the page every time you load it. Some templates are used to tell people something about the article. Other templates (also called navboxes) are used to give...

Template:Templates...

when the template's page is being viewed directly. Possible applications are: Categorising templates Interlanguage links to similar templates in other...

Wrapper templates are outer templates which wrap around simpler inner templates, to greatly extend the basic functionality of the inner templates. The concept...

harder to edit the page. Substituting templates prevents newcomers from learning to use templates. If the template is just being used temporarily, it is...

en:Wikipedia:Inline templates linking country articles This page is a soft redirect....

the Wikipedia:Protection policy, administrators can indefinitely protect templates, template redirects and Lua modules that are high risk to Wikipedia....

WP:TESTCASESWP:TESTCASES Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but mistakes can be easily made, even by experienced users. Complex templates should therefore...

temporary or a permanent block. The warning templates are split into two types of warnings: single-issue templates which are one-off messages usually to provide...

WP:TRAIL WP:ROUTE The route diagram templates encompass a main container, named {{BS-map}}, and its auxiliary templates, most of them having BS (German:...

en:Wikipedia:Template documentation This page is a soft redirect....

en:Wikipedia:TemplateData This page is a soft redirect....

Templates {{Wikipedia:Wikicup/Templates/Userbox}} {{Wikipedia:Wikicup/Templates/Start}} {{Wikipedia:Wikicup/Templates/Through}} {{Wikipedia:Wikicup/Templates/Out}}...

en:Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates This page is a soft redirect....

and how bold to be. A user must be careful when editing templates. This is because templates can affect a large number of pages with a single edit. You...

using VisualEditor. Adding TemplateData to templates — VisualEditor has a nice template editor. See the help page. Some templates have named parameters and...

requests – requests for Lua-based templates or tasks Category:Lua-based templates – groups of Lua-based templates Category:Lua metamodules Manual:Coding...

the babel boxes. Current consensus is that userboxes (excluding the standard Babel templates and the actual code) belong only in the user namespace....

pages in other namespaces (e.g. discussions go in "Talk:", and templates in "Template:"). Some topics have a slash in the name — e.g. GNU/Linux naming...

Delete - The templates are either blank or unused (transcluded nowhere except userspace). I think they can be QD'd as unused templates, no? Chenzw  Talk ...

en:Wikipedia:Template limits This page is a soft redirect....

The articles containing too many maintenance templates are listed below: Total 3 articles. The report will be updated weekly by the robot. You can change...

sister projects created by the Wikimedia Foundation. This page lists the templates you need to make links to related information in the different projects...

listed in the References section will be automatically numbered. Using templates to format citations makes sure that the information in the citation is...

This essay, Wikipedia:Advanced template coding, describes some techniques to improve the display or editing of templates in Wikipedia. Some ways are explained...

contributing to DYK through the credit templates posted by DYK on the article talk page. The following template is used to give notice on the article talk...

is a short article. When writers begin a new article, they use the stub template to mean that it is still very short and that people can add a lot more...

create a page solely to place the {{Talk header}} template on it. This and similar talk-page notice templates should not be added to pages that do not have...

S-phrases do not mean much to most people. A set of templates has been created to ease the confusion, one template for each phrase. If one enters {{R45}} into...

m:Help:Variable m:Help:Template Wikipedia:Template messages Request for template transclusion from Commons (interwiki templates, etc.) Wikipedia:Template substitution...

out for other contributions that have been reverted, or other warning templates on their talk page), go to Vandalism in progress and follow the instructions...

your user page. Because of the large templates and long category names, some editors move the license templates to a subpage (see below). Whether you...

deletion template, and </noinclude> after it so pages that use the template/module do not get listed for quick deletion as well. Templates and modules...

reason: This template is full of red links to other templates and doesn't seem useful here. SEW won't necessarily have most of these templates and doesn't...

years, put "en-2". 2. Put the language codes on your user page using templates. For example, if you speak two languages, put {{subst:Babel-2}} followed...

deletion for the reason: Template full of red links to other templates, doesn't seem useful. It's unlikely that most of these templates will be used on SEW...

are not articles. These include pages in the Wikipedia: namespace and templates Microsoft Proprietary AlexandreconconItalic text. The article categories...

better at templates than I am, but from what I can see, it has to do with Template:Decade link (also used by enwiki) which is used by Template:Year category...

seen as spamming. Transclusions of templates and parser functions in signatures are forbidden. Signature templates are vandalism targets, and will be...

a link to the last revision of the source article using an attribution template as shown in the following example. For content translated from another...

of standardized discussion templates that are used on talk pages, in AfDs, proposals, and other policy discussions. Template:Done/See also – a more compact...

Category:WikiProjects for the project pages and Category:WikiProject user templates for WikiProject user templates. Simple English Wikipedia does not use categories for WikiProject...

wikitext where the template is used. (For example, many table templates should have TemplateStyles that are provided entirely in templates or that may provide...

Templates with the most transclusions (limited to 100 results); data as of 00:58, 24 March 2019 (UTC)....

we have protection templates with the correct top icon. I am going to bed :) but we will want to adjust the wording on templates so they are simpler...

that has a similar name with another article. Hatnotes help readers find the right article using a link or disambiguation. Category:Hatnote templates...

to  Delete. two of the three templates have been copied to userspace--Eptalon (talk) 08:37, 25 January 2020 (UTC) Template:ScienceNews (edit · talk · history...

Commons. If not, the image code may need to be deleted. Fix any broken templates. If they are not needed, they can be removed. If they are needed, either...

new. Templates included in this request are: Template:Skylanders (no blue links) Template:Transportation in the Philippines (no blue links) Template:Politics...

three pages ready to go into it right away. These can include articles, templates, and other categories. See Wikipedia:Categories#Is there a need for the...

Wikipedia:Manual of Style Wikipedia:Spam Wikipedia:Spelling Wikipedia:Template substitution Wikipedia:Change summary These are rules for how to work better...

alternative language}}. The two-, three- or four-letter codes are used in that template's 1st or 2nd parameter to denote the "from" or "to" language. To be listed...

away. The templates haven't been changed in quite a while, so I suspect the problem might not be in the templates themselves. The templates are fully...

properly labelled. There must be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. These templates include {{complex}}, {{cleanup}},...

section. Because citation templates were not designed for use in the "Other websites" section, editors that use citation templates in this section should...

talk – a place to ask for help or talk with other Wikipedians Wikipedia:Template messages – text you can use that is the same in many pages Wikipedia:User...

nominator. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 18:35, 26 October 2018 (UTC) Template:Politics of North America templates (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

Template:Geologic history to scale - Created in 2013. Auntof6 has nominated these pages for deletion for the reason: Miscellaneous unused templates....

en.wiki is holding 4 templates while en:Geologic time scale is holding 7 templates. Many pages here have 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 templates. I recommend that we...

and all entries in it. None of the templates are used. The ShowMa template has some subtemplates related templates that are also included in this request...

(UTC) Also, I've always thought the "no improvement templates" rule meant no maintenance templates at all, which Better source would be considered. As...

create a template, Template:Adminrights removed (and doc page) both pages was deleted due to nondiscussed templates. I start discuss now with templates for...

to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions. TemplateStyles is useful for a few...

Category:Voting templates SteveTalk has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Voting is evil. But seriously, why do we have these templates? They serve...

properly labelled. There must be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. Some of these templates are {{complex}}, {{cleanup}},...

