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Template:US Montauban squad

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:US Montauban squad (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

blank. Frietjes (talk) 22:58, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:NBL Ladder

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:NBL Ladder (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:NBL Ladder/2007-08 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

old and unused. Frietjes (talk) 21:22, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Linked on Google News

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Linked on Google News (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

bot hasn't run in about 3 years, could move to a subpage of the bot's userspace. 198.102.153.2 (talk) 18:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Hunt

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hunt (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Hunt3 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

I merged these templates into Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Your City/hunt. we could merge the history of template:hunt, although it was created by the same author as template:hunt3, which I moved to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Your City/hunt before merging it. Frietjes (talk) 16:45, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Infobox N.J. Cabinet2

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox N.J. Cabinet2 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

I merged this fork here, so it is no longer needed. Frietjes (talk) 15:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:'''Blessy's Sandbox!'''

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The result of the discussion was deleted per WP:CSD#T3- it has shown up now! JohnCD (talk) 10:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:'''Blessy's Sandbox!''' (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This has had a speedy template for more than seven days. It does not show up in the deletion categories. Odd? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 10:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Indian Television Academy Awards

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:50, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Indian Television Academy Awards (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

All links in the template take you to Indian Television Academy Awards as all articles were merged per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian Television Academy Awards. Template should hence be deleted. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 10:29, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Maths rating

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The result of the discussion was no consensus here. Further discussion concerning redirection or reconfiguration or renaming can, of course, continue elsewhere. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:55, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Maths rating (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Rename and reconfigure as a standard WikiProject banner for consistence and ease of editing. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 07:38, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The needs is as I have stated and "importance" the same as "priority". -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 09:23, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree that that is a "need". "Importance" is not the same as "priority". Labeling specialist topics as "low-importance" is an untoward value judgment; calling them "low-priority" is much more neutral. --Trovatore (talk) 09:25, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There is a need because it is an anomaly that editors are not aware of. The issues of the value judgement applies to all WikiProjects. Why is mathematics so sensitive about the semantics anyway? Also, the terms are used within the narrow confines of a WikiProject so it should not be an issue. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 09:45, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Mathematics has many more highly specialized articles than most areas represented in Wikipedia, and editors who care deeply about those topics. Yes, certainly, this ought to be changed globally — "priority" would be the better word everywhere. However it would need considerable effort to overcome inertia in all the other projects. The math project already has it right, and I object to going to a more general framework that is wrong. --Trovatore (talk) 09:56, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict)I am completely sympathetic to the plight you describe. BTW, Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment does not allow for the "importance" parameter to be displayed for the reasons you describe. I have no energy to fight the battle to get it changed since change is well nigh impossible on Wikipedia and I there are some editors that make WP difficult enough for me as it is.
I don't agree with you in saying that maths is more highly specialised than other topic areas and I would like to think other WikiProjects also have editors who care deeply about their topic. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 10:22, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't say math was more specialized. I said it has more highly-specialized Wikipedia articles. That's just a fact. Physics is the only close competitor. Anyway, I agree; other projects have specialized articles their editors care about (just not as many of them), and they should probably want to use priority as well, but they haven't gotten around to it. Let them, if they want to. In the meantime I oppose a uniformity that takes us in the wrong direction. --Trovatore (talk) 10:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Percent of articles in given class
Mathematics Geology Physics Wikipedia
FA-class 0.23 or 0.15 0.40 0.28 0.11
GA-class 0.34 or 0.13 0.57 0.32 0.43
Other projects seem to manage pretty well with their "useless" banners. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:38, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I find this argument quite puzzling. It's not as though nearly GA articles are sitting out there waiting to be tagged. It's unfortunate but true that many mathematics articles will never be GA/FA. I'm sure the same could be said of physics and geology articles as well. Sławomir Biały (talk) 17:28, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
O.k., then what is your measure of the usefulness of a project template? RockMagnetist (talk) 21:42, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't claim to have a quantitative measure of "usefulness". But I am baffled that a scientist would think that the above table somehow proves that the template used by other Wikiprojects are more useful. Do you claim to prove a causal connection between the template and the percentage of GA and FA articles? If so, your statistical methodology is clearly flawed. For one thing, among all possible concepts in geology, what frequency are likely to pass the good article criteria? What frequency of the corresponding mathematics articles are likely to? I'm willing to bet that the frequency is much lower in the latter rather than the former.
Also, you have clearly cherry-picked your evidence. Even assuming that the higher frequency of GA/FA articles in geology and physics is connected with the template (a dubious proposition), what works for geology and physics might not work for chemistry, psychology, or sociology—or mathematics. Have you done a systematic study of all Wikiprojects to determine that the standardized template is actually superior?
I find all of this a bit untenable. Speaking from experience, the only thing that actually influences GA/FA status of articles is knowledgable editors willing to dedicate hundreds of hours their time to participate in the process. Certainly no idiotic template is going to influence someone to do this, and the claim that whether some parameters agree with a standard that other Wikiprojects have adopted is totally absurd. The templates only organize ratings systems within the Wikiproject. As long as that content is well-organized and accessible, I don't see how you can possibly complain about it. This was my counterpoint: GA/FA articles do not "spring into existence" because the articles were somehow "discovered" and "tagged". It actually does take work, which as far as I can tell has no connection with the template. I also want to add that I strongly suspect that the process of achieving GA/FA is essentially stacked against most mathematical topics, having participated in it personally on several occasions. This is evidenced by the extraordinary number of "former FA" articles, and the general lack of continued willingness to participate on the part of project members.
I am also baffled by the argument that a template offering less functionality would in fact be more useful to the WikiProject. This is the point of my original post. Please answer: how will removing the "field=" parameter make this template more useful for Wikipedia:Wikiproject Mathematics? Sławomir Biały (talk) 23:04, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I am not advocating any change in the ((maths rating)) template - as should be clear from my vote below. Nor am I trying to do anything scientific. I just object to your smug assertion that the template everyone else uses is "useless" - an assertion that doesn't seem to be based on any facts at all. The only purpose of my table is to suggest that it is not obvious which template is better, and it wouldn't hurt to think about it dispassionately. RockMagnetist (talk) 00:05, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I will reiterate: (iteration, maths - sorry. ) a WikiProject does not exist in isolation. Editors who are not otherwise involved come into contact with it as I have recently done. Therefore it is best to have consistence between all WikiProjects. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 19:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
When you tag an article with the banner of a given WikiProject, you are implicitly acting on behalf of that project. You're welcome to do that, of course; there are no restrictions on membership. But don't you think, if you're going to do that, you should make the effort to find out how the project does these things? --Trovatore (talk) 20:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that there could also be a project banner which would be a distinct template that follows a similar syntax to other Wikiproject banners. However, these exist mainly for tagging articles as within the purview of different projects. WPM already has a bot that does this, with no need for templates. So an additional template (separate from ((maths rating))) is fine, but redundant with the bot. The "maths rating" template contains more information than standard Wikiproject templates do. So the proposed deletion seems (to me) to be saying: "Let's have less functionality for the Wikiproject in the name of greater uniformity for editors." I'm going to say "No" to that proposition, absent a very clear refutation. Sławomir Biały (talk) 00:22, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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