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Taiwan political party templates[edit]

This family of templates contains just wikilinks, maybe with an icon (mostly used for decoration in violation of MOS:ICON). Over the last few years we've been moving away from the "one template for every version of X" system (be it for political parties, national sports, etc) in order to allow for easier updating and centralised coding. This is also a good example of "text stored in a template". Primefac (talk) 23:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • I looked at most of these templates and several transclusion cases. I'm not seeing a violation of MOS:ICON, but I agree that this is a lot of templates for what could be easily accomplished with a single template taking a single parameter (and maybe an optional boolean controlling icon display). I'm thinking combine and replace, although I'm not presently volunteering to do the work, since I've been pretty busy and will almost certainly forget. Folly Mox (talk) 14:13, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Weevil stories[edit]

The Weevils do not have an individual article, making this template's use and existence questionable. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 22:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. If there is not an article on this subset of episodes, then a navbox is inappropriate. A lot of these villain based navbox subsets are all a bit WP:FANCRUFTy anyway. --woodensuperman 12:08, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bangladesh National Film Award Best Short Film[edit]

Majority of films do not have articles, so only links two films. WP:NENAN --woodensuperman 15:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Madurai Junction Railway Station[edit]

Unused route template. Gonnym (talk) 13:37, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Madurai Metro route diagram[edit]

Unused route template. Gonnym (talk) 13:37, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Helsinki-Tampere line[edit]

Unused route template. Gonnym (talk) 13:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Fremantle Line[edit]

Unused route template. Gonnym (talk) 13:34, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No objection. Useddenim (talk) 11:57, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Eastern Hemisphere topic[edit]

Unused meta navigation template. Also this split is pretty much arbitrary as it doesn't have any geo-social-political influence as a collective. Gonnym (talk) 13:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Usersubpages[edit]

Unused template which appears to be related to an attempt to use Wikipedia as a web host. See User:SS Mapping. Whpq (talk) 13:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:ELI[edit]

Unused citation related template. Gonnym (talk) 13:15, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:ECCP[edit]

Unused citation template. Gonnym (talk) 13:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So is the intent to remove the documented patterned behavior of templates in Category:Dictionary source templates such as {{Cite DCBL}} and {{DCBL}}? I agree it's not an obvious behavior, obvious documentation, or obvious pattern, but there's a better reason to open discussion to break it than to delete an individual member of the category for being "unused".
This mass push for deletion of templates based solely on usage, without regard to context, seems out of order, particularly since that the mass list of nominations makes it more difficult for editors to make case by case considerations. In such a case, we should judge that either you have carefully considered your entire list is in order and ready for review, or it is not. SamuelRiv (talk) 18:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as unused; created in 2018, so it does not appear to be useful to anyone. There is no "mass push for deletion of templates". There was one a few years ago, when a group of editors found a report that listed thousands of orphaned templates. At that time, the TFD list sometimes exceeded 400 or 500 listings; we are at nothing like those levels now. Being unused and apparently not usable is a valid deletion criterion. A template that has existed for six years and is not used is a maintenance burden; in the case of this template, three of its five edits are maintenance edits. {{Cite DCBL}} and {{DCBL}} have dozens of transclusions, so would not show up on any "unused template" reports. I would oppose their deletion if they were nominated, as they are clearly useful to editors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:01, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Current iPadOS 15[edit]

Unused iPadOS version template. Gonnym (talk) 13:12, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Current iOS 15[edit]

Unused iOS version template. Gonnym (talk) 13:11, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unused sub templates of Template:Convinfobox[edit]

Unused sub templates of Template:Convinfobox. The template was converted to use Lua here. Gonnym (talk) 13:09, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bennett1203/Guestbooktopicon[edit]

Unused. User replaced it with the standard Template:Guestbook topicon. Gonnym (talk) 13:06, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:AtWt2021[edit]

Unused recently created citation template. These should be used practically immediately after being created and not left unused. Gonnym (talk) 12:56, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Athletic at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games[edit]

A year later after it was sent to TfD for being all red links, the template is still unused and has only red links for the 2023 events. Gonnym (talk) 12:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Arizona NCAA Division I college basketball venue navbox[edit]

Unused navbox. Either it should be added to all articles it links to, or if not wanted, deleted. Gonnym (talk) 12:52, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2018 United States state legislative elections (upper house) imagemap[edit]

Unused election map. Gonnym (talk) 12:50, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2018 United States state legislative elections (lower house) imagemap[edit]

Unused election map. Gonnym (talk) 12:50, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:19TeamBracket-2Elim[edit]

Unused bracket. Gonnym (talk) 12:48, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Macronutrients in common foods as a % of Carbohydrates[edit]

Unused table. Gonnym (talk) 12:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Discord channel[edit]

Unused external link template. Gonnym (talk) 12:45, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How about userify for now? Current consensus is that Discord should be treated a bit like IRC in terms of privacy, but in the future if consensus changes it can be moved back. Awesome Aasim 16:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, that isn't an issue. Gonnym (talk) 20:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CBB yearly record subhead[edit]

Exists expressly for the purpose of being inaccessible and contradicting MOS:COLHEAD. All instances should be replaced with semantically appropriate and accessible table rows. (Note that the template is protected and is not tagged for discussion.) ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:41, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for the same reason expressed at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 November 29#Template:CFB Yearly Record Subhead. A new template scheme should be built first. Template:CBB yearly record subhead should also be treated at TfD together with its co-dependents: Template:CBB yearly record start, Template:CBB yearly record entry, Template:CBB yearly record subtotal, Template:CBB yearly record end. Jweiss11 (talk) 23:11, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: I agree with Jweiss11. If a suitable replacement is not created first, deleting this template will not help achieve the goals of MOS:COLHEAD. If the template were deleted, many editors may simply insert a similar row into the tables produced by this group of templates. Given the nature of the information that these tables present, the subhead is helpful to those for whom it is accessible. It would likely require a complete redesign of the entire table to do away with it. Finally, drawing the conclusion that the subhead "exists expressly for the purpose of being inaccessible" requires one to either have evidence about the template's purpose or to make an assumption that contradicts WP:GF. It seems far more likely that the inaccessibility caused by the template is an unfortunate outcome rather than an express purpose. I'm simply unwilling to believe that there are Wikipedians who invest energy for the purpose of making Wikipedia less accessible. Taxman1913 (talk) 00:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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