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The result of the debate was speedily deleted. --M@thwiz2020 00:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:English Football League (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Created the template myself from an article that was long standing as due to be merged. When I tried it is was baisically ugly, not that informative and too big. Delete it, there's nothing in it thats not elsewhere. Robdurbar 22:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

then it can be put up for speedy deletion, I have done that for you.Flying Canuck 23:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've CSD G7'd it. --M@thwiz2020 00:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was keep Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:British TOCs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
This template was nominted for speedy deletion using the {{db}} template. As this put all the articles it was inlcuded on into category:Candidates for speedy deletion it was inapropriate. Looking on the talk page it appears that there is major disagreement about what should and should not be included in the template and some/all of the editors feel it shoudl just be deleted. My vote is below Thryduulf 22:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete all Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:AM (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Template:PM (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
These templates are used on only around 60 articles, so presumably the other million+ are quite happily using "a.m." and "p.m." (as the MOS recommends) or (less compliantly) "am" and "pm" or indeed "AM" and "PM". -- ALoan (Talk) 19:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I only started using them because people started sticking them into articles I was editing. However the consistency in formatting that they provide is somewhat convenient. Weak keep. — jdorje (talk) 21:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
delete. Utterly pointless to have these templates floating around confusing new users and acting as targets for vandalism. Christopher Parham (talk) 22:45, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
delete. Subst first, of course. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:43, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strip the formatting, first, then subst it with a bot, then delete. — Apr. 7, '06 [04:29] <freakofnurxture|talk>
delete as per above. Style of a.m. and p.m. is covered in MoS. DavidH 06:12, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is? Can you point me to a link? — jdorje (talk) 06:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have added a link above. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:50, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:NJ Devils (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Already duplicated by Template:New Jersey Devils roster (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs); not linked to any pages (at least not any substantive ones); hasn't been legitimately updated in months. Anthony Hit me up... 16:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete John Reid 10:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Branchlist (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Template:Branchlist/Electronics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Template:Branchlist/Electronics/Active component (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
...and everything else in Category:Branchlist
To take words out of FreakofNurture's mouth, "Stems from a fundamentally flawed perception of page management". These are feature creep, an attempt to make Wikipedia heirarchical and bring back Wikipedia:Subpages, and don't do anything that categories, normal navigational templates, See also sections, wikilinks, portals, wikiprojects, what links here, and list articles don't already do. Though test or mock-up templates for a proposed software change, they're repeatedly being placed in live articles. I wouldn't have a problem with them if they were kept out of live articles.

See also Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 April 2#Template:Rootpage and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_6#Category:Branchlist.— Omegatron 13:56, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep and modify till they are to everyones satisfaction. No one has come up with a proposal yet that has the same features. It does not produce a heirarchy but simple an overlay map for finding your way round a topic. Other large pages have the same thing- are we going to remove those as well? I think that would be a retrograde actiom.

