Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 October 24
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Africa (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Andhra Pradesh (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Arunachal Pradesh (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Asia (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Assam (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Chandigarh (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Chhattisgarh (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Template:Editnotices/Page/COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
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)
- ...and why did ProcrastinatingReader do this instead of replacing them by
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|topic=covid}}
? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:37, 24 October 2024 (UTC)- 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)
- 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)
- Template:For-multi (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
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)
- Keep – as the documentation says:
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)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.- 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)
- 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)
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)
- Template:Latin script/diacritic with all letters/overview (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Unused sub template. Gonnym (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Math/li (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Unused math template. Gonnym (talk) 08:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)