This page attempts to organize the templates in Category:Medication templates into three categories - can be deleted, may have some use, and needs further discussion. Please feel free to categorize templates from that category into one of the three lists, or add comments/assist with delinking if a template should be delinked.

Can be deleted
This category contains templates which were/are "low utility":

Templates should not be placed in this category until they are "fully useless" - meaning no current transclusions, no viable hope to be re-added to an article, and citations from the templates have been re-added to any article that required them as named references.


Templates beginning with H

Note: virtually all of the H templates were just obfuscating the material off the page - I substituted them but haven't completely verified the material belongs on the page to begin with - I've listed those pages in the last section

Templates beginning with P

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Templates beginning with R

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Templates beginning with S

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Templates beginning with T, W

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May be okay
Templates may be okay (as in valuable to the encyclopedia in some way) if:
  • Multiple articles transclude them
  • The information is relevant and encyclopedic
  • The scope of the template is broad enough to be reused on multiple articles
  • There's some information/data in the template that would be useful to write into an article

The information in these templates may be better presented as prose, in which case it can be removed from articles as that occurs.


Templates beginning with P

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Templates beginning with R

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Templates beginning with S

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Templates beginning with T, W

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Needs further discussion
The templates in this category are "high risk" so to speak:
  • Having a relatively high number of transclusions (over a dozen or so)
  • Having a complex history of template/page moves/edits
  • Having a large number of named references which, if deleted, would orphan references in multiple articles

These templates merit further discussion before mass removal of transclusions and/or deletion occurs. This may be best at TFD or another venue.


Templates beginning with B, C, D

None

Templates beginning with H

None

Templates beginning with I, M, N, O

None

Templates beginning with P

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Templates beginning with R

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Templates beginning with S

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Templates beginning with T, W

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Articles which need review
These are articles for which templates have been substituted or replaced in which may need general cleanup, as observed during the process of cleaning up specifically these templates. This may include:
  • Review of graphs/images to determine appropriateness
  • Removal of extraneous information
  • Moving images/galleries around
  • Et cetera

Articles for cleanup