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Template:X-Men film series

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The result of the discussion was relisted on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 September 16. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:54, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Template:X-Men film series (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:X-Men media (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
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Template:Aragonese dialects

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:18, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Aragonese dialects (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Created in 2009, yet nearly all links are still red, and some of the few blue links are RD's or do not link to a dialect article. — kwami (talk) 20:30, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Are there actually that many Aragonese "dialects"? I'd be astonished. It looks a bit like someone's taken every district in Aragonese Aragon and stuck Aragonese for the language to the back of it. — Lfdder (talk) 11:34, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Austria bids for the Olympic Games

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Template:Austria bids for the Olympic Games (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
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Template:Infobox individual sports league

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Template:Infobox individual sports league (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Infobox Multigender sports league (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
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Template:Panionios sections

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Template:Panionios sections (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
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Template:Bids for the XXXX Winter Olympics

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:19, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NENAN. Most of the templates contains only one blue link, except {{Bids for the 1992 Winter Olympics}} (3 blue links), {{Bids for the 2010 Winter Olympics}} (2 relevant blue links) and {{Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics}} (2 articles are linked on it, the Annecy and Munich bids are redirects). Armbrust The Homunculus 11:26, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Transl

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The result of the discussion was no consensus Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:44, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

With the removal of lang/xml:lang, all this template does is add a title attribute with the name of the translit scheme used (sometimes); and no help cursor, no dotted underline, no nothing, and no screen reader support and no support for mobile. I think it should be made to have the kind of translit used in text, wikilinked, before the translit itself and the translit lang-tagged again. If this is not desirable, we should just nuke it. — Lfdder (talk) 10:02, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • I agree this is legacy and should be phased out ... people should use {{lang}} always.
The idea was to add metadata as to which transliteration scheme is being used (there is no ISO way of doing this, because ISO is itself one of the possible choices), but this clearly is asking too much, we can be more than glad if people only mark language. --dab (𒁳) 12:14, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
People also shouldn't use lang for this purpose btw. It's equally broken. There is currently not a single browser in the world that would treat ru-Latn anything other than russian language cyrillic script, it simply ignores the postfix (often resulting in worse performance for both readers and users who rely on audio representation of the text). There are a few 'hardcoded' exceptions for languages that are written in 2 scripts, but that is about it for as far as the script extensions of the lanugage codes goes. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:44, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
then change the template's behaviour, people can still put the information "ru-Latn" in the template, if for nothing else for future reference, and the template can put out something that agrees with current day browsers. Once the browsers or the html standards change, change the template, while leaving the actual source (wiki markup) of the article alone. This is the entire point of writing in wikimarkup as opposed to html directly. --dab (𒁳) 08:26, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – Templates in wide use, like Template:Infobox SMS station, will suffer as these templates (with the {{transl}} template) are used on hundreds of pages. For example, if the "Revised Romanization" parameter used in the SMS (Seoul Metropolitan Subway) infobox were replaced with the {{lang}} parameter, then we'd have over 300 pages without the Revised Romanization entry unless someone tried to fix it. Instead, I propose slowly phasing {{transl}} out over a period of several months (with a grace period) for people to switch over to the new {{lang}} parameter. Epicgenius(talk to me • see my contributions) 13:53, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom, provided that all the uses of this template are replaced with {{lang}} before deletion. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:09, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination, provided that all the uses of this template are amended (either replaced with something like {{lang}} or deleted) before deletion. 50.53.15.59 (talk) 10:02, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep To say it doesn't have a use is not correct. It identifies pieces of text in our wiki that have a certain encoding. Usually we DO something based on this coding, here we explicitly stopped doing something. The whole beauty of templates is that we can go back and easily 'restyle/reformat' large blocks of text when we think that is useful. To replace this with lang doesn't necessarily seem as a better solution if you ask me. In that case i would just remove the template and put back in the raw text. Replacing this with lang indicates a failure of understanding the original problem. Also, can you actually indicate the type of transliteration system that you using. Would we bring back {{ArabDIN}} to indicate that the DIN system has been used ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:44, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I personally think I am too new to Wikipedia to have a worthwhile opinion but having this discussion visible in the template is incredibly obnoxious and disruptive. Just take a look at the second paragraph of Takbir. There are literally 8 "See Tfd" notices in it. I would like to forward the idea that "See Tfd" be removed from the template for the time being. I would be WP:BOLD and do it myself but it's locked. ירק (talk) 01:12, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment A straight replacement of this template and ones that depend on it (like {{IAST}}) with {{lang}} will result in an error if the lang template ends up in the title parameter of a citation. The error is "Wikilink embedded in URL title". See, for example, the citation for Witzel 1999 (currently here) in Indus Valley Civilization, which currently produces this error because of this TfD discussion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:52, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The purpose of this template is to add metadata indicating which transliteration scheme was used, when there are multiple transliteration schemes for the same language. A lot of editors have carefully added this to transliterations they introduced over the course of years. I see no reason to throw away this metadata and introduce confusion. It would be a loss of information with no clear gain. Replacing it with "lang" is not a solution, unless we add parameters to the lang template to indicate the specific transliteration scheme used (and then it would be the same as this template, in effect). Yes we are not doing anything very visually obvious with this template right now, but we could (dotted underlines or something) in future. If we throw away the information about transliteration method used, we can't. Also, just because there is no strikingly apparent visual artefact of this template doesn't mean it's "useless": at the least, it's useful for other editors (to get at the original text, say). Shreevatsa (talk) 04:29, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Meanwhile, can we PLEASE REMOVE the TfD note from the template? It's very disruptive and obnoxious; and as ירק says above it's already causing errors in citations. And people have already started removing this template to fix those errors. (E.g. [1].) Let's remove this, please. Shreevatsa (talk) 04:31, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and close ASAP This TfD is causing problems in all usages of {{IAST}}. FA Ganesha is looking terrible https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ganesha&oldid=572123741] (See image not displayed in section "Etymology"). First replace Transl in IAST and then nominate. Redtigerxyz Talk 05:30, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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