Can we keep it if we promise not to use them in any more live articles until agreement on their utility has been reached? --Light current 16:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep I started the Root page concept three months ago and have put hundreds of hours into working to improve it, mostly with Light current. While there is opposition, it seeems to come from people predjudiced against all organisation of articles, and I have yet to see a single real reason for not using these templates, given that they do nothing to detract from the value of a page, and less to disturb its layout than existing templates which are approved. Some people who support it just use and modify it and their voice is not heard so loudly. As Light current says above, no one has come up with anything better, nor a good reason to get rid of it, given that it is no more now than an improved style for a navigation template that is neater and more effective and provides quick interlinking of pages in big topics. I too emphasise it does not create a hierarchy of pages, only a nested system of lists for easy navigation and oveseeing by editors. I also think it should remain as part of the history, since we have been told that similar attempts at organising page navigation have been made repeatedly in the past, and this has to be the most thorough attempt yet, with many pages of talk. --Lindosland 17:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    As pointed out by a million people, this is just duplication of existing functionality, or worse yet, regression towards a hierarchical article structure. The software originally had hierarchies, but this was removed for a lot of very good reasons:
    LC and LL seem to be the only people supporting this, and are repeatedly putting the templates into articles after being asked not to and being reverted by at least six people. — Omegatron 17:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Putting a template in an article is allowed. Being asked not to put templates on any article is not within the rules. On no article has persistent reversion been practised, and usually where a template was removed it was left removed.
      • That's becuase persistent reversion is forbidden, and grounds for being banned. It's called edit warring, and you're in violation for putting these templates into articles when they've been removed multiple times by others. You seem to have a consistently backwards understanding of our policies. Edit warring is bad; not good. Content forking is bad; not good. Hierarchies and subpages are bad; not good. — Omegatron 15:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • You've been stubborn in refusing to understand that Root page is not about sub-pages, or hierarchy. It's primarily about helping helping coordinated editing of big topics. I've read the above material, and this is a very complex topic. I would point out that many of the problems identified in the above like 'only one level, why not unlimited levels', have been examined deeply and resolved. Root page represents a step beyond those references. A common objection in the above references was 'there are no rules for applying the concept'. We have provided the rules, like only one rootpage to any page, and only three levels.
      • This TfD demonstrates that everyone except you thinks this is about subpages and hierarchy. We already have tools for coordinated editing of big topics. "Only one rootpage to any page and only three levels" is completely arbitrary and inflexibly bad. The category system solved all the problems with your proposal before you made it. — Omegatron 15:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Redundant, clutters pages (look how many times transformer was tweaked to try and fit one in),large, ugly, clumsy, vapid, arbitrary association of articles, un-maintainable, (did I mention redundant already?), distracting to users, and a poor substitute for links in the text and for categories. "Terminate with extreme prejudice", indeed. Categories map a topic perfectly well. The articles are wonderfully and subtly organized and we don't need a hammer-blow neon sign saying "Look here stupid". The "hundreds of hours" wasted on this by all concerned should have been spent proofreading, researching, finding PICTURES, checking FACTS - you know, ENCYCLOPEDIA WORK, not egoizing. --Wtshymanski 17:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • You have not stated your above objection regarding 'clutter' at the proper place if I remember rightly. One person did, and I said I agreed. The rules were about to be modified in the light of this, as it became apparent, thanks to live trialling, that the effect on image placement was often a problem. A new rule is now in place at Wikipedia:Root page under 'image placement'. The template should appear alongside the 'see also' listing in the normally blank space.
  • Delete all per nom. And I am most certainly not prejudiced against all organisation of articles as most of my 20,000+ edits have been devoted to exactly that. CalJW 19:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I'm sorry about your hundreds of hours, I really am, Lindosland, but you were warned (not by me) that you were wasting your time. The reason that you "have yet to see a single real reason for not using these templates" is that you choose not to see. For example, look at compact disc. Why would I want to jump from there to iPod or loudspeaker? Those links, like several others, are just a waste of space; valuable top-of-the-page space that we cannot afford to waste in a web-based medium. Now scroll to the bottom, and look at that "audio format" template. That's how organisation should be done. It's compact, doesn't get in the way, is highly specific, and doesn't imply a hierarchy - which your system does, despite what you say. --Heron 20:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • The funny thing is, no one has ever said the above, about 'valuable top of page space', at Wikipedia:Root page, surely the proper place for it. I actually consider this a valid point, but it was proponents of nav and series templates who I let persuade me to use them, in the absence of arguments to the contrary! Why would you want to jump to loudspeaker? Because its an audio component like a CD player and an iPod! This is especially useful to editors for checking what has been covered and what has not, but it is also useful to users studying an entire field. --Lindosland 14:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, for reasons discussed above and elsewhere.--Srleffler 22:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per the above and Wikipedia talk:Root page. Christopher Parham (talk) 22:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, As others have mentioned, while I appreciate the great effort you've put into it I feel that the concept would tend to typecast articles into one well-known domain or another. For example, someone here objected to the notion that the term 'filter' applied to the electronics domain. He made his case that they encompassed mechanical systems as well and then proceeded to rewrite a good number of articles to ensure that the broader perspective was heard. While it irked me at first, the guy was absolutely correct. I'd hate to think that casting articles under specific domain umbrellas or root pages would inhibit reformations like this.--Hooperbloob 23:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yep. I have run into similar things in optics, where articles have been written from some other point of view (esp. photography, opthalmology, and astronomy), which can be improved by generalizing them to include the optics approach and other uses of the same concept. The proponent of these branchlists proposes forking pages when this happens, creating separate articles for the same concept, reflecting the view of that concept from different fields. Ugh.--Srleffler 00:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom and Wtshymanski. The links within WP found in article content and the See also section are more than sufficient to find related articles. Especially when looking at this through the eyes of the casual user who is unfamiliar with wiki conventions, this makes things more confusing and difficult. Tijuana Brass 00:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I saw one of these on the LED page(which I watch) and deleted it. Few of the links in it were even remotely related to LED's, and it was right at the top. TimL 20:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Speedycleanup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
What the hell is a "speedy cleanup" supposed to be? Calton | Talk 13:29, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done so. "LOL"! 68.39.174.238 15:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:NCFCA Clubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Not helpful, necessary or encyclopedic, especially since it links to only three members of an NN organization. pm_shef 06:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


