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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:08, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:YSG Entertainment (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Navigation template for YSG Entertainment, an article deleted at AFD. It has only five links, four of which are redlinks and three are deleted articles. There is only one remaining blue link. Created by User:Coal Press Nation now indef blocked for as promotion only account. SpinningSpark 23:31, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• delete, no parent article. Frietjes (talk) 14:57, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: No parent (and it failed at AfD, so unlikely that another one'll be created) and mostly redlinks. Supernerd11 _{Firemind ^_^ Pokedex} 04:06, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was no consensus Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:04, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lang-en-GB (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

It was used in Apheresis (linguistics) and Caramelization. I replaced them with plain link, "British English", so this template is no longer used in mainspaces, rendering it near-useless. George Ho (talk) 17:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and reverse the WP:FAITACCOMPLI actions aimed at rendering it useless. Under-utilized templates are not useless, simply under-utilized.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  19:33, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcC -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 08:02, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcCandlish and IP comments.Skookum1 (talk) 08:57, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Unclear why it is particularly relevant whether the template is unused or massively under-utilized - six of one, half a dozen of the other. The issue should be whether it makes sense to have the template. Maybe I am missing something (and please tell me if I am), but it is not evident to me that this template accomplishes anything that a simple wikilink doesn't more simply accomplish. No wonder Wikipedia is having trouble keeping and attracting editors -- everything is becoming so damn overly-technical, including the use of templates instead of simple wikilinks. Maybe the ship on this has already sailed, so to speak, if the project is already littered with crappy templates like this one, but in my own opinion we should strive to keep things simple where we can. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:21, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would just add that this template was created almost 6 years ago (as was the US version - Canadian and Australian versions were created 2 years ago). Given how under-utilized the templates all are after that many years, I think the project has made clear that the task in question is better handled through a simple wikilink. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are missing something. Having the ability (note: not requirement) to metadata-tag something as a specific variety of English, in cases where this may be especially relevant (e.g. articles on differences between English dialects) is useful, and I at least was actually using it for this purpose. It appears that the nominator and someone(s) else in two cases have been removing the templates where ever they were being used. They are not supposed to be used frequently, by design. The idea that these five templates, which are for very specific uses in very narrow circumstances, and won't be used or even noticed by anyone but gnomes, is somehow related to people quitting wikipedia is untenable. This is not what TfD is for.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:31, 15 August 2014 (UTC) Tone moderated.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  07:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I understand the need to categorize for foreign languages, but is it really necessary for broad language variations (not even distinct dialects!) to carry this template? You're telling me that aside from the two articles George Ho linked, there were zero articles using this template? Zero, zip, zilch, after six years? I agree wholly with Skeezix about this being one of Wikipedia's biggest current issues: we need to aim our efforts in simplifying the process and trimming useless fat like this. This one is a no-brainer. - SweetNightmares 14:52, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • The first half of your rant needlessly repetitive, hyperbolic, sarcastic !vote, I addressed in reply to Skeezix1000 immediately above. As to the other half, what on earth are you on about? There is nothing "technocratic" (see definition here) about these templates, or about using language metadata in general (entirely voluntarily - there is no policy requiring their use, and their own documentation discourages their use except where especially pertinent. There are zero present uses of the template because the nominator and others have been removing it to make it seem unused. These templates have nothing at all to do with any "process" that needs to be "simplified"; see response to Skeezix1000 again; I don't like to repeat myself. The only "no-brainer" here is that your !vote here raises no cognizant policy issues and can safely be ignored by the closer.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:31, 15 August 2014 (UTC) Tone moderated, while meaning clarified.