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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:18, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Pointless template. Does not really create a template, just lets you know if the link exists or not. Gonnym (talk) 19:02, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Shaun the Sheep

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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:19, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Shaun the Sheep (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Mostly redlinks and otherwise redundant to {{Wallace and Gromit}}. 98.230.196.188 (talk) 14:18, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:5~

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:17, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:5~ (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Useless. Its own content can be typed out by a keyboard by placing <nowiki>~~~~~ </nowiki>. -- ^Bank _{Bank Robbery started a robbery} ⁽^🚨⁾ 10:49, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:3~

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:17, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:3~ (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Useless. Its own content can be typed out by a keyboard by placing <nowiki>~~~ </nowiki>. -- ^Bank _{Bank Robbery started a robbery} ⁽^🚨⁾ 10:48, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:~~

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:28, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Useless. Its own content can be typed out by a keyboard by placing <nowiki>~~ </nowiki>. -- ^Bank _{Bank Robbery started a robbery} ⁽^🚨⁾ 10:48, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:~

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:17, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Useless. Its own content can be typed out by a keyboard by placing <nowiki>~ </nowiki>. -- ^Bank _{Bank Robbery started a robbery} ⁽^🚨⁾ 10:45, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this and all similar templates nominated above. Like other character-substitution templates, this one is used for escaping special wikicode characters. This one is much less likely to be used than say {{3~}}, but its existence is reasonable to expect as it's part of a series. And I find it surprising that there's a suggestion to force people to always use <nowiki></nowiki> tags instead: these are really cumbersome to type and they make the code less readable. – Uanfala (talk) 13:15, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The nominator of these has been CU-blocked. I was wondering why we need separate ones for all of these rather than just using {{~|5}} for example, though. I guess people expect the others to be around, but it just seems like the wrong way of setting it up in the first place. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:26, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If this were a discussion in which I wasn't involved, I'd close all as speedy keep, without tagging the talk pages. – Uanfala (talk) 17:56, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all per Deacon's comment. Don't see why there is need to mass produce these templates when a variable can easily do the same thing. --Gonnym (talk) 18:39, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:4~

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:17, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:4~ (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Useless. Its own content can be typed out by a keyboard by placing <nowiki>~~~~ </nowiki>. -- ^Bank _{Bank Robbery started a robbery} ⁽^🚨⁾ 10:44, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: lots of templates could be replaced with direct wikimarkup. We have the templates for convenience. This deletion nomination and the previous one for the {{signature}} redirect seem pretty dubious. --MZMcBride (talk) 17:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Uw-vandalism0

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The result of the discussion was redirect to Template:Uw-vandalism1. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:34, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Uw-vandalism0 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Uw-vandalism1 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Uw-vandalism0 with Template:Uw-vandalism1.
Even though this template has gone through a deletion discussion in 2013, and the result was keep - the discussion that took place was over six years ago. I don't know of any user or bot who still uses this template in 2019 or 2020 and thus the template is likely to be deprecated. Almost all Wikipedia users and bots (including me) use Template:Uw-vandalism1 instead of Template:Uw-vandalism0. Train of Knowledge (Talk|Contribs) 01:27, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete the former as creator. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 03:12, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Template:Uw-vandalism0 and redirect per above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:53, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Campaignbox Wars of Beleriand

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The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:35, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Campaignbox Wars of Beleriand (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Only one link still works. Template no longer serves a navigational purpose as a result. Hog Farm (talk) 01:03, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not enough links....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 19:15, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, former linked pages have been PRODded and deleted. Cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Middle-earth wars and battles, recently closed as Delete. – Fayenatic London 21:29, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is now a link to First Age#Battles, but there is still no justification for keeping the campaign box. – Fayenatic London 17:02, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Navalranks

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:30, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Navalranks (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Military ranks (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Navalranks with Template:Military ranks.
Seems redundant. However, feedback would be welcome on how to deal with the sections and their headings of the merging template. PPEMES (talk) 14:21, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose; one is general with broad detail, and another specific with more fine detail. They fill different niches and I don't see how that's a problem. Gimubrc (talk) 14:53, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 10:45, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

comment, to avoid having duplicate sidebars, I suggest reformatting {{Navalranks}} as a footer navbox. Frietjes (talk) 21:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Horizontal Maya

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:30, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Horizontal Maya (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Currently empty. Not sure if it would add something to Template:Vertical Maya. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:27, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If the file images of {{Horizontal Maya}} were to be moved from the File:1 maia.svg style to File:Maya-horizontal-1.png similar as how {{Vertical Maya}} has them (File:Maya-vertical-1.png), then with an added parameter of |layout=horizontal, the image can be changed, thus merging both styles into the same template (it could possibly be done now without changing the file names, but changing the file names makes for better and cleaner code). --Gonnym (talk) 12:44, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
comment Marcocapelle, not sure why you think it's empty. the top of Maya numerals shows that it is functional and being used there. Frietjes (talk) 16:06, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
At the top of the article there is an image, not a template. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:51, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Marcocapelle, do you see directly below that where it says The template below (Horizontal Maya) is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. that is where it is being used and is not empty. Frietjes (talk) 19:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Now I see what you mean. But what does it add to the vertical version? Marcocapelle (talk) 21:01, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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