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of templates used within Wikipedia, many of which convey messages; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are...

formatting the citations manually. The use of citation templates is neither encouraged nor discouraged. Templates may be used or removed at the discretion of individual...

the template to fix its problems. If the template is complex and you don't know how to fix it, WikiProject Templates may be able to help. Templates for...

requests for a new template or updates to existing templates to the bottom of this page. Please be clear about what the template is used for, roughly...

navigation templates is to use the {{navbox}} or {{sidebar}} master templates. This simplifies the process of creating a functional and consistent template. Do...

Inline Templates. This collaboration is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's inline neutrality- and attribution-cleanup, dispute, and footnote templates. This...

navigation templates, infobox templates, inline templates linking country articles, stub types, image copyright tags and user language templates (Babel)...

add {{pp-template}} to protected templates that don't use {{Documentation}} (mostly the stub templates). The bottom of protected templates should usually...

applies also to any high-use template redirects. Templates should be clearly documented as to their usage and scope. Templates should not be used to create...

WP:Discussion templatesWP:Discussion templates Wikipedia:TALKTEMPLATEWikipedia:TALKTEMPLATE This is a list of standardized discussion templates that are used...

{{Redirect category shell}} template can be used to group multiple templates on a single page by listing the appropriate redirect templates as its parameter (similar...

inner templates to be used as utility tools by various outer, wrapper templates. Templates can be wrapped to existing templates with {{#invoke:template wrapper|wrap}}...

"meta-templates", as used in this article, refers to nested templates which are created and used to add functions or formatting to other templates. While...

proprietorship. Templates can go to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion if they appear to push a POV. Trying to remedy this by adding more templates might lead...

WP:WC/WTWP:WC/WT This is a list of templates available from the Welcoming committee for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user...

This is a list of templates that you might find useful when reviewing Good articles. They are for convenience only, a review is perfectly valid without...

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cleanup templates are used to inform readers and editors of ongoing discussions and attempts to fix the problems on the page. Such templates can be used...

military (see #Military flag templates) and sports templates (see #National sport team flag templates). See each template's documentation for more details...

templates have been created. Some of these have been superseded by newer templates and others have simply been orphaned. Listing all unused templates...

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These templates and message boxes are used on template pages and their subpages such as their /doc pages. Additional templates for template pages can...

complex ones. Templates should therefore be accompanied by documentation to improve usability. Template documentation should explain what a template does and...

tagging templates. It is preferable that in-line templates be applied to content that is being objected to on bias or fact grounds. Inline templates are preferred...

The template editor user group assigns permissions that allow trusted coders to edit templates and modules that have been protected with the template protection...

Shortcut WP:TRLWP:TRL This page lists templates with red links (which lead to non-existent internal pages). Certain links are not checked, including Parameterized...

note that these templates are courtesies; nobody is required to stop editing just because they're shown. Please note that these templates are only meant...

sequence 2503Alt+x. Besides standalone BS-map, row templates can be transcluded in other infobox templates such as {{Infobox rail line}} or {{Infobox public...

consistency throughout Wikipedia, the talk page templates page explains how general talk page templates should appear. This standardisation is sometimes...

and other policies and guidelines. You should use these templates carefully. These templates explain the various policies to new editors. When novice...

improve the template-editing experience for the user. Both VisualEditor and the 2017 wikitext editor include a wizard to edit templates, but for the...

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Closing instructions. Templates for which each transclusion requires individual attention and analysis before the template is...

templates for a few specific sources. Citations of generic sources: general inline citation templates transcluded from Wikipedia:Citation templates Before...

where the template is used. (For example, there are many table templates which should have TemplateStyles which are provided entirely in templates, or which...

variations of these, can be found at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates. For cut-and-paste welcome messages, see Wikipedia:Standard user greeting...

users new to template development. For developing entirely new templates, using user sandboxes are recommended. Most protected templates already have...

navigation templates § Navigation templates Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes Wikipedia:Navigation template Wikipedia:Talk page templates Wikipedia:Manual...

documentation}}: Afd template navbox. {{Proposed deletion templates}}: proposed deletion template navbox. {{Speedy deletion navbox}}: speedy deletion template navbox...

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of articles would have these templates, with no informational consequence). Generally it is expected that these templates will appear on an article for...

Design guidelines Table of templates View all multi-level templates View all single-level templates View all block templates View all meta-templates...

articles (and talk pages) to become gradually cluttered with templates. While templates are intended to provide useful features and simplify the editing...

While most templates can be used in sections, these templates are section-specific: Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging Wikipedia:Template messages/Splitting...

A series of templates was created to ease the inclusion of these triple references. The obvious choice for the names of such templates have been the...

Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup#Verifiability and sources. (15 templates linking to a page with links to maps of a given location) For templates for linking...

categories of templates that have been deleted or redirected, tag with {{db-c4}}. templates that have been merged, tag with {{db-c4}} if merged template does not...

1#Voting via templates (April 2005) Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/Deleted/June 2005#Template:Support and Template:Object and Template:Oppose Wikipedia:Templates...

categorize the page as template data documentation and allow later organization of templates and their documentations. If the template has no parameters,...

see Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion. Additional templates for category pages can be found in Category:Category namespace templates and its subcategories...

boxes and its sub-categories. For wikipedia wide cleanup templates, please see Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. {{In-universe|subject=comics|category=comics}}...

The current archival system does not separate deleted/non-deleted templates (in use since January 4, 2006). Shortcut WP:TFD/LWP:TFD/L Deleted 2006: January...

A list of examples of the various message templates, and other sorts of templates....

Unused Templates Task Force, a part of WikiProject Templates. This task force aims to address the multi-thousand-page backlog of unused templates on Wikipedia...

(disambiguation) 28 Template:Hatnote templates documentation -> Article Something Article1 Article2 DISAMBIG Etc… Hatnote templates documentation (disambiguation)...

two basic welcome templates - for impersonal welcoming of IPs and registered users Ed6767/swT0Qxhjb8 Pack of basic welcome templates for newly registered...

the contents of all New Jersey–related templates for easy access and organization. For a pure list of the templates that does not display their contents...

For hatnote templates used to distinguish pages, see Wikipedia:Hatnote#Distinguish or Template:Hatnote templates documentation Shortcuts...

are templates that can be used on talk pages. There are also additional templates at List of discussion templates, and User talk page templates. See...

this template. If the source is unreliable, other templates are available, e.g. {{unreliable sources}}. If inlines are requested, again other templates are...

other templates. This is now no larger than many other templates in use, such as Template:USpresidents, Template:Current U.S Senators, Template:United...

This page documents templates related to video games. Note that infobox templates shown below are examples, purely for demonstration purposes. Therefore...

Category:Calendar templates Template:Calendar/isoMonthStartSun Template:Calendar/isoMonthStartMon Template:Calendar/isoMonthStartTue Template:Calendar/isoMonthStartWed...

Series templates are boxes in the Template namespace which list articles which are related in one way or another. An example of a Series template is the...

details of templates relating to formatting. Templates related to descriptions (such as disambiguation, spoiler, wikicode) are listed under Template messages/General...

User templates are any templates which may be placed on user pages. They include, but are not limited to: Wikipedia awards, Barnstars Top icons Userboxes...

you want to delete these World Cup templates then you should also delete squad templates as well as the Template:Aston Villa F.C. Squad is the same as...

Shortcuts Wikipedia:JHJ Wikipedia:Templates are boring Wikipedia:Make templates better Wikipedia:Only you can help templates Wikipedia:Jdhfkjshdfkjshd Wait...

