Jadunne

Conference templates

Stop removing these templates. Here in the United States, athletic conference affiliations are significant far beyond sports; it's not pointless. As well, your rationales for deletion are plainly in violation of the speedy deletion policy: you've presented no valid rationale for speedy deletion. If you wish to have them deleted, you may always go to WP:TFD for the templates and WP:CFD for the categories, but do not attempt to have them deleted for invalid reasons. Nyttend (talk) 06:43, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Kindly spell out which criterion these templates fit. Are they blatant misrepresentations of policy, or are they not employed usefully and substantially duplicative of other templates and have been tagged for seven days, or are they not employed usefully and hardcoded duplicates of other templates and have been tagged for seven days? Nyttend (talk) 06:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Please stop nominating these templates for deletion until the first couple of nominations have been settled. You're way off base and it would be a shame to waste a bunch of time. If you are correct and others agree with you, all you'll lose is a few days and that's not a big deal at all. ElKevbo (talk) 07:45, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

General note

It's better to discuss and build consensus before making sweeping changes to multiple articles, especially when your edit summaries attack the status quo as something that "doesn't make sense". Talking first also has the effect of keeping the discussion less heated, more civil, and more on target. You can find my comments on the substance of this matter here. —Bill Price (nyb) 07:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Disruptive editing

Nominating five separate pages for deletion—all for the same reason—is disruptive and not conducive to discussion. Why not nominate a single page, and if it is deleted, apply that precedent to the others under consideration? —Bill Price (nyb) 07:49, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

I thought I was supposed to nominate them all together. Happy to let discussion on one get settled first. Jadunne (talk) 07:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Let's not beat up Jadunne too badly. There does seem to be some merit in asking if we really need lists, articles, templates, AND categories for these groups. At the very least, it seems that these need to be cleaned up a bit and standardized even if nothing gets deleted (and I personally wouldn't mind if the lists or even some of the articles were deleted as they do seem to be duplicative of the categories). ElKevbo (talk) 07:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC)