Knowledge (XXG):Templates for deletion/Log/2009 May 9

374:- seems like a useful template for people wanting to navigate Canada's rail articles. I don't think it's particularly ungainly, it's not like it takes up a huge amount of space, and it can be set to default collapsed if people really find it that offensive. Perhaps it could be split into two templates - former railroads and current railroads, but I disagree that former railroads shouldn't have a navigation template just because there are a lot of them. 1034:. Sports venues take long enough to construct that it shouldn't be difficult for us to put together articles which accurately reflect their current state. (We shouldn't be blindly applying "future X" templates for EVERY topic that's in the future - just the ones which might be changing quickly enough that there's likely to be information which we haven't incorporated yet.) 896:

E.g. the Beijing Olympics venues were in progress a long time, and articles about what was proposed to the IOC would properly have used such a template. Expecting articles to make the dfference between project proposals and the venues completed (?) just prior to the Olympics in a clear manner is

665:. In each of those cases, it could reasonably be argued that their films were often as noted for the composer's work as for anything else. I see no particular reason why this one composer's work demands a template of this type when even better known theatrical composers lack them. 301:

The nominator doesn't mention any guideline that the template contravenes.....the current version of the template is totally acceptable. I will add that if the template grows too large (whatever "too large" might really mean) then it should be replaced with a category.

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lists about 1150, and that's definitely not a complete list. It's like listing all cities in the U.S. on a single template. Also note that listing by abbreviation won't work for the complete list; the names will have to be written in full to avoid duplication.

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200 is a bare minimum; there are probably many more. That "Empire" template is horrible, with so many non-links, and a silly way of splitting (are people really more likely to want to navigate to another one beginning with C than one not beginning with C?)

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Sorry: "minor league hockey team whose wiki-depth is not serviced well with a navbox" Basically: is there really that many articles related to this team (which hasn't even played yet) to warrant a navbox: I think the answer is no. I almost TFDed

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Redundant template for a film score composer as it doesn't lists his works fully. Consensus previously indicated than templates for actors and film personel except directors are unacceptable. Besides which we have the category

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Ok, final comment as this is getting off topic. Not every ship article will be created with the Empire name as the title of the article. The templates were created with assistance and support from one of

1232:. It's a spin-off from other tags and the articles are not likely to change rapidly in the sense originally meant - which was for breaking and complex news, like Katrina and the London bombings. 1002:. It's a spin-off from other tags and the articles are not likely to change rapidly in the sense originally meant - which was for breaking and complex news, like Katrina and the London bombings. 209:

better than redlinks when they are valid article topics. There's also no requirement for a navbox for every topic. Please respond here, not on my talk page, to keep the discussion together. --

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With 1,367 ships, I had to find a way to split them. Any ship is just two clicks away via bottom navbar on each template. Black text is preferable to a sea of redlinks.

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which the films are categorised as. We already have templates for Bollywood and awards, this template will clutter the article. The article

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Too many items. Navigation templates lose their usefulness when they're huge. Turn it into a list article or leave the job to categories. --

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A well-written article should be able to distinguish the fact that an article is on something that does not exist yet.

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A well-written article should be able to distinguish the fact that an article is on something that does not exist yet.

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Change sections that could become unwieldy, either by picking the top 50 by some criteria or linking to list articles.

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If you don't trust articles to be properly written (a sensible policy) why trust people to correctly apply the tag?

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