Guidelines Assessment Cleanup Templates Grand Slam Project Tournament Task Force Members >> Join Welcome to the Template and Categories Department of Tennis...

Template:PD-screenshot (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Only used once. Redundant with {{PD-release}} and the {{PD-art}} templates,...

templates to help classify categories (and more on the way). It is much easier to use a template than to set it up manually. Here are the templates that...

This is a report of uncategorized, non-subpage templates. All templates should have at least one category that is not a tracking or maintenance category...

consensus to deprecate the use of these templates, or at least find guidelines that would give the templates some purpose again and reduce their usage...

Design guidelines Table of templates View all multi-level templates View all single-level templates View all block templates Shortcuts WP:BLOCKTWP:BLOCKT...

education utilizes many templates for use in general operations, listed by category below: This is a list of "university" infobox templates currently in use...

Categorization Copyright Forking Templates Main Page Miscellaneous Frequently asked questions about Wikipedia's templates. Templates are pages that allow editors...

Shortcut WP:PNT/TemplatesWP:PNT/Templates These templates are intended to be placed on the talk pages of users who submit articles in foreign languages...

1 Template:Austrian presidential election, 1951 -> Heinrich Gleißner 1 Template:Austrian presidential election, 1992 -> Rudolf Streicher 1 Template:Austrian...

WikiProject California user templates, place any combination of the following code on your User page: The userbox templates shown above automatically add...

individual templates were combined into {{NRHP date for lists}} to make it easier to keep track of the dates. I have a list of all the other templates and was...

banner. For a more complete listing, see Category:WikiProject banner templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory. {{B}} {{WPBannerDoc}} Wikipedia:WikiProject...

discourage editors from editing articles, and goes with a long line of similar templates such as {{POV Russia}}, {{Insufficient propaganda}}, and just recently...

proposing a move on Wikipedia:Requested moves. Template usage examples and notes The following templates should be placed atop articles desired to be copied...

including those added by templates which are unparameterised and cannot be easily parameterised for sorting (such as the 2000+ stub templates). Unless whoever...

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correct, maintain and promptly update these templates when they get lengthy and complex? Is it possible that templates are the least attractive editing milieu...

general only the templates listed below should be used. Major new templates should be discussed on the talk page before creating. Templates chosen should...

Shortcut WP:ELEM/TEMPLATESWP:ELEM/TEMPLATES {{periodic table templates}} → This section: view edit Specials Asterisks {{Element cell-asterisk}} PyMOL colors...

templates. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Navigation templates and...

make a redirect to Template:Spoiler. Or can templates be redirected at all? — JIP | Talk 19:53, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) Yes, templates can be redirected, and...

dispute regarding the placing of templates mainly directed at editors in the article namespace or on talk pages. Among templates where this has been an issue...

that the use of these templates is not required. Use of these templates is manual, authors may copy-and-paste the desired template into their text, and...

continually updates as the parent template changes. Substitution is most often used to handle templates, and this page lists templates that should either always...

2008 (UTC) Template:Rpotd (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) I am nominating this template and the large class of templates with the prefix...

colour of template messages. Templates come in many colours, and the presence of one is generally recognized as desirable, so that the template is not invisible...

{{Death year and age}} {{BirthDeathAge}} – combines the functionality of the above six birth and death templates Category:Date mathematics templates...

1 Template:Anglican Bishops of Bombay -> Prakash Patole 1 Template:Bishops of Carlisle since 1908 -> John Diggle (bishop) 1 Template:Bishops of Niagara...

These 12 templates are used on all articles at the region level, zone level and woreda level — but not for cities, towns/kebele or other smaller administrative...

categories and templates. When you add a particular stub template to the very end of a stub article, that article is added to the template's related category...

1 Template:Military of Algeria -> Algerian Coast Guard 1 Template:Military of Asia -> Military of Asia 1 Template:Military of Austria-Hungary -> Austrian...

This index outlines Scouting-related templates. Navigational templates Scouting by country or region templates will be named "Scouting by country/region"...

Citation templates are often used to format the citations that show in the reference list. Many of these templates can create anchors that allow links...

38 Template:Schürzenjäger -> 10 Jahre Zillertaler Schürzenjäger 20 Jahre Zillertaler Schürzenjäger - Rebellion in den Alpen 25 Jahre Schürzenjäger - Open...

autocollapsed so that the templates don't add more to the apperance of it's size when reading through the article. As sometimes these templates can be quite large...

are templates that should appear at the bottom of a Summer Olympic article. For Winter articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Winter templates. For...

1 Template:2006 UCI Road World Championships -> 2006 UCI Road World Championships – Women's Time Trial 1 Template:2008 in road cycling -> List of 2008...

122 Template:Supreme Court of Canada -> 1876 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada 1877 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada 1878 reasons of the Supreme...

Network templates, see Category:Template-Class Cartoon Network pages. For Cartoon Network related templates, see Category:Cartoon Network templates. For...

Overkill template, with two other templates included (which are of value individually) and a list of seasons, with only one article done. Large, bulky...

without templates like these. PaladinWhite 03:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Delete I could imagine an ensemble cast movie like Bobby with a dozen such templates if...

templates on user talk-pages. In general, any template of the form {{xyzz}} is stored under page name "Template:Xyzz". The introduction to templates is:...

similar uses. These should use the templates outlined at below. For squad lists in club articles, use the following templates: {{football squad start}} {{football...

All Signpost preload templates (search): Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/Blog...

of article templates which may be useful or necessary when editing USRD articles. This is not an exhaustive list of all available templates, but includes...

longer a stub. The following stub templates/classes are available for use: {{pakistan-stub}} – generic stub template for article that do not fit in other...

This is the template department to the Los Angeles Rams WikiProject. This department explains how and where Los Angeles Rams' related templates are used...

1 Template:Universities and Colleges in Hong Kong -> Tung Wah College 1 Template:Universities and colleges in Chongqing -> Hechuan University 1 Template:Universities...

heated debates on these. So, if you are intending to apply one of the templates to an article about a scientist, academic, or classical composer, musician...

adept template coder. Note that in order to maintain consistent design of templates there have been significant discussions about a variety of templates at...

of these templates. The templates do not direct people to any discussion on WP:COI/N, nor is there any indication of when or if the template should be...

never a meta-template, as described at WP:AUM (although it used to contain a couple). Meta-templates are templates used within another template, whilst Stars...

Shortcut WP:MPTWP:MPT Template:Did you know Template:Feature Template:In the news Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August...

This page contains various templates which may be of use in the project. Below is a list of all of the infobox templates that should be used on articles;...

5 Template:Baseball in Canada -> Baseball Canada Cup Baseball Canada Junior Championship Baseball Canada Midget Championship Baseball Canada Senior Men...

26 Template:Zlín aircraft -> Zlín Z 20 Zlín Z 24 Zlín Z 25 Zlín Z 30 Zlín Z 41 Zlín Z 44 Zlín Z 45 Zlín Z 46 Zlín Z 47 Zlín Z 48 Zlín Z 52 Zlín Z 61 Zlín...

covers 4 such templates, covers 1 template, covers 3 such templates, covers 3 such templates, covers 3 such templates, covers 1 such template, covers 1 such...

This page lists templates that are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects. It also provides...

