Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User cpx-0

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: keep. bibliomaniac 1 5 04:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User cpx-0

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 13:33, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unused template that says you don't speak a certain language. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:51, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete as unlikely to be useful in the English Wikipedia; hardly anyone here assumes that you can speak Pu-Xian Chinese, which is just one of many varities of the language (mutually unintelligible, but this is getting off-topic). Glades12 (talk) 05:40, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If someone really needs to make it clear, they can just state it in plain text, which takes less space than a userbox. Glades12 (talk) 05:48, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. We have, or at least support, userboxes from level-0 (non-speaker) to native-level for hundreds of languages, some of which have few speakers and others of which have many. I'm not sure why it would be desirable to delete just this particular one. Newyorkbrad (talk) 18:56, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I would happy to delete them all. They are redundant to the Babel function anyway. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's a more plausible argument, though I don't know the pros and cons of the Babel templates versus the userboxes or the reasons why it might be desirable to have both, but if it's to be pursued it should be through a more systematic method than nominating one arbitrary userbox for deletion. Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:55, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 13:33, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - per NYB and previous similar nominations. If there's a problem with this type of template in general, that's probably best dealt with at a central location. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:34, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - If such userboxes are innapropriate, then they should be dealt with as a class (and not through individual nominations here). — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 00:20, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural keep per above; these should be considered en masse rather than a single userbox. Given that these userboxes are (with the possible exception of {{User en-0}}) generally "worthless but harmless" I also don't think they should be deleted, but that's outside the scope of this discussion. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 23:58, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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