Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 January 18 - Wikipedia

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).

The result of the discussion was delete. There is no prejudice against this template being recreated as a "message" style template similar to {{ANI-notice}}. Primefac (talk) 10:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:BLP noticeboard (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This should be replaced with a substitutable template. This template is transcluded on 413 pages and in most cases with no date attached so there is no way of telling how stale it is. I found examples of this that were applied in 2016. Schierbecker (talk) 07:03, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Subst current version as a talk message or just delete current uses. What a horrible implementation of such a template. This should either be created as a talk page discussion notification message or possibly added to {{WikiProject Biography}} as a parameter (which will suffer from the same problem but at least cause less clutter). Whichever way, leaving this is a stand alone banner that no one cares to remove (20ish active discussions vs over 400 transclusions) is not an option (unless someone wants to create and maintain a bot to remove these when removed from Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard). Gonnym (talk) 09:03, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Non-functional template that ages poorly and, if used as a banner (its design indicates that it should be used as a banner), it becomes a banner carrying false information. What it says is wrong ~95% of the time. Not needed as a banner, and not needed as a template. Editors should just post a notification at the bottom of the talk page, and a template isn't needed for that, and if a graphical element is desired, just use one of the general WP:DISCUSSIONTEMPLATES (e.g.: " Note: I've brought up the issues discussed above at WP:BLPN"). —Alalch E. 19:06, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template or module's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.