Alternatively, one can put the User ____ templates on the list of templates to be subst'd (so the {{userbox}} template gets saved instead of User ____), but...

some oddball reason, someone thought the Canadian ministry templates, and those templates only (as opposed to thousands of other articles across the encyclopedia)...

of all templates is. Explain again why other templates are not up for deletion now that I have clarified your misunderstanding on multi-template TFDs.--TonyTheTiger...

change the content of the templates, not to delete any of the templates used by the GA project. I don't care how many templates you use, I just care that...

Myanmar/Ayeyarwady Region templates Wikipedia:WikiProject Myanmar/Bago Region templates Wikipedia:WikiProject Myanmar/Magway Region templates Wikipedia:WikiProject...

was deletion of actor templates, no consensus for director templates. RyanGerbil10(Говорить!) 02:12, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Template:Fred Astaire Films (edit...

Style.css WikiFunctions.dll User talk templates Source code Shortcut WP:AWB/DTWP:AWB/DT This page lists templates which AWB should automatically add |date=...

many other templates for the purpose, including {{cleanup-rewrite}} DGG (talk) 08:16, 14 April 2009 (UTC) Delete redundant to cleanup templates and needlessly...

complex templates created by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template. The reason the template shows up as unused is due to the way the templates are set...

be written, too. ☺ I tried to do a rewrite about site templates, but (a) as far as site templates in the World Wide Web are concerned, what is actually...

editing templates harder when different wikiprojects may want to design individual templates for individual uses. Also, a consolidated template will be...

2005#Template:bullshit. Using this template in articles would be inappropriate and unencyclopedic, and we have much better templates already for...

2008 (UTC) Template:RonPaul (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) See also: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 April 23#Template:Ron Paul...

single use templates.--Sean|Black 22:59, 5 November 2005 (UTC) Delete and Subst along with all other single use templates. Single use template is an oxymoron...

Templates with the most transclusions, provided they have at least 2000 transclusions; data as of 05:06, 9 August 2026 (UTC). Due to technical limitations...

templates, if you so wish The first four templates are "template sandboxes", which are the same as regular sandboxes, except they're in the template namespace...

advanced template coding techniques to improve the display or editing of templates in Wikipedia. There are also some tactics for debugging template parameters...

some readers might encounter. Temporary current event and time-limited templates such as {{current}} or {{recent death}}. These alert the reader that the...

Category:Ice hockey infobox templates {{Infobox ice hockey biography}} {{Infobox ice hockey team}} {{Infobox sports league}} Use these templates for external links...

articles for a specific subject. The most common form of templates on Wikipedia are navigational templates: also known as navboxes, connect related articles...

these templates need to be updated to fix all intersecting lines. Skip-stop operation on parts of the J/Z complicates matters; there the templates refer...

Essay Categorization and/or Classification Templates {{WikiProject Wikipedia essays}} {{Essay}} {{Supplement}} {{Notability essay}} {{Civility essay}}...

two templates are not redundant or overlapping, whatever you call it. The two templates are also not inferior to each other. The rename template serves...

deleting "perfectly good templates", it's not; it's deleting flawed templates and offering better choices, I.E. the replacement template I've linked above....

Polish Wikipedia - see the Polish guide Templates may be installed or they may be omitted/simplified. Some templates are important for references, and for...

templates) to be other templates that were part of this whole package: Template:vfd-iup, Template:vfd-df, Template:vfd-cr, Template:vfd-ext, Template:vfd-faq...

claims is a sure way to give away your disruption. "Citation Needed" templates are used as a request for editors to add a citation to an existing uncited...

into the docs for any userboxes for use by Project Participants. These templates are used throughout Wikipedia. There is no need to reinvent the wheel...

R S T U V W X Y Z See template page for numerous examples. This highly customizable template can replace most other templates listed below, which are...

The following templates can be used on pages in Wikipedia to associate them with this Project. Click on a template's title to see a sample of what it produces...

watch | logs) Template:Roads in BC Cities (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)) These templates only link to other templates. As discussed at...

templates. RyanGerbil10(The people rejoice!) 04:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC) These templates two groups have basically the same look, so master templates were...

sorting/Templates to vet/Generic Original list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Templates to vet Supplements: Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Templates...

use the template software feature. The templates have parameters; to work properly, the parameter values have to be specified when the template is inserted...

the templates. If the functionality of the two templates overlaps considerably, then they're a good candidate for merging. For example, Template:Infobox...

Total 262 templates, their 262 talkpages, and two selfreferences (talk) for RELC effect:. -User:DePiep 10:33, 5 November 2013 (UTC) Template:Alkali metals...

1 Template:Settlements in Belgaum district -> Shivapur, Belgaum Because of the large number of links in these templates, the links will not be individually...

List of templates relating to Sheffield Wednesday and WikiProject Sheffield Wednesday. Please read the description below each template for guidelines on...

also Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User qwh-0, which applies to some of the nominated templates. No prejudice against considering these...

this template is therefore not useful and is skating very close to link spam. Peta 01:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC) Keep per many, many, other templates like...

warning templates (in the category Category:User warning templates), as well as their shortcuts (in the category Category:Redirects from warning template),...

Aircraft/Engines/Templates for more on this subject. These templates are used to link aircraft engines built or designed by a manufacturer. The templates are to...

film related articles tend be filled up with enough templates as it is, adding generic templates only complicates things. See further discussion on User...

11, 2005 (UTC) The two templates were used for 235 (number) and 311 (number). Which ones are "the more general number templates I mentionned" ? Your initial...

Update the documentation of the templates that are based on Module:Message box to reflect the new parameters. What templates are these? A search didn't help...

use Template:CompactTOC which does not have numbers. What is the harm in having a choice of two category TOC templates? There are four TOC templates for...

Editor templates Template:WPFINANCE-invite Template:WPFINANCE-welcome Template:Financial markets Template:Finance sidebar Template:Securities Template:Financial...

Outreach Biography Awards Other Infoboxes and Templates All Project Templates Project Banner Template Sandbox Running Crew footer Stagecraft stub Things...

same set of templates had come up by some anonymous user, I would have believed it to be possible vandalism. It did not - the templates were created...

These templates contain only four words and, as far as I can see, are static. Unlike {{Pokenum}}, which serves a purpose, the use of these templates are...

{{ref}} and {{note}} templates should only be used in specific circumstances, not for general purpose referencing.[1] The pairs of templates discussed in this...

This page documents templates related to 24. Note that infobox templates shown below are examples, purely for demonstration purposes. Therefore some information...

a permanent precautionary measure for templates. Many editors who have shown an aptitude for coding templates, and have earned the trust of the community...

so-called 'deprecated' templates is misguided as explained by Ned Scott. There is no reason to prevent people using what templates they prefer just because...

by this template. Sarge Baldy 13:17, 25 March 2006 (UTC) Weak delete. This may be "template creep" into allowing Wikipedia-related templates in the main...

have just created Wikipedia:Disclaimer templates as a place to put all the arguments against these kinds of templates, so we do not have to repeat ourselves...

below say all in one template. Please note, I like user templates and hope that the reduction of them will help keep them in Template space where they belong...

in the past and the template has been kept. I don't know what possible new arguments there could be. As far as making two templates, that just complicates...

types of templates here. There should be World Cup and club templates, and that's it. Allowing Euro, Confederations Cup, Copa America etc. templates will...

