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Navbox with one blue link in body. DB1729 ^talk 23:44, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Delete. Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering also looks like a merge candidate. Geschichte ( talk) 08:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply
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Only three links. Not enough for navigation. WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 14:38, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Unused map. WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 14:32, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Concur with deletion nomination. Formally used and since been replaced. Dmm1169 ( talk) 17:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Unused and lakes of a former county in Norway. All listed are transcluded through their respective Norway county lakes navboxes. All of which can be found through Template:Lakes in Norway which doesn't include former counties. WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 14:28, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Delete, Viken lasted only a couple of years, and as both Viken and its template has been superceded by other, there is no need for navigation within this entity. Geschichte ( talk) 08:27, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Same as what I said below, stale and outdated. Kinda feels unneccessary for me. kleshkreikne. T 13:39, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Support. This should've been replaced with the ANI report (There is currently a discussion at ANI...) Waylon (he was here) ( Does my editing suck? Let's talk.) ( Also, not to brag, but...) 16:24, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Template looks stale and unused. I don't think we need this template. We can report users to AIV, instead of manually reporting them to admins on their own user talk page. kleshkreikne. T 13:38, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Creating something that can easily deceive other editors isn't something that should fall under the allowed humor templates. Gonnym ( talk) 13:03, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was no consensus on whether to keep or delete the template. There is rough consensus that the name is not ideal, and of all the suggestions {{ writing systems in India}} seemed to get the most traction. If someone wants to start an RM to debate the name further, by all means go for it; I also see NPASR if there is a different reason provided for deletion other than "these are not official scripts". Primefac ( talk) 15:18, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

• Template:Officially used writing systems in India ( talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

I researched this thoroughly. Of the scripts include in this info box, only three have any official standing. The rest are just used by convention. PepperBeast (talk) 01:09, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Keep. Yes, it is not the use of the scripts that is officially/legally enshrined, but rather the languages written with them. Nevertheless, for every language that has official status at the national or state level in India, there is an associated script (in a very few cases two scripts). The use of this script is a simple matter of fact for most of these languages, just like English is written in Latin script. I don't think there is an explicit regulation about the latter fact in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada etc., but I'm sure English writing in Cyrillic won't bring you far in an official context (or any other context). So when for instance the lawmakers who passed the Telangana Act No. 9 of 1966 ("Telangana Official Languages Act") wrote: "The Telugu Language shall be the Official Language; and the Urdu Language shall be the Second Official Language", they wouldn't have dared to imagine that their "negligence" to mention the associated scripts could be construed as not having given official standing to the respective scripts. – Austronesier ( talk) 18:47, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  I don't see how X being associated with every language that has official status at the national or state level in India means X should have an infobox template. Lots of things are associated with lots of other things; you need to show this specific grouping is more natural, useful, or current in the scholarly discussion than other possible groupings.

  they wouldn't have dared to imagine that their "negligence" to mention the associated scripts could be construed as not having given official standing to the respective scripts

  But the fact they chose not to mention it is clearly evidence that this is not a grouping or categorization system of interest to them! Our ontologies need to reflect those in the real world; otherwise we veer into WP:OR territory, at best, if not outright irrelevance. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 04:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Please show us the definition of "official" used in Wikipedia that you are applying here. Please do not create a definition on the fly. Chaipau ( talk) 20:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  There is a whole article on what an official language is! The wonders of Wikipedia. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 02:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Huh? We are discussing scripts here, not languages. They are different. Chaipau ( talk) 02:49, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  And? As I've commented elsewhere, I think it's official if it's named in legislation, as a few scripts are. What's the definition you think applies? PepperBeast (talk) 03:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  When a single script has been in use with a language for hundreds of years, then that script is not legislated as official separately. It follows that when that language is legislated as official, the associated script too is deemed official. This is the case with most of the Indian languages, and that is why you see all the official languages in their official scripts depicted in the Indian rupee note/bill on the reverse side. Most of these scripts, used officially here, have no legislation to back it up.

