Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 July 3
- Template:Lyane Leigh (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Singer navbox with two blue links to associated acts. The singer herself, has no WP article. Lyane Leigh redirects to E-Rotic. DB1729talk 23:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Patrick Rondat (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Navbox with just two blue links in the body. Not useful for navigation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:49, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Filipinki (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Navbox with no links to relevant articles. All links appear to be to record labels, except for one, which links to the author of a book about the musical group. Not useful for navigation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:47, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Feed Me (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Navbox for a musical group with just one album and one single. Not useful for navigation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:45, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Cite LSA (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
- Module:Cite LSA (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
This citation template has never served its intended purpose (not a single page using it is about linguistics) and it's not CS1 compatible so it's nearly impossible to maintain. ~ฅ(ↀωↀ=)neko-channyan 20:44, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support deletion. It's a pain in the ass to interact with, and I've only encountered in on geology articles, which should not use LSA style. It's used under 1000 times, so can easily be converted with AWB and similar. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:18, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete and replace with appropriate CS1 templates in articles. This may have to be done by hand to match the WP:CITEVAR style in each article, like this. The original purpose of this template is long gone, per this discussion and much previous discussion on the template's talk page, including this rabbit hole that led to undoing a misguided template move or merge many years ago. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Note: I think this TFD would also apply to Module:Cite LSA. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:36, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete and replace per above. I've also added the module to the nomination. Gonnym (talk) 08:21, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Arbitrator note (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Undocumented template proposed four years ago but apparently not needed. Subst and delete. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:28, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Australia squad 2013 World Women's Handball Championship (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Most of the entries are deleted, so not much use for navigating between players. Also unusual to create a template for a team that came last in the tournament. LibStar (talk) 00:36, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nomination. Taylor 49 (talk) 15:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Template:EIDR (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
No transclusions or incoming links. Created in January 2024. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:14, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- There are 222980 records in wikidata with the property that template presents, the thing itself is an ID for identify media that is not tied into a particular vendor or platform, if effort is needed, it is it promoting EIDR not in dismantling the infrastructure around it Back ache (talk) 21:25, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete template is of little use. It would be used to add an external link to articles, however the link in reality really adds little value to the articles. The basic information is already in the articles, and providing IDs solely for other databases and streaming platforms isn't of any use to the vast majority of article readers. Anyway the link itself per WP:EL needs to be immediately useful and they aren't. Additionally it seems to provide nothing that isn't already what Wikidata's point is which renders it a pointless duplicate link. Canterbury Tail talk 00:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- ouch :-( Back ache (talk) 08:01, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete Doesn't seem to be useful for the reader? The creator is now mass adding them to film articles, with no explanation. Mike Allen 00:51, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- I was trying to show by example some of the articles it covers, it also has the potential to me more than just a link template because as an industry wide ID there maybe microdata that could be added Back ache (talk) 07:41, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- Probably should be rewritten as a catalog id template for citations, rather than for use in external links (which no one uses templates for anyway). See my comment below. SamuelRiv (talk) 09:26, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- In regard to external link templates, there are some very popular ones for example youtube, twitter, linkedin etc the advantage with using them is as a platform evolves (as is currently happening rapidly with twitters transformation into "X") if the surrounding URL's change, just a change to the template is needed. Your point about transforming it into a citation template makes sense Back ache (talk) 11:49, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- Could this work better as an authority file entry for {{authority control}}? That seems a better place to consolidate structured metadata than in subheading External links, or inside a citation (although I could see citations to this database supplanting user generated sources like imdb for things like runtime). Folly Mox (talk) 12:10, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:06, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
It's unused. There are no transclusions, no instructions to subst it, no advice about other non-transclusion use, and only one relevant link that can be replaced by "PD-ineligible". Taylor 49 (talk) 15:27, 3 July 2024 (UTC)