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January 15

Template:PL showcase picture

Per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 January 14#Template:PL showcase article. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:11, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Pl-sa

Per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 August 11#Articles featured on portals templates * Pppery * it has begun... 23:11, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Nonblocked

Doesn't appear to be used anymore. Izno (talk) 19:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Manager

Unused, no incoming links. User:GKFXtalk 18:33, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:VE Bug/bug template

Templates to track VE bugs. No longer in use, and new bugs should go to Phabricator anyway. User:GKFXtalk 18:28, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SharedProxyIP

I'm sure there's a reasonable replacement for this template used only a half dozen times using standard style. Izno (talk) 18:25, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I think this may be used as a subst-only template. I find hundreds of instances of text that is similar to the text in this template, but no other template that seems to match it. The history says that it was created as a fork of {{Shared IP}}, which now uses different language. It may be possible to merge this template's wording into {{Shared IP}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:37, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, proxies are blocked when we see them, so I think that's probably the interesting template, but either way, pretty sure these kinds of templates are not substed anymore. Izno (talk) 21:25, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Rewrite-talk

Used in 3 places and only one of them has an actual link. Suggest full delete rather than substing +- adding a comment on the one page that actually has a link. Izno (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... and in the one place that does have an actual link, it's no longer being discussed as it was last edited in 2012. Just delete without substing everywhere. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:11, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Article history/old

Copy of old version of {{article history}}. The edit history of "Article history" is still available so there is no need for a second copy. User:GKFXtalk 16:11, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Today (ymd)

Unused template to format today's date in a style not accepted by MOS:DATE. User:GKFXtalk 16:04, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Tuna-cladogram

Article content duplicated into a template (content is in the subtemplate Template:Tuna-cladogram/Thunnini). User:GKFXtalk 16:01, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ubay

Unused template. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 16:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Tagbilaran

Unused template. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 15:59, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:W-contributing

Unused welcome template. User:GKFXtalk 15:54, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WP Grey's task force cat

Seems to have been replaced by {{WikiProject Television task force main category|Grey's Anatomy}}. User:GKFXtalk 15:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Welcome-caps

Welcome template last used 2006 which criticises the new user's name. User:GKFXtalk 15:51, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ambox/core

These leftover relics from the pre-Lua conversion should be replaced with the non-core template and deleted. Gonnym (talk) 13:02, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 15:55, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Round/e−

Unused sub templates of Template:Round (other than in 1 talk page). Gonnym (talk) 12:18, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete (was about to nominate them myself). User:GKFXtalk 12:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently identical to {{jct|noshield=y}}, and used in only one article. User:GKFXtalk 11:57, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Plans/Preload

Preload template from 2012 that doesn't seem useful, as a preload template will only let you create a new page with the given content but {{plans}} looks like it would go on an existing userpage. User:GKFXtalk 11:48, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:On Wikipedia

Unused hatnote template, unclear what its intended use is. User:GKFXtalk 11:45, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Iron Fire

All the album articles have been redirected. Sikonmina (talk) 09:28, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Rndfrac

Unused maths template to round a decimal to a fraction given a denominator. User:GKFXtalk 09:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sacrifice

All the album links have been redirected. Sikonmina (talk) 07:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Thesis author

No transclusions, documentation, or incoming links. People are using much better templates like {{cite thesis}}, even for external links and bibliography sections. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:ACE discussion