Miscellaneous unused templates. See individual notes on some for further info. Templates included in this request are: Template:Attribution - related...

inappropriate username Users should be warned with the right warning templates before administrators block them. However, administrators can block a...

templates in it. The category is for templates related to changing usernames. We don't handle that here any more, so we shouldn't need the templates....

(talk) 04:47, 16 January 2023 (UTC) Wikipedia:Database reports/Templates without TemplateData (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) ·...

It's not helpful to have some templates in specific categories, and then a "miscellaneous" category for all templates that don't fit into any of them...

two reverted to tag several of the templates in question to Category:templates with categories. Many of the templates in there are direct stopwords but...

stable with no recent big changes or ongoing change wars. Y There are no templates indicating that the article needs improvement. Y Content from books, journal...

automatically put a template on your page. The template will look like this, but with your username as the first word: Also, you can make a template appear with...

for deletion for the reason: Unused templates. The content is not in the format of the political party color templates that are used. They also don't use...

Enforcing a time to stop an edit war. Preventing abuse of the {{unblock}} template or other disruptions by a blocked user on their user talk page. Shortcuts...

of the templates listed in Template:Done/See also were  Merged to Template:Discussion templates. The contents of Template:Discussion templates was then...

templates (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) fr33kman talk has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: These templates really...

many templates, then trying later would give the same result. In some cases, a page must be modified to display faster (when using too many templates). Since...

several navigational templates because they are unused and have no blue links in the body. The purpose of navigational templates is to navigate articles...

from a single article. Updated in real time. Templates with disambiguation links - List of all templates that link to disambiguation pages - a quick way...

reasons to copy text from one page into another, there are other steps and templates, which may be needed in certain cases. For merging two articles together...

{{s-ttl}} series of templates (look at the template's source code). That being said, I quote the documentation on EN for one of the templates: {{sequence}}:...

reminder process a little easier and less annoying by using the following template. You can also use {{unsigned}} to fix those comments without names in the...

Category:Sidebar templates, is that these templates include the words "part of a series on" at the top. This should be merged to Category:Sidebar templates. It doesn't...

"imported" various templates, mostly navboxes which the copy-pasted content transcluded. The list of templates is above. Each template consists of mostly...

mass-copying of templates from EN, I think this nav template, at least, should be kept; discussion pertaining to what should/should not be in nav templates (or even...

related templates and updates them. -DJSasso (talk) 19:28, 17 December 2015 (UTC) I think sometimes we're better off with simpler templates here. English...

template, this purpose is not served. The templates included are: Template:Gagra District Template:Jagatsinghpur district (and its doc page) Template:Johor...

pages that should be merged and redirected to the first page. Using these templates saves other editors time deciding how to merge, and causes all "Discuss"...

reason: Been cleaning up maintenance templates today. A lot of them have never been used, but these CFD templates particularly do not appear to be useful...

tagging for articles and redirects using all templates we got here. Main English Wikipedia's templates which do not exist here removed. --weltforce |...

Category:Username internal link templates, so we might want to keep that one and eliminate Category:Username link templates. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:32, 15 May...

template is used to rate templates. However, Simple English Wikipedia doesn't rate templates the way that enwiki does, so we don't need this template...

don't already have a template. After several thousand templates are made, the number of templates needing made each time a taxobox is set up decreases...

main pages and Category:WikiProject user templates for user templates (for those projects that have templates), but no other categories (meaning, among...

 w:WP:SOFTDELETE MathXplore (talk) 03:47, 1 August 2024 (UTC) Template:Canadian network show templates (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

request page protection, and some templates to this page. Those templates can I create and a category that the template will put the page into. In case...

most of the templates are not used, this kind of data should be directly coded in articles rather than in templates. In fact, these templates and similar...

formatting and function templates should stay. en:Template:Ma is part of en:Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates, so it should stay here...

stub templates for different articles? I always use the usual: {{stub}} I only see this around here. You mean there are individual stub templates? Prime...

to Delete all of these templates except Sect-stub which has a different use. Pmlineditor ∞ 07:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC) Template:Florida-road-stub (edit...

we're missing some templates that the routemap template is trying to use. Maybe you just need to bring over those additional templates. --Auntof6 (talk)...

military versions. The current templates do not handle this function correctly. I have made updated versions of the templates that display the correct flag...

"navbox templates" (such as Category:History and events navbox templates‎) "navigational templates" (such as Category:Entertainment navigational templates) It...

Category:WikiProjects for the project pages and Category:WikiProject user templates for WikiProject user templates. You might want to look at that first one to see if there's...

reason: Unused templates created over a year ago. Request includes three templates: Template:Korail color, Template:Korail lines, and Template:Korail stations...

deletion was to  Delete. While processing, I noticed that some of these templates were simply out of date. I will update from enwiki for cases that result...

pages in category "Flag templates" These templates call flagicon to display the flag. There are over 2500 pages that link to "Template:Country flagicon" There...

navigate templates related to talk page stalking/watching. These templates should be grouped by a category, not a navbox. Most of the templates navigated...

templates for deletion discussion. We should have under Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Templates a clear rationale under unused criterion #1: "Templates which...

leave a templated response on your talk page and unblock. If it is declined, they will give their reasons in a change to the request template. In practice...

40,000 edits Ultimate Editor – 7 years and 50,000 edits To display an award you see below, just copy the {{service awards}} template to your user page....

changes to templates. Synergy 21:17, 9 February 2009 (UTC) I actually changed it back to the support icon. It will not work with the {{icon}} template as a...

think it's a little strange that it's in the Category:Templates but when I look in Category:Templates I certainly don't see it there as a subcategory. Maybe...

section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 19:46, 19 April 2026 (UTC)...

stub types need to be addressed on the talk page before creating. Stub templates which have not been agreed on by the community may end up being deleted...

the templates Template:Current UK TOCs and Template:Defunct UK TOCs. (If this template is deleted, it will need to be removed from those templates.) The...

languages. That extension doesn't require templates, so I thought a good place to start would be templates and categories that aren't being used now....

en:Template:Compact election box no change templates and the current Iowa Representative and current Iowa Senator templates over. But the template stuff...

require those pages to be updated as well as the templates when changes are made. If these templates are used only in the main team articles, I think...

hardcoded templates. Until we do that, we can at least not keep the templates we aren't using. Templates included in this request: Template:Latest preview...

sources, or at minimum apply an appropriate template to the page that flags the sourcing concern. Common templates include {{unreferenced}}, {{refimprove}}...

(see 1: the discussion that included the CR templates and 2: the discussion that included the CRH templates). -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:05, 20 October 2022...

altered though. Or some templates could not be completely standardised, in favour of certain features (thicker border for policy templates). ס Talk 12:28, 7...

list of templates included in this RFD, click on "Expand" below. List of templates included List of templates included in this RFD: Template:Country IOC...

request is for both Template:Request block and Template:Block request. I don't think we need either of these duplicate templates. First because it's very...

reason: Group nomination of unused navbox templates with zero or one blue link in the body of each. Navbox templates without multiple blue links don't serve...

this template is the right way to go.--  † CM16  21:11, 25 March 2009 (UTC)  Keep and Delete the fourteen other templates. There are six templates for...

large templates inside an infobox or deeper inside the markup of other templates (when editing a large template). For example, the large template {Convert}...

you can use a template ({{Commons category}} or {{Commons}}) to link to them. See WP:MOSSIS for information on where to put these templates. The easiest...

prevent other templates from causing the same problem. -- Creol(talk) 09:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC) note: actually, quite a few templates that used the infobox...