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per Skeezix. It wasn't a fait accompli that rendered it useless. It was its lack of purpose that rendered it useless. The complaint above about a supposed anti-metadata position being problematic begs the question in its assumption that the existence of this metadata is actually beneficial. And with respect, SMcCandlish, you should not be browbeating others for apparently failing to provide policy based reasons to delete when your reasons to keep amount to nothing more than WP:ILIKEIT and WP:ITSUSEFUL. Resolute 14:44, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are any number of potential uses for distinguishing between ENGVARs, ranging from CSS styling, to using different voices with different pronunciation patterns in screen readers, to being clear on how to interpret IPA pronunciation markup, etc., etc. You assert that there is no and/or can be no use for such templates, but obviously there are. WP:ITSUSEFUL and WP:ITSNOTUSEFUL are actually valid arguments at TfD (alone among the XfD processes), where whether a template may be useful or not is actually a part of the decision process. I've not made any WP:ILIKEIT argument at all, meanwhile the bulk of the delete !votes are patently WP:IDONTLIKEIT-based, as they are simply opposed to templates with a technical purpose, as if somehow the actual cause of editorial decline.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  22:29, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and promote usage: such templates are useful for tracking their use cases. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 01:51, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is the British English template for those who don't want to spell out "British English". To me, "British English: colour" "American English: color" is easier to type, memorize, and grasp than just ((lang-en-GB|colour)) ((lang-en-US|color)). Both systems result the same, but must we favor (or favour) templates over simple spelling? And must we continually encourage templates and discourage simple spelling, especially per MOS:ACCESS (which I discussed in its talk page)? I brought up the "technocracy" issue in WT:NOT, so join there if interested. Must we rely on templates rather than easy spelling? --George Ho (talk) 02:02, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is also doing lang="en-GB" encoding (unless another "anti-technocrat" has deleted that, too). [It is; I checked.] And much of the point of these templates is regularization and automation. This one in particular helps prevent colloquialisms like English English, as one example. As noted in one of these five related TfDs, someone's already planning to use at least one of them to establish frequency of usage. Etc. Peter coxhead gives more rationales below.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  13:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC) Updated.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep (and the other "Lang-en-XX" templates nominated below, and revert their removal). I suggest that those wanting to delete these templates read Template:Lang#Rationale. The two forms ((lang-en-GB|colour)) and [[British English]]: colour aren't equivalent. The first form clearly marks the span over which the unexpected language variant extends (unexpected because this template isn't used to mark a whole article), so a screen reader or a spell checker can take the right action. The template provides metadata, not data; it would still be useful for this reason even if the "British English" weren't made visible. The second form is just text for human readers.
  The argument about over-technicality would be valid if editors were required to use such templates. But they aren't. You don't have to use them in text you write yourself, and if a later editor adds them, or you find them and don't understand them, just leave them alone. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Peter, thank you for the (civil and friendly) explanation. That's helpful. The first part of your explanation makes sense. With respect, I am not sure I buy the second part. Over-technicality, both in terms of wikicode and in our layers and guidelines, is one of the reasons the project is having trouble attracting novice editors. The problem doesn't hinge at all on whether or not we are required to use the template. Article text full of complicated wikicode can be offputting and it can seem hard to edit - not sure "just leave it alone" is a great answer. Now, having said that, we can't/shouldn't do away with templates that are helpful, necessary, etc. I was simply stating that where a template doesn't accomplish much (which you seem to be saying is not the case here), we should strive for simplicity (in fact, for a lot of good reasons above and beyond novice editors). Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:54, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Peter, indeed. For some if not all of these ENGVARs (and more, probably, e.g. Irish, NZ, etc.), having ((lang|en-XX)) as well as ((lang-en-XX)) variants [if anything at ((lang)) needs to change to enable use of en-XX] are called for, to do the metadata markup without adding the "British English: " or whatever before the marked up content every time. I'm pretty sure I had that intent when I was working on these, and then just forgot about it.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  13:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC) Update: The short version works fine, as demonstrated in examples elsewhere below.