I dispute Pm shef's assertion that the organization is NN. It is a major forensics league that is growing by leaps and bounds and services a homeschooling community that has grown to 2.2 million American children. On the other hand, I am not sure whether individual clubs are encyclopaedic just yet and so I am not casting a vote here. I will say that there needs to be some kind of standard set for notability required - it can't just be a vote of every wikipedia user. There are many clubs and smaller organizations that have made themselves wiki pages, some of which are smaller than many NCFCA clubs.

Also, I thought the general idea behind Wikipedia was that so many articles could be compiled that one could find information on almost anything. To this end, it seems to me that notability shouldn't be too much of a factor.

Basically, while I am not going to cast a vote or argue either way on this particular topic, I do believe that at some point, someone needs to lay down the law on what is and is not notable instead of the somewhat vague and inconsistent guidelines currently in place. HomeschooledDebater 13:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Also note that of the two pages which had originally been linked on the template, one, [[SWAT (debate club) was deleted in an AfD debate. Thus, the template now contains one link. pm_shef 17:42, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was speedily delete per WP:CSD#Templates. -- ChrisO 20:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Persecution of Serbs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The creator of this template has recently tried to add it to a range of articles on the Second World War and the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. He says on the template's talk page that "it should contain Albanian actions as well, and demonization of Serbs in the West. Croats are villians, but are far from only Serb-haters, as evident on this page." As this comment indicates, it's deliberately meant to be POV, and given its inherently POV nature I don't think it will be possible to make it compliant with the NPOV requirements. ChrisO 07:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've had my attention drawn to Jimbo Wales' recent addition of a template deletion criterion to WP:CSD#Templates: "Templates that are divisive and inflammatory". As this template very clearly meets this criterion, I've speedily deleted it as suggested below. -- ChrisO 20:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Willing to change mind if anyone presents a reason why it should stay. --Mboverload 07:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete can this be speedied, please? — Apr. 6, '06 [14:20] <freakofnurxture|talk>
  • Delete per freakofnurture --Andy123(talk) 16:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep ChrisO has engaged in attempting to remove pages related to Serbian suffering. He seems to want to get rid even of this tabulator. Why would there be tabulator for Holocaust, and not for Ustasha Genocide? There are plenty of related articles. If you dont want other Serb persecutions in the same tabulator, thats not the reason for deletion. Also, ChrisO's own tabulator about Scientology is heavily biased as to portray this religion in unflattering terms - need to look at that. In any case, I think this nomination is in bad faith, as ChrisO holds anti-Serbian bias. CeBuCCuCmeM 17:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete This template is totally point of view. It reaks of original research, making some totally outrageous connections. Some of the template's links even lead to unrelated articles (such as Croatian Spring, or the article about Hanging). --Thewanderer 18:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How can a list of links be original research? that is nonsense. As for the link to Hanging, it should link to hangings in NDH, a method used in Ustasha genocide. The Ustasha genocide is a well established event, and so the tab is necessary to put these links together. If you see a problem in after WWII section, that may be adressed, but the tab has to have a valid reason to be destroyed. I would go so far to remind you that removing this tab is a sort of Holocaust denial - but when Serbs are in question, it seems that it does not count. Why are you trying to disintegrate information about Ustasha genocide that already exists in wikipedia? CeBuCCuCmeM 18:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia is not a soapbox. You seem to have entirely the wrong idea about what Wikipedia is. I should add that your actions in sticking POV notices into templates that I've edited, in apparent retaliation for this nomination for deletion, is an act of extremely bad faith. -- ChrisO 18:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You are getting it wrong. I think wikipedia should be ruled by rules, which apply equally to all. Just because you are admin does not mean you can push your POV. You answered that templates do not go into templates, and I accept that - so it should hold for ALL templates. Thus, you must agree that POV notice is not for templates. As what is POV and not, is another issue. I see your edits to Scientology as pretty POV. BTW I am not Scientologist. But thats unrelated issue. The important thing is to have rules, and to follow them in ALL cases. Policy - thats how things work. So, in my opinion, genocide against the Serbs is worthy of a template, since genocide against Jews is. Thats how I understand impartiality. The only thing obvious here is that you, ChrisO, are a POV pusher. CeBuCCuCmeM 18:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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