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The result of the discussion was keep. Airplaneman 04:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Montenegrin Wiki (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

I don't see what purpose this serves. {{Lang}} within the article text should suffice. —Justin (koavf)TCM23:56, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep per cogent remark from Chris Cunningham. And I have seen many uses of "foreign languages" on userpages - we would bneed an RfC if we really wish to establish monolingual as the standard. Collect (talk) 11:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was Keep. Airplaneman 03:03, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-Flatart-Nosource (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused, redundant to {{PD-Art}}, odd representation of policy. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:46, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Airplaneman 03:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-Roundart-US (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused, redundant to {{PD-art-US}} Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:44, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Airplaneman 03:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-Roundart-70 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused, redundant to {{PD-art-life-70}}. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Airplaneman 03:42, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-Roundart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused, redundant to {{PD-art}}. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Airplaneman 03:42, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary and unused addition to {{PD-USGov-NASA}}. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Airplaneman 03:43, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-NYPL (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Same as previous submission. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:38, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Airplaneman 03:43, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-8BS (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused template; PD-release or PD-author should suffice. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:36, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was keep. Airplaneman 04:10, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-software (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

"Public domain" basically doesn't exist. All software (that I'm aware of) under a free license is more restrictive than outright PD. In fact, all of the images marked with this tag are improperly marked (some grossly so) or at very least improper explained. In the rare instance that a truly public domain software program runs, there should be a {{PD-because}} tag with a more proper explanation such as {{PD-self}}. Full disclosure, I removed this tag from three pages: [1] [2] [3]. Magog the Ogre (talk) 21:45, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Public domain software exists; see our article public domain software and the related category Category:Public domain software. You've probably even got some of it on your own computer, in the form of the SQLite database engine embedded into Firefox or some other program. --Carnildo (talk) 00:08, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was Delete. Ruslik_Zero 17:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:File-Sintel (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused license template. WOSlinker (talk) 18:14, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:20, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:EXPOCENTRE (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Only transcluded in one place. No need to have as a separate template. Should be subst'd into article. WOSlinker (talk) 17:40, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was keep Peter Karlsen (talk) 18:17, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Three other uses (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

{{About}} does the job better. This one differs from about only in the case it has exactly three parameters where it automatically adds 2 more to show a disambiguation page. About can much easier be handled, making this one unnecessary. diff. (About supports more parameters making addition of new pages piece of cake). Magioladitis (talk) 17:30, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You should not have orphaned the template. After you did, it was dishonest to not disclose this. (You are well aware that users commonly look to the number of transclusions when evaluating a template's usefulness, regardless of whether this pertains to the nominator's stated deletion rationale.)
Yes, it's a common practice to delete templates that are redundant to others. But if redirection is feasible (i.e. the syntax is compatible with the target, or the target easily can be tweaked to accommodate it), this usually is vastly preferable. You need not agree with this, but please stop feigning ignorance of consensus. —David Levy 06:55, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting idea but "About" already provides many tricks like the use of the word "and", empty parameters, etc. Most of the disambiguation cases are covered by {{Other uses}} which is another well-established template. I'll come with a more solid proposal on "Other uses" probably next week. There is something more: It's always better to have the whole pagename visible both in wikicode and the shown text. This helps editors identify it. It's one of the reason we don't pipe wikilinks in dablinks. Moreover, in my opinion, we need "parameter-free" dablinks. Parameters is the strong disadvantage of {{Other use}} (along its name which is similar to "Other uses"). -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:10, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The thing is, templates are there to make things easier for editors and more consistent for readers. Having to get everyone to type |other uses|foo (disambiguation) every time to get the dab link is a loss both ways. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 14:22, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Three other uses saves this only as 5th and 6th parameter. Not much gain and if you see only a few number of articles needs this as a third pair text/link anyway. In most cases {{Other uses}} is enough. Try also to use {{About}} with only one parameter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Full disclosure: I created this template a long time ago. I would have waited to orphan a template that has 200 instances of use before nominating it for deletion and awaiting the results and an examination of the potential consequences. Also there are still a bunch of instances of this template still being implemented in the mainspace. 3 uses is still before the threshold of needing a disambiguation page. I would not want to change the functionality of "about" might have other consequences and I think "two other uses" and "three other uses" should remain undoable, as per David Levy above. I honestly don't know what will happen, and I defer to those who know template coding better than I, but I think a fallback is never a bad idea. Valley2city 16:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The big advantage of the template is supposed to be the case where one of the three choices is the dab page. No dab page, no advantage. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was Move to the userspace of the creator. Ruslik_Zero 12:39, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sims Public License (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused tongue-in-cheek template. Templates created by licenses named after our own Wikipedia users should probably remain in the userspace. Magog the Ogre (talk) 09:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was substitute and delete. Airplaneman 03:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Deprecated license PD-Russia (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template has only one meaningful transclusion: {{PD-Russia}}. It should be subst'ed there and deleted; single use templates are... well... useless. Magog the Ogre (talk) 08:48, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Keep. I will also leave notes on both templates' documentations recommending the use of other licenses. Airplaneman 03:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WTFPL (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:WTFPL-1 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This really isn't a valid license. It is used on very few images, maybe it could redirect to {{pd-self}} Alpha Quadrant talk 01:37, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was merge Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:19, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Filmcam (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Infobox camera (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Infobox Filmcam with Template:Infobox camera.
Yet another camera infobox that can be upmerged into the more generic {{Infobox camera}}. Only 11 mainspace transclusions. PC78 (talk) 01:18, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was Delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:18, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Marquette Golden Eagles current roster (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

"Current Roster" templates are not used for college basketball. A very small number of college players are notable and such templates encourage creation of articles of non-notable athletes. Keep in mind that templates are meant to navigate articles of notable people. Similar pages for Syracuse and Illinois have been deleted within the last few months. Rikster2 (talk) 01:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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