The result of the discussion was Delete ~ Rob13 Talk 21:17, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
We do not have 'champions' or historical squad templates in football/futsal, see e.g. Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 August 2#Template:C.D. Primeiro de Agosto 2012-13 Summer. Giant Snowman 19:54, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was userfy to User:TheGrappler/Directory country (non-admin closure) Primefac ( talk) 22:42, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Unused in any namespace other than one user's user space subpages. Due to lack of use in other namespaces and unclear instructions about how to use this template, I recommend either deletion or userfying this template by moving it to User:TheGrappler/Directory country without leaving a redirect (and updating the 3 transclusions of this template.) Steel1943 ( talk) 17:22, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was delete. The consensus is that there are available substitutes which are acceptable replacements (if not perfect replacements) and that the cons of keeping this template outweigh the marginal cost of using those replacements. ~ Rob13 Talk 21:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Created in 2009 and still labelled "currently for experimental/testing purposes only." Has 1,898 transclusions (a tiny, tiny proportion of our external links), mainly through its use in templates.
In {{
Bugatti}}, for instance it uses {{external link|http://www.bugatti.com/|Bugatti Automobiles official website}}
where [http://www.bugatti.com/ Bugatti Automobiles official website]
, which has 16 fewer characters, would suffice.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
11:47, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
for example if a link is dead. If an external link template is used, preferably it would be {{
cite web}}
which is better supported by the CS1 standard (including by third party tools). {{external link|http://www.bugatti.com/|Bugatti Automobiles official website}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.bugatti.com |title=Bugatti Automobiles official website}}
{{
official}}
(158660 count) and most of its features are found in {{
web cite}}
such as |language=
, |subscription=
, |registration=
, |type=
and |format=
. It does have a feature |template=
which is useful though not sure how widely used and not critical. --
Green
C
15:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
[{{{1|{{{URL|}}} }}} {{{name|Official website}}}]
I'm not really sure {{
official}} should have ever been expanded to the point it is now, because it has a very high number of transclusions which will never make use of all the additional functionality and associated overhead. The fact that it was converted from a very simple link wrapper into a complex Lua module itself is somewhat troubling. I'm not necessarily opposed to merging some of the functionality of {{
external link}} into {{
official}}, its just that I'm not sure this is the best way to go. We had a lot of discussions about this stuff in 2009 spread out over a lot of talk pages. It could be that we should really be looking at going the other way, and simplify {{
official}} and have a different Lua-enabled link wrapper template along the lines of {{
external link}} (possibly under a different name to avoid overuse) to be used only for the more complex use cases. --
Tothwolf (
talk)
16:14, 10 September 2016 (UTC)if the current wording is "never ideal" then it should be changed, not worked around with new flags or template forks or whatever.There is nothing there that justifies the existence of this template. Even so, there is still the issue that a mere 1,898 transclusions in seven years shows that the community has "voted with its feet" on the use of this template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:24, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|language=eo}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|subscription=y}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|flash=y}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|requires=requires a special plugin}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|language=eo|subscription=y|flash=y|}}
{{external link|http://www.example.com/|Example|language=eo|subscription=y}}
[http://www.example.com/ Example] {{link language|eo}} {{subscription required}}
The result of the discussion was Delete ~ Rob13 Talk 21:17, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
We do not have 'champions' or historical squad templates in football/futsal, see e.g. Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 August 2#Template:C.D. Primeiro de Agosto 2012-13 Summer. Giant Snowman 19:54, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was userfy to User:TheGrappler/Directory country (non-admin closure) Primefac ( talk) 22:42, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Unused in any namespace other than one user's user space subpages. Due to lack of use in other namespaces and unclear instructions about how to use this template, I recommend either deletion or userfying this template by moving it to User:TheGrappler/Directory country without leaving a redirect (and updating the 3 transclusions of this template.) Steel1943 ( talk) 17:22, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was delete. The consensus is that there are available substitutes which are acceptable replacements (if not perfect replacements) and that the cons of keeping this template outweigh the marginal cost of using those replacements. ~ Rob13 Talk 21:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Created in 2009 and still labelled "currently for experimental/testing purposes only." Has 1,898 transclusions (a tiny, tiny proportion of our external links), mainly through its use in templates.
In {{
Bugatti}}, for instance it uses {{external link|http://www.bugatti.com/|Bugatti Automobiles official website}}
where [http://www.bugatti.com/ Bugatti Automobiles official website]
, which has 16 fewer characters, would suffice.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
11:47, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
for example if a link is dead. If an external link template is used, preferably it would be {{
cite web}}
which is better supported by the CS1 standard (including by third party tools). {{external link|http://www.bugatti.com/|Bugatti Automobiles official website}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.bugatti.com |title=Bugatti Automobiles official website}}
{{
official}}
(158660 count) and most of its features are found in {{
web cite}}
such as |language=
, |subscription=
, |registration=
, |type=
and |format=
. It does have a feature |template=
which is useful though not sure how widely used and not critical. --
Green
C
15:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
[{{{1|{{{URL|}}} }}} {{{name|Official website}}}]
I'm not really sure {{
official}} should have ever been expanded to the point it is now, because it has a very high number of transclusions which will never make use of all the additional functionality and associated overhead. The fact that it was converted from a very simple link wrapper into a complex Lua module itself is somewhat troubling. I'm not necessarily opposed to merging some of the functionality of {{
external link}} into {{
official}}, its just that I'm not sure this is the best way to go. We had a lot of discussions about this stuff in 2009 spread out over a lot of talk pages. It could be that we should really be looking at going the other way, and simplify {{
official}} and have a different Lua-enabled link wrapper template along the lines of {{
external link}} (possibly under a different name to avoid overuse) to be used only for the more complex use cases. --
Tothwolf (
talk)
16:14, 10 September 2016 (UTC)if the current wording is "never ideal" then it should be changed, not worked around with new flags or template forks or whatever.There is nothing there that justifies the existence of this template. Even so, there is still the issue that a mere 1,898 transclusions in seven years shows that the community has "voted with its feet" on the use of this template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:24, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|language=eo}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|subscription=y}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|flash=y}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|requires=requires a special plugin}}
{{External link|url=http://www.example.com/|name=Example|language=eo|subscription=y|flash=y|}}
{{external link|http://www.example.com/|Example|language=eo|subscription=y}}
[http://www.example.com/ Example] {{link language|eo}} {{subscription required}}