Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 January 10

January 10

Template:Indre senators

• Template:Indre senators (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused and only two links. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 17:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Template:Numbered routes in Rhode Island

• Template:Numbered routes in Rhode Island (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Per Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 April 1 and other precedents, these have been considered redundant to both Numbered routes in Rhode Island and Category:Numbered routes in Rhode Island for quite some time. Some 19 of these navboxes have been deleted over the years as listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Precedents#Highway system navboxes. Additionally, by actively deploying them, they distort Special:WhatLinksHere for any entry in the box because they all now link to each other. Imzadi 1979 → 01:26, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• Keep - This template helps users move between each route with only one click. Several Interstate Highways have navigation boxes. --Jax 0677 (talk) 01:39, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

  The Interstate Highways have navboxes to their related routes that they intersect, thus they're already linked in the real world and in the article. Rhode Island Route 122 does not connect to Rhode Island Route 238 in the real world (for one example), and yet they're both linking to each other now because of this navbox. That distorts and somewhat destroys the utility of Special:WhatLinksHere/Rhode Island Route 122 because everything now links to everything else in this set of 61 articles.

  Numbered routes in Rhode Island provides greater context to each article if a reader of Route 122 is looking for another route to read about, while the navbox contains no context other than being a list of links. The extra click to get that context is worth that minimal effort. Imzadi 1979 → 01:52, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

  In musical ensemble navigation boxes, some songs in the template do not connect in real life to other songs/albums in the same document (which is sometimes the case with many items in a navigation box). The "utility of Special:WhatLinksHere/Rhode Island Route 122" is irrelevant. Template {{Simon Property Group}} was created, and it was discussed that it should be kept, because users can access other facilities with only one click. --Jax 0677 (talk) 01:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• delete, over navboxing. a category does a better job here. Frietjes (talk) 15:44, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:24, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Template:*sound2

• Template:*sound2 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:*sound (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:*sound2 with Template:*sound.
Only cosmetic differences between the templates. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:33, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Template:Pfff

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Contains only an embedding of File:Hm and sigh.ogg; used only in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Free Melania (2nd nomination). Subst and delete. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)