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It is for people who aren't contributing in English, yet it's written in English... Whats the point? The receiver isn't going to be able to read it. — ACBestAutograph Book21:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep That's a huge presumption, just because someone makes a post in one language, certainly doesn't imply that they cannot speak English. I think there maybe one or two people around who have English as their second or third language. This template is a polite reminder that whilst on English wikipedia dialogue should be held in English, and is actually to aid other editors who cannot speak the other language, to enable them to fully understand the conversation. Khukri23:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. This template isn't for monolingual people, but rather bi- or multilingual people who post messages in languages other than English. —
Psychonaut23:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep Obviously if you're on English Wikipedia you would realize that you couldn't read anything and leave if you can't speek English. Plus that's a big assumption to be said.--Kkrouni23:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep as per all the above comments. Useful in a common situation. If someone posts here who really knows no english at all, it is a different problem, but IME a less common one.
DES(talk)03:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep As per comments above, a very useful template, and it is much more likely that contributors to English Wikipedia can speak English, than that they cannot.
John Hayestalk16:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. If you don't understand English, there's no reason for your being on en.wikipedia.org, unless you're a vandalbot. Vandalbots wouldn't understand it anyway.
Bart133(t)(c)17:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
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The userbox that was here was
migrated to the original creator's user pages, and all substantial uses of the template have since been replaced to use the new location. The remaining uses are on an archived talk page (which I am loath to edit) and on the creator's talk page (in a comment I wrote).
coldacid06:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
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Home Run Derby templates
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Used on just two articles (the respective year's All-Star Game and the main page for the
Home Run Derby) instead of actually putting the text into the articles. Substituted the text, so the template can go, and have them be recreated if more of a need is demonstrated (a la {{2007 Home Run Derby}}.
fuzzy51021:33, 22 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Recreate? Why not simply keep them? Just because they're only used on a few pages doesn't mean they have to be deleted. Having them in template format gives them more usability for other pages.
GlassCobra01:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)reply
But why keep them in the template namespace? The events have already happened, the information's not changing. Why keep these templates around and encourage similar creation of templates to replace actually putting text in articles? --
fuzzy51003:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure I understand your reluctance. What's so bad about having templates in an article? Having them in the article, having them in the template namespace, what's the difference?
GlassCobra04:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
IronGargoyle02:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep and unsubstitute for maintenance reasons. Looking at
Home Run Derby, it is not clear why some names are centered in some tables while others are aligned left. Having to know to change this in both places is a hassle. It's also possible though unlikely that the wikilinks need to be updated in the future for disambiguation. –
Pomte02:03, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Subst and Delete as per 52 Pickup. If they remain unsubstituted they will use up extra resources for no real gain (as they will not change).
John Hayestalk16:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
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It is for people who aren't contributing in English, yet it's written in English... Whats the point? The receiver isn't going to be able to read it. — ACBestAutograph Book21:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep That's a huge presumption, just because someone makes a post in one language, certainly doesn't imply that they cannot speak English. I think there maybe one or two people around who have English as their second or third language. This template is a polite reminder that whilst on English wikipedia dialogue should be held in English, and is actually to aid other editors who cannot speak the other language, to enable them to fully understand the conversation. Khukri23:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. This template isn't for monolingual people, but rather bi- or multilingual people who post messages in languages other than English. —
Psychonaut23:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep Obviously if you're on English Wikipedia you would realize that you couldn't read anything and leave if you can't speek English. Plus that's a big assumption to be said.--Kkrouni23:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep as per all the above comments. Useful in a common situation. If someone posts here who really knows no english at all, it is a different problem, but IME a less common one.
DES(talk)03:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep As per comments above, a very useful template, and it is much more likely that contributors to English Wikipedia can speak English, than that they cannot.
John Hayestalk16:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. If you don't understand English, there's no reason for your being on en.wikipedia.org, unless you're a vandalbot. Vandalbots wouldn't understand it anyway.
Bart133(t)(c)17:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
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The userbox that was here was
migrated to the original creator's user pages, and all substantial uses of the template have since been replaced to use the new location. The remaining uses are on an archived talk page (which I am loath to edit) and on the creator's talk page (in a comment I wrote).
coldacid06:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
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Home Run Derby templates
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Used on just two articles (the respective year's All-Star Game and the main page for the
Home Run Derby) instead of actually putting the text into the articles. Substituted the text, so the template can go, and have them be recreated if more of a need is demonstrated (a la {{2007 Home Run Derby}}.
fuzzy51021:33, 22 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Recreate? Why not simply keep them? Just because they're only used on a few pages doesn't mean they have to be deleted. Having them in template format gives them more usability for other pages.
GlassCobra01:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)reply
But why keep them in the template namespace? The events have already happened, the information's not changing. Why keep these templates around and encourage similar creation of templates to replace actually putting text in articles? --
fuzzy51003:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure I understand your reluctance. What's so bad about having templates in an article? Having them in the article, having them in the template namespace, what's the difference?
GlassCobra04:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
IronGargoyle02:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep and unsubstitute for maintenance reasons. Looking at
Home Run Derby, it is not clear why some names are centered in some tables while others are aligned left. Having to know to change this in both places is a hassle. It's also possible though unlikely that the wikilinks need to be updated in the future for disambiguation. –
Pomte02:03, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Subst and Delete as per 52 Pickup. If they remain unsubstituted they will use up extra resources for no real gain (as they will not change).
John Hayestalk16:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC)reply
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