood of being used in the foreseeable future. Fenix down (talk) 11:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Fb Intercontinental Cup[edit]

unused and has the wrong prefix for a "fb competition" template Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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  • Delete all per nom. GiantSnowman 13:41, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete all No need to keep. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 13:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete all - unused and no likelihood of being used in the foreseeable future. Fenix down (talk) 11:39, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Far East Labelled Map[edit]

unused; should be added to Far East or deleted Frietjes (talk) 16:34, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Fancy TOC Left[edit]

unused; not needed; functionality could be added to {{TOC left}} if this is really desired Frietjes (talk) 16:33, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

delete unused, redundant —hike395 (talk) 18:50, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Falkland Islands general election, 2009[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Delete; deleted as G7 by Plastikspork (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 20:15, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

unused; duplicates the tables in the article Frietjes (talk) 16:32, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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Template:Falkland Islands general election, 2005[edit]

unused; duplicates the tables in the article Frietjes (talk) 16:32, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:FR Yugoslavia squad 2003 World Handball Championship[edit]

unused; 8th place squad Frietjes (talk) 16:30, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:The Chronicle of Higher Education[edit]

A redundant, two-page template. This just opens the door to endless useless 2-3 article templates. Yambaram (talk) 15:25, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

  • delete, articles can be connected through standard in-article linking. Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
  • delete per Frietjes. There should be a guideline for minimum number of links in a navbox: perhaps four? —hike395 (talk) 18:52, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Mesozoic Footer[edit]

Navbox is unused in Article space, redundant to {{Geological history}}. —hike395 (talk) 12:26, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

  • delete after replacing where needed. Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

December 30[edit]

Template:Community article probation[edit]

This "community article probation" procedure is a dead letter now. It has not seen significant use for 4 years. Most of the remaining 75 pages carrying this template relate to years-old controversies:

All the more recent uses of this template are on articles related to the Philippines and have been added unilaterally, many of them by now-blocked user Theparties, with no evidence of having been "explicitly mandated by the community" as required in the template documentation. Seriously disruptive editing can be handled without this measure, and where necessary we have community general sanctions, ArbCom discretionary sanctions and various flavours of page protection. If deletion is agreed, the relevant subsection should be removed from the project page : Noyster (talk), 20:23, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Delete and remove from pages per nominator; ArbCom discretionary sanctions should already apply to the articles related to American politics. Jc86035 (talk) 08:04, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:International news channels[edit]

The title is confusing. Either we should change the name to "Channels with international availability" which in my opinion will be original research or just delete it. Put it in simple words it isn't navigable. Störm (talk) 16:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:FK Jelgava squad[edit]

unused and out-of-date Frietjes (talk) 16:09, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

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  • Delete per nom, this is a squad template for a semi-pro team, not needed. GiantSnowman 20:18, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Spain)[edit]

unused; should be added to European Parliament election, 2009 (Spain) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 16:03, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Ireland)[edit]

unused; should be added to European Parliament election, 2009 (Ireland) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 16:02, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)[edit]

unused; should be added to European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 16:02, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Ireland)[edit]

unused; should be added to European Parliament election, 2004 (Ireland) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 16:01, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2007 (Bulgaria) results[edit]

unused; duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 2007 (Bulgaria) Frietjes (talk) 16:01, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Portugal) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Portugal) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 16:00, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Greece) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Greece) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:59, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Finland) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Finland) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:59, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Estonia) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Estonia) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:59, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Belgium) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2009 (Belgium) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:59, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Sweden) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Sweden) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:58, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovenia) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovenia) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:58, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Portugal) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Portugal) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Finland) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Finland) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:56, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Greece) complete results[edit]

unused; duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Greece) Frietjes (talk) 15:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium) complete results[edit]

unused; duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium) Frietjes (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Spain)[edit]

unused; should be merged with the existing table or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1994 (Belgium)[edit]

unused; should be merged with European Parliament election, 1994 (Belgium) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:53, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1989 (West Germany)[edit]

unused; should be merged with European Parliament election, 1989 (West Germany) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1989 (Greece) complete results[edit]

unused; duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 1989 (Greece) Frietjes (talk) 15:50, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1994 (Greece) complete results[edit]

unused; duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 1994 (Greece) Frietjes (talk) 15:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1994 (Portugal) complete results[edit]

unused; should be merged with Template:European Parliament election, 1994 (Portugal) or deleted Frietjes (talk) 15:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1996 (Finland) complete results[edit]

unused, duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 1996 (Finland) Frietjes (talk) 15:47, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Greece) complete results[edit]

unused, duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Greece) Frietjes (talk) 15:46, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Belgium) complete results[edit]

unused, duplicates Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Belgium) Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Ireland)[edit]

unused, duplicates the table in the article. Frietjes (talk) 15:44, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Major Indian companies[edit]

The template is too large to maintain and most is per WP:OR. There isn't central place where we can verify that company earns 1 Billion dollars and is based in India. List of companies of India don't have such column. It is therefore will be better to delete such template. Any one interested first should create a list (well-sourced in accordance to WP:RS) and then comes the navigation. Störm (talk) 14:17, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:B-Line Sydney[edit]