Delete - I agree with Osiris, this template is pointless. People can either use the under construction templates or send the to-be-translated article...

delete) Auntof6 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Unused templates similar to others we've deleted. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:26, 18 April 2014...

data in the templates: Almost all the parameters in data are lowercase which include names that should be capitalized. Not all templates (with the underlying...

‎RubiksMaster110 created the page ‎User talk:Mynameinc with a welcoming template. This was the 150,000th page to be created on the simple English Wikipedia...

its was only used on a couple templates and a couple pages....so most of the uses of it went away when the templates were updated. So it is no longer...

Given that we don't have enough resources to maintain templates (or even the protection templates), using modules is overkill. Chenzw  Talk  06:41, 3 May...

the reason: Unused template, with no apparent templates that it applies to (no templates appear to use the anatomy infobox template -- only articles use...

of all called templates Taxonomy templates Introduction to taxonomy templates Advanced features of taxonomy templates Taxobox templates Which should be...

Auntof6 I agree. Let's deal all three templates together. In English Wikipedia we used Dexbot which removes the templates after ensuring that the badge already...

for the project pages and Category:WikiProject user templates for WikiProject userbox templates. We do not use categories for WikiProject participants...

2007 (UTC) There are several existing stub templates which redirect to the basic "stub". At least one (Template:Sci-stub) was redirected back in 2005 by...

I'd make a note of a couple of changes that I've made to templates. 1. (T·E·H·L·R) Template:Infobox actor Infobox actor has gained an extra variable 'imdbid'...

not primarily about templates). We are plagued on this wiki by having so many pages with two or three lines of text and templates and navboxes ten times...

and all of the other userrights templates are titled {{user wikipedia/userright}}. However, here, the userright templates are titled {{user userright}}...

infobox templates that are each at least a year old. In addition to the one named in the heading of this request, I include three more: Template:Infobox...

geology time period templates. The templates included in this request are: Template:Geological eon Template:Geological era Template:Geological period Auntof6...

welcome templates have more stuff, like thanking users for their changes, telling them to be bold, to sign their posts etc.. The welcome templates would...

replace this template with: {{unblock reviewed|1=original block message|decline=reason -- ~~~~}} If you accept this request, replace this template with:...

room to work together and change the copyright notices and attribution templates for use with the new license. It will also, hopefully, contain a FAQ section...

the templates being tagged are used by AWB's auto tagger and template conversion functionality. I am not certain whether the use of this template is applicable...

[[:en:Internet]] First of all, check Wikipedia:Sister projects to see if a template in your article would work for what you want to do. If not, find where...

the templates to make things look better. I understand wanting to have things look good, but I don't think we want to substitute these templates. The...

about that. The advantage of using the more-specific templates (including the wrapper templates) is that many things are automatically specified and other...

those voting templates :( SteveTalk 00:35, 19 February 2009 (UTC) SteveTalk 00:35, 19 February 2009 (UTC) Why do you hate the voting templates?- † CM16 t...

this page for deletion for the reason: All of these templates are unused. While two of these templates do have blue links, I do not think that the number...

market navigational boxes. The templates are just used by others as links between them, but that isn't helpful if the template itself has no navigable links...

would you rather have 3 templates on each article or have 20 unused templates. You guys seem to prefer having 20 unused templates . Each page that belonged...

just checked Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Uw3. We actually only have two templates (Template:Uw-unsourced3 and Template:Uw-unsourced3) using this one, so...

First, I think template for people should not be mixed with templates for objects or products. Second, there is a tendency for templates to get larger...

deletion of two templates: Template:Character: Unused template; looks like it might have been intended for the same purpose as Template:Infobox character...

This page is utilized as a sub-template which is called and is common to the usage sections of the merge templates it lists. It does nothing more than...

for deletion for the reason: Group nomination of unused diaspora navbox templates, nominated for being unused after having existed for at least several...

We have a number of similar templates that are used, as does enwiki. Many of them are in Category:Specific source templates. Should those all be moved...

at jawiki. Most company templates at our project are used to list up affiliates or company product names, but this template is just a brief company profile...

This page is utilized as a sub-template which is called and is common to the usage sections of the merge templates it lists. It does nothing more than...

and say which of the two templates, seems more simple or feels more simple - if any).--If anyone has a feeling about one template (over the other), then...

unused templates, and think they should be available for QD. Templates exist to support content: if there is no content, there is no need for a template. Macdonald-ross...

{{Documentation}} template links to the sandbox whether or not it exists), and lists of templates on user pages. Either they are the same as the base template, or they...

deletion for the reason: Unused template that is for the AFD process, which we don't have here. We use different templates for our RFD process. Auntof6 (talk)...

else Record it (Recording guidelines at English Wikipedia) Upload it Add Template:Spoken article to article Audacity (More details can be found on the English...

contribute in all fields, including creating archives, new articles and templates. You simplify well, but sometimes forget to wikify articles. Overall,...

changing articles (in the "Main" section), by writing or improving templates (the "Template" section), or by making the category system better (mostly in the...

Infoboxes are templates. Creating templates needs a good understanding of Wikicode (the coding language of MediaWiki). Using templates is easy. You can...

have more than enough warning templates. -DJSasso (talk) 16:55, 11 September 2019 (UTC) @Djsasso: Can I use the template for personal purposes. --Wyatt2049...

copy "Template:Babel" to the other Wikipedia. (Use "edit this page".) Also copy "Template:User en" and "Template:User en-3" and other templates like that...

WP:SANDWP:SAND WP:SANDBOXWP:SANDBOX WP:BOXWP:BOX WP:TESTWP:TEST More info: Introduction to Wikipedia Template:Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)...

four unused graphics templates. The templates included in this request are: Template:India States and Territories Labelled Map Template:Stratford stations...

related pages. Templates included in this request: Template:EMSworld (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Iranian aircraft...

unused templates, and think they should be available for QD. Templates exist to support content: if there is no content, there is no need for a template. Macdonald-ross...

that there is an overkill in regard to, too many templates present.'--About the space-flight templates, I decided many months ago, that I was not going...

following templates Template:Azerbaijani chess grandmasters -> Template:AzerbaijanGMs (discouraged as the name of the local version is better) Template:Chicago...

some unused templates related to citing the IUCN Red List. They all seem to be documentation, not actually functional. List of templates included in this...

helpful to have separate templates/categories for that source. If we do that, we could end up with many more sets of templates and categories for other...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Group request for unused templates Template:Archive for converted LQT page - related to LiquidThreads, a process...

network of templates, and users on enwiki are getting ready to implement it in October. Once it is done, the 3,000 wikitext-based templates will be replaced...

"delete", such as merging. Delete: this template isn't even placed on the band article. One thing these templates do, however, is show us what needs to...

like it. I'm not a fan templates designed for us against established editors and well meaning newbies and anons. The only templates I really think should...

section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Barras talk 11:41, 6 June 2026 (UTC) Hugoy678 (talk+ ·...

created this template had a history of copying over templates without creating instances of said templates. I recommend also deleting these templates, made by...

page. Category:Sister project templates contains templates that can be used for this. The documentation for those templates may have information on where...

deletion was to  Delete. Unused templates, consensus is to delete.--Eptalon (talk) 22:51, 13 February 2016 (UTC) Template:Infobox Orthodox Church (edit...

watch · logs · delete) Template:Calendar14 (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Timekeeping templates (edit · talk · history...

other templates on them that did the same thing, so I removed this one. For what it's worth, the matching template on enwiki was a redirect to template {{commons}}...

image-insertion templates related to Japanese rail transport, along with their doc pages. Some of these templates are in Category:Possible merge into Template:Rail-interchange...

based on templates to suggest edits to newcomers. You can check the templates used on MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json. You can also change the templates and the...

request import rights to import some warning templates from the English Wikipedia, and possibly some other templates I think would be useful. They can be simplified...