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep — While I believe everyone was working in good faith, this is actually not redundant to a plain link, (though it is designed to appear that way to a certain extent,) and it is not unused. I fail to see how it harms the encyclopedia or breaks policy in any way. There is no valid deletion rationale. —PC-XT+ 19:50, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When you said "unused", do you mean "useless"? George Ho (talk) 21:34, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was saying there were use cases in the field where the template had benefit shortly before the discussion, which I consider current enough to call the template used. Technically, though, it could now be considered only potential use, since its mainspace usage has been at least suspended. —PC-XT+ 08:32, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The nominators' WP:FAITACCOMPLI deletions of the templates from articles to make them seem unused have been reverted.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  02:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Then my !vote stands. —PC-XT+ 02:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I've looked over previous voters' comments here, and I can't see how the claimed advantages are significant in light of what I'm reading in the template's documentation. If we need metadata in a specific chunk of an article, it would seem simpler to me to have some sort of metadata tracking template that could be added in text — something invisible, comparable to the templates listed at ((Z number doc)): just put it at the start and end of UK text and instruct bots to consider the enclosed text as en-GB. Using this template makes the code harder to understand, and after reading the discussion up above, I don't see a huge benefit in tracking this kind of metadata anyway. In other words, delete because it doesn't seem to be particularly useful, and if it is useful, we can do the same thing more simply a different way. Nyttend (talk) 19:04, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyttend: You may have missed part of the discussion (it's hard to track because the nom made them all separate TfDs instead of a group). Peter coxhead and I were just talking about the invisible metadata in this (just above, actually) and, yes, clearly "((lang|en-XX)) as well as ((lang-en-XX)) ... variants are called for, to do the metadata markup without adding the 'British English: ' or whatever before the marked up content." The need to use of a different, in the ((lang|en-XX)) form, in some contexts rather than one of these, in the ((lang-XX)) template series, is not a reason to delete this template, any more than need for a navbox sometimes mean delete all infoboxes.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  20:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I have to make my vote a strong delete. Little templates, accepting no parameters whatsoever (except for one to indicate the language in question) placed before and after text to indicate for bots its dialect or language, are simple, while apparently the coding is even more confusing than I originally thought. Nyttend (talk) 20:39, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note to closer: Whether someone personally finds "the coding" of a template "more confusing than [they] originally thought" isn't a deletion rationale, it's just how well that editor understands template code; cf. WP:COMPETENCE.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  21:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyttend: I still don't think you understand. When we need to do language markup, there are two ways to do it, that are used differently in different contexts, one with ((lang|XX)) markup, which silently adds metadata, and another with ((lang-XX)) markup that does the same thing but also prefixes a link to the name of the language (or variant) in question. They are not competing templates, but complementary. The former is best for cases where the language/variant is already known or being specified some other way (e.g. parenthetically). They can be used together, and this is expected: When the player cannot reach the cue ball with the cue, one can use the ((lang|en-US|mechanical bridge stick)) (((lang-en-GB|rest)) or more specifically ((lang|en-GB|cross)) or ((lang|en-GB|spider))). Please examine that source carefully to see what's being done here. The result displays (presumably in a pool article written in American English) as: When the player cannot reach the cue ball with the cue, one can use the mechanical bridge stick (British English: rest or more specifically cross or spider). Nothing novel is happening here; the lang and lang-xx templates (there are hundreds of them) have been used uncontroversially for years. A faux controversy has been manufactured here, that there can't possibly be any use for doing this with English language variants as well as foreign languages; but several of us have now provided rationales and examples for how these can and should be used.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  21:09, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So if the only difference is that this one prefixes a link to the name of the language or variant in question, we have no good reason to keep this. As noted by the nominator, it's substantially easier just to add a link to the name of the language or variant in question, and people not familiar with the template will find everything simpler. Nyttend (talk) 21:12, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They won't find everything simpler. To replace any ((tnull|lang-xx-YY's output, you can't just replace it with a link to the language in front of the content, but would have to do a link to the language and use ((lang|xx-YY)) to mark up the actual content. The language metadata has to come from one template or the other, as no one will add it manually and we don't want people to try to add it manually, because that process is very error-prone; the Category:Multilingual support templates all exist for real reasons and that is no. 1 among them.

