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Template:Escape page link from within

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Unused template that does what Template:Delink does. Gonnym (talk) 06:26, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. It is currently used, at the ANI header (just sporadically, so not showing up currently), as well as somewhere else I'm forgetting and don't have time to find at the moment (I'm on mobile with limited internet). It is not the same as {{delink}} — please reread the documentation. Delink won't help you for a parameter value that has the linking in the parent template. There's plausible use in the future, and a suitably strong warning in the documentation that in most cases you don't really want to use it, so overall no reason to delete. I suggest withdrawing the nomination, Gonnym. Sdkb talk 14:39, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've looked at the code at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Header. Am I missing something or was this entire template created just because you wanted to add a silly smile to the header ([1])? Because without {{4-1}}, the code works fine:
    {{if April Fools|{{Spoken Wikipedia|date=2007-02-20|Wikipedia Administrators' Noticeboard Slash Incidents.ogg}}}}
    If that is the sole reason for that, I'm still sticking with the delete rational and also remove the smiley. Gonnym (talk) 15:04, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Gonnym, please do not remove the documentation that explains this template's purpose (and which I just referenced above) in the midst of this TfD. I created this template because there are various circumstances in which someone might want to use a template field that is normally wrapped in a link, but not want a link in a particular niche circumstance. The linked example is one — this template allows the {{4-1}} (which is better characterized as the mandatory humor disclosure than a "silly smiley") to be added — but there are others. I have indeed used this template in other circumstances (which were since resolved, thus why it's no longer transcluded elsewhere), which I can try to remember and dig up if you or others are curious. The example in the documentation with {{redirect}} is also only quasi-hypothetical. But it's somewhat immaterial, as the overall use case is laid out clearly in the documentation, and WP:TFD#REASONS is very clear that being unused is not sufficient rationale for deletion unless the template also has no likelihood of being used in the future. Sdkb talk 23:10, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I removed the "documentation" as it isn't documentation, but you telling a irrelevant story. Documentation should be short and to the point. So far you aren't adding any usages other than the one at the header template which isn't really needed. Gonnym (talk) 07:48, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 23:53, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete I don't think that something like this can have any legitimate uses, and it's something of an extreme hack – notably, it adds a couple of invisible links pointing to the Main Page, which would be visible to users browsing in certain unusual ways (e.g. when using the keyboard to cycle through links, rather than finding them visually – this is something a blind person might plausibly do when trying to navigate a page). In general, if a template is asking for a page name (and thus creating a link to the page), the template is designed to have a page name entered there, and if you're trying to enter something else you are using the wrong template. As such, deleting this is probably for the best because a) it doesn't quite work properly and b) its existence implicitly encourages people to use it, which in the case of this template is probably a bad idea. (This is, however, entirely different from {{delink}} and thus the nomination statement is incorrect.) --ais523 05:39, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ais523: You're correct that the template is an extreme hack. When the template was created, the documentation included a prominent warning to try to dissuade inappropriate usage. I'd say that that warning has worked. I don't think the number of legitimate uses is completely zero, though — for situations like the above, you don't want to modify the underlying template, so there is no other solution to achieve the same functionality. With this as a template, it's at least possible to track usage (and curtail inappropriate usage), which seems better than having users stumble on the code independently without any guidance. There are plenty of templates with abuse potential; documenting them works better than trying to hide away the knowledge the code exists. (And yes, thank you for affirming that the nomination is based on an erroneous understanding; it should not be given weight.) Sdkb talk 11:41, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2024 June 24. Izno (talk) 02:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Piccadilly Page

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗plicit 23:32, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Picacadilly is about to get deleted as it is literally self serving so this should be deleted too. xq 23:21, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Huang Xiaoyun

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗plicit 23:32, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Empty navbox. DB1729talk 22:28, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:TP (Taiwan)

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗plicit 14:34, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No transclusions or incoming links from discussions. Created in 2019. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:28, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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