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The result of the debate was keep. RyanGerbil10(One, two, Charlotte's comin' for you) 03:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Illustrated Wikipedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Aside from my personal belief that summarizing articles as cartoons is completely unencyclopedic, this template is unnecessary. Self-references do not belong in articles; they go on talk pages, and that's what {{WikiWorld}} is for. — ShadowHalo 23:01, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

comment - The core of the problem seems to be that the creators implemented this as a Wikipedia:WikiProject. While all(?) other WikiProjects are work tools for editors that have no business being linked from mainspace, WikiWorld serves an entirely different purpose and its audience is not limited to editors. I don't know if there is a better tool available for this type of stuff (short of eg. cartoons.wikimedia.org). Maybe wrapping the template in Template:Selfref would defuse the problem for the moment? --Latebird 12:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Commons and Wiktionary templates provide utile resources related to the articles. {{Illustrated Wikipedia}} provides a link to a cartoon and a link to a WikiProject unrelated to the article. Articles are not vehicles for public relations when the material promoted does not contribute to the goals of creating an encyclopedia. I don't see any other encyclopedia (paper or not) including cartoons in its articles in this manner. ShadowHalo 06:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong exasperated Keep: seriously, has nobody here actually checked as to the history of this template and the associated project? It's getting tedious how every couple of months some bored person decides to have a go at deleting the damn thing yet again. —Phil | Talk 13:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That's not a reason to keep or delete. The last discussion was speedy closed because a separate WikiProject was being created and not because this template should or should not exist. ShadowHalo 22:54, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment - Other WikiProjects maintain portals as an article space location to link to. Why not this one? --Latebird 23:21, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The Hinduism contains a link to Portal:Hinduism because Portal:Hinduism has lots of extra information related to Hinduism. Wikipedia:WikiProject WikiWorld, however, has no information related to the articles. ShadowHalo 05:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • keep - I see no problem using it like the commons template. It's a "value added" feature, in that it postively enhances the encyclopedia (hey, where would New Yorker be without some of its famous illustrations?), and going at it simply on the basis of "self reference" seems to be grasping at straws. Afterall, all the SA links are self reference, and for that matter, technically, every blue link is a self reference. The point of no self references is that you're not supposed to use wikipedia references as sources for article content. The cartoons aren't being used as references/sources, but rather as illustrations, just as any other image is in an article. Therefore, the argument is bollocks, and the template should stay. AKRadeckiSpeaketh 13:26, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't misstate me. I consider the WikiWorld project (including the template) a Public Relations tool for all of Wikipedia. The intention of the template is to point to actual content (yes, the cartoons are content). It's just a technical peculiarity that the way it does so can be construed as a "self-reference". But then, technically speaking, the same applies to the Commons, Wiktionary, and Wikisource templates. --Latebird 20:38, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(One, two, Charlotte's comin' for you) 03:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Needs rationale (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This was created to be a "non-speedy version of {{nrd}}", but why should we need such a thing? Nonfree images with no rationale are candidates for speedy deletion once they've been tagged for seven days, so why should there be a "non-speedy version"? —Angr 18:01, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(One, two, Charlotte's comin' for you) 03:50, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Slasher film killers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete. The template is redundant to another better-designed template (Template:Horror Icons). — Enter Movie 16:13, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(One, two, Charlotte's comin' for you) 03:51, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Countries of continent (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unnecessary template, created by an inexperienced user without an obvious purpose. Coincidence or not, the editing pattern of SwedishZeta (talk · contribs) is very similar to that of Qasaqsuyu (talk · contribs), who created many similar navboxes, all of which were deleted. --Latebird 13:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete as unnecessary. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:19, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I would welcome clarification from SwedishZeta (talk · contribs), whose first edit was 23 June, as to what this strange template is about. (He has received notice of this TfD). Looking at his contribution history is rather alarming; I see that he has deleted 'Mongolian' as one of the languages of Inner Mongolia. I wonder if he will continue in the present vein for much longer without administrators taking an interest in his activities. The edits of Qasaqsuyu (talk · contribs), which stop on 21 June, look very strange as well. He makes esoteric changes to off-the-beaten-track articles that look completely bizarre. His Talk page has collected one warning after another. EdJohnston 20:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
SwedishZeta has by now recreated Template:Countries of North Asia, which was deleted after Qasaqsuyus created it the first time, so it's evidently the same person. --Latebird 21:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was deletion. RyanGerbil10(One, two, Charlotte's comin' for you) 03:53, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

This template is only for 2 football teams. Very unlikely more national Gridiron teams will be added to the Oceania region.. Breno talk 08:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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