Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 December 22

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December 22

Template:User Person of the Year 2006

This userbox should be userfied per WP:GUS because it violates the policy against categories "which could potentially include all Wikipedians". It should be deleted from the Template namespace. Xiner (talk, email) 18:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:MiscLinkedBox

No more use than Template:MiscBox

Delete per nom. Xiner (talk, email) 18:34, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Civil1

Utterly counter-productive. When civility is failing and a user overheating, throwing boilerplate about is how NOT to handle it. Fuel to the fire. Much better with to /ignore or to have a quiet personal word with the user. If you're not willing to take a minute to think about what you might say to calm the person down, then you are most certainly the wrong person to handle the situation anyway. --Doc^g 16:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Counter-productive. Yes. Ill-required. No. We need to warn relatively new users when they are flouting civility guidelines. Also, the prerequisite of a blocking action on the WP:PAIN is a civility warning; which is considered necessary; and is evidence of another user's inappropriate behaviour even after being warned. We don't want truck-loads of users taking stance and crying foul just because they weren't warned. Also, I do not not see any issue with the wording of the template. Thanks. — Nearly Headless Nick 16:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: If it's counter-productive why keep it? Templates are never actually required, there are other ways of communicating. When someone is being incivil, the object must be to talk them down. Success is persuading them that this isn't usenet, and we can be nice here. We don't do that by 'warnings' with the object of getting at block to stick later. That approach will always fail, or at least be a self-fulfilling prophecy.--Doc^g 16:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Invites abuse, the troll's favourite (next to {{npa}}). And even when used in good faith, it's as Doc says never to good effect. The prerequisite for blocking via WP:PAIN is mere layering of wikibureaucracy, and favors those users who're at home in its byways and shrubberies. It should go, too. If WP:PAIN blocks (which should be rare anyway) must have a prerequsite, make that prerequsite a human-speech warning. Bishonen | talk 16:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]
Delete, Bish and Doc have answered my concerns perfectly. — Nearly Headless Nick 17:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per Doc and Bishonen. Mackensen (talk) 17:31, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Imperious templates like this do nothing to calm matters and merely inflame them to the point where a block "can" be issued. Bad mojo. Geogre 18:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Doc, Bish, and others. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 18:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Category-Daedra

Orphan template; no apparent use. —Psychonaut 14:31, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fancruft. Xiner (talk, email) 18:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Abbrlink

As we have piped links that show the hovering box I don't quite get why we would need this template. It seems redundant so I propose deletion. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 13:31, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep — this template is for accessibility reasons. The difference with a piped link is that it is supposed to have the HTML <abbr> tag. Currently MediaWiki doesn't allow this tag (that's the reason why this template now only tries to emulate it), but there is a bug report that will fix this. So, although the advantages of this template aren't fully exploited now, it's important to be able to start tagging abbreviations in the Wikipedia, so this template shouldn't be deleted. Thanks! --surueña 14:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bipod

Chunk of writing on the seemingly non-notable band Bipod. Not helpful as a Wikipedia template, so I propose deletion. —Goh wz 09:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete definitely -- Jmax- 09:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:NOT : NN and advert come to mind. Xiner (talk, email) 18:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User WikiProject MuslimGuild

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was already deleted by Cyde as "Defunct WikiProject". --ais523 17:49, 22 December 2006 (U T C)

The page for the "Muslim Guild" was deleted per an AfD debate, and is now redirected to Project Islam. This template doesn't serve any purpose now, and might potentially confuse new users about a non-existent "Muslim Guild" (was marked as speedy, but this isn't a valid speedy reason so I'm moving it to TFD) Perel 05:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. It should be pretty useless now, and as mentioned it might very well confuse new users about this non-existent "Muslim Guild". -- Karl Meier 07:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is the sort of thing that SHOULD be a prod, but since we don't have prod for templates I moved it to TFD. Perel 07:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Chairman Talk ^Contribs 14:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Template:FIT1

Single-use template for a user's userpage. As such, a simple subst and delete would seem to be the most sensible option. As it is, I had to remove the stub category from the template (the number of new users who think it's a funny and original joke to add their user pages to the stub category runs at about ten per week...). Grutness...wha? 01:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - no reason for this to be a template. Perel 07:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]