If you don't know what the actual differences are between the templates and how they're used, don't you think you should actually go find out? Again, there are hundreds of these templates in regular use; we don't TfD five templates out of a series just to make a hole in the series; it's WP:POINTy. Anyway, I'm just going to cite WP:IDHT and move on; you're clearly not you seem clearly to not be interested in understanding these templates or what they're used for, and resistant to reconsidering your !vote.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  21:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC) Moderated tone, added explanation to be more responsive.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  07:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nyttend, I advise you to ignore or stop responding to this person for a couple days. The more we talk to him, the more willing he will respond, the more aggressive he will become. --George Ho (talk) 21:57, 18 August 2014 (UTC) (Per WP:ANI and WP:CANVASS --George Ho (talk) 03:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC))[reply]

• Note on apparent campaigning and forum shopping: The nominator has also been taking actions to get rid of other ((lang-xx-YY)) templates outside TfD process.

I reiterate that TfD is being misused here, as a wedge to attempt to drive in a wider campaign against language templates specifically and templates in general.

This update actually edit-conflicted with Ho striking several of his more egregious comments here, and I appreciate that. The point of the diff list above isn't to pick on George Ho, but to identify just how far-flung this discussion really is, and to demonstrate that this is not a normal quintet of TfDs but limbs of an octopus that needs to be addressed more broadly, as I have been. For more technical rationales why these and similar templates not should be merged or deleted (including ((lang-de-XX)), which was left out of this nomination round, see my "* Clarification" post at Template talk:Lang-de#template:lang-de-AT, for example.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep—as the template has been demonstrated to have utility and value that the plain wikitext does not. No one is forcing anyone else to use the template, however where it is/was used, it provided useful data to readers employing the metadata it deployed. Imzadi 1979 → 07:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Update:: The deletion of the template from articles has been procedurally reverted, per WP:FAITACCOMPLI.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:12, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  The template is also now used appropriately, in a non-tabular manner, at Confidence trick, if someone wants to see it in action in regular article prose.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:07, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: Part of why this may appear useless is that the underlying Template:ISO 639 name en-GB meta-template has not been populating its category the way it's supposed to (e.g. the way Template:ISO 639 name de does), so it appears that no one is using any mechanism - not even Template:Lang - to ever flag British English as such. I've reported this glitch to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics to see if anyone knows what the technical glitch is. Same goes for Template:ISO 639 name en-US and its category.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  11:46, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that ((Lang)) is expecting different category names. I posted at the project talk page. —PC-XT+ 06:00, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per SMcC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I would have said merge if Wikipedia supported the array extension but as far as I know they do not. JMJimmy (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Am I the only one who finds it a bit funny that with all this long discussion until I created the redirect just now, the template instructions said "The Var value must exist as an article or redirect of the form "Var English language", e.g. Scottish English language, resolving to an article on that variety, or a redirect to British English or a section thereof. If such an article exists, but at a different name, e.g. Cornish English ensure that a redirect to it exists at Cornish English language." or similar since this edit in 2012 [6] and unless I'm missing it from the logs, Cornish English language was a red link that whole time? I don't know if anyone ever used Cornish with the template but it doesn't seem a great look. Nil Einne (talk) 16:25, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think that was intentional; the poitn was "don't use this for Cornish English for example since there's no such article. JMJimmy's idea below would work around this problem, and it should have been done that way all along.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:07, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When there are so many possible languages see iso 639-6 database and the difficulty of reliably sourcing them it is a problem. (I mentioned the database to a pair of top level linguists - they got a good laugh at it, esp. for ones that might have 1 or 2 known samples.) The vast majority in that database are dead or dying languages let alone having a wikipedia editor. That might be a possible upgrade for the template - don't link if it's a red link, just display the language name. JMJimmy (talk) 21:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Right. While we should not create piles and pile of these templates without actually using them, it's certainly a good idea, your don't-redlink upgrade plan. If the templates are kept (which seems likely), I'll try to remember to do that. Half the code's already in there, it just needs an ifexist test.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:07, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep This is a reasonably well constructed system of templates. No one is forced to use them, they are however simple to understand and to use. The conform to an RFC (I forget the number), and are therefore useful for all sorts of processes. In particular they facilitate advanced spell-checking. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:48, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
  
• Additional information: Borrowing from Template:Lang/doc#Rationale (and editing as necessary to refer to English variant templates instead of foreign language templates), here are some additional rationales for these templates:
  • Useful for research or compiling statistics about encyclopedic use of varietal English terminology in articles.