  
  

  Only when there is a conflict and a political interest to support one script over others is the script legislated into law. This is the case for Gurmukhi (a Brahmi script) in India and Shahmukhi (an Arabic script) in Pakistan, both used for the Punjabi language. Legislation was needed for the Boro language too, because of competing use of the Latin script and Bengali-Assamese script, and finally Devnagari script was legislated as official. Similarly there was a conflict between the Meitei script and Bengali-Assamese script for Manipuri language in Manipur and that led to legislation.

  
  

  Your claim that all official scripts have to be legislated is your personal opinion. In real life this is not how it operates.

  Chaipau ( talk) 12:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Sorry, but the article Official script disagrees with you:

  An official script is a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions.

  The rest of your comment is merely explaining why official scripts are official in the first place. This has no bearing whatsoever on whether a script is official to begin with.

  Contrary to your claims, it is actually your personal opinion that scripts are official even when not declared so. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 15:18, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  @ Chaipau My bad, I meant to link to official script. Again, a whole article flatly contradicting you here; if you think the way scholars use the term is wrong, fine, but that's not for us to decide— see WP:RGW. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 15:26, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  The lead of Official script has no citation. Not a reliable source.

  On the other hand, I have shown you a number of instances how the Government of India supports these scripts officially. Active participation in the Unicode Consortium, and the use of these scripts in the currency notes. Chaipau ( talk) 17:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Sigh. As if you've attempted to give any citations at all for your claim that "official script" is used the way you wish it were used? Probably because you realize scholars don't actually use the term this way, and that this is just your own WP:OR. I did a quick search through Google Books on how terms like "official writing system" and "official script" are used, and I could painstakingly copy these over for you, but are you really going to make do that? Why don't you try providing a single source that claims something as ludicrous as "a government working with the Unicode Consortium to design a script standard elevates the script to official status"? Brusquedandelion ( talk) 00:41, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Let me state the two positions explicitly.

  Official when legislated:

  For a script to be official it should be legislated - an act passes a vote in a legislative body and establishes a script as official.

  • Official script. Unfortunately, there is not a single citation in the text of the article let alone one that defines an "official" script and it fails reliability on WP:WINRS.

  Official when used and supported officially

  The alternative definition (stated by @ Austronesier above) is that when languages are legislated as official, the associated scripts too are deemed official by default, unless there are more than one scripts associated with a language when particular scripts are explicitly legislated as official. Here we depend on the dictionary definition of official, specifically 3a, which states that something is official when something is prescribed or recognized as authorized. Here the authoritative body is the Government of India, and these scripts are therefore recognized as official by the following actions of the Government of India:

  • The Indian government officially actively supports these scripts in the Unicode Consortium. There are other Indian scripts which are supported not by the Indian Government but by non-state parties and are deemed non-official (e.g. Tirhuta (Unicode block) supported primarily by Anshuman Pandey, and Ahom script supported by linguist Stephen Morey), which are not official.
  • The Indian 1-rupee note (issued by the Indian government - all others are issued by the Reserve Bank of India), lists the official scripts of India. This is a recognition of these scripts by an authoritative body, which is the Government of India.

  Chaipau ( talk) 11:29, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  The one-rupee note features the official languages of India. The scripts used are conventional. PepperBeast (talk) 12:41, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  @ Pepperbeast, the GoI, an authoritative body, using the "conventional" scripts make them "official". They are being used for official purposes. Chaipau ( talk) 12:50, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  So, something like this would make Cyrillic, Hanggul, and Arabic "official scripts of New Zealand"? PepperBeast (talk) 13:04, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  You seem to not understand what "official" is. Handing out information in a language/script does not make that language official, unless that language/script is used in the working of the authoritative body. The languages you see in the Indian 1-rupee note are the ones mentioned in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India (1950). These languages and scripts are working languages/scripts, in the sense that records the working of Indian governments (union/state/local) are kept in these languages.