September 2009 (UTC) There are a lot more such templates at Category:Cinema of templates. The templates seem prolific, so perhaps there is a primary contributor...

removed when encountered. As with all templates, stub templates are added by simply placing the name of the template in the text between double pairs of...

selection of templates to try to make your life easier, and give WikiProject Worcestershire a common face. You've probably used a template already - it's...

provinces have similar templates, maybe even larger templates. And I object to MasterSon's opinion. How could you make a list of road templates into an {{infobox...

November 2007 (UTC) Template:Kwun Tong Line (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) All of these templates are on inline templates that serve no purpose...

TFD precedent on smiley templates. Also, this template was used by our template vandal yesterday. We should use very few templates in our user discussions...

(TOTD) display templates. To add the TOTD display template to your User or Talk page just put curly braces around the display template name and copy/paste...

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion was created to take some of the load off VfD workers; the idea was to deal with obviously malformed templates quickly....

to the recreation of these templates. – PeeJay 23:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC) Strong keep – the whole point of these templates is that it is the intention...

¶ Stub templates only used on a small number of articles are frequently upmerged. To propose a separate category, or other stub types, visit WP:WSS/P...

a list of templates used in articles which are within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia. General templates: {{AUS fb general}}...

15 December 2008 (UTC) Template:Shared IP Templates (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Shared IP templates are very useful if not an...

namespace-specific templates via parser functions. But I don't feel strongly enough to try to stop this deletion. Xtifr tälk 21:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC) The templates aren't...

lists to do this, and we don't need templates. GracenotesT § 14:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC) Delete. Navigation templates are not useful for things unrelated...

template calls, or those within nowiki/pre/math tags etc. will not be renamed. AWB does not validate the templates used to ensure that the templates or...

fix it, but the template doesn't aid in navigation in any way, which should be the primary function of templates to begin with. Templates aren't there to...

(UTC) Template:Infobox French hamlet (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Redundant to other French subdivision infobox templates and/or...

Football/Archive5#Squad_templates] and Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 August 11#All FIFA World Cup squad templates. These TP are ugly to someone's...

for this particular name as a legitimate template could be created under it, and won't stop other templates from created or getting their images changed...

separate template. Merging templates that do primarily the same thing and cover primarily the same subject make sense. Forcing disparate templates to behave...

templates are Wikipedia templates used to create new barnstars and other awards. These do not need to be substituted into the new barnstar template,...

philosophy templates For main project templates, see the Philosophy Templates. For a list of ancient philosophy templates, see Category:Template-Class Ancient...

these individual templates in a collapsable box, but I'd oppose a merger of the two individual 2007 templates into the same template. Ksy92003(talk) 00:32...

getting templates for all manner of missteps then they likely will not like it either. At a minimum, if we are going to hold on to the templates, we need...

that templates inside templates don't work... too bad. -- WB June 30, 2005 02:44 (UTC) del Don't test in template space. templates inside templates do work...

There are several color-related templates (and more can be found in Category:Color templates). {{color-stub}} {{color swatch}} #003BAF Ultramarine #003BAF...

this is not redundant; Template:TestTemplates lists the wr templates and only the wr templates as the appropriate template to use for "Removing warnings...

Category:Template-Class Animation pages. For animation related templates, see Category:Animation templates. For animated series related templates, see Category:Animated...

watch | logs) Template:Countries of East Africa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) These five templates are redundant to Template:Countries of...

articles, templates, images and categories, and all at a rapid rate, in some cases. If you're in a habit of substituting your own templates, also consider:...

individual templates instead of the batch (keep some, delete others), feel free to do so. See also Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 April 2#Template:Operations...

This page contains various templates which may be of use in the project....

what this template more or less addresses. I'm also not aware of any kind of naming policy required for templates, as there are comment templates like...

to Buffalo_Sabres#Current_Squad, rather than using these templates. I've listed what templates I've found in this group; there may be other similar ones...

and deleted templates should be removed from this list. Deprecated templates should be marked as such. 'Holding cell' next to a template's name indicates...

into the AT&T template since both templates for WarnerMedia, which is itself owned by AT&T, and thus we don't need more individual templates. --WikiCleanerMan...

wrong with the templates. All someone needs to do is go to the top of the many articles where it shows and/or explains what the templates are and what it...

that the templates and cats are intertwined. If we delete the templates and merge all the category junk onto {{disambig}}, that template will be broken...

it doesn't check it in templates. A poor reason to keep article text like this in templates no? They had existed in the template for a long time and not...

{{inuse}}. As for the other templates mentioned, no consensus. Guidelines over the use of the templates should be made in the template's documentation or on a...

read Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion#Local area infoboxes. –droll [chat] 19:37, 7 September 2009 (UTC) Keep regionalised templates are more effective...

types of templates. This page is not a policy or guideline, and previous outcomes do not bind future ones because consensus can change. All templates should...

undesirable for settlement templates to be regionalized down to the sub-national level. (Imagine the proliferation of redundant templates that approach would...

using "meta-templates" (templates inserted in other templates) is poor design, and doubles the backend processing required to use this template. -- Netoholic...

should be split up into multiple pages rather than using templates. I would like to see these templates subst'd, then deleted. Mike Peel 23:57, 28 January 2007...

Unused meta-templates. Even proponents of ugly meta-templates would say that these have been replaced with the vastly (*cough*) superior Template:Qif. --...

find a directory of screenshot templates easily? I'm leaning towards keep, only because it makes finding the other templates rather simple, and any inappropriate...

project page Administrators (sysops) Alumni Article guidelines Participants Templates Project category Mass mailing list Portal Possible school AfDs Organisation...

This page lists navbox templates used for of the WikiProject on Football manual of style for clubs. See links for navbox templates used on articles on clubs...

removed the templates these were being used the same as any of the other templates in the above category. Having the results in a template makes the editing...

other templates similar to this in baseball, football, basketball, and others. Examples include theSuper Bowl templates, World Series templates, NBA Championship...

closer? Please note that there are wrapper templates belonging to both main templates. See also: Template:Tree_chart#Migration_from_familytree. PPEMES...

other templates in Category:External link templates. I ask Wingfilee (talk · contribs) to please undo his reversals of my additions of this template.  Sandstein ...

remain a good editor. Don't revert to shitty templates. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 22:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC) Please remain civil...

particularly using {{db-bio}} or related templates. Not having an official warning for people removing SD templates is not doing away with the process by...

Meta. Meeting item 1 <noinclude> In this issue Templates (all comments) ← Newsroom Style guide Templates Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Index/Descriptions...

great fan of templates in any article, but consensus and precedent has come to the conclusion that World Cup Squads and current squad templates are OK. On...

replacing 21 earlier templates and heaps of manual ones, and a couple of the earlier templates had such maps. The group working on the template decided to keep...

they would make [my] own templates redundant", but because your proposal is badly flawed. I'd be quite happy for the templates I created (they're not "mine")...

deprecated and removed from the templates that used them, per Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates. Only one template, Template:Language, has failed to migrate...

above, the "Expand" template was finally deleted in January 2011 (three weeks after this was written) after a very long Templates for Discussion and an...

fiction}}. As the closing admin stated in Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_December_15#Template:Current_fiction, "Articles about new things need...

sidebar for deletion policy page navigation. {{Deletion tools}}: sidebar of various deletion templates and pages. {{Wikipedia templates}}: other templates....

WP:AFIAUTOWP:AFIAUTO Contents Bot tasks Current templates Current notification templates Dated templates The following are templates used by the Articles for improvement...

(talk) 04:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC) Delete: Templates can be set to auto-collapse when there are two or more templates in an article—so this is redundant. Mr...

