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Template:Blink

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty^Woohoo! 05:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Untranscluded template that can easily be written using HTML. We shouldn't have templates for every variation of a <span> tag. It's also incredibly annoying to a reader, regardless of where it's used. --MZMcBride 21:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. If I understand correctly, this is a template to make text blink. However, as pointed out by the nom, the template is unnecessary. Moreover, I think we ought to avoid unnecessary BFOs (Blinking, Flashing Objects) ... there was a discussion about this at the Village Pump a few weeks ago, where the concern was raised that excess blinking, flashing, and movement could cause seizures in some people. — Black Falcon ^(Talk) 21:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per nom. Cheers,Je t Lover 22:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I'll grant that like other thinking humanoids, I find blink text incredibly annoying, but it's not doing any *harm*, and there might be rare situations where it could help. No reason to short-circuit them when the cost to keeping the template is so minor as to be trivial. SnowFire 00:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep precisely because blinking text is so bloody annoying; having a template makes it a little more likely someone will use it instead of HTML to format their blinking text, and then we can use Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Blink to keep an eye on inappropriate uses and aggressively remove them. Of course, the likelyhood of that is kinda low, and personally I can't think of any instance when blinking text would be appropriate in the mainspace, so I don't really have any objection to deletion. cab 00:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You're assuming that someone foolish enough to use blinking text would simultaneously be smart enough to find this template. I find that hard to believe. :) Xtifr _tälk 08:41, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unused and completely unnecessary. There is nothing to gain by keeping this template around for its "novelty". --Farix (Talk) 02:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unnecessary and also a bit per WP:BEANS. Keeping the template around may seduce people to use it in inappropriate places. Should blinking text actually be necessary anywhere anytime (though it's tough to imagine such a situation, however far-fetched) it can be made to blink using HTML. —AldeBaer 13:31, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Delete, unnecessary template. Sebi _[talk] 22:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as interface design that should in general not be encouraged. Such formatting is not really consistent with general accessibility guidelines. DGG (talk) 04:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]