  When the Imperial Japanese govt dropped English pamphlets during WW2, that did not make English an official language of Japan. Chaipau ( talk) 15:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Are you suggesting that the Government of New Zealand isn't an authoritative body, or that elections aren't part of its workings? PepperBeast (talk) 17:34, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  I am trying very hard to assuming GF here, @ Pepperbeast. No, New Zealand is not using Arabic in this example to run the government. Chaipau ( talk) 18:24, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  You seem to not understand what "official" is. Handing out information in a language/script does not make that language official,

  But working with the Unicode Consortium does? You are literally just making stuff up as you go, and you have yet to present a single example of any reliable source using "official script" in the way you are using it. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 01:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  If I cared how the dictionary defined a word, I can check for myself, thank you very much; you combining the definitions of "official" and "script" is just your WP:SYNTH, and that's without even going into the other holes in your synthetic argument.

  You have yet to provide even a single example of a reliable source that uses "official script" the way you do. I'll wait. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 01:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Please show me your WP:RS for your claim. Chaipau ( talk) 01:54, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  I can, as annoying and painstaking as it is, and in spite of the fact that you've made zero effort to show any RS'es yourself, but can I first ask if you did the bare minimum of due diligence in checking yourself? Brusquedandelion ( talk) 02:11, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Here is a JSTOR search for "official script". Once you disregard the obvious mismatches (e.g. those references Clerical script, sometimes called official script, a style of Chinese calligraphy), what do you notice? Literally all of them refer to polities (from ancient ones like the Qin dynasty to modern states like the Kyrgyz Republic) legislating a specific script as official, not any other more nebulous sort of association such as those which you would like us to believe define official status. Notice that such official status is always conferred by explicit legal decree. Do you need me to go one by one and transcribe the specific quotes from each and explain the historical and sociopolitical context of each quote too, or are you capable of doing a minimum of your own due diligence? And again are you able to provide a single source using "official script" (or "writing system") as nebulously as you do? Brusquedandelion ( talk) 02:27, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Please refer to WP:SOURCEDEF. A search result, which is what you have provided, is not even a source. Further you have to quote from the source properly where you get the definition of an "official script". So we are still at zero WP:RS from you or Pepperbeast.
  • We are discussing Officially used in the name of the template {{ Officially used writing systems in India}}. I have given you a link to the Constitution of India ( here) which contradicts your definition because the Latin script has been used to write the constitution, which according to you is not an officially used script. Reductio ad absurdum. Or in other words, WP:DUCK.

  Chaipau ( talk) 09:58, 21 March 2024 (UTC) (edited) 10:54, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

So we are still at zero WP:RS from you or Pepperbeast.

So the same as you? Except I have actually made an effort to hand hold you a bit, whereas you have made zero effort to do any due diligence whatsoever? Are you really incapable of clicking on the search results and checking for yourself? You really need me to copy paste quotes manually, or are you just demanding this out of complete bad faith?

Seriously, how can this be interpreted as anything other than laziness on your part? Can I once again point out that you have made zero attempt to even insinuate that a single scholar agrees with your definition? I am just not going link by link and copy pasting quotes from the search results to try and convince someone who, it is increasingly clear, is not open to being convinced at all. Anyone with brains who isn't an obviously bad faith actor can click on the JSTOR search results for themselves without demanding someone else do a bunch of tedious work for them. If you can't do the absolute bare minimum amount of due diligence, or even make an attempt at providing a reliable source in favor of the definition you pulled out of your ass, I'm done handholding you.

We are discussing Officially used in the name of the template

We are actually debating multiple things, in part because the issue is more nuanced than you are letting on and in part because you are forcing the rest of us to entertain your goalpost shifting. I'm going to put aside the semantics of "official use" for now because it is entirely clear you are unikely to be convinced on this point. I would instead like to focus on the issues you haven't even attempted to address.