Astronomical objects decided against using these templates, and Friendlystar has made no subsequent edits to the templates, or used them on articles. While I believe...

are faced when changing templates that have a significant number of calls. Assume you have a heavy use template like template:cite book and you want to...

create more specific templates. For some time we tried both ways. We made Wikify's wording more specific and created some extra templates. Keeping Wikify in...

creators not familiar with how to create templates which add images to categories, please ask for assistance. Each template should have a corresponding category...

template like this. I could say the same about categories hidden in templates, but that battle was lost long ago. There is a reason why the templates...

These are the template messages and userboxes for Nickelodeon related pages. For the navigation boxes, see Category:Nickelodeon templates. For the portal...

19:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC) I added two templates with somewhat the same "status". For more of these templates see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television...

below XXX Captains templates are being considered under criteria #2? I don't see how they are weaker than the succesion box templates. The bigger concern...

stub on a species of flowering plant, with the minimal requirements and templates, can be found at Syzygium racemosum. A well-made GA usually should have...

who appear in the templates to not have these templates on their pages. Thus, while Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss use these templates Scarlett Johansson...

A collection of all the templates you'll need as a host! Here at the Teahouse we like to keep things friendly and personal. The power of invitation is...

other templates exist... I'm sure I stated "Consensus has long been established not to abuse these types of templates", though. Oh, and Template:Future...

of the existing Babel templates are 'meta-templates'... by design. A user calls 'Babel-5', which then calls five other templates. That's 'meta' style nesting...

Template:My Gym Partner's a Monkey (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) As with the below noms for other cartoon templates, this template should...

use these templates, which they were created as extensions of the two original templates: Template:Election box runningmate begin and Template:Election...

Football/Archive 9#Lets standardize national team templates, where different types of teams/templates were discussed. Neier 22:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC) The...

recognized. There are many templates for honors that are far less important than playing in a world series, such as templates for Gold Glove Winners and...

Nevertheless: I advise deletion because (a) these templates do not work with skins other than Monobook; (b) these templates reduce accessibility in Wikipedia; (c)...

bigest competitions and at least equal to world cup. These templates are not only football templates. The teams have won an olympic medal wich is more important...

as well as the other licensing templates, are part of the foundation of the fair use rationales we use. The templates that he has nommed though, as well...

Does it lack references or sources? We've got a template for that, too. Unlike the specific templates mentioned above, {{unencyclopedic}} doesn't give...

Also, the author's use of these templates seems to be more abuse as witnessed at Wikipedia talk:Avoid using meta-templates#move to guideline status --Vik...

project. See also Special:Prefixindex/Template:Non-free for a real-time list of the renamed templates. A list of templates that have been completely moved to...

these templates are good resources for researching additional information about a U.S. airport. I also see no reason to replace the templates with individual...

of these templates does not speak for the community when he threatens to block; it's not a blocking offense to remove other warning templates -- however...

approved for mass-tagging templates for proposed deletion, the approval was for things similar to a case of orphaned templates that nobody cared about....

20 such templates making a huge mess of the article.--FocalPoint 18:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Delete per past discussions and deleted templates. – Elisson • T • C •...

Wikipedia:Proposed deletion/Template prod would've passed consensus. Either way, it doesn't change the fact that at the moment, templates can't be prod'd. JPG-GR...

nominations for these templates into one. All prior comments were made 7 times over, copying and pasting, etc. Given that, Delete templates as editorial decision...

the template messages and infoboxes for Television related pages. Category:Television templates has a list of the available television templates. Please...

Favorite templates is a feature for registered (logged-in) users to save a list of templates they can easily choose from when inserting templates with certain...

(talk) 15:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC) STRONG Keep - This template even has snap on accessory templates IIRC, and is used in a large number of articles. Deleting...

subpages) Template:Big Brother sidebar/UK (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) The Big Brother sidebar and the twelve sub templates should...

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 December 23#Template:XD5 by User:Phantomsteve. –BLACK FALCON (TALK) 22:53, 23 December 2009 (UTC) Template:XD5 (talk ·...

are article quality assessment templates, no more no less, so they cannot be repurposed. They aren't even really templates in the usual sense, but rather...

should be able to go through Category:Wikibreak templates or {{Wikibreak templates}} and pick a template that sounds relevant. Nyttend (talk) 00:41, 12...

Template:NFL Year supersedes and fulfills the purpose of each of these templates. There is no need for each team to have its own team year templates....

of succession templates, both extant and deleted. It serves a double purpose. The first three sections provide an index of the templates sanctioned by...

district templates. Erik9 (talk) 14:29, 17 May 2009 (UTC) Template:ILRepresentatives (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:MARepresentatives (talk ·...

isn't notable at all. If we generate templates for *one Nascar team* then soon we'll start popping up templates for each individual page that doesn't...

the template Since all stub templates operate in identical ways, the same doc file would theoretically need to be linked to some 3000+ templates If it's...

templates -> Carbon-12m 1 Template:Nuclide2 -> Carbon-12m 1 Template:Numitasks -> Wiredawg 1 Template:Nursing -> Palliative care nursing 1 Template:OASIS...

discussions for similar templates have resulted in delete, as pointed out above. - Rjd0060 (talk) 22:10, 15 June 2009 (UTC) Keep These templates don't clutter the...

Wikipedia are required to include explicit copyright notices/templates, those templates will always override the public domain one. -- intgr 17:56, 27...

should be an article, not a template. Templates like this would be impossible to work with. Can you imagine having templates for "states that used to be...

Wikipedia should be replaced with these templates. I've seen editors using AWB to mass replace dashes with these templates indiscriminately. Just browse through...

CharlesEditor23 (t · th · c (templates · (talk) · modules · (talk)) · del · cross-wiki · SUL · edit counter · templates created · pages created (xtools...

that maintains these templates so that it could handle more templates very simply. A suggestion that would merge RFC/theses templates/ anything else that...

user with history of creation such disruptive templates (see Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Notpropaganda.) --Irpen 21:04, 9 September 2007...

As I've been going through these election templates, they were created for one purpose. Normally templates are supposed to have multiple uses. Navboxes...

to, for instance, "keep all templates for league-winning squads" - all we are looking at are these two particular templates, and in this case I must agree...

These templates should be placed on current or former NBA coaches at the bottom of the page, prior to the Category list. These templates should be placed...

color templates with Module:Political party. This is a nomination for the ~6000 Template:.../meta/shortname and ~10k Template:.../meta/color templates that...

One of the purposes of templates is to save time for editors, by transcluding commonly used text. Another purpose of templates is to provide information...

targets have standardized templates which allow them to be easily distinguished from normal external links, and these templates should generally be used"...

mentioned on the list of disambiguation templates until three days ago (when it got added to {{Otheruses templates}}. (And come to think of it, 4 is unlike...

My comments apply to all 1632 specific templates up for nomination. Fabartus has been counseled about templates that are too specific, IIRC, in the past...

Also see Category:Astronomy infobox templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Space/template list {{WikiProject Astronomy|class=|importance=}} {{Star formation}}...

15:23, 30 June 2006 (UTC) Delete all, these templates clutter the articles. Soon someone will create templates for each Copa America, Euro, African Nations...

The following templates can be used on pages in Wikipedia to associate them with the Christianity in India WikiProject. {{WikiProject...

(those 3 templates). Why 3 templates: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." If one template becomes hacked/vandalized, the other 2 templates are there...

