Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 November 25

November 25

Template:List of License Plate Area Codes of Germany

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. 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).

The result of the discussion was delete after merging with the article Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 17:09, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

• Template:List of License Plate Area Codes of Germany (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is 139 kB. It is only used within the Vehicle registration plates of Germany article and likely would not be used in any others. I propose deleting the template and putting the content within the article itself – Kjerish (talk) 17:19, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

• What's so bad about having the source for an enormous table transclude from a different title? Is it so Special:PageInfo is more accurate? Folly Mox (talk) 08:41, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
  • @Folly Mox: Currently the size issue is masked, and the characteristics of the page don't reflect reality, as you mentioned. There are useful metrics such as Special:LongPages to find pages that can be reduced in size. It's also generally not a good idea to keep templates around that are used 0 or 1 times – Kjerish (talk) 05:18, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Template:List of hieroglyphs

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:56, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

• Template:List of hieroglyphs (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is 175 kB. It is only used within the List of Egyptian hieroglyphs article and likely would not be used in any others. I propose deleting the template and putting the content within the article itself. Also, as an aside, it is called "Template:List of hieroglyphs" even though it should be called "Template:List of Egyptian hieroglyphs", but I would prefer a delete-and-merge. – Kjerish (talk) 17:12, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
• As above with the Germany license plate components, what's the pressing need to subst into the transcluding article all the contents of this table? Seems like having it in its own space would make it easier for someone to edit the List of Egyptian hieroglyphs article without scrolling past 175kb of syntax. Folly Mox (talk) 08:45, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
  • @Folly Mox: List of Egyptian hieroglyphs contains essentially no other content than this table, so it actually makes it harder (especially if they're not someone that can code very well) because they then have to go to the template to edit the content. It also does make the page info less accurate – Kjerish (talk) 05:15, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
• merge with the parent article and delete. Frietjes (talk) 19:43, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

  What will the table look like once the template has been merged in? Will the syntax be more complex than the existing template syntax? I ask as someone who uses this table regularly (I have written code to parse the template, perhaps not the best way to get an array of hieroglyph objects but I don’t know of an alternative), but who isn’t terribly well versed in Wikitext syntax. babbage (talk) 21:43, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

  I am assuming we would still keep the subtemplates, so it would look the same, but just directly in the article rather than in a template. Frietjes (talk) 16:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

• Kjerish, is the proposal to merge the main template only? What is the proposal for the subtemplates? Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:38, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

  @Plastikspork: That's a good question. I hadn't realized that it had this kind of structure. Given that it may be non-trivial to convert it to a table, I would like to withdraw my proposal – Kjerish (talk) 15:56, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

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

Template:List of States

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗plicit 23:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

• Template:List of States (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is 199 kB. It is only used within the List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent article and likely would not be used in any others. I propose deleting the template and putting the content within the article itself – Kjerish (talk) 17:03, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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