The chief problem here is the fact that "officially used is extremely slippery, imprecise language, and this debate itself is evidence of that. First, it is not clear why India is so special it deserves its own template like this. Second, it is not clear what criteria should be used for inclusion of a script in this wording of the template, nor what criteria should be used for determining if the template should be included on a given scripts page. According to you, for example, India working with the Unicode Consortium on a given language is enough to include it on this template, but the Government of India, as well as the governments of several Indian states, are voting members of the Unicode Consortium— should every script encoded by Unicode have this template, then? Do you see just how imprecise this header is, even when working within your own set of definitions?

Further, consider that the creator of this template never even attempted to include it on the page for Latin script, despite Latin appearing on the template itself. I wonder why? In fact, I am entirely certain that even you, who have repeatedly tried to claim that Latin is "official"/"officially used" because the Constitution is written in Latin script, would not try to include this template on the page for Latin. Any guesses as to why? Brusquedandelion ( talk) 12:10, 22 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I have already said why your reply is deficient: [1]. It seems we are still in the same status I stated two days ago: [2]. If you are unwilling to provide a WP:RS to support your claim, we may stop here. Chaipau ( talk) 17:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC) reply

If you are unwilling to provide a WP:RS to support your claim, we may stop here.

The feeling is mutual. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 03:15, 25 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Keep. As per User:Austronesier above.

It is also not true that there is no "official" recognition of the "scripts". The Government of India has actively participated (sometimes in a confusing way) with the Unicode Consortium to create standards for these scripts to be used digitally. Here is an example: Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts UTC #94. This is a letter from a government officer [3]. Caveat—please do not use the Unicode standard to define the Indic scripts. Chaipau ( talk) 00:40, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Sorry, but the Government of India working with the Unicode Consortium has absolutely nothing to do with official status. This argument is patent nonsense. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 04:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

That's just not relevant. There might be some case for content regarding South Asian scripts in Unicode, but that tangential to this. PepperBeast (talk) 13:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

@ Brusquedandelion, why is it patent nonsense? @ Pepperbeast, why it is not relevant? I think you are just pushing your case.

@ Pepperbeast, you have been hacking away without any good reason. [4] is an example, where you have removed perfectly academic sources and something that has been extensively discussed and debated. I am not certain you know exactly what the issues here are. Chaipau ( talk) 01:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Yeah, that edit was just a plain clumsy manoeuvre on my part, and we're discussing the issue at hand, not me PepperBeast (talk) 02:55, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

It's patent nonsense because that's not actually how anyone uses the term "official script/writing system" except you. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 00:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Delete or potentially move/refine as {{ South Asian writing systems}} or {{ Brahmic scripts}}, as discussed Template talk:Officially used writing systems in India § Convert to navbox? and User talk:Pepperbeast § Proposal: Writing systems of South Asia (EDIT: thought about it, Brahmic scripts is the grouping that makes the most sense; see my comments below). Clearly ill-conceived and poorly thought out template, much like the corresponding article Official scripts of the Republic of India; while the AfD for the latter regrettably did not receive much attention and closed without consensus, it has since been established thanks to @ Pepperbeast's diligent investigation that there's only really three scripts that have any sort of legal status anywhere in India, and not even necessarily by the federal government. This is a poor and paltry basis for any template. @ Austronesier argues above that even if the scripts do not have official status in and of themselves, languages do have legal status ( Scheduled languages of India) and these in turn are associated with one or perhaps two scripts. That's all fine, but languages are associated with many things. Should we make templates for the Official phonemes of India or the Official clusivity distinctions of India too? No, this is obviously patent nonsense. These things just aren't obviously natural categories that are so important and so worth stressing, as a group, and to the exclusion of other possible groups— and IMO the same is true for this template as it stands.