2022 (UTC) Delete. This and the other Xpd templates listed are no longer needed as the {{tld}} family of templates now have |_show_result= and |_expand= which...

good when combining several different pieces. The following templates are broader templates that have a use for articles within the scope of WikiProject...

Project Assessment page for more information about using this template. For outreach templates see the outreach page. {{The Fisheries and Fishing Barnstar|put...

debate is which of these templates to delete-and-redir with bot cleanup. "{{Refimprove}} is popular partly because a bunch of templates were merged there, and...

gladly remove the used templates from this nomination but I want to be clear this is a nomination of UNUSED templates. If the template is used that is a whole...

This is a list of known templates which use TemplateData as of 4 May 2023‎. It was generated using User:Salix alba/TDList.js and the API call https://en...

attack warning templates isn't suitable enough for these templates to be redirected. The level 4 and 4im templates can be redirected to Template:Uw-generic4...

understand this suggestion. The templates function on film articles is to send you to the year lists, how does having the templates on the year list articles...

templates languish due to orphaning and can get picked up after they've appeared in a few places. (Categorization and inclusion in lists of templates...

lot of work in templates, but NONE of your edits involved any military templates in any way, shape or form, until you edited that template, and then nominated...

items in other templates :Dc76 22:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC) See Template:Transnistria/Territory, Template:Transnistria/Conflict, Template:Transnistria/Politics...

future templates half a year ago, when one editor removed template tag from articles and listed templates after that for deletion as templates not in...

navigtation templates. (1) What are the requirements for footer navigtation templates (provide link please) and (2) why does this template not meet them...

Comment. Firstly, much better templates for dealing with disputed content already exist. Secondly, consensus, not templates, is supposed to determine whether...

A bottom navigation template helps solves all and any issue of both BIDI and the mass of templates, as it allows, A) the templates to be placed in a non-intrusive...

used modules and templates Taxonomy templates Introduction to taxonomy templates Advanced features of taxonomy templates Taxobox templates Which should be...

templates, in which syntax was constructed in a way that prevented using plain "[[" and "]]" in some situations, hence the need for these templates....

following templates have been proposed by Project participants. Please provide feedback and offer suggestions to help make these templates as high of...

quotation templates, should be decided for the entire site at one place, by consensus, and the templates should follow that style. Style templates should...

of". Similar arguments made regarding the single use "shell" templates of other templates such as {{Infobox Country}} and {{Infobox Settlement}} and the...

survival of this and Template:SeeMain @ Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/Not_deleted/August_2005#Template:Seemain_and_Template:SeeMain Comment: I just...

rescue template with the AfD and MfD templates, and expand the available parameters to allow inclusion of the ARS links. Allowing the XfD templates to be...

wikipedia? Have you seen how many templates there are on famous football team articles? And there are plenty of templates around actors films etc, not that...

kinds of templates." I reviewed the TfD logs for all of the deleted templates for the last 12½ months. The only reference to deleting templates to external...

are not directly related to each other than being about PPVs. Several templates already exist covering the subject as well as categories. Reason for creation...

these welcome templates are usually subst: so they can be orphaned even though they are used. --Bisco 10:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC) Templates could be userfied...

option to split it in 7 templates ? Mion 10:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC) What for? Is Windcatcher feature of sustainability? The template presents messy and...

subpages) Template:Vote-Neutral (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Per deletion of similar templates at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008...

template particularly recommended for creating or editing articles, though there were some three dozen possibly-useful templates in Belize templates....

participated in a WikiProject is familiar with project banners—the ubiquitous templates that appear on article talk pages to indicate that an article is associated...

and they get templates. --Tango 13:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Keep - there is no importance rule on Wikipedia about templates. Templates aren't holy or...

that these templates are immune from re-nomination, but it is misleading to lump them in with other templates when their parent template and substantively...

The templates on this page relate to Hockey. 1 Template:2007–08 CCHA standings (men) -> 2007–08 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey rankings 1 Template:2007–08...

links | watch | logs) Template:Vbc-t (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) All these templates are obsolete blocking templates using non-standard...

include a flag on the template. Essentially, I think there should be fewer, standardized templates rather than many templates, which could evolve in...

title and a disambiguation page seems appropriate use {{Split}}: Place the template at the top of the page for which the split is proposed. By default, the...

Needing Creation Featured Theatre Articles Infoboxes and Templates All Project Templates Template Sandbox Infobox person Infobox play Infobox venue Talk...

Examples include what web browser they use, hobbies or WikiProjects they participate in. Template:Userbox Side box color Main box color Code / icon Message...

Unlike the {{current}}-based templates, {{beta software}} doesn't describe an event. And, unlike the {{future}}-based templates, {{beta software}} doesn't...

(UTC) Delete all as being overly specific templates that have been made redundant by our standard templates for non-free media. --Kralizec! (talk) 06:20...

deleted its templates a while back at debates such as those listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Precedents#State highway system templates. CRWP needs...

Templates regarding cities, towns, municipalities, neighborhoods, and parishes which contain red links: 1 Template:Bass Coast Shire towns -> Smith's Beach...

March 2007 (UTC) So...you say redundant to templates that already exist but you do not name the templates? That is very 'professional'. Why don't you...

the template. {{NPOV}} and similar templates are warnings to the reader that something may be wrong with the article, however most of these templates do...

keep the templates, but remember to sub them. We should add a note on templates like these to make sure they are subbed. And these templates are being...

appreciate the impact of these 'Macro' like templates, to borrow a word from programming languages. All our templates are in fact Macros, and their is no need...

wikiproject, the templates should not have been removed prior to a discussion here. This is TfD (Templates for deletion) and template discussions should...

everything else listing at Category:Polling templates Sooner or later a user will list these voting templates for deletion, or speedy deletion under CSD...

This page is for templates with 200-250 redlinks....

ok, these templates have been used to spam thousands of WP pages by a few individuals including with strong COI. Deleting these templates and allowing...

of the article, just like the other templates. -Patstuarttalk|edits 17:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC) These templates ask the user (editor or not) at a very...

district) 1 Template:Santa Clara VTA -> Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority templates 1 Template:SantaCruzSyndicate -> Kathy Sessler 1 Template:Santiago...

to delete. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:30, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) Template:Violence - misuse of templates; articles related as such should be categorized --Jiang...

Templates available: Reaction Templates: Template:Enzymatic reaction Template:Complex enzymatic reaction Navigation Templates: Template:Glycolysis Template:Citric...

the template namespace is not for single use templates; it's for templates that need to be used on multiple pages. To use it for single use templates is...

Template:Signatures to Template:User information templates, signature templates like this should not be used, and especially should not be in template-space. Mr.Z-man...

Vegas/Templates Wikiproject Las Vegas/Fact finding Wikiproject Las Vegas/Issues Updated Template:Las Vegas TV, Template:Las Vegas Radio and Template:Las...

Delete as redundant to Template:Infobox company. JPG-GR (talk) 21:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC) Delete please avoid branching off templates. –Pomte 02:49, 16...

transcluded from WP:Templates for discussion/Log/2026 August 8 Template:Bot (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:Bot2 (talk · history ·...

result of the debate was orphan and delete all templates.--humblefool® 03:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Template:England Squad Euro 2004 (edit | talk | history...

talk:Anameofmyveryown/Archive 4 about this and the equivalent templates for all other Euroconstituencies. The templates seem to complicate matters for all editors, by...

subset of Templates, used to mark an article as a stub, an incomplete article that is short and in need of expansion. The following stub templates place the...

categorization function of these templates exists in {{ArticleHistory}}. All previous existing uses of these 13 templates have been converted to ArticleHistory...

Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects/Reviewing instructions Wikipedia:Files for upload/Reviewer instructions Templates no longer used are described in /Obsolete....

that the creator has developed a habit of creating templates just for the sake of creating templates. People have the strangest hobbies... --Latebird 11:34...

see no practical purpose to this template. Matthew 16:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC) Strong Keep - they're navigational templates, for easy use skipping through episodes...

highway categories in different templates each". Nope. Apparently, having more templates is even worse. I use those templates and their links all the time...

sentiment, but want the template deleted simply because it could be abused, consider this text from Templates for deletion: If a template is being misused,...

the basics: The fact that other templates are as overboard does not make this the right approach and those templates should also be looked at for clean...

16:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC) Per the Italian football club logo templates TfD. These templates are exactly the same, except Spanish clubs instead of Italian...

category-based guide to these templates, see Category:WikiProject Middle-earth templates. Category:Middle-earth family tree templates: {{Baggins family tree}}...

links | watch | logs) Unused templates that duplicates functionality of {{future}} and other temporal templates. The templates are unencyclopedic and provide...

This page contains templates which have contained redlinks since September of 2005. This is the oldest generated report of templates with redlinks, and...

one time we should look at some other templates placed in Category:Temporal templates. An example of templates getting out of hand. Garion96 (talk) 23:48...

Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}} {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-end-v2}} <noinclude>{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template...

280 templates a year. MLB would be over 2500 templates a year. See NFL playoffs, 2005-06 for a better way to do scoring summaries, without a template. Ral315...

guide on template standardization. Any templates that are renamed should have their entry changed here to reflect the new name. New templates should be...

I haven't investigated the history or relative qualities of the two templates in any detail yet, though. Xtifr tälk 07:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC) The...

match templates, Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 10#2020 IPL match templates and other discussions noted there, these templates have...

logical conclusion should these templates be allowed to stand would be page upon page filled with superfluous templates. One could imagine the mess in...

used in the article namespace. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages." Replace with text...

rather than unnecessarily calling templates with a slightly different syntax. I replaced all mainspace uses of these templates with parserfunction logic last...

but Hawaii's templates. Hawaii only has one College station. - NeutralHomer • Talk • October 12, 2008 @ 06:48 Speedy Keep as these templates, especially...

relevant article, rather than in a template. Templates are not intended to be used as a substitute for prose. Templates such as this one add to the clutter...

templates for the task. Are you suggesting the deletion of both templates? -- Cat chi? 20:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC) He might be thinking that Template:Episode...

director, same as we have author templates.) GracenotesT § 02:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC) Delte and any other actor templates we have. This is the sort of thing...

listed templates would create inconsistency in related articles: there are fully developed similar templates like template:Germanyfilmlist, template:Russianfilmlist...

1 Template:Gundogs -> List of dog-related templates 1 Template:Guster -> IZStyle Winter Tour 1 Template:Guy Sebastian -> Guy Sebastian EP 1 Template:Gwili...

nav template that just links other nav templates. The templates should be linked on pages they are relevant at and grouped together by this template. --Gonnym...

extra templates, they will need to be updated each week and the top golfers like Woods and Mickelson already have an over abundance of templates on their...

to create the national templates, then these should be standardized and added to {{Infobox Economy}}. The whole idea of templates is to standardize across...

indefinite number of templates could be made. / edg ☺ ☭ 03:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC) Other Wikipedians seem to appreciate this type of template, at {{Religion...

Templates relating to political elections....

templates related to it. --TreyHarris 09:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC) Its proponents don't care that it's unapproved. I have been removing these templates (either...

this template to a page would do nothing but add useless clutter and trivia. I know there is a substantial list of directors for which such templates exist...

the TfD templates for this nomination because the templates' names break them. ais523 14:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC) Does the same apply to [[Template::_AFL_Arenas]] ...

2008 (UTC) Keep Since these templates are subst'ed, it's impossible to know if they are in use or not. Older warning templates have generally been kept as...

category contain 79 templates with textual information about current government of parts of New Jersey. According to WP:TMP, “templates should not masquerade...

this iterim template is individual tagging by the individual templates for the sister's using same. That would clutter up the tools templates far more than...

August 2007 (UTC) Delete per the second sentence on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion: "Templates that have been listed for more than seven days are eligible...

2008 (UTC) Delete per nom. The replacement templates are at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Three Kingdoms#Templates, redux. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib)...

form on multiple pages. Adding "bloat" to the set of templates in Category:Country data templates makes maintenance of them by the WikiProject more cumbersome...

(UTC)) Delete - Per same reasoning as in Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 July 21#Template:Top ten male golfers. Garion96 (talk) 22:17, 12 July...

around use of templates: we use templates for static sets (or sets that change only slightly, such as "winners of notable award" templates that have a new...

for these version templates. Tothwolf (talk) 11:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC) Comment I've untangled the mess with all these templates: Template:Latest stable software...

creating the template, Tom (LT) approved my work. With my new edits, "Template:Anatomy infobox templates" can be seen in all sub-templates. Shkuru Afshar...

these two templates are highly specialized, but so are many of the templates in this class. The documentation (Template:Table cell templates/doc) makes...

aswell, and these two templates are rarely used. The last three templates serve no specific purpose, and Template:For plus Template:Two other uses could...

and parent templates; templates unlikely to be updated or used. Jroberson108 (talk) 09:52, 14 February 2022 (UTC) Delete parent templates and sub-pages...

on these templates in some place other than TfD before more of these templates are nominated. Then return, say "the consensus is for templates of this...

content annotation templates and create the additional format there? The microformat in these wrapper templates is mostly in template space, but remnants...

I do not think the template is helpful, noteworthy, or encyclopedic. Category:External link templates says "Generally, templates should only be made...

Academy Award templates, but the Emmy templates, the Golden Globes templates, Tony Awards, Grammys and many of the other major award templates as well. Zzyzx11...

monarchs and United Kingdom monarchs? Or separate templates for each of the three? Or have two templates: one for England/Britain and one for Pictland/Scotland...

moster templates on Wikipedia:Templates with red links, which is apt because each contains over 160 of them, the largest having 204. The templates purport...

"encyclopedic" content, not templates. By the same token, what is the rationale to split it into specialized templates, or create this very template or similar ones...

previous precedent on merging templates similar to "Infobox settlement", as well as merging its wrapper templates. Template:Infobox settlement needs renaming...

of similar templates may be found at: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_December_31#Template:Culture_of_China Wikipedia:Templates...

for keeping this template. Ultimately, this template is useful to contributors of various degrees of involvement. I find templates such as this one essential...

category contains templates which are custom versions of {{Sockpuppet}} or {{suspsock}}.As with {{OoTV}} below, these are just vanity templates for vandals...

{{See also|Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 August 22#my comment|l1=My comment}} and {{See also2|[[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009...

all templates, sometimes is misused). —David Levy 05:03, 31 July 2007 (UTC) This informational purpose should be merged into the regular templates used...

logs · subpages) Template:Western Asia topic (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Unused templates that are not topic templates. These just link...

template. The two types of templates most frequently used are infoboxes and navigational boxes. Here is a category list of Malaysia related templates:...

2009 (UTC) Comment - See similar TFD's for MLB position templates and NFL position templates as those seem to be going in different directions. --Muboshgu...

