Template talk:Baseball year

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This template was considered for deletion on 12 November 2009. The result of the discussion was "keep".

This template was considered for deletion on 16 March 2010. The result of the discussion was "keep for restricted use".

This template was considered for deletion on 3 April 2010. The result of the discussion was "procedural close".

Template name[edit]

I notice that the template name was changed from Template:by, but although the new version is more understandable at a glance, it hardly saves much text space ({{Baseball Year|2005}} takes up almost as much space as [[2005 in baseball|2005]]), maybe Template:BaseYr would be a slight improvement? MisfitToys (talk) 22:12, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, actually (according to the page history) it was never actually named Template:By, that was just a shortcut. The reason I've been changing it is because I personally, although {{by}} is much shorter, think {{by}} can be confusing/misunderstandable (sic) to editors who aren't familiar with the template; by changing it to {{Baseball Year}}, although it takes up a few more bytes, can be much clearer. As for Template:BaseYr, sounds fine with me, takes up less space but still clear. jj 137 22:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine; if you care to change it, I'd appreciate it, as you seem to be handling more of the template cleanup. MisfitToys (talk) 22:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to propose the idea at WT:MLB to get a wider consensus on what to do, if that's OK. jj137 (talk) 02:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. MisfitToys (talk) 02:07, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Use restrictions per TFD[edit]

In Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_16#Template:Baseball_Year (and a related discussion), the consensus was that the use of the template should be restricted to non-prose portions of articles, such as tables and infoboxes. The documentation of the template has been updated accordingly. --RL0919 (talk) 13:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{Baseball year} → {MLB Year}[edit]

Input is solicited at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#{Baseball year} → {MLB Year} —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:40, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]