The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete . These appear to not be used, but I will undelete if anyone requests. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:26, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Linguistic[edit]

Module:Linguistic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Module:Fallback (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 03:11, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

English Wikipedia is monolingual, thus modules like these two are not necessary. Only used in one user sandbox. Pppery 02:18, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

wt:lua has been notified of this discussion.— Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 03:11, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Question - I apparently don't understand, but what is the benefit of deleting? Robert McClenon (talk) 09:45, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep The English Wikipedia is not monolingual – for example, our policy states that references may be in any language (or character set). This module may find use in future applications – such as fetching references from a central wikibase repository – and on balance, the effort of recreating it when it is needed probably outweighs the few kilobytes of server space that it takes up. --RexxS (talk) 12:54, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment' Module:Fallback is almost completely dependent on a non-existent mediawiki message. Pppery 13:26, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Fallback. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:20, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Linguistic. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:20, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unfortunately, Module:Linguistic requires Module:Fallback: you can't delete the latter without breaking the former. --RexxS (talk) 00:17, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Well, Module:Linguistic could be kept by forking the code Linguistic needs from Module:Fallback, e.g. by moving the langswitch function over.--Snaevar (talk) 09:54, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      • In which case, Module:Linguistic itself would then be "almost completely dependent on a non-existent mediawiki message", wouldn't it? --RexxS (talk) 21:29, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
        • Technichally, Module:Linguistic isn't actually dependent on the message, even after one moves code from Module:Fallback, because it doesn't actually get the language, but instead leaves the task to its caller. Pppery 01:06, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete both Module:Fallback is intended to show two users text in two different languages. No usecase has been mentioned for this. Module:Linguistic might be more helpful, but I do not see reference titles, etc. needing support for grammatical conjunction.--Snaevar (talk) 09:54, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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