―Œ(talk) 18:03, 30 January 2011 (UTC) All templates in Category:Weatherbox templates and its subcategories Template:Gibraltar climate (talk · history · transclusions ·...

other more specialised navigational templates.cj | talk 21:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Keep. I think the two templates are different enough, as each has...

good if we used templates to add the same body text to multiple articles", attempting to unilaterally make a major change in how templates are used, which...

template, the article would recquire five separate templates in order to contain the same ifnormation. I feel that having just one or two templates that...

discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_April_5#Iraq_War_operations_templates - Nabla (talk) 14:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Template:Operations of the...

indicate the importance of the subject. Try to use one of the more specific templates rather than {{db-a7}}. You can put {{subst:nn-warn|page name}}~~~~ on...

the same sense as NPOV, the factual accuracy templates, and other such templates. NDT is about templates in the vein of "This article contains profanity...

replaced by the standard templates. —PC-XT+ 06:36, 12 November 2014 (UTC) There are no other suitable templates. If this template is deleted I shall simply...

Neutral: I created these templates in order to substitute constant wikitext in other templates, before realizing I couldn't use templates in parameter values...

logs · subpages) Template from 2006 with just one transclusion. We have migrated away from this sort of template to uw-* warning templates. Subst and delete...

sources. - Mgm|(talk) 05:55, 17 February 2009 (UTC) The templates are reliable source. The templates are used to format the citations for reliable sources...

icons, not the template itself, which other templates (mainly {{flagicon}}) highly rely upon. Such discussion is better held at the template's talk pages...

substituted into the page or subpage has been created and used as template. Hence delete these templates and 1 category. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 17:40, 10 December...

inline templates exist {{coor d}}, {{coor dm}} and {{coor dms}}. Coor title is actualy using those templates. The history of the title template is interesting...

but doesn't every template make an extra call to the database? Developers have come out strongly against using templates in templates and I doubt this...

3 Template:Analgesics -> Glafenine Nabiximols Trisalate 3 Template:Ergolines -> Dihydroergometrine Dihydroergotoxine Ergometrinine 4 Template:Contrast...

See Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup for the templates used to mark pages for cleanup. The following are templates used by WikiProject Cleanup. After...

but harmless templates. BoxQWERTY 15:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC) "Not doing any harm" is an argument for keeping userpages. Not templates. -Amarkov blahedits...

nomination of all of the "Dist" templates. Template:Dist ft m (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:Dist km mile (talk · history ·...

highway template. GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 02:49, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Delete, as it is just a red link colony already covered by other templates. --CapitalR...

Template:Dire Straits tineline (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Overcomplicated template. Would require 10+ at least six templates in...

three templates would slow down the process and expose the harmful entry to a greater number of viewers. Instead of having these three templates, deletion...

FearÉIREANN\(caint) 23:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC) Strong keep This template was modeled after templates used by many other WikiProjects, including WikiProject Military...

case a template indicating a position on a controversial policy was T1ed. The point of deleting the T1 templates is to ensure that no templates are mistagged...

tender speed (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Single use templates with article text, which is against WP:TG. Subst into article and delete...

Standardization/Templates#Templates no longer in use. Bazj (talk) 20:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC) Delete - Consensus has been reached to delete. Replacement template has...

previous TFDs. Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 May 23#Template:Euro: € (yes, the template had one character) Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007...

templates which stops people who cannot read/write those script (i.e. the majority of English Wikipedians) from maintaining/editing those templates....

pass WP:BIO, and per precedent set at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_September_3#Template:Arsenal_F.C._Reserves_Squad. Qwghlm 09:34, 9 March...

(UTC) Keep: There are many other templates like this that link to other such websites, see Category:External link templates. One such is {{Memoryalpha}}....

first and foremost purpose of templates is to aid navigation between articles, which this template does. Any template on a broad topic such as "The Enlightenment"...

{{Non-free stamp}} doesn't, and having country-specific templates just makes keeping track of the templates and images harder. --Carnildo (talk) 06:31, 13 February...

Jonesey95 looks like Category:Tranz Scenic templates are duplicates of Category:KiwiRail Scenic templates. I have migrated both to Module:Adjacent stations/KiwiRail...

subpages) Templates primarily to advertise non-notable Web site. Four templates being placed in nomination. Others are: Template:Genealogics name, Template:Genealogics...

choices made in the design of those other templates), and 4) its code may have been reused into the newer templates (in which case deletion will violate the...

Wikipedia:Template namespace, it's obvious to me that the use of these templates is really wrong. First, the names given to the templates themselves...

number of this kind of templates for other countries, (see the Category:Political party infobox templates by country) a template for the Greek parties...

match templates, Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 10#2020 IPL match templates and other discussions noted there, these templates have...

Delete. These templates are missing from testwiki, and the relevant text still appears in testwiki Twinkle, suggesting that these templates are not used...

misuse of a template during an edit war in not a reason to delete templates, and is the fault of the editors involved and not the templates themselves...

all of Category:Unit templates. All are completely unused except for template:Meter, which occurs in Åre (ski area). The templates are pointless; all they...

deletion since the templates can be improved at any time. The templates serve a different purpose than the {{Reqdiagram}} template in that they are placeholders...

well. Be sure to cite sources. Use these example styles and citation templates as a guide. xyz (for Australian languages) at the Australian Indigenous...

the aforementioned Ivy League template or the provincial university templates. Although, it would be nice if this template weren't so garish and large....

candidates that are more popular than him do not have templates of their own, much less templates which include information that is not relevant to the...

since that is why the templates exist. seresin ( ¡? ) 16:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC) Comment/clarification: [ec] It seems that the templates previously contained...

Results on this page are divided into blocks of 50 for ease of use. Templates on this page relate to the Olympics, World Games, Commonwealth Games, Pan-American...

the U.S. ones yesterday. These templates fail one of the basic premises of navigational templates: Navigation templates provide navigation between related...

all meta-templates are evil. I ask the votes above which are primarily based on this misconception to reconsider, since the country templates are very...

or other pages. Occasionally, individual templates will be part of a very closely-related family of templates, all of which should probably be cascade-protected...

article pages, where it interferes with other templates that are actually useful and don't replicate other templates (such as, for example, {{LGBT}}, {{Same-sex...

Hebrew niqqud templates. Gonnym (talk) 21:52, 9 January 2022 (UTC) No contest. And I wish I'd stop getting notifications for this set of templates, because...

should impact this.) See precedence at TfDs for related templates Template:Infobox Bassist and Template:Infobox Drummer. --PEJL 05:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)...

on these templates in some place other than TfD before more of these templates are nominated. Then return, say "the consensus is for templates of this...

universities. All templates are no longer in use in articles. Some of the other templates were deleted earlier Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006...

templates. Please, this is easy to use, and a lot easier to maintain and remember the name of. I can't keep track of all of the single use templates....

templates deletion", youth tournament templates are to be deleted. This is as opposed to a tournament in which professionals take part in. Template:United...

make sense. People make redundant templates all the time, whether it be because they don't realise that templates that do what they want already exist...

these templates aren't doing much except clutter. --Maelwys 13:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC) Create catergrise insted of templates all the templates are usefull...

other templates and so is rather pointless imho. — kingboyk (talk) 14:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC) Comment I assume this is akin to the templates of the...

| links | watch | logs) and Template:User KERALA wiki (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Duplicate templates, however the former is on less...

standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page. Please refer to the index of message templates before using...

behind the scenes. A similar template was deleted in the past (Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_March_25#Template:Good_article), but I didn't...