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...

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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...

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...

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

templates. If they are not needed, they can be removed. If they are needed, either create them here or ask for them to be imported. Remove templates for...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

{{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}}:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Barras talk 18:58, 7 August 2026 (UTC) MakaylaHippo1998 (talk ·...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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}}...

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

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...

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

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"...

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...

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...

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

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...

section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Barras talk 18:58, 7 August 2026 (UTC) MakaylaHippo1998 (talk ·...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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...

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}}...

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

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

"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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

‎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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

[[: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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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)...

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...

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)...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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

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

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...

{{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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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)...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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)...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

 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...

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

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

(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...

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

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...

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....

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...

"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)...

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...

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

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...

~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...

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

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 -...

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

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

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

"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...

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...

@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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

(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...

section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. CountryANDWestern (talk) 12:17, 6 August 2026 (UTC)...

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...

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...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

was to  Delete.  -Djsasso (talk) 11:58, 2 July 2020 (UTC) Template:RfD/Preload/Cat/Template (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) ·...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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)...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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"...

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

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...

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...

(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...

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

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...

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...

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...

~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...

~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...

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...

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...

(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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

page for deletion for the reason: An unneeded template that's full of redlinks cribbed from en:Template:Papua New Guinean diaspora without proper attribution...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

QD'd Long since deprecated template that somehow missed getting deleted. -Djsasso (talk) 13:52, 17 February 2022 (UTC) Template:NHL navbox (edit · talk ·...

don't have files here, it's pretty useless. For text, the relevant template is Template:US government Osiris (talk) 06:26, 4 December 2013 (UTC) Please discuss...

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...

(UTC) Template:Introduction (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete), has been replaced by Main Page/Introduction since 2008. Template:Main...

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

this request for deletion was to  Keep. Template is now used. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:29, 29 October 2021 (UTC) Template:Vivendi (edit · talk · history · links...

now-globally locked user. Template has a few blue links, but most are rather generic and only one is related to the province this template is for. (That one is...

for deletion was to  Keep. --Eptalon (talk) 17:47, 9 February 2021 (UTC) Template:Cars (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 09:44, 14 August 2022 (UTC) Template:Australian Aboriginal letters (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

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...

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

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...

--George (Talk · Contribs · CentralAuth · Log) 07:27, 20 August 2016 (UTC) Template:HealthIssuesOfPlastics (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

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...

it was imported by Auntof6, likely on accident while importing other templates. They want the page deleted and there is a clear consensus here this should...

deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 22:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC) Template:Midtown (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

Unused template intended to calculate body mass index. The enwiki version is used by Biggest User articles that we don't have. Note: template has a doc...

page for deletion for the reason: Per w:Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 March 21#Template:JS migration, the exact same logic applies to simplewiki...

Template:Suspectedsock (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Sunstar NW XP (talk) 12:04, 22 February 2009 (UTC) has nominated this page...

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...

of this request for deletion was to  Delete. Unused template, also not actually a template Template:Boîte déroulante (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 22:08, 26 February 2022 (UTC) Template:Bone Patrol (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

deletion was to  Delete.  -- Enfcer (talk) 18:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC) Template:Allan Cup (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

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....

The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Keep. Redirected to Template:QD-notice. BRPever's point was fair, but creator has now had plenty of...

requires a template to be deprecated and replaced by a newer template. I may be missing it, but I don't see a newer, replacement template. And while I...

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...

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, as this wiki doesn't use Set index templates. Camdyn Robertson (talk) 01:28, 23 October 2022 (UTC) This request is...

MrMeAndMrMe has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Unused templates, containing now-deleted articles that weren't simplified. While I am working...

3. Click on "Templates", and select the template you need: news, book, web or journal 4. This opens the information window; web template window shown...

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

template with no blue links after more than a month and a half. Appears to be used only because it's transcluded in the main Cartoon Network template...

the areas where it is present. If it is used like the other language templates we have (that is to flag a text in the given language), I would see it...

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

collection if they just used the ordinary Albanian template). Osiris (talk) 02:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC) Template:Lang-als (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

deletion for the reason: Unused navbox template with mostly red links, created in 2008. The important part of the template is the links to the groups of Pokemon...

Template:Newmessages (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Kennedy (talk) has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: There...

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...

page for deletion for the reason: Navbox template with only one blue link. Created in August 2015. The template is used, but only by the linked article...

not justify a nav template. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:44, 25 July 2016 (UTC) Delete. Certainly one entry does not justify a nav template. StevenJ81 (talk)...

Billboard template. For what it's worth, English Wikipedia deleted theirs in 2020 due to changes in the Billboard URL structure having made the template obsolete...

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

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...

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...

the reason: Unused template. Appears to be another way to code a redirect, which we probably don't need. FYI, the same-named template on enwiki has to do...

--George (Talk · Contribs · CentralAuth · Log) 10:48, 10 May 2015 (UTC) Template:Wikitopics (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

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...

Template:User es-0.1 (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) mC8 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: This is a non-standard...

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

deletion was to  Delete. Operator873talkconnect 13:41, 11 December 2018 (UTC) Template:Bs-table (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...