  • Search engines can use this information when indexing text.
  • Facilitates better data-scraping, parsing and re-use.
  • Possibly useful for application developers who re-publish Wikipedia, or create WP-related tools.
  • For minor accessibility reasons – screen readers need language info to speak text in an appropriate voice, when the users want them to do so
  • Users can apply styles to language variants in their style sheets (useful for logged-in users, or those using custom style sheets at the user agent level; also probably a minor use case).
     — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Neutral Keep. Language subtags are well-defined W3C standard RFC 3066. Dodoïste (talk) 17:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was no consensus Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lang-en-CA (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Absolutely useless, as "[[Canadian English]]" is more memorable and familiar to type than this template. George Ho (talk) 17:16, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and reverse any WP:FAITACCOMPLI actions aimed at rendering it useless. This was definitely used before. Under-utilized templates are not useless, simply under-utilized.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  19:33, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcC -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 08:01, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot to tell you; this template has been unused before I nominated this template. --George Ho (talk) 08:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So what? If you're so concerned about that, then get to work applying it. Deletion is not a solution.Skookum1 (talk) 08:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, normally it could be but: A) We have evidence that the nominator among probable others, in a what seems to be a nascent campaign (now being shopped to the Village Pump as well as WT:NOT) against metadata templates as the tools of a "technocracy" to be overthrown (or whatever; they tell me it's not a conspiracy theory, but I can't tell the difference) have been removing the templates from use to make them appear unused and useless. B) These templates are part of a series, and it's natural for some of them to remain underutilized for some time; e.g. some of the top level ((lang-xx)) templates are hardly used at all. (I'm sure you already understand this, but I want it on record in the TfD, as both of these points apply to all five of these templates.)  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  14:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and restore per SMcC.Skookum1 (talk) 08:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for the same reasons set out in the identical deletion discussion at the Lang-en-GB template - trying to consolidate the discussion. Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above argument about British English. This template is two years old and nothing linked to it. Let's stop turning this website into a technocracy. - SweetNightmares 14:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • How about you stop trying to turn XfDs into WP:SOAPBOX platforms for whatever on earth you're talking about with regard to "a technocracy"?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:18, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per my comment in the British English template discussion above. Resolute 14:45, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and promote usage: such templates are useful for tracking their use cases. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 01:51, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per my comments above. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:24, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep for now or userfy — While the template is unused, it is not necessarily useless. It is not redundant to a plain link, (though it is designed to appear that way to a certain extent.) I fail to see how it harms the encyclopedia or breaks policy in any way. If this was created prematurely, I would not mind userfication until it is needed in an article, but I haven't heard enough reason to support deletion, yet. —PC-XT+ 21:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep—as the template has been demonstrated to have utility and value that the plain wikitext does not. No one is forcing anyone else to use the template, however where it is/was used, it provided useful data to readers employing the metadata it deployed. Imzadi 1979 → 07:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: Glossary of cue sports terms and other articles make use of ((lang|en-CA)); the only reason this isn't ((lang-en-CA)) is that the exact context in which the terms are found doesn't require "Canadian English: " to be prefixed. A simple change at any such article could put this template back into use and there are many places with no markup at all yet where it could/should be used.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I'll change my !vote to eliminate the userfy option. I think this set should stay together. —PC-XT+ 02:24, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per SMcC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB JMJimmy (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:49, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
  