Now, as mentioned, I do think one could make a much better case for a much more natural grouping being scripts which are used in India, regardless of official status; or, arguably even better, {{ Brahmic scripts}}, which is a way of grouping scripts that scholars actually use and not something some Wikipedia editor came up with one day because they felt like making a template. Again, these alternatives have been raised by at the two talk pages linked at the beginning of this message, as well as at the AfD for the corresponding article, but the creator of this template/article has made no attempt to engage with this suggestion, quite possibly because they realize their proposed categorization is clearly and self-evidently less natural and defensible. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 04:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

This. Also, there can be some pretty substantial difference between the intentional and the assumed. The selection of Devanagari by the Union or Meitei mayek script in Manipur, are absolutely intentional, political choices, not just underlining of conventions. And I absolutely agree that this is just not a useful grouping the way that (say) 'Writing Systems of India' might be. PepperBeast (talk) 13:15, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Please note that the scripts used in India are not all "Indian". There is Tibetan script, which is not an Indian script, but which descends from Brahmi script, which is definitely Indian; and there is Nastaliq, which is an Arabic script but used in many Indian languages. Both non-Indian and Indian scripts have support in India, as the PDF I have posted above shows. South Asian is also not right, because the Tibetan script is not even South Asian.

We look forward to a glimpse of your thorough research on this subject.

Chaipau ( talk) 20:09, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Perhaps you could also explain to me how water is wet. PepperBeast (talk) 09:38, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

The more I think about this, the more I think it makes the most sense to have the template group {{ Brahmic scripts}} and leave it at that. As you correctly point out, not all scripts used in India are necessarily "Indian", and while it is true that a title likr "Scripts of India" or "Scripts of South Asia" does not make any claims about the Indian-ness or South Asian-ness of any script other than asserting the simple fact that script is used in India, it raises thorny questions like "Should Nastaliq have two templates, one for India and one for Pakistan? What about Tibetan?" IMO all of this is avoided by having the infobox target a "genealogical" (perhaps not the right term; but you know what I mean) grouping rather than a geographical or political one. And this way you could use the same template on scripts no longer in use e.g. Sharada or Brahmi itself. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 15:10, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Look below why "Brahmi script" is not appropriate.

What would you call a group that is a collection of writing systems used by federal/provincial/local governments for official purposes? May I suggest "Official writing systems of India".? Chaipau ( talk) 17:49, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Again, there are only three officially used writing systems anywhere in India. All three of them happen to be Brahmic. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 00:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

What do you mean? English is widely used and it is not Brahmic. Chaipau ( talk) 21:05, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

English is a script, not a language. I am beginning to think this disagreement boils down to you not understanding the difference between these terms. This is a common error in societies that stress the primacy of literacy, such as our own, and linguists commonly have to disambiguate these terms for a lay audience. Most languages to have ever existed have never been written, and of those languages which are/have been written, they can and often are written in a multitude of scripts. I suggest you review the two articles I linked above, as well as this excellent article by the Linguistic Society of America (the LSA just overhauled their website today, so it appears that link is having technical issues presently; here is an archived copy). Brusquedandelion ( talk) 01:30, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

To clarify my position, since you seem to not be getting it:

1. In the first place, I really don't see what's so fundamentally wrong about {{ Infobox writing system}} that we need to be having this discussion. It already has slots for "official script"—nuff said—but also for the more nebulous "status"— which can be used, theoretically, to indicate not just official status, but also de facto use. Isn't that satisfying enough for you, since your basic argument (the most charitable version of it I can construct, at least) consists of obfuscating the difference between de jure and de facto?
2. If we must have a new template, it should be {{ Brahmic scripts}}, to be included on pages like Devanagari and Khmer script, but not to be included on pages like Urdu script. I just don't see any reason why we need a template for the "most commonly used writing systems of the scheduled languages of the Republic of India", which is essentially what your vision for this template boils down to. Why is that such an important grouping? Is there any other nation that gets such a template for its nation's language's scripts? Put any nationalist feeling aside for a second; how special do you think India is that it deserves a template like this? The only one I can think of is that India happens to have perhaps more scripts in common usage than any other country (someone fact check me on this if I am wrong). But so what? Many languages have numerous languages that have different numbers of scripts; maybe not as many as India, but still quite a few. Notable for this discussion is Singapore and Malaysia, where Mandarin Chinese, Tamil, and Malay all enjoy official recognition (I don't know about "official scripts" per se but I am extending your facile argument to these countries as well). Should the page for the Tamil script have three infoboxes? Should Latin script have an infobox for India, but not any other country? Or should it have dozens, one for each such country? Brusquedandelion ( talk) 02:02, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Delete Regardless of the language/script debate, this remains unused. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 22:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  This cannot be a good reason because it is the proposer himself, Pepperbeast, who has removed the infobox from all pages. [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], ... and so on. Look at it yourself: Special:Contributions/Pepperbeast, edits from March 16, 2024. Chaipau ( talk) 01:28, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  So? @ Pepperbeast did this with a completely reasonable rationale: there is no evidence that more than three scripts are official anywhere in the Replubic of India. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 00:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Huh? The constitution is written in English. Look here for a photographic reproduction. And the Latin script is not official according to your definition. Chaipau ( talk) 22:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Correct, it is not official. Yours is a facile argument; the Constitution of the USA is also in English, but, famously, the USA has not even an official language, much less an official script (it would certainly be a surprise to the various nativist and right wing demagogues who have campaigned for English to be the sole official language of the USA to learn that they are, in fact, fighting for nothing). It isn't my definition; it's the definition used in reliable sources, unlike your own. This is easy to verify with three seconds of time spent on Google Books or with a real life book on the subject of language policies. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 01:35, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Keep - but rename to Writing systems of India. "Officially used" can be a parameter in assigning WP:WEIGHT for inclusion/exclusion decisions, but I don't see why official use is of any importance in general. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 12:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  @ Kautilya3: Do you mind explaining why this is preferable to e.g. {{ Brahmic scripts}}? Keep in mind that a number of writing systems used in India are also used outside of it— do we include {{ Writing systems of India}} on a page like Tibetan script or no? This raises thorny questions that IMO are better addressed by having the infobox target a "genealogical" (perhaps not the right term; but you know what I mean) grouping rather than a geographical or political one. And this way you could use the same template on scripts no longer in use e.g. Sharada or Brahmi itself. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 15:15, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  "Brahmi scripts" is not appropriate simply because not all the scripts used officially in India are Brahmi. Chaipau ( talk) 17:28, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  I agree that not all the scripts used officially are Brahmic. That is literally my point! I am saying the template should target a different grouping altogether, because the grouping you want it to target makes very little sense compared to other possible groupings. Remember, it is generally not a good idea to have multiple infoboxes, so you should pick the grouping that makes sense.

  Frankly, the more I think about it, the less I see the need for any template other than {{ Infobox writing system}}, but if you must have one, the natural grouping is Brahmic scripts. And yes, that means pages like Nastaliq would not have such a template, but, fortunately, Nastaliq isn't an official script anywhere in India anyways (same with Tibetan), at least not by the definition of an "official script" used in the real world. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 00:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Sigh... I find this to be one of the pointless discussions belabouring non-issues. The template is a sidebar navigation template, meant to guide the reader to other related pages. So, please worry about that issue, and the purposes of Wikipedia, rather than what is "official" and what is not. -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 15:51, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  Words have meanings, we can't just sidestep that. But yes, I agree that sidebars are navigational aids, and I fail to see how the existing {{ Infobox writing system}} fails to accomplish this purpose; and if we must pick a replacement, I think something like {{ Brahmic scripts}} makes for a much more systematic categorization system, and thus a better navigational aid. Again, how do you propose a page like Tibetan script should be handled? I don't see any good solution for it if we advocate the use of a geographical or geopolitical grouping like this, because it will inevitably open the door to complains from the standpoint of other countries where those scripts are used. How many infoboxes can a page bear? Brusquedandelion ( talk) 01:39, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  @ Kautilya3, I agree. We could have a {{ Scripts used in India}} and denote the officially used scripts as a subset.