Geobox template, the Geobox template and all related templates have been deleted. All uses of them in articles were replaced by infobox templates. There...

obsolete. List of additional templates Template:Chem/11‏‎ (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Chem/12‏‎ (edit · talk · history...

Phaedriel, I do not believe different stub templates are needed. Even if you wanted to create different stub templates, don't you think you should at least...

"delete", such as merging.  Delete The templates haven't been updated for a while and the use of these templates seem to have stopped in favour of setting...

this page for deletion for the reason: Unused template, I don't really know if these sort of templates would be considered complex?, The words are certainly...

templates (and a redirect to one of them) related to a river in Luxembourg. We don't have an article about the river. Templates nominated: Template:Syre...

either zero links or only one.) These templates were created between June and September 2023. These templates are not transcluded anywhere, meaning that...

unused templates, and think they should be available for QD. Templates exist to support content: if there is no content, there is no need for a template. Macdonald-ross...

that use this template, it only adds the category "All ongoing trials", so far. Someone good with templates should try to fix the template to check for...

reason: Japanese company template with only one blue link, possibly related to Nick Barua xwiki spamming. Most company templates at our project are used...

proposed templates. I thought they were rejected pretty handily. Also, is there consensus to place those templates and the good article templates at the...

autoEdTemplates(str) { //MAIN FUNCTION describes list of fixes //Remove unneeded Template: text from transclusions str = str.replace(/{{[_ ]*Template:[_...

write many articles by themselves. Some may think that the articles, templates, or categories they write belong to them. They think their pages should...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: A very outmoded template. Unused. The templates in Category:Foreign character warning boxes are now used instead...

 Delete. (w:WP:SOFTDELETE for non-broken unused templates) MathXplore (talk) 09:17, 30 July 2024 (UTC) Template:Aljazeera topic (edit · talk · history · links...

There is nothing wrong with the voting templates, I repeat, nothing. Guys, stop nominating these templates for deletion, we've already decided to keep...

page in template space. We don't disambiguate templates, and we wouldn't want the text here appearing on a page. If someone tried to use a template with...

for some unused templates. All were deleted on enwiki as no longer needed (they were workarounds for one or more fixed bugs). Templates included in the...

the QD templates like the nice CSD (QD) templates at EN. What do you think? SwirlBoy39 13:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC) I agree, I've found the template for all...

99: Like and Dislike -- in which we agreed not to import these useless templates. Osiris (talk) 04:57, 13 May 2013 (UTC) Please discuss this request below...

) Templates included in this request are: Template:Cincinnati Bengals roster navbox (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Las...

related templates. Rationale: "User warnings" is more accurate, since they are all more or less uw-[insert violation here] templates, and Template:IPvandal...

pages. The templates included in this request are: Template:Bobby Fuller Four (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Bonyhád District...

2008 (UTC) Delete. I think we should follow en:wiki's policy on spoiler templates and not have them. People are smart enough to realize that a section titled...

many articles tagged as stubs are quite substantial) or stublists (lists templates with little or no content). See Wikipedia:Naming conventions to learn...

import of templates. For now I can show you the same thing in other Wikimedia projects. If we do a pilot here then I can import the templates. Consider...

The templates included in this request are: Template:Diplomatic missions in Israel (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Diplomatic...

Wikimedia Toolserver. The table included links to user pages, talk pages and templates as well as the article namespace. Because of this there may be entries...

list of uncategorized templates at User:Tangotango/Uncategorized templates from the toolserver, so please start categorizing templates if you have time :)...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Nominating three unused templates related to London Underground statistics. These are for the years 2013...

in the same way that it does for Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). No template is required to enable this feature. When a ISBN is known, it may be helpful...

October 2010 (UTC) I added the missing {{Cfd2}} template, plus a few others internally called templates. {{Cfd}} should be working. There is a redlink...

respective templates. It's not that hard to check that user is (b)locked by just checking their contributions page. I suggest that these templates be deleted...

uw-longterm template doesn't exist on enwiki. They deleted it in favor of using the regular vandalism templates. The doc pages for these templates have the...

unused templates, and think they should be available for QD. Templates exist to support content: if there is no content, there is no need for a template. Macdonald-ross...

for deletion for the reason: older, cleaner template at Template:WWE Championships. No need for 2 templates with same info. Tbennert (talk) 17:59, 12 September...

due to WP:SNOW. Delete as per all my votes to delete pointless pretty templates. Majorly talk 02:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC) It's not pretty. It's ugly....

navboxes that are simple and often don't rely on other templates. For more complex templates if you don't feel confident in copying it over yourself...

17 March 2022 (UTC) @SoyokoAnis adding those templates shouldn't be a difficult matter. Those templates don't take any inputs, and they're not really...

neighborhoods. The two templates included are: Template:Stl neighborhoods, a navbox with no blue links in the body, created 1 September 2015‎ Template:Infobox St...

155 (talk) 09:22, 11 July 2023 (UTC) Accepted. Delete the template. We already have templates such as Uw-block1 and Uw-block2. 46.200.83.77 (talk) 11:32...

appears to be a shorter version of an existing template on our article Punk rock. (Not sure how two templates could be created with same title). The longer...

service's definitions for each website. Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki...

Classification guidelines Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categories Template namespace Style conventions Manual of Style Contents Accessibility...

thing again, they may be blocked. Template:Uw-coi for warning editors who have an apparent conflict of interest. Template:COI for tagging articles affected...

(UTC) I've just moved a couple of my personal welcome templates out as Template:Welcome-en and Template:Welcome-iw, for use welcoming experienced contributors...

"keep" or "delete", such as merging. As with ther unused templates: If we don't use the template, we likely do not need it. So we can 'delete it. --Eptalon...

future. There are a lot of country data templates for cities on enwiki, see en:Category:Country data templates of cities. Lights and freedom (talk) 16:42...

 Poland Poland Many countries have individual flag templates. These are shortcut flag templates. The template is named using standard three-letter country code...

for deletion for the reason: Unused navigational template with only one blue link. Navigational templates serve no purpose if there are fewer than two blue...

so much for templates and other non-article pages. --Auntof6 (talk) 14:29, 9 December 2015 (UTC) Delete per nom. Attribution for a template is, perhaps...

user who brought over this template is the same one who was active for a few days in August and brought over many templates, several of which have already...

Keep This template is intended to be used as a footer on the documentation pages of infobox templates relating to organizations. Nine templates link to...

shorthand template for a Venezuelan state (en:Lara (state)), which is at odds with current convention at Category:Flag template shorthands where templates feature...

following templates are included in this request: Template:Asian Archery Championships (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Asian...

link. The templates included in this request are: Template:Another Level (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Apollo 440...