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The result of the discussion was no consensus Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lang-en-emodeng (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template was used in only Glossary of nautical terms, Builder's Old Measurement, and English wine cask units. I replaced it with HTML formatting, like "Early Modern English". Now it's nearly useless. If that link is not always memorable, at least a reader can click or type "History of the English language" to search for past English languages, like Early Modern one. The template's redirect is ((lang-en-em)), and it must be also deleted. George Ho (talk) 17:50, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and reverse the WP:FAITACCOMPLI actions aimed at rendering it useless. Under-utilized templates are not useless, simply under-utilized.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  19:33, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and reverse per SMcC.Skookum1 (talk) 09:00, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• 'Delete for the reasons set out at the discussion involving the Lang-en-GB template. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:08, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per discussion at lang-en-GB. WP:Overcategorization and too technocratic. - SweetNightmares 16:13, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Having the ability (not requirement) to use language metadata is not "technocracy"; I don't think that word means what you think it means. Also, you've not cited anything relevant in WP:OVERCAT that could apply here (hint: nothing does). I.e., your !vote here raises no policy-based arguments at all.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:20, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per comments at the British English discussion above. Resolute 14:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and promote usage: such templates are useful for tracking their use cases. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 01:51, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per my comments above. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:24, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep — While I believe everyone was working in good faith, this is actually not redundant to a plain link, (though it is designed to appear that way to a certain extent,) and it is not unused. I fail to see how it harms the encyclopedia or breaks policy in any way. There is no valid deletion rationale. —PC-XT+ 21:19, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep—as the template has been demonstrated to have utility and value that the plain wikitext does not. No one is forcing anyone else to use the template, however where it is/was used, it provided useful data to readers employing the metadata it deployed. Imzadi 1979 → 07:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Update:: The deletion of the template from articles has been procedurally reverted, per WP:FAITACCOMPLI.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:12, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per SMcC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB JMJimmy (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:51, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
  

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The result of the discussion was no consensus Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:06, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lang-en-AU (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is not at all used by pages. It is useless, as "[[Australian English]]" is easier to memorize and to type than just... ((lang-en-AU)). George Ho (talk) 17:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and reverse any WP:FAITACCOMPLI actions aimed at rendering it useless. This was definitely used before. Under-utilized templates are not useless, simply under-utilized.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  19:33, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcC -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 08:02, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcC.Skookum1 (talk) 08:59, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for the same reasons set out in the identical deletion discussion at the Lang-en-GB template - trying to consolidate the discussion. Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above argument about British English. The fact that this template is "under-utilized" is evidence that this type of overcategorization is getting to be too technocratic to be useful. - SweetNightmares 15:01, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Already addressed above with regard to both this absurd abuse of the term "technocracy" to push an anti-template, anti-metadata soapboxing position, and the fact that these templates seem to be unused because people have been deleting them to make them seem unused. They would never be very frequently used, and you (and Skeezix1000) cannot, with any hope of being taken seriously, simultaneously maintain that they should be deleted because they are not being used enough for whatever arbitrary amount of use you'd like to see, yet also be deleted because you don't think they should be used, because they're part of some kind of "technocrat" conspiracy. Even a small child could see through a Catch-22 that silly.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:34, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per comments at the British English discussion above. Resolute 14:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and promote usage: such templates are useful for tracking their use cases. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 01:51, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per my comments above. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:24, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep for now or userfy — While the template is unused, it is not necessarily useless. It is not redundant to a plain link, (though it is designed to appear that way to a certain extent.) I fail to see how it harms the encyclopedia or breaks policy in any way. If this was created prematurely, I would not mind userfication until it is needed in an article, but I haven't heard enough reason to support deletion, yet. —PC-XT+ 21:34, 17 August 2014 (UTC) I changed my !vote, now that the template is being used. —PC-XT+ 02:29, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep—as the template has been demonstrated to have utility and value that the plain wikitext does not. No one is forcing anyone else to use the template, however where it is/was used, it provided useful data to readers employing the metadata it deployed. Imzadi 1979 → 07:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: Glossary of cue sports terms and other aritcles make use of ((lang|en-AU)); the only reason this isn't ((lang-en-AU)) is that the exact context in which the terms are found doesn't require "Australian English: " to be prefixed. A simple change at any such article could put this template back into use and there are many places with no markup at all yet where it could/should be used.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Update: Now used appropriately in at least one article.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  11:31, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per SMcC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB JMJimmy (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:51, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
  

