Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 9

There is precedent to not have squad navboxes for teams that did not do well; none of the teams listed here have even made it out of the pool stage of the Rugby World Cup. Primefac (talk) 22:22, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Neil Breen

Template:Neil Breen (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

WP:NENAN, only three valid links. 3 other articles deleted and redirected. The Banner talk 21:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Zolotonosha and similar Russia Ukraine navboxes

Template:Zolotonosha (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Boryslav (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Sheptytskyi (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Smila (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Navbox with no transclusions and no (or too few) articles to navigate among. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

- Jonesey95, what does Russia have to do with them? Are you geographically challenged? Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 15:14, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Beside the weird generalization, I think it makes sense to remove those templates and if such exists for Russia or any other country like, I don't know, Australia as well. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 15:19, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  My mistake. Header corrected. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Puffery

Template:Puffery (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) - only ~~402~~ 387 transclusions
Template:Promotional (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) - 18104 transclusions

Propose merging Template:Puffery into Template:Promotional.

There seems to be little substantial difference between {{Puffery}}'s message ("This article contains wording that promotes the subject through exaggeration of unnoteworthy facts)" and that of {{Promotional}} ("This article contains promotional content"), to which it should be redirected. Reducing the number of similar templates decreases the cognitive load on editors, making it easier to know which to use. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:39, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom Encoded Talk 💬 15:59, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. XtraJovial (talk • contribs) 19:54, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Given that in one case the puffery template involves ‘unnoteworthy facts, not something well-known but supporting the side of an interested party (as in conflict of interest, I would suggest that ‘puffery’ be treated as multiple issues, being both promotional and not meeting the criteria of WP: Notability

24.46.47.189 (talk) 00:22, 10 November 2024 (UTC)LeucineZipper[reply]

Template:Newspapers in Norway

Template:Newspapers in Norway (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

What is the point of this ugly clutter?. Norway has almost 300 newspapers, and I don't see any redeeming qualities in a navigation box between all of them – not to mention hundreds of defunct newspapers, which are unelegantly thrown into the mix as well. Geschichte (talk) 09:24, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I find navboxes on newspapers for a specific country to be quite useful in navigating myself. I would advise removing the redlinks, and splitting off the defunct ones into their own part. PARAKANYAA (talk) 10:04, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, rather big but certainly valid and useful. The Banner talk 21:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Public records laws in the United States

Template:Public records laws in the United States (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused with no mainspace article. Nothing connects other than the similarities of these laws. No real unifying topic presented. All articles are under Category:Freedom of information legislation in the United States. But no main article exists for this category so a navbox isn't necessary or needed. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 00:54, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe the title should be changed to "Freedom of information laws in the United States"? Gonnym (talk) 09:35, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 03:47, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 06:08, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Show button

Template:Show button (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is essentially unused these days with only some 2 dozen uses. Whatever it was used for before, it is no longer used for today. I suspect most uses today use CSS and additional divs to manage any weird leanings of content (such as {{navbox}} does). Izno (talk) 05:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject New York Jets

Template:WikiProject New York Jets (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This is an inactive subproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League, not its own wikiproject. Task forces/subprojects/work groups whathaveyou are done through a parameter on the parent project template, not its own template. Should be merged with the parent project. edit: I meant to nominate this for merging not deletion. Apologies. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:24, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]