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156:. If I understand correctly, this is a template to make text blink. However, as pointed out by the nom, the template is unnecessary. Moreover, I think we ought to avoid unnecessary BFOs (Blinking, Flashing Objects) ... there was a discussion about this at the Village Pump a few weeks ago, where the concern was raised that excess blinking, flashing, and movement could cause seizures in some people. — 197:. I'll grant that like other thinking humanoids, I find blink text incredibly annoying, but it's not doing any *harm*, and there might be rare situations where it could help. No reason to short-circuit them when the cost to keeping the template is so minor as to be trivial. 272:. Keeping the template around may seduce people to use it in inappropriate places. Should blinking text actually be necessary anywhere anytime (though it's tough to imagine such a situation, however far-fetched) it can be made to blink using HTML. — 819: 719:
As part of the anime/manga character infobox cleanup, I came across these five templates that are currently unused. The the two Mankin character infoboxes are actually the same as
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blinking text is so bloody annoying; having a template makes it a little more likely someone will use it instead of HTML to format their blinking text, and then we can use
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article only, and it is thus more appropriate just to copy the template code into that article, which I have already done. I recommend that this template be deleted. —
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You're assuming that someone foolish enough to use blinking text would simultaneously be smart enough to find this template. I find that hard to believe. :)
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This is either an attempt to create an article in template space or vandalism. The name would suggest the latter, but I've brought it here to comply with
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Both of these templates are redundant to the Political divisions of the US template that is used on all states. Suffers from a bit of overcategorization.
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to keep an eye on inappropriate uses and aggressively remove them. Of course, the likelyhood of that is kinda low, and personally I can't think of
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as interface design that should in general not be encouraged. Such formatting is not really consistent with general accessibility guidelines.
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Untranscluded template that can easily be written using HTML. We shouldn't have templates for every variation of a <span: -->
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instance when blinking text would be appropriate in the mainspace, so I don't really have any objection to deletion.
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Unused and completely unnecessary. There is nothing to gain by keeping this template around for its "novelty". --
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and mentioned this in the history of the article, so that the history is preserved for GFDL compliance. --
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I would agree, that is, to copy the template into the article.It gives a well-organised overview.
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They are no-longer transcluded onto any pages, therefore they can be deleted safely.
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tag. It's also incredibly annoying to a reader, regardless of where it's used. --
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The result of the debate was delete, obvious user test.
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Either way, something needs doing with it. — 8: 1261:Template:Please_leave_this_area_full_of_junk 1206:Template:Please_leave_this_area_full_of_junk 686:Template:Witch Hunter Robin character info 875:Template not in use. It was used on the 382:Template:Confederate States of America 18:Knowledge (XXG):Templates for deletion 7: 215:Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Blink 725:Template:Infobox animanga character 287: 268:as unnecessary and also a bit per 35: 842:Template:Economy of Denmark table 791:Template:Economy of Denmark table 679:Template:Infobox Mankin Character 613:Template:Infobox Suzuka character 579:Template:Infobox Mankin Character 818:. 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Knowledge (XXG):Templates for deletion
Log
Knowledge (XXG):Templates for discussion/Log/2007 August 30
August 29
August 31
Template:Blink
deletion review
Woohookitty
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talk
history
links
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logs
MZMcBride
21:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Black Falcon
21:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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Lover
22:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
SnowFire
00:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Blink
cab
00:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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