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The result of the discussion was no consensus Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:59, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lang-en-US (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template was used in moustache and bachelor griller. I replaced them with the link (American English). Therefore, this template may be useless because it's no longer used in mainspace pages. George Ho (talk) 07:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and reverse the WP:FAITACCOMPLI actions aimed at rendering it useless. Under-utilized templates are not useless, simply under-utilized.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  19:33, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcC -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 08:02, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and restore per SMcC.Skookum1 (talk) 08:59, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for the same reasons set out in the identical deletion discussion at the Lang-en-GB template - trying to consolidate the discussion. Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above arguments about UK English. Overcategorized, too technocratic. - SweetNightmares 15:02, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Skeezix1000's and Sweetnightmares's essentially identical, non-policy-based soapboxing arguments have been addressed above already.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:35, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per comments at the British English discussion above. Resolute 14:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and promote usage: such templates are useful for tracking their use cases. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 01:51, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per my comments above. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:24, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep — While I believe everyone was working in good faith, this is actually not redundant to a plain link, (though it is designed to appear that way to a certain extent,) and it is not unused. I fail to see how it harms the encyclopedia or breaks policy in any way. There is no valid deletion rationale. —PC-XT+ 21:16, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep—as the template has been demonstrated to have utility and value that the plain wikitext does not. No one is forcing anyone else to use the template, however where it is/was used, it provided useful data to readers employing the metadata it deployed. Imzadi 1979 → 07:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Update:: The deletion of the template from articles has been procedurally reverted, per WP:FAITACCOMPLI.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:12, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per SMcC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB JMJimmy (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep see en-GB All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:52, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
  

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:58, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Govinda (actor) sidebar (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

A side bar template with three incoming links and only three links is a bit of an overkill. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Expand into navbox: He seems to be quite the notable Indian actor, so expanding this template into something like Template:Jeff Foxworthy would probably be the best course of action. Supernerd11 _{Firemind ^_^ Pokedex} 07:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per prior consensus. Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Better as in-context links in the article, or at worst in "See also". There's not enough for a page-bottom navbox. Also, as noted, this has already been deleted once, perhaps in slightly different form.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:British Columbia New Democratic Party/meta/color (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Previously deleted unused template. 117Avenue (talk) 03:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• speedy delete Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:38, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete (I just tagged it T3.) —PC-XT+ 20:03, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Query why was this created in the first place? There has to be a reason. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
  

It is a hardcoded color code for transclusion, intended to be the color representing the party. In general, I believe these /meta/color subtemplates are used for party infoboxes, tables, navboxes, or whatever can be colored without breaking style guidelines. Hardcoded templates tend to be substituted and deleted if they are not going to be updated, or if they only have a few transclusions and no more places to transclude are found. This one only transcludes itself in its own documentation example. If anyone has some use for this, feel free to say, and I'll reconsider my !vote. Many /meta/color templates were created in case a use was found later, possibly just to document the party color, but it's better to wait for a use, and document the color in an article, if it is important. —PC-XT+ 05:02, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Incidently, this template is slightly different from ((Canadian party colour|BC|NDP)) => #F4A460 (test) ((British Columbia New Democratic Party/meta/color)) => #FF9900 (test) (On the other hand, if they were the same, it would be redundant. The /meta/color template uses the web safe color, which is less accurate, but more consistent with colors used in older browsers.) —PC-XT+ 05:36, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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