Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 April 14

April 14

Template:Members of FIMA

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2015 April 26. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 22:22, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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Template:Infobox college basketball DIII tournament

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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 02:17, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:Infobox college basketball DIII tournament (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Redundant to {{Infobox college basketball tournament}}. Single use. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:33, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

• I've fixed the division link label in {{Infobox college basketball tournament}}, which I was too lazy to do earlier, so delete. Alakzi (talk) 17:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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Template:MG

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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 22:24, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:MG (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Like {{maintained}} and {{WP India AaA}} except far worse; no indication of who the 'assigned maintenance group' is. No indication who assigned them. To contact the editor you need to click on the link, then click on their user name, then click on their talk page link, at which point you can actually write a message. There is only one 'group', and the 'group' consists of only one editor – there has been no interest in this by anyone else, and in all cases it would be just easier to check the template history than use this. The last discussion closed with no consensus, but as we seem now to be going through them so a good time to revisit it. JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 02:37, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

• Delete per the consensus of the {{maintained}} discussion, for the same reasons I presented there. Even if a new template maintained it created, it should be used instead of this for ease of contacting and simplicity. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 03:02, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
• Keep: This template is currently transcluded on 4565 templates to provide users with a way to get help with the use of templates, updates, corrections, extensions, etc. As there currently is no WikiProject to maintain templates, t The intent is to have several groups of template editors who volunteer to maintain templates with which they are familiar. Currently I am the only template editor who has volunteered, and I have multiple myeloma, a fatal form of cancer. Perhaps a WikiProject should be created to maintain public templates. I am open to suggestions. Yours aye,  Buaidh  14:02, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
  • You mean like WP:WPT ? Not the most active of projects but related discussions often end up elsewhere. WP:RT for requests, WT:Lua for programming discussions, WP:VPT sometimes has alerts about e.g. problems caused by templates, and of course here for delete/merge/replace discussions.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 14:25, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps a reactivated WikiProject Templates can take this up as a project. I've been coding since 1970, and I'd like to leave this to some template editors who care. Yours aye,  Buaidh  15:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

• delete, the use in 'Template:User from Switzerland' says 'For help with this template, please contact the assigned maintenance group'. better instructions would be to direct editors to something like WikiProject Templates or Help:Template if, for some reason, the template talk page isn't being watched. Frietjes (talk) 17:17, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
• Delete. Not in keeping with the ethos and policies of Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:36, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Believe me. This is not an ego thing. I just want to see these templates maintained when I am dead. Yours aye,  Buaidh  19:12, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
    • I'm so sorry about your condition, it truly is a sad thing, I have lost my fair share of friends and family to cancer. That being said, in the kindest way possible, that is irrelevant in this discussion. Templates have (and will continue to be) maintained just fine without another template to facilitate it, that is the way Wikipedia has always worked. Once again, I'm terribly sorry about your cancer, but can we try to keep the discussion on the background Wiki policies and past consensus in this instead of it. Thanks! EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 21:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
  • I have no problem with that. I just wish to see some sort of mechanism to support template maintenance. WikiProject Templates is essentially not functioning. Template maintenance in Wikipedia is currently a nightmare. Yours aye,  Buaidh  22:32, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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