The templates included in this request are: Template:Campaignbox 1929 Palestine riots (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Campaignbox...

deletion for the reason: As far as I know, we don't keep country data templates for fictional countries. Auntof6 (talk) 04:12, 11 November 2020 (UTC)...

reason: I heard QD T2 does not cover brand new templates. Although I cannot expect any future use of this template just made for hoax pages. MathXplore (talk)...

removing unsimple versions of templates that we already have but am left with a few. Does any feel that Template:Unreferenced Template:Wikify are needed? At the...

the comments below, I can see why merging the templates might not be a good idea. Should the new template be needed in the future, it can be re-created...

navigational box templates that don't have enough blue links to do their job of navigating between pages. Templates included: Template:Bronski Beat (edit...

help with organization of information, simplification, and informative templates for the reader. obentomusubi 18:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC) The criteria for...

reason: Unused navbox template created in August 2015. Has only one blue link in the body. I think this is one of the templates brought from enwiki by...

reason: These templates have not ever been used in the 3 months that this template has existed. I am not sure what the point of these templates are. On the...

you mean by "display new templates"? -Mh7kJ (talk) 12:58, 15 December 2012 (UTC) Tracked in Phabricator Task T45159 Template namespace on NewPages. It...

quality of edits made to the target topic. Other edits, such as to relevant templates and categories, linking etc., also add to the success of the weekend....

this template should probably be deleted, making a redlink to remind people to remove short descriptions from copied templates or replace this template with...

the main body, no links to any sports teams. Without blue links, these templates cannot become useful. MathXplore (talk) 04:32, 11 October 2022 (UTC) Please...

box templates that don't have enough relevant blue links to do their job of navigating between pages. Templates included: No blue links: Template:Jess...

awards. To see all the ones available here, see Category:Barnstar award templates. General Barnstars are awarded for work or contributions that do not fall...

decade summary. As far as a template, we have something (as seen on 40s BC) but I'm not sure if there's a simpler template that exists. What's there is...

categories that contain Olympics-related sidebar templates, but we don't seem to have any of those. The templates are not transcluded anywhere, but they may...

Delete. Unused, and not even of historic interest. One of dozens of templates brought over by a user who is now topic banned. Macdonald-ross (talk)...

WP:RFD, WP:RFA, WP:PGA, and WP:PAD pages. I am suggesting that these two templates be transwikied or added to the Simple English Wikipedia for use in the...

could fix up this template to have a better appearance and more/more accurate data, but I really think we have enough Disney templates as it is. Auntof6...

published version of a Wikipedia page. It is not occupied by any characters, templates, multimedia, or anything else. In other words, it appears white. Wikify...

between pages. Templates included in this RfD: Template:Average White Band (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:The Bachelors...

ignore nav templates could also help a lot. Templates could be added to the top and bottom of the navbox template where the new templates would just say...

links in the body. The templates are used by other templates as links between templates, but that isn't helpful if the template itself has no navigable...

is no, because there are templates that are supposed to be in userspace. These include some userboxes and WikiProject templates. Of course, those are not...

text: For a list of articles that are marked with this template, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Wrongtitle. To make the first letter lowercase (small)...

section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 19:46, 19 April 2026 (UTC)...

write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates. If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll...

(UTC) The templates are named User is-1, to User is-4, as well as User is-N. They can easily be copied form enWP (if possible to templates with the same...

doesn't use artist id anymore". The template here hasn't been changed since 2016. Subpages listed below: Template:BillboardID/+ (edit · talk · history...

delete) Notes to closing admin: None of these templates appear to have any subpages. All of these templates are transcluded on at least one page. -- Auntof6...

2009 (UTC) Full protection should only be used for templates that are incredibly visible. The tl template should, at most, be semi-protected to prevent tampering...

articles will be added but old templated ones have to either be resaved or wait until the system checks/reapplies templates. -- Creol(talk) 15:23, 22 August...

to meet the expectations for navboxes. The original creator of these templates have been CU-blocked and globally locked, cannot activate QD G7 and not...

categorize our editors by age like this. I am nominating several of these templates for deletion. Auntof6 (talk) 00:23, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Please discuss...

merging. Delete - easily covered by {{qd}} and {{rfd}} - How many deletion templates do we need? --Eptalon (talk) 12:55, 7 September 2008 (UTC) Delete - per...

only by the navbox. Second template: Template:TRTS color (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Both templates were created by a user who...

not to make and use templates. I remembered incorrectly. Vermont (talk) 21:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC) I would rather to use templates rather than plain text...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Nominating two unused templates for deletion. Both are related to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit...

options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging. Keep The two templates serve for two different subjects. One is features from Disney the company...

doesn't belong to us. If we could formalise projects we could create proper templates but linking all the pages to someones user space is hardly acceptable...

It is unnecessary to have different templates for each kind of vandalism. Just use the normal vandalism templates, or better yet, don't use any and write...

to update templates like '2003 Cricket World Cup squad' much. I am okay with less notable list/templates being deleted, but these templates absolutely...

navbox templates created by the same user on January 1. Each has only one or two blue links. Templates included in this request are: Template:Dizzee Rascal...

protected because they are high-risk templates: All vandalism warning templates All RfD templates All RfA templates {{pgood}} {{pvgood}} {{good}} {{vgood}}...

dumb. This broke a number of templates, which I "fixed" by undoing my "import" on these templates. Of course, if the template did not work before my import...

let's keep the templates sane. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:52, 29 December 2020 (UTC) Amish and Hugenots should be removed form the template. Reason: Those...

version of the template that is temporarily at User:Etamni/templates/sandbox which is the same template with large sections commented out. Or it can just be...

continue the mass-copying of templates. Chenzw  Talk  13:55, 11 June 2016 (UTC) Delete. Yes, this was part of a most unwelcome template spree. Macdonald-ross...

the reason: Well, I am not a fan of such templates. We have the goal to create an encyclopaedia not a template for laughing on talk pages. The normal smilies...

Template more than out does the templates in question. Afkatk (talk) 12:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC) Delete - Almost all of the links in the templates...

mean "protect" it? Admins can apply different levels of protection to templates, articles etc. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC) So,...

between pages. Templates included in this request: Template:Sandy Denny (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Yazz (edit · talk...

date-related templates in "Category:Time, date and calendar templates". However, while {{Birth date and age}}, {{Death date and age}} and other templates appear...

very similar to Template:PastPBSKids shows. (Although that template says "past" shows, it actually has current shows in it.) This template was originally...

these templates are free for autoconfirmed editors to improve. Let's overlook the fact that cascading protection shouldn't really be used on templates— vandalism...

need for 2 templates with the same information. This has been briefly discussed at the end of Wikipedia:Simple talk#Help with a template. Please discuss...

before it is updated. Important things that happened last week/this month Template:This week in history was created and added to the Main Page CR90 was banned...

March 2009 (UTC) Nameless User has created dozens of templates, all clearly based on en.wiki templates. I suggested he may wish to provide some level of...

pages. Templates included in this request: Template:The All-American Rejects (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Cooperative...

templates that appear unneeded because they are linked/transcluded only by each other. Template:Historical Jewish Press 2 -- not used at all Template:Davar...

categorize our editors by age like this. I am nominating several of these templates for deletion. Auntof6 (talk) 00:22, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Please discuss...

create/store his own created templates. I think that this is an inappropriate use of an alternate account. The templates are not of good quality. See...

specific inside one article, outside infobox templates. Consider appending a custom infobox, below a template infobox. Note how using common infoboxes can...

Discussion should occur on the templates' talk page and not here. RFD is not a forum!fr33kman 05:18, 16 February 2010 (UTC) Template:Sports (edit · talk · history...

