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Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

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These editnotices have been blanked by ProcrastinatingReader, following what I assume to be proper procedure based on some consensus. I asked about blank editnotices at Wikipedia talk:Editnotice, but I received no helpful input, so consider this a test run at TFD. There are hundreds of blank editnotice templates; this is a sample of eleven of them on the same topic; there are about 70 blank COVID editnotices. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:34, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

...and why did ProcrastinatingReader do this instead of replacing them by {{Contentious topics/editnotice|topic=covid}}? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:37, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, that was in 2020!
Mmmh. Well, today they should be replaced by the code above instead of being deleted, I'd say. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm fine if that is the consensus outcome. I can choose another set of blank editnotice pages for another nomination. The COVID editnotice pages start at about line 555 at Special:UnusedTemplates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:55, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:For-multi

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Been bothering me for a bit: This template is redundant to {{About}} since all transclusions of {{For-multi}} could be replaced with {{About}} while shifting all their parameters down a value ("1=" becomes "2=", "2=" becomes "3=", etc.) and it will return the same hatnote. In other words, if literally {{For-multi were replaced with {{About| in all instances, all would be the same. Steel1943 (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – as the documentation says:

Technically, {{About}} can be used by passing an empty first parameter, but this isn't recommended as the wikitext {{About||UseA|ArticleA|UseB}} doesn't make it clear what the output is going to be and what the purpose of the template is as, in this case, the name of the template "About" is misleading.

Considering that it's a simple wrapper around {{hatnote}} and Module:Hatnote list, it seems clearly net-positive to me. jlwoodwa (talk) 22:04, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, the documentation clear as day admits that the template is truly unnecessary due to its redundancy, basically per what I stated in my nomination statement. Steel1943 (talk) 22:06, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Seems this concern isn't new either: See Template talk:For-multi#Division of labour. The very existence of this template was question almost immediately after it was created. Steel1943 (talk) 22:11, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Global epidemiology by condition

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This seems to be an arbitrarily constructed list of some diseases and things, in violation of WP:NAV-RELATED. I can't figure out what brings these topics together. The template creator hasn't edited in over a decade, and my query at the talk page went unanswered. Suggest deletion, as I'm not sure how this can be turned into a reasonable navbox. Ajpolino (talk) 20:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Latin script/diacritic with all letters/overview

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Unused sub template. Gonnym (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Math/li

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Unused math template. Gonnym (talk) 08:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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