Propose merging Template:ACE2021 discussion with Template:ACE discussion.
I recently created a generic ACE discussion template to support ACE discussions, but would like to go through the TFD process as the calling locations would probably need to be replaced/change. And separately, the new template could probably use auto-detection of the year (but I still haven't figured out string.gsub). Izno (talk) 06:03, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: It would probably help if you showed {{ACE discussion}} in use somewhere so that we can get a sense of how this transition might work. The new template currently has zero transclusions, so it's hard to know if it is a valid replacement. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:31, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    It will probably need a little evolution, but this was what was needed. As I said, it could use year auto-detection, but for modern versions of all these ACE discussion templates, it should be close to drop in. Izno (talk) 06:33, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    That looks reasonable; for some reason when I tried it, it looked different and I couldn't make it work. Support merge. Let's snow close this thing and move on. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I couldn't make it work by having the intermediary template, but as you can see had no issue with direct transclusion. I'm sure there's a way to do that, but I didn't want to deal with it. :) Izno (talk) 17:49, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongly support. As a template editor, and as someone who had to deal with this mess of templates as a member of the ElectCom for ACE a few years back, there is zero reason to have a new template for every year - simply having the year be a parameter is more than good enough. When I was on ElectCom that was one of my goals after the election finished but sadly I got distracted by other things and it never happened. Primefac (talk) 09:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. I've added the automatic year detection you wanted by using {{#invoke:String|match|PAGENAME|%d%d%d%d}}. So if all the titles this is used on use a 4 digit year number in their title, it will find them. Gonnym (talk) 10:35, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy sure @Izno: Think it is safe to say that the only people that are going to care about the mechanics of this template aren't going to care about getting it improved, and the transclusion count on these very low. — xaosflux Talk 11:39, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Show file signature

This module and template have no transclusions. At the time of the 2018 TfD (closed as no consensus), they were used in one page. If it hasn't found a use in over three years, we probably shouldn't keep it around. If there is a use for it in current articles, by all means transclude it and I will be happy to withdraw the nomination. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The template was used in List of file signatures, and was removed in this edit (2021-05-15). It was used to display a graphical representation of the bytes in the file signatures. The module is called what it is because the graphical representation partially agrees with the ISO 8859-1 text encoding, but displays control characters as .. The editor who removed it apparently basically substed it in most cases, except the control characters, which were written as ., are now represented with Control Pictures, like ␀ for 0x00, a definite improvement that the template could also do.
The template is still useful on that page, because manually typing out the hex and graphical representations of the file signature and making sure they agree is pretty error-prone. But the module should be renamed because it's not implementing the ISO 8859-1 encoding because of how it displays the control characters. — Eru·tuon 06:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that a module to convert hex strings to the ISO 8859-1-style rendering seems useful and would help to verify that the article in question is consistent. Both the module and its template wrapper should have the same name, and neither of the current names are really quite right. User:GKFXtalk 12:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Spitting Image (2020)

No transclusions. Navbox with no main article. If this navbox contained every possible name that fit its title, it would simply be a laundry list of hundreds of famous people from the 2020s. I don't think this navbox is useful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:23, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 12:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. There's a list at Spitting Image. A navbox adds nothing. Nigej (talk) 17:29, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sport players

No transclusions. If you look at the targets of the articles, they are mostly WP:EGG violations. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:21, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Speedway Rider

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. Appears to be an abandoned project. Only substantive edits were in 2008. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:20, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:South Coast AFL

No transclusions. Navbox with only one link to an actual article about a football club (the other working link goes to an article about a naval college). – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Small Faces tracks

No transclusions. Content exists in a more comprehensive form at Small Faces (1967 album), which is the only place for this content. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:16, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 17:49, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Shute Shield teams

No transclusions or incoming links. This article content for Shute Shield already exists in a more comprehensive form within the article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Shapsug families

No transclusions. This unsourced article content has been inserted into Shapsugs, which is probably the only place where it could be useful. No need for a template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:13, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Second language acquisition

No transclusions. Like many unused sidebars, it appears to have been abandoned in favor of a navbox, in this case the more comprehensive {{SLA topics}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:11, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sd1

No transclusions or documentation. Appears to have been created as a demonstration in 2009 (See discussion) and then never used because it doesn't meet the need. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 15:56, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Schoolsfinder

No transclusions. URL points to a defunct domain. Functionality has been replaced by {{EduBase}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:04, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sciencefields

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. This quasi-navbox from 2006 has been lost to time, apparently, and replaced by more modern equivalents such as {{Natural science}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:59, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 15:56, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. I have only the vaguest memory of creating this template 16 years ago. No need to keep it around any longer when it's not being used. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 00:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SPBMETRO-bull-smallname

No transclusions or documentation. Created in 2012. Unlikely to be used since {{SPBMETRO-bull}}, also created in 2012, is used in only two articles. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:53, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 17:48, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SMRT Buses

No transclusions, incoming links, documentation, or categories. Content is just an image. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:48, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. User:GKFXtalk 15:55, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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