If a single article falls into a template's realm, who cares? We have cats that have a single entry, why not templates? fr33kman talk 03:05, 11 August...

aggregious instances of depopulation. The guideline for templates fails to note that some templates were never meant to be used in articles Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈...

the template over didn't even add it to the Kings Dominion article. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  14:46, 16 December 2015 (UTC) Yeah, we get a lot of templates brought...

page for deletion for the reason: This template was, until recently, transcluded via user-page banner templates related to sockpuppetry, in order to alert...

nothing to do with the portal templates there. In fact, it was empty. It didn't even show either of the portal templates. Yes, the if stuff is still there...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Nominating two warning templates created by an unregistered user. The first one contains bizarre text and...

look at template {{NBA roster header}}? Some of its formatting code is showing up as text in things that use it. I don't know enough about templates to figure...

the talk pages if we can agree on the template. Synergy 23:47, 27 January 2010 (UTC) I'll work on the templates tomorrow, to include a link to the RfD...

2012 (UTC) Are you going to do that? Because until that happens these templates are completely useless, and they're generating an error category. Osiris...

internal}}, {{term}}, and {{defn}}. (For all glossary templates see the category en:Category:Glossary templates). I can see them being fairly useful, particularly...

the template (likely you will need to shift the category some - Category:Location map by country templates is our main cat for location templates). The...

10:01, 17 September 2024 (UTC) If the pages are recreated later, the templates can easily be recreated. -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:03, 17 September 2024 (UTC)...

after that, I don't see a point to import it. Should we have a QD for new templates that are not at least half blue 30 days after import? StevenJ81 (talk)...

editnotices on a per page basis. In fact, I have just imported a few templates from EN that will allow this to happen. Therefore, I propose that: Users...

all our templates, and it is why from time to time we go through updating them to make sure they all work together. Can't delete a template just because...

Yes, I agree with that. The information will be good as rel pages, and templates should do something which is not easy to do in the main section of the...

Microchip, your warning templates are way too big. It's a bit visually distracting. Why not use the generic warning templates?--TBC 20:50, 27 August 2008...

as the templates are concerned, I've learned which templates are ok with the lack of File: and which aren't. I've even learned some templates like {{Infobox...

Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:50, 9 April 2014 (UTC) Delete We don't need unused templates. --Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 12:36, 9 April 2014 (UTC) This request...

I've created two, more specific templates with colours that differ from the standard {{pgood}} and {{pvgood}} templates to make it clearer. I hope it's...

 Delete Our welcome templates should be made to welcome to the simple English Wikipedia, not KFC or anywhere else. Sentences in template seems to be copied...

and Wikijunior templates on my own, but there are still problems with them, so they cannot be used yet. For the Wikiversity template, it links to http://simple...

link for each is to a user work page. The two templates are: Template:Documentation/doc/see also Template:Documentation/docname -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:21...

would only not add them on templates where the en.wiki one doesn't add them. As Auntof6 mentions we basically use en.wiki templates often here and keeping...

at Wikipedia:Proposed article demotion. All good articles come with a template {{good}} that is located on the top right-hand corner of that article....

Depreciated and unused/ not linked to. The sole quick delete justification for templates covers this practically word for word. It had value at one time and now...

"delete", such as merging. Keep Different templates for different uses. And the bots require this template to be there to clean the page. -DJSasso (talk)...

Could someone please move it to commons? I don't fully understand its templates or the process. Thanks, 66.173.140.100 (talk) 11:58, 3 September 2011...

article or redirect with the template(s) of your choice. All templates that are checked will be added to the page. Templates that support it will have the...

this template). Any documentation for the page is included in the nomination, although I was unable to find a documentation subpage for this template. Rationale...

has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: More navigational templates with either one or zero links each Tiles mar (talk) 20:07, 20 October...

is to clean up the Template:Lang group of templates and categories. Special:WantedTemplates lists over 80 templates of the Template:ISO 639 name xx type...

such as merging. Delete. Certainly it is not needed and unused. The templates were put up in early June by the user who is now banned from editing on...

"keep" or "delete", such as merging. Comment This template currently links to User:Osiris/work/templates/6 which gives me the idea that Osiris may be working...

Special:UncategorizedTemplates: templates without category tags (see above). Special:UnusedCategories Special:UnusedFiles Special:UnusedTemplates: templates which are...

people will do the same anyway but without the templates, this didn't happen when we didn't have the templates - people seemed to think more about whether...

cautious to not check the box to bring all the templates over, this feature will overwrite many templates, even ones you don't intend to overwrite. Importing...

DYK update process FerienBot2 (t · c) Ferien Adding/removing protection templates from pages Hazard-Bot (t · c) Hazard-SJ Cleans sandbox IERA Bot (t · c)...

categorize our editors by age like this. I am nominating several of these templates for deletion. Auntof6 (talk) 00:23, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Please discuss...

templates aren't/were never used, Delete. –Davey2010Talk 16:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC) Post close comment - Sorry forgot to update this page - Template:Gallery/aux...

articles. Templates included in this request: Template:C.S. Marítimo squad -- transcluded by one article that isn't linked in the template; also has one...

2nd lvl warnings are very lame. We know that they don't experiment! The templates should be changed.  ←Kalajan→  21:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC) Oppose -...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 08:44, 3 May 2025 (UTC) Category:Templates using ParserFunctions (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

(UTC) Footer navigation templates tend to just form a chain of self-linking stubs, adding little. For a recent example see Template:Nations_at_Olympics....

shouldn't be in [13]. I think this can be fixed with nowiki tags since those templates are transcluded onto the script. --Glaisher [talk] 17:07, 30 January 2014...

don't know how well it is done here at the moment!) The RecentChanges template needs some rationalising, it is way to big! On my desktop, it fills the...

Wikipedia:Proposed article demotion. All very good articles come with a template {{vgood}}; this makes a star appear in the top right of the page. The star...

believe this template should be deleted per the reasons discussed here: en:Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2025_November_2#Template:Annual_readership...

again are generally accurate ones. {{done}} and {{not done}} are the only templates used currently. {{not done}} is used for any case that turns out to be...

fixing interwiki conflicts, at d:Wikidata:Interwiki conflicts. These templates aren't part of that system and, as far as I can tell, are no longer regularly...

delete, keep etc templates, it's very random. It could renamed to something like Template:Wtf rather than Template:Wtf but the template's lack of use even...

~2025-34905-20 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Unused templates which don't exist on English Wikipedia. If you delete these, please delete...

anticipated, so I feel it best not to do it for the time being. Since these templates are untested in simple, I think it best to delete them. Martinvl (talk)...

scheme that wasn't used any more. The template here hasn't been changed since 2016. Subpages listed below: Template:BillboardEncode/5 (edit · talk · history...

Template:Protection templates (change · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Unneded, there's not really a neeed for all these templates....

course, this might complicate things, but what with Parser functions and templates and everything I reckon it's worth it to speed things up. However, I'm...

15:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC) The template makes the unblocking process more complex. It means admins would have to adjust templates twice when we just don't need...

page, templates can't be simplified or changed, only documentation. While the documentation may be unsimple, the template is needed here. Templates is one...

sometimes using templates to make things easier for newer users, but I really question the point here. Adding external links without the template is definitely...

request for deletion was to  Keep. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC) Template:Short description (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

 Comment: Deprecated templates are generally deleted per T1. Pmlineditor ∞ 08:20, 20 February 2010 (UTC) Delete There is no use for this template. Megan|talkchanges...

box. Templates included in this request: Template:Greece squad UEFA Euro 1980 (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Template:Italy...

in some infobox, so I will suggest to update to match en (with the sub templates). Failing which then delete.Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:21, 15 February...

copy/paste. As long as they are careful (be very very careful of including templates, i.e DONT) then I'm fine. James (T C) 01:56, 19 February 2010 (UTC) I...

moment to arrive at consensus for sysops to be able to delete unused templates such as these without further discussion or the need for RfD? Operator873CONNECT...

delete the additional templates linked by User:Lights and freedom. --Gordonrox24 | Talk 22:31, 25 January 2023 (UTC) Template:Chatsworth, Los Angeles...

14:28, 30 November 2008 (UTC) The problem is, all the QD templates are from the same template. I think it would be easier just to leave it as it is. In...

@Davey2010 But there are readers, aren't there? I will be updating the templates if they are not needed. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:36, 2 August 2024 (UTC)...

(UTC) When templates are substituted, there is, I think in all of our user warn templates now, an "invisible comment" back to the template. So in this...

the article that uses it and deleting the template. I believe we have done this with single-use templates before. Auntof6 (talk) 05:39, 15 January 2023...

navigational box templates because they each have too few blue links in the body of the template to do the job of navigation. Template:Countries at the...

merging. Delete. Not used, and link to data is broken. We don't need templates for everything under the Sun! Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:01, 9 April 2014...

gets wasted on vandals and warning templates. Especially when there's an edit war to stop IPs from deleting the templates, something that English Wikipedia...

merging. Quick delete Template does not qualify for an RfD and is misplaced here by an editor. It is not in our standard templates for a QD (if you look...

and users should communicate with each other rather than talk through templates. Please discuss this deletion below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't...

anywhere.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:58, 6 December 2022 (UTC) Template:Heavily used template (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

Unused template meant to display a number padded out to 3 digits, using Template:Padleft. It could be useful, but it looks like all the templates that need...

template that is not being used, this template is actually not 3 years old; it was imported in January 2018, and a quick search through the Template namespace...

"keep" or "delete", such as merging.  Delete per nom. No need to have templates made up entirely of red links; they serve no purpose. --IWI (talk) 20:21...

any such categories, so these templates are not needed here. Template:Fooian expatriate sportspeople in Bar cat Template:Fooian expatriate sportspeople...

created both templates. They may have linked to pages that have been deleted, and as such no longer serve a purpose. Regarding Template:Darkwing Duck...

has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: These are unused templates. English Wikipedia has no current equivalent for both. — *Fehufangą ♮...

Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:08, 30 May 2020 (UTC) I think the welcome templates on the Simple English Wikipedia need to be redesigned. I was wondering...

Purple. The warning template probably would intice children more then make stop reading. I really don't think warning templates would do any good. If...

that, as deleting two templates that were mostly unused doesn't keep us from that. This community is too small to need s template to link to Alsatian language...

some unused templates that seem intended to be headers on year pages, as well as two related pages (a redirect and a doc page): Template:C11–17 year in...

these templates. Lauryn Dirty little secrets 18:25, 22 April 2010 (UTC) OK.  PiRSquared17 (talk)  18:27, 22 April 2010 (UTC) Won't work w/o en:Template:Str...

agree with this. Some of the talk pages are really cluttered with the templates. -- Mercy (☎|✍) 09:21, 3 April 2009 (UTC) Okie dokie, i'll look into getting...

Deleted on enwiki for this reason: en:Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 October 10#Template:Calculate. Batrachoseps (talk) 14:59, 7 October...

the reason: Per the discussion at Template talk:Welcome-en, one-strike notices should not be given with templates. One-strike is used on a case-by-case...

21 October 2022 (UTC) Template:Argentine diaspora (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Template:Australian diaspora (edit...

deletion for the reason: Template:Thai diaspora Template:Basque diaspora Template:Catalan diaspora Template:Surinamese diaspora Template:Israelis abroad and...

separate templates for vandalism etc and there isn't anything here individual to cyberbullying, so I don't see the need for a separate template. --Ferien...

article wikilinks, which are artificially inflated through the use of Templates) and instead have a bot search through the most often looked at pages...

2022 (UTC) @PotsdamLamb: Actually, since we periodically refresh our templates from enwiki, we would eventually lose this parameter anyway. Enwiki removed...

think that we need stub templates, until the community grows in size or until agreed by the community that we will use templates like these. Oysterguitarist...

"delete", such as merging. Delete per nom. There are good reasons that templates and categories like these are useful on a number of projects. I'm going...

Wiki has been deleted. This template no longer serves any real purpose anymore.-BRP ever 11:39, 27 October 2021 (UTC) Template:9jabased Wiki (edit · talk...

 Delete. Virtiually unuused template, full of red-links; consensus to delete. --Eptalon (talk) 20:48, 25 March 2016 (UTC) Template:Chinatowns (edit · talk...

(UTC) Oddly while we have it under both US and British spelling, both templates use the British spelling... and the British version was created 3 years...

Unused template whose function is covered by Template:Geologic history. Everything linked in this template uses the Geologic history template, so the...

and EXISTING. Griff (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2022 (UTC)  Delete Unused templates; they can be recreated once the enough blue links are available to them...

There is also {{Neutral}} dealing with the topic. Little need for more templates to point out NPOV issues. -- Creol(talk) Hello all, given we had some...

or "delete", such as merging. Delete - another one of those numerous templates created by 69.115.66.43 (talk · contribs). Chenzw  Talk  03:26, 8 June...

wikipedia. Can some one please put your audio template on this page; commons:List of the different audio-templates for the Wikipedias Greetings, nl:gebruiker:Walter...

single template and this template was deleted as a result. I don't think we need this right now and in the future we should merge the templates too like...

templates in those cases. I actually think those templates sometimes get added when they aren't needed: not every protected page needs the template....

Please see Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy#Proposed new template QD option: Navbox templates that don't navigate anything and give your opinion there...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Chenzw  Talk  05:56, 9 June 2017 (UTC) Template:Vandalism information (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Keep. Redirected to Template:Infobox website --Auntof6 (talk) 02:42, 12 January 2022 (UTC) Template:Infobox Wikipedia (edit · talk · history...

since we copy templates from there. However, I don't think we should remove the cats from templates here if the corresponding enwiki template still has them--again...

comment added by Peterdownunder (talk • contribs) 07:14, 1 July 2021 (UTC) Template:Notability (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

These two templates here serve the same function. No articles use Template:Infobox drug; they all seem to use Template:Drugbox. The two templates don't appear...

The templates included in this request are: Template:LQT Moved thread stub converted to Flow‏‎ Template:LQT page converted to Flow‏‎ Template:LQT post...

Reason for deletion explained perfectly at w:Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 June 2#Template:IPsock. But if you want my shorter explanation: tagging...

simply copy over) should be discussed first, probably at Simple Talk. Templates being created and then discussed in deletion reviews is the proper procedure...

use the template in them. If not, then we can delete it. PokestarFan (talk) 23:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC) That's desirable with any unused template. However...

the article that uses it and deleting the template. I believe we have done this with single-use templates before. Auntof6 (talk) 05:38, 15 January 2023...

the edits are made to the same pages and the edits are made close together, it's probably sockpuppetry". In this case the template {{duck}} can be used....

articles that are only dictionary definitions should be given the tag Template:Move to Wiktionary Wikipedia is not here just to say how words, expressions...

