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Template:Succesful SV Dynamo sportswomen or reather sportsmen

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 03:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Succesful SV Dynamo sportswomen or reather sportsmen (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete. NPOV and not useful - who's criteria is used for determining successful? A category (Category:SV Dynamo sportspeople or similar) to group all notable athletes from this club would be much more useful.— SeveroTC 23:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Uw-template1

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 03:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Uw-template1 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Also including in nom: Template:Uw-template2, Template:Uw-template3, Template:Uw-template4, and Template:Uw-template4im. There is no reason to distinguish vandalism edits. Vandalism is vandalism, no matter what namespace it's in. For that, we have the uw-vandalism series. The whole point of the new warnings are to cut down on the number of them. These are superfluous. . --R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 23:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The result of the debate was delete. Blake3522 08:44, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Uw-project1

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 03:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Uw-project1 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Also including in nom: Template:Uw-project2, Template:Uw-project3, Template:Uw-project4, and Template:Uw-project4im. There is no reason to distinguish vandalism edits. Vandalism is vandalism, no matter what namespace it's in. For that, we have the uw-vandalism series. The whole point of the new warnings are to cut down on the number of them. These are superfluous. . --R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 23:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The result of the debate was delete. Blake3522 08:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Upc

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 03:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Upc (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This template is unused and I can see no possible use for it - its effect is to uppercase all the text after it, by insterting the HTML <div style="text-transform: uppercase;">. It has, however, been used to vandalise articles, see [1][2] -- AJR | Talk 23:12, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Amazonimages

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 18:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Amazonimages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Not useful either as a image source tag or as a licensing tag, since Amazon.com is not the source of these images and does not hold the copyright on them. — Resurgent insurgent 17:02, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:LBT backlink

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The result of the debate was Keep. There needs to be discussion on the issues brought up in the nomination, but there seems to be a consensus that the problems don't require deletion. -Amarkov moo! 00:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Template:LBT backlink (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unneeded, non-standard navigation placement, potentially interferes with any page-protection or featured icons, problematic with non-monobook skins. Delete all. --Quiddity 16:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all what? -N 18:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Its the recommendation part, as opposed to "redirect all" or "mark historical", etc. --Quiddity 19:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Sp

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 20:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Template:Sp (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)[reply]

This template is used to incorporate various spellings in a single article, e.g. "US = Standardize, UK = Standardise, AU = Standardise, mate!" While well-intended, I think this is a bad idea that makes editing less accessible to novices, and adds additional process, for very little benefit. >Radiant< 12:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I could go through and agressively add transclusions, but that would probably be inappropriate. Surely the fact that it is (currently) barely in use is not a reason for its immediate deletion. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 15:55 (UTC)
That it is not in use is evidence that there is no widespread phenomena of people who have found this good and useful (i.e. there is no consensus of common practice), and that there would be little disruption in deleting it. —Centrxtalk • 17:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The template was basically created on May 1, 2007, or, in this month. Templates must be given time to be used. Besides, you reverted all of my uses of the template, which is why there aren't any uses.
A number of people have expressed interest at the debate on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (spelling). « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 17:54 (UTC)
A technical solution cannot address everything. As I have mentioned on Template_talk:sp, there is a dialect of English where program is spelled "programme" when in the sense of a schedule of activities and "program" when in the sense of a computer application, etc. Also, it would be important to keep the original spelling of a cited article in order to refer to the reference more exactly.
MediaWiki could have support for a "piped heading" syntax similar to the syntax for piped links. This way, it would be possible to use ((sp)) (or something) to alter the appearance of the heading's text while keeping an appropriate canonical name for use in section linking. Something similar to ==History of colour pigments|History of ((sp/colour)) pigments==, for example, might be appropriate. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 15:52 (UTC)
If this is your main reason, then perhaps it would be better to leave it as is. Someone has already reverted all transclusions that I had added thus it is effectively unused. However, it can serve as the place for any discussion about its use. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 15:33 (UTC)
I do not understand what you mean by "per nom". Please explain. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 15:56 (UTC)
It means "according to the logic used by the nominator". Please read Wikipedia:Per for more details. GracenotesT § 03:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The above argument seems to suggest that all templates should be deleted; the syntax for any template is definitely more confusing than plain text, so the argument can be applied to everything.
What "additional work to implement the template" are you referring to? « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 16:17 (UTC)
No other templates are used in in-line text; they are infoboxes separated from the prose, or singular parenthetical additions. The purpose of this template marks it for use in most sentences of every article. —Centrxtalk • 17:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are other templates that are for in-line text including ((fact)), ((vague)), ((POV-statement)), ((or)), ... (others at Wikipedia:Cleanup resources).
On average, this template could only be used seldom. Some articles like Yoghurt and Colour would have more occurrences while many others would have none.« D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 26 05:40 (UTC)
Not all templates, only those that do not have any significant benefits. Christopher Parham (talk) 23:56, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Novice editors with well intentions already occasionaly cause edit wars when they correct "obvious" misspellings.
You are right in that ((sp)) should only be used for localizing spellings, but the template will work for virtually all localization tasks. Perhaps a more suitable name for this template is in order. This template would basically be the same code and ((sp)) can just call the new template. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 23 16:14 (UTC)
The problem is using a template at all. —Centrxtalk • 17:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The idea is to finally fix or make better the long-standing controversy over "correct" spelling and other localization issues. It is definitely worth giving this a try as the current, ad hoc guidelines lead to problems, including edit wars and constantly recurring suggestions regarding title renaming, which are potentially avoidable. « D. Trebbien (talk) 2007 May 26 05:23 (UTC)
What does this mean to the English Wikipedia? If implemented correctly, we can have a tab on the top just like 4 other Wikipedias I mentioned above, and the user doesn't even have to log in to use the feature. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What it means is that if it is appropriate it should be implemented in the software, not by using a hackish template with collateral damage. Also, presumably there is some difficulty for some in understanding an unfamiliar script (?) whereas in English the British and American spellings are perfectly and easily mutually intelligible. That is, there is an actual necessity in using both scripts unless a duplicate traditional script Wikipedia is to be created; here there is no such thing. —Centrxtalk • 18:46, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Libya Squad 2006 African Nations Cup

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 06:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Libya Squad 2006 African Nations Cup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The World Cup templates are one thing, but this is excessive. This appears to be the only one, too - not even the champions (Egypt) have a corresponding template. fuzzy510 08:36, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to be clear, you realize the precedent this sets, right? If this gets kept, then it's legitimate to have a template for every team for every Association's championship, which would further exacerbate the problem that a lot of people thought we had with the World Cup templates. --fuzzy510 17:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh. I thought that this was already the case. Fair enough. Delete - 52 Pickup 18:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Al Ittihad Tripoli Current Squad

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 07:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Al Ittihad Tripoli Current Squad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Just a list that's not used anywhere. May have been created in error. — fuzzy510 08:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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