  But what is concerning in this process is a unilateral removal of this template from all pages (that happened on March 16) with non-collaborating attitude (look here for instance) and then opening up the discussion. I am surprised to see that there is no WP:RS on the definition that is being foisted on us. This has been disruptive, to say the least. Chaipau ( talk) 16:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  I'm sorry you feel that this is disruptive, but so far, we have no WP:RS on any definition of "official script" and no WP:RS on anything like "official scripts of India". Removing material that doesn't pass WP:VERIFICATION from articles is a pretty normal thing to do. So far, the plain-English reading of "official" as defined by law is as good a a definition as we have, here, and that covers very little of what the template claims. You have provided nothing like RS for your preferred definition, nor for the idea that any of the named scripts is "official" beyond the ones that I've pointed out. And, as I have already commented in this dreary discussion, we are discussing the template. We are not discussing me. If you really want to do that, you're welcome to take it to WP:ANI. PepperBeast (talk) 16:39, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

  You have made literally zero attempt to provide a reliable source in support of your definition. Brusquedandelion ( talk) 11:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Summary or TLDR: This discussion is no longer moving forward, and the following could be taken as a summary of the current status -

For Delete - the side feels that if the scripts are not mentioned in a legislative document, then they should not belong in this group. This voters provided the following evidence.

• Official script - This is a Wikipedia article, but the definitions are all unsourced ( WP:WINRS)
• JSTOR search results for "Official script" - This search result in 530 articles. This link is not a source as defined by Wikipedia policies ( WP:SOURCEDEF).

For Keep -

• Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India lists some 22 languages for official use in India, but scripts are named in legislative documents only when there are more than one scripts associated with a given language ( Punjabi language - Gurmukhi over Shahmukhi; Hindi - Devanagari script over Nastaliq; Manipuri language - Meitei script over Bengali-Assamese script; etc.)
• Constitution of India - Latin script, which is used to write the Constitution of India is itself not specified.
• Government of India supports the "official" scripts in the Unicode Consortium, but not the "unofficial" Indian scripts ( Ahom script, Tirhuta script)

Others could provide alternate summaries below.

Chaipau ( talk) 00:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Your laughably biased summary completely omits any arguments you personally chose not to reply to (what an incredible illustration of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT):

1. Why is India so special that it should get its own template? Should a page like Tamil script have three templates, one for each of India, Singapore, Malaysia?
2. How come no one for a keep vote is in favor of including this template on, say, the Latin script article? Perhaps because they are aware that their template would be swiftly deleted with prejudice the second it got enough attention from editors who aren't from the segment of Wikipedia editors who zealously guard any and all coverage of the the Motherland, and continuously demand us to treat it differently from every other nation? Or perhaps they realize how ludicrous that would be, but are incapable of extending the same logic to any of the other roughly two dozen pages they want this template to appear on? Either way, it is incredibly telling that no voters for keep have even pretended to try and address this or the prior point. This is especially relevant when you keep trying to claim the Latin script is official because it is used to write the Constitution of India—and yet, even you would not try and include this template on Latin script.
3. The argument scripts are named in legislative documents only when there are more than one scripts associated with a given language explains why some scripts are made official. It does not deny that some scripts are official and others are not, and is this, in fact, an argument for deletion.
4. The Government of India is a voting member of the Unicode Consortium, and if this is somehow relevant (you seem to believe it is), every script encoded by Unicode must be considered (of) official (use) in India (by your argument; not mine—I think this is inane, but I am simply showing you the logical results of your own argument).

Brusquedandelion ( talk) 03:24, 25 March 2024 (UTC) reply

There is no point in discussing this further, since I too sense WP:IDHT. It is probably time to close this discussion. To help the closer, I made a summary statement from what I believe is NPOV. You may do the same. Chaipau ( talk) 12:54, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗ plicit 03:52, 24 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Template:Nosection ( talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Used only in a sandbox of the creator, this appears to be experimental, and not clear why anyone would want to disable section edit links. DB1729 ^talk 00:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Delete per nomination. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 22:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• Delete: Per nomination. Not used. The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 11:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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