What's the difference between the {{NPOV}} template and the {{Neutrality}} template? The Neutrality template seems more simple language, but is there a...

or "delete", such as merging.  Delete These seem to be maths-related templates, but I'm not seeing the utility from looking at the code. Delete— *Fehufangą...

(UTC) Are we still using the protection templates on protected pages? I am planning to transwiki the templates from EN as our current ones are (horribly)...

(UTC) I have been trying to make sure that all templates have appropriate categories. For protected templates, I can take care of them if they use documentation...

perhaps get SWBot3 on irc:#cvn-simplewikis to watch all of the pages and templates that are transcluded (or a different bot) and alert us of any changes...

pro-voting templates, but this one just seems ridiculous. It's not needed. (Please keep in mind this is about this particular voting template and not the...

18 June 2009 (UTC) They are good, but it's better not to use special templates on vandalized or blank pages. Please say what you think about this deletion...

continues to use Template:RfD/Preload/Template). However, it doesn't seem necessary for categories to get special handling since the {{lc}} template will automatically...

February 2016 (UTC) @PokestarFan: You are only partly correct. There are templates we do use here that display text on redirect pages; it's helpful in some...

Q1: Is there a way to have the template add the category only if it exists? I think some of the chronology templates do something similar. Q2: Would...

somewhat complicated chain of templates beginning from Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Editnotice, the entirety of Template:Editnotices/* acts as a pseudonamespace...

check my User:Fr33kman/monobook.js file for the code to use. Not all templates are in place however, so you might just want to use the "Vandal Warner"...

the reason: Unused template created over a year ago. Just inserts a link to "Japanese language" -- I don't think we need a template to do that. Auntof6...

copy-and-paste. [3] You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [4] You are invited...

imported Template:ThamesCrossings with an auto-import of the templates it uses. I checked my import first, and thought it would only also import Template:Crossings...

for the reason: I don't believe this is needed. The primary demotion templates are {{Pgademotion}} and {{Pvgademotion}} so I don't see the need for a...

enable status template at User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate)" -- Creol(talk) 13:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC) Take a look at en:User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate. mC8 13:42...

looked at what templates are at English-wiki - in the article about "the (first) Woodstock" festival. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Historic_rock_festival...

started creating templates to connect this genus to the already-logged subclass Heterobranchia. I created templates for the genus Template:Taxonomy/Clione...

(as on en:Main Page). PiRSquared17 19:05, 12 May 2010 (UTC) There are templates linking to Wikibooks and Commons, stating that there is related material...

Fehufanga has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Taxonomy templates don't usually need to go down to species level. They are unused but with...

interested in (or not interested in^^), or you can run a bot, create templates, join or create a wikiproject, maintain the category system, revert vandalism...

reason: Nominating a group of navbox templates that each have either zero or only one blue link in the body of the template. With so few links, navboxes can't...

one I've seen so far (and I've seen around 4 different welcome message templates. "Hello, Administrators' noticeboard, and welcome to the Simple English...

10:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC) Thank you. There are a few other messages and templates which I should have a look into. I will propose them here later on Huji...

~2025-36048-92 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Unused templates with no equivalent on English Wikipedia ~2025-36048-92 (talk) 05:47, 25...

~2025-34905-20 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Unused templates, do not exist on English Wikipedia. ~2025-34905-20 (talk) 02:19, 20 November...

templates, by using a recursive descent parser. In the past, large templates could only be used a few hundred times per page, such as when a template...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Unused template Peterdownunder (talk) 22:18, 6 December 2020 (UTC) Template:Habesha peoples (edit · talk · history ·...

Delete - Template scope is too vague. I could theoretically place safety helmet, physical security, bomb disposal into the same template... Chenzw  Talk ...

endnotes) in a Wikipedia article. There are also many predefined footnote templates, but with limitations, so (as of September 2010), footnotes also can be...

that'll need the template removing from. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:34, 18 April 2025 (UTC)  Delete per en:Wikipedia:Templates...

Template:NotRetired (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Microchip has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Why is this...

wording everywhere. --Rimshot 10:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC) I've made new templates. Now it's{{complex}} and Category:complex pages. --Werdan7T @ 21:50, 19...

be options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging. Keep Those templates are useful.--~2025-28733-95 (talk) 15:44, 13 October 2025 (UTC) Delete...

specific by a long way. At the moment we have only something like 35 stub templates, including broad subjects like history and biology. I don't believe Iowa...

created Template:Super Bowl which was coped from EN (the official template as well as the official name is 2 words not 1 (whch is why "Template:Super Bowl"...

makes this template pointless for them — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eptalon (talk • contribs) 09:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC) Template:Unrevealed...

deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 21:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC) Template:User WPLISTS (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) ·...

looks more like a general sports external link template, similar to Template:WWE superstar or Template:NBA playerfile. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:13, 26 December...

was to  Delete. Broken (self-referential) template...--Eptalon (talk) 22:55, 6 January 2022 (UTC) Template:AuEduNewbie (edit · talk · history · links...

properly in English and have to use their native tongue), Templates (say.. the handful of templates for non-romanized names) and if/when someone think of...

template (this can help certain scripts which don't detect the redirects as being the same as the main template). Substituted {{Reflist}} templates are...

talk pages (for all namespaces), template doc pages, and possibly other things -- even documentation text in templates and modules. With individual user...

23:22, 20 March 2013 (UTC) This template copy-paster has been frustrating me for several months. He/she overwrites templates with (quote) "the updated codes...

2009 (UTC) As a compromise, general maintenance templates could be placed on the talk page. Templates such as {{NPOV}} and {{neutrality}} should be placed...

where it says thst not only should the article not have any maintenance templates, it should also not need any. --Auntof6 (talk) Sorry for spamming Simple...

For the cite web template, trans-title is described in this section of the template documentation. I haven't checked other templates. If you also add...

enwiki deleted their version of the template about a year ago. Although there are a few blue links in this template, I still think it's best to delete...

complicated by the use of templates: a table coded inside a template might seem to be a top-level table. However, if the template were invoked inside an...

hours. There is a huge increase in high requested articles created by templates for the communes of French districts (89-90 links each) as well as some...

point about templates is to save repetitive typing. It would also be interesting to know whether this user decided to RFD this template before or after...

the wrong templates (straight to dvd templates getting movies with theatrical releases or tv movies later released to dvd). Two templates created by...

2021 by a now-indeffed user who was creating a large number of unneeded templates. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC) This request is due to...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 01:54, 29 October 2017 (UTC) Template:QD warning (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

given that Simple Wikibooks is still quite small) - However, I think a template is needed (like wikibooks) that links to the Simple Wikibooks (so I can...

{{wait}} template for anything related to these templates. That template is for quick deletions. There is no quick deletion request for these templates, only...

2008 (UTC) Comment to Strongly Oppose a new user, even with the cute templates, is one of the most bitey things that can be done. Surely an experienced...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 00:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC) Template:Uw-block4 (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

 Delete.  Just use Template:South American topic and Template:North America topic instead. Osiris (talk) 14:45, 18 January 2016 (UTC) Template:Latin America...

links, but your personal opinion on sports isn't a reason to delete these templates Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:04, 27 June 2025 (UTC)  Keep They have...

page for deletion for the reason: No articles listed on this template exist. Templates should be used to provide easy access to Wikipedia articles.....