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October 8

Template:Ontario Tertiary and 7000 Highways

Should be replaced by Template:Ontario Provincial Highways. Makes more sense to have all Ontario provincial highways in one navbox. – BrandonXLF (t@lk) 23:47, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:27, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Kyrgyzstan NFT results

unused; and only links one article. Frietjes (talk) 22:02, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ahja Parish

No longer a municipality; villages are now in other parishes (e.g., Põlva Parish) Frietjes (talk) 21:49, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PH electorate

Usage of Wikidata is not allowed in article text per Wikipedia:Wikidata#Appropriate usage in articles. This template is foundationally based on such a feature. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 18:54, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kansas TV station templates

Propose merging Template:ABC Kansas, Template:CBS Kansas, Template:Fox Kansas, Template:NBC Kansas, Template:CW Kansas, Template:MNTV Kansas, Template:PBS Kansas and Template:Other Kansas Stations with Template:TV Stations Kansas.
To be inline with TV templates from other small states. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 01:22, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:26, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I was about to support as it seemed pretty straight forward, but I gave it another look. Why should those templates be together? Because they are all TV stations from Kansas? Merging them doesn't seem like it fits the criteria placed in WP:NAVBOX (specifically, #1, #2, #3 and #5). --Gonnym (talk) 19:59, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Those templates should probably be together because it may be easier to navigate than with separate templates for each network affiliation and in the event a particular station changes its network affiliation it would either not require any edits or require less edits to those particular articles as the same template would apply to all TV stations from Kansas and other states 64222368Z260O (talk) 22:39, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2018 Asian Games men's sepak takraw regu game BM

as far as I can tell, there was no bronze medal match (source) Frietjes (talk) 15:44, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Current Tanzania Cabinet

duplicates Template:Cabinet of Tanzania; could be history merged Frietjes (talk) 15:09, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Magufuli Cabinet Navbox 2018

unused; better to focus on Template:Cabinet of Tanzania Frietjes (talk) 15:08, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:50, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Male field hockey kit

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:50, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Massacres during the Shoah

unused; generally duplicates Template:Massacres or pogroms against Jews Frietjes (talk) 14:49, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:8TeamBracket Championship

unused; redundant to other 8TeamBracket templates Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:4TeamBracket with 3rd-FIRS World Championship

unused; redundant to other 4TeamBracket templates Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:4TeamBracket-1semifinal-2legfinal

unused Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:3RoundBracket

unused and deprecated; could be redirected if a redirect is useful. Frietjes (talk) 14:43, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria table

unused and out-of-date; the updated table is in the main article Frietjes (talk) 14:41, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2018 Asian Games women's 3-on-3 basketball game A1

Reason is same as yesterday TfD, so should be substed Hhkohh (talk) 11:02, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@This, that and the other: Can you run TTObot to add {{subst:tfd}}, Thanks Hhkohh (talk) 11:10, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot do any TTObot work this week, due to extensive real-life commitments. Please consider alternatives, including posting at WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. — This, that and the other (talk) 11:12, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Pkbwcgs: can you run AWB again? Hhkohh (talk) 11:13, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Hhkohh: Frietjes has tagged them all. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:41, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:S-line/Sydney Trains right/SouthCircle

All of these templates are either unused or used only in one talkpage and one sandbox - both of which are already partially broken. Their existence just clutters the category they are in and adds confusion for people trying to work out the template system for these lines. Gareth (talk) 06:18, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Leading zeros

There are a lot ways of doing the things this does without a special lua module (Module:String2 has a stripZeroes function, one could write a simple pattern using Module:string (^0*), Module:StringFunc has a function that validates a number). There could be some value in a "is this a number" module, but that belongs in Module:Math, not standalone. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 02:46, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Italian provinces

Redundant to Module:Data {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 02:15, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Gamelist counter

Propose merging Module:Gamelist counter with Module:Table row counter.
These two modules are mostly duplicates of eachother, plus Module:Gamelist counter is unused outside of the unused template that it implements. I wouldn't oppose simply deleting Module:Gamelist counter and Template:Gamelist counter, but a module that counts rows in a table matching a specific pattern could easily be useful. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 01:40, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the creator of this template, it was made for game list articles with the ability to count game and game exclusives, but as the consensus ended with exclusivity status to drop from tables in all game list articles, this template became useless. I'm fine with it deleted. Though I agree that it's got nice concept being able to count something from the table. Rukario-sama ^ㅈ^ -(...) 10:11, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Log globals

Given that this module is only used on five pages, whereas Module:No globals is used on millions, it is clear that consensus says that trying to use global variables should be an error and therefore this module should be deleted. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 15:32, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • The purpose of the module isn't to make it possible to use global variables, but to make it easier to remove them. With Module:No globals, you get an error message for the first global variable that is encountered. If there are multiple global variables, you have to localize a variable, run the module, localize a variable, run the module, etc. for each global variable. You might even have to go localize variables in another module before continuing with the module you're in. Very inefficient. With Module:Log globals, you can look in the Lua log and see the full list of global variables that need to be removed, with stack traces, so you can remove all of them at once (and ignore those in other modules). Much easier when you're dealing with a module that's full of global variables. — Eru·tuon 17:43, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Why is that not in Module:No globals instead? --Izno (talk) 23:33, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I dunno. I didn't write Module:No globals. But the approaches of logging and erroring are mutually exclusive. — Eru·tuon 01:27, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    The modules could be merged if some way were devised to switch between the two behaviors: for instance, the module could export a function that takes a boolean argument to determine whether to throw an error or log. (That would require editing the modules that currently use Module:No globals so they call the return value of the module.) Or it could export a function that, if called, would change the behavior from erroring to logging, so require("Module:No globals") would throw an error and require("Module:No globals")() would log. That would be cryptic, but wouldn't require editing. — Eru·tuon 01:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 00:39, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Ping2

Given that {{Reply to}} has been implemented in Lua since 2016, I don't see a need for this underused fork of it. I wouldn't oppose merging with Template:Reply to, but don't think that doing so is necessary {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 02:35, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. This has other exclusive features, see above; it isn't just a multi-ping. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 20:06, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 00:39, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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