Not used in any articles. Only two links. 99.9% sure there's a specific guideline against navboxes with only two or less working links but I can't be bothered to find it Satellizer el Bridget (Talk) 08:51, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Kings of Bhutan[edit]

unused and generally redundant to the succession links at the foot of the individual king articles Frietjes (talk) 14:28, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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Template:Ethiopia squad 2012 African Women's Championship[edit]

unused, all redlinks, finished in last place in Group B, and squad membership is already in 2012 African Women's Championship squads Frietjes (talk) 22:58, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 19:39, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete - WP:NENAN, not enough blue links, and also not a major competition, so doesn't merit a squad template per longstanding WR:FOOTY consensus. GiantSnowman 20:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
The Africa Women's Cup of Nations is a major tournament, as it is a top-level continental tournament, making it as major as UEFA Women's Euro or the Gold Cup. There has been previous consensus for a top-level continental tournament to be the criteria for including squad navboxes. Joeykai (talk) 21:47, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

December 29[edit]

Template:Bnr[edit]

Acts like the 10,000 Maniacs and Elvis Costello have been associated with numerous labels throughout their careers. You wouldn't want navboxes such as this one created and placed in those articles for each of those labels to link to otherwise unrelated artists. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 20:16, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

This template should not be deleted because it makes sense for a smallish record label to have a template for easy navigation of its artists and the the other bands that share the same label on the artist's pages, also many record label artists share similar genres and styles which make more case for its relevancy.User talk:RythianMage 22:26, 29 December 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RythianMage (talk • contribs)

Template:Yeproc[edit]

The only connection most of these bands/acts have with each other is this record label. Not a reason for a navbox such as this on all those individual artist's pages. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 20:10, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

This template should not be deleted because it makes sense for a smallish record label to have a template for easy navigation of its artists and the the other bands that share the same label on the artist's pages.Also see above.User talk:RythianMage 22:26, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Can't people do that easily from Yep Roc Records? What reason would there to be for someone to link to The Soft Boys from Billy Bragg? --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 23:05, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
The Main point of Navigation boxes is to make navigating easier, we could all just go to the original pages for all templates and waste time, but these provide people with easy related info that is easily accessible and saves time. 00:10 30 December 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RythianMage (talk • contribs)
They're great when they connect related articles, but two bands who happen to be signed to the same label may only have that in common. We shouldn't be cluttering up articles with these. Look how bad Of Montreal looks with 4 templates linking to other articles unrelated to the band itself. By the way, there is consensus that such use of record label navboxes should be deleted. See

Very well I still protest but seeing as it can cause clutter overuse should be avoided and i guess the only reasonable way is just to delete these types of templates instead of having to go on a case by case basis. 2:10, 30 December 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RythianMage (talk • contribs)

  • delete per precedent. Frietjes (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Module:IUCN status[edit]

Courtesy re-list at TfD instead of MfD. Original nomination follows:

Unused/undeveloped module   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  03:54, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:12, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Module tagged (finally). {{repeat|p|3}}ery (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
I've forgotten how I found this module, but it would be worth tracking down the calling template (it isn't {{IUCN status}}) and TfDing that too.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:23, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
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Template:Discovery Communications Nordic[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Delete; deleted by Plastikspork (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 19:13, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Already listed on main Discovery Communications template. User 261115 (talk) 17:51, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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Template:Immigration to Sri Lanka[edit]

Propose merging Template:Immigration to Sri Lanka with Template:Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka.
The template should be merged with Template:Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. One template should include all of this information as to make it easier for the reader to navigate to articles related to the ethnic groups of Sri Lanka instead of having two. The other "Ethnic groups in (insert country name)" have one template. A merged template on the lines of this conveys the information (articles) in one setting. (120.144.142.148 (talk) 03:54, 19 December 2017 (UTC))

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Support The separation of the two templates is not needed and they should be merged together. I also want to add that the "Immigration" template in a way also implies those of non-indigenous descent (Moors, Indian Tamils, Malays, Chinese etc.) are not "Sri Lankan" when in reality they are. They are grouped with expatriate populations as if they are all the same and implies those groups mentioned above are not citizens which is incorrect. (121.219.130.48 (talk) 08:19, 30 December 2017 (UTC))
Support--AntanO 08:14, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Huntsville-Decatur Metropolitan Area[edit]

No evidence of necessity. I haven't found any exact policy for this, but it appears to be the only template of its kind; the only ones I have found are for metro areas, which makes more sense. If someone knows of a policy for this, please list it here. If best, the material should be split into Template:Huntsville metropolitan area (or Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area) and Template:Decatur, Alabama metropolitan area. Bneu2013 (talk) 00:25, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Old discussions[edit]

December 28[edit]

Template:NTFA Division 1 seasons[edit]

Navbox provides zero navigation. Articles in navbox would fall under WP:REDNOT as they wouldn't be notable enough to warrant a stand alone article. In addition, navbox was created seven years ago and articles haven't been created since. Flickerd (talk) 06:13, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Delete Zero links. Where is there to navigate to?...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:NTFA Division 2 seasons[edit]

Navbox provides zero navigation. Articles in navbox would fall under WP:REDNOT as they wouldn't be notable enough to warrant a stand alone article. In addition, navbox was created seven years ago and articles haven't been created since. Flickerd (talk) 06:13, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Delete Zero links. Where is there to navigate to?...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Prehistory of Poland[edit]

unused and pre-history is already covered by Template:History of Poland Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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Template:North Alabama Landmarks[edit]

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).

The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:12, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

No evidence of necessity. I can't immediately find a policy or guideline for this, but these "landmark" templates seem to be reserved for large cities with lots of notable landmarks, not areas that include multiple cities/communities, which, in this case, includes a large geographic region of a U.S. state. Bneu2013 (talk) 21:59, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

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  • delete, although the term "landmark" is subjective, there are other templates of this type. however, the others are focused on large cities per the nom. if someone wants to create a more targeted version of this template, go ahead, but this one isn't very helpful. Frietjes (talk) 00:38, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
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Completed discussions[edit]

The contents of this section are transcluded from Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell (edit)

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