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Template:Africa countries imagemap

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The result of the discussion was deletePlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 08:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Africa countries imagemap (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This imagemap is misaligned, resulting in the wrong country names being shown. It has apparently been this way for years, and no one has bothered to fix it. See Template talk:Africa countries imagemap for additional context. I posted about it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Africa imagemap a week ago, and the sole reply that generated (on the template's talk page) was a suggestion that it be deleted. I agree. I have removed the template from the 2 articles it was being used on. - dcljr (talk) 22:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Day Countdown

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The result of the discussion was Speedy deleted per user request. Sam Walton (talk) 09:58, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Day Countdown (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This is an unused recreation of a speedily deleted template. (It is a hardcoded instance of another template.) —PC-XT+ 22:05, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Briffaud aircraft

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The result of the discussion was no consensusPlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 09:16, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Briffaud aircraft (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template effectively tries to navigate between one item. That is not where templates are for as they should help with navigating between several items. No parent article. The Banner talk 21:24, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Notification of the existence of this TfD has been made at WikiProject Aviation and WikiProject Aircraft, within whose scope this article falls. - Ahunt (talk) 11:42, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:England 2014 Four Nations Squad

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The result of the discussion was deletePlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 08:52, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:England 2014 Four Nations Squad (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template only used once (at Josh Hodgson) and without parent articles. The Banner talk 21:22, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Texas Sports by region navboxes

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The result of the discussion was no consensus for ((Texas sports)), but delete the rest. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 09:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Central Texas Sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:South Texas Sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:West Texas Sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:North Texas sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Houston Sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Dallas-Fort Worth Sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Texas sports (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

I'm nominating the "sports by region" navboxes in Texas due to the result of Template:MiddleTennesseeSports. It has been determined that the "regional" navboxes are redundant to ((Texas sports)) because they accomplish the same task: listing other sports teams in the area. Having one statewide template instead of several regional templates is also more useful for navigation, provides for easier maintenance, and helps prevent having too many navboxes at the bottom of articles (especially for teams in the Big Four leagues). Tavix |  Talk  07:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note:The creator of these navboxes have been notified. Tavix |  Talk  07:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Either way we look at it, either the state template is redundant or the region templates are redundant. There's no need to have 2-3 different sets that accomplish the same thing. It just adds to the maintenance when teams start up or go defunct and the statewide template isn't that much bigger. The most extreme example ((Dallas-Fort Worth Sports)) looks like it is almost the same length as ((Texas sports)) (and really, it's close: 4.4kb vs. 5.7kb). In some examples, there are teams that are on three navboxes. Any teams located in DFW would be in ((Dallas-Fort Worth Sports)), ((North Texas sports)), and ((Texas sports)). That's a problem. I didn't want to dive off the deep end and nominate the entire category en masse. I feel like it's better to look at them in chunks that people can actually sort through easily. Tavix |  Talk  16:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Tavix: Oh, the nominated navboxes are clearly redundant. My larger point is whether any of these navboxes serve a valid navigation purpose, or whether they are simply more navbox cruft. Does anyone navigate from an article about a minor league soccer team located in Texas to an article about a semi-pro rugby team located in Texas to an article about the Houston NBA team? While these linked articles are all "sports" in Texas, I think they are about as unrelated as they can get under that umbrella. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:52, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ah, I see what you're saying. I honestly haven't even thought about that. I simply wanted to clear out the redundancies that already exist. I do think "single sport in State X" is a valid navbox (such as ((Texas soccer))). There is a problem that occurs when you get to sparsely populated states, and there are only like five non-collegiate teams in that entire state. ((Vermont Sports)) is probably the most extreme example there. In that case, "single sport in Vermont" would not be useful, while "Vermont Sports" is. Where would you draw the line though? Even bigger states like ((Missouri Sports)) (home of two top fifty metro areas) would have that problem (ie: only one basketball team in the entire state). Scaling that up, it almost seems like an all-or-nothing proposition. (sorry if that doesn't make sense.)Tavix |  Talk  17:20, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've had my eye on this family of navboxes for the last year or so, and now that several editors appear to be churning them out in a hurry, it's probably time to address the larger issue in another TfD. I'm not going to hijack your TfD discussion here, but I think all of these multi-sport navboxes need to be deleted -- they serve no useful navigation purpose because the linked topics are only loosely related by geography under the umbrella of "sports." As a basic test, no one would ever include a "see also" link for the Houston Rockets in the article for a minor league baseball team based in Amarillo. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • It seems that deletionists are swarming this post. I mean, you've started a slippery slope; if we delete the sports navboxes, why not delete the radio and TV navboxes as well? Tom Danson (talk) 14:13, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Tom, I am no "deletionist." I am a frequent editor of sports articles who actually understands the criteria of the WP:NAVBOX guidelines, and also recognizes that many of our sports articles are burdened with massive amounts of bottom-of-the-page cruft that is of minimal use to our readers. Specifically, WP:NAVBOX states that navboxes should satisfy the following criteria:
"1. All articles within a template relate to a single, coherent subject.
"2. The subject of the template should be mentioned in every article.
"3. The articles should refer to each other, to a reasonable extent.
"4. There should be a Wikipedia article on the subject of the template.
"5. You would want to list many of these articles in the See also sections of the articles."

These navboxes fail criteria 2, 3, 4 and 5, and even criterion 1 is arguable. Most tellingly, there is no stand-alone article on the specific topic of the navbox per no. 4. Please review the criteria and understand their application to the particulars of these templates before commenting further. Finally, from an organizational standpoint, these regional navboxes divide the content along arbitrary regional lines. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:39, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Infobox London Tramlink route

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The result of the discussion was no consensusPlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 09:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox London Tramlink route (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused. Commenters in the previous TfD asked for this to be made a wrapper. I have now done that, and Subst: each of the only five transclusions, with no loss of content. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Image

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The result of the discussion was deletePlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 08:54, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Image (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

redundant to standard image/file syntax or module:InfoboxImage, and frequently used improperly. Frietjes (talk) 18:21, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Lists by country

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The result of the discussion was deletePlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 09:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lists by country (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template does not connect any particular topic - a sample of the pages linked from this template: ISO 3166-1, Ship prefix, Gallery of sovereign-state flags, List of First Spouses, Divorce demography, List of schools by country, World Heritage Site, Outline of cuisines, List of living cardinals, Emergency contraceptive availability by country. Note: Another editor asked about the purpose of the category 5 years ago and there has been no reply. DexDor (talk) 17:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Big Machine Records

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The result of the discussion was deletePlastikspork ―Œ(talk) 09:01, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Big Machine Records (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

The template had the label's roster in it, which is not allowed per precedent. Barring that, this is a WP:NENAN without enough stuff to interlink. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 02:08, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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