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Template:Out of Jimmy's Head

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 10:33, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Out of Jimmy's Head (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete as redundant. Template only has three entries which also appear in the see also sections of the stated articles. As this is a TV show, the template will grow no larger than it is now. — MSJapan 17:36, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Atomic Betty

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 10:35, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Atomic Betty (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This template should be deleted. The user who created this template pointed it at a bunch of stubs he created that were so short as to only be a few lines and were mostly material he cut and pasted out of the main Atomic Betty article in the first place. I therefore incorporated all the material back into the main article, meaning the template only has two distinct links, and is therefore unneceesary. — MSJapan 17:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, per nom. which seems rational Guroadrunner 10:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - unneeded. — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 12:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:POTDArchiveBar2005

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 10:36, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:POTDArchiveBar2005 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unused anywhere and replaced by {{

chat} 16:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

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Template:POTDmain

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The result of the debate was delete. mattbr 08:29, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:POTDmain (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unused anywhere. Possibly a test? —

chat} 16:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Template:PD-art-life-50-aus

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The result of the debate was Withdrawn by nominator. Mike Peel 20:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PD-art-life-50-aus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Not used, only one incoming link, does not appear to be useful. In particular, images uploaded under this rationale are quite likely to be copyright violations. Though someone may have died 50 years ago, and works created by them may be in the public domain in Australia, they are not automatically in the public domain in the United States, under whose jurisdiction Wikipedia operates. For more information about copyright terms and the public domain under United States copyright law, see Hirtle's chart. Also, we already have

Template:PD-art-life-50, which is more accurate (under United States copyright law), though not widely used. Iamunknown 16:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Template:Microsoft Flight Simulator series

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 10:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Microsoft Flight Simulator series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The vast majority of these links go to the same article: History of Microsoft Flight Simulator. With such a limited scope, there's little point in having a navbox. — Chris Cunningham 09:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - useful one-stop look at the many versions of Flight Simulator. Also, from an eventualist standpoint, it will need to be built again if all those individual sections are built into separate standalone articles for each version. -- Guroadrunner 10:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - one-stop look can be put into article, and it's a navbox that (mostly) goes nowhere. If those other articles are created because they are deemed individually notable, then the navbox can be recreated. — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 12:51, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - There are not enough articles about Microsoft flight Simulator. Maybe the microsoft template. --Astroview120mm 23:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Infobox PMP

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 10:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox PMP (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The

M3 Music Card and more). In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason to keep this template. Delete. Jw21/PenaltyKillah(discussedits) 01:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

Note: This infobox is used on the
M3 Music Card articles. --Michael Greiner 02:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
]
Already converted to
Template:Information appliance. Now there is really no article using this template. --Jw21/PenaltyKillah(discussedits) 02:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
]
Hmm... it's taking a very long time just to have an admin to attend to these, while the request come pouring in and pushing this one all the way down and into the logs. Should I use
WP:CSD? --Jw21/PenaltyKillah(discussedits) 05:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
]
The TfD process takes
WP:CSD is not a way to speed up a deletion discussion that you think is running slowly. — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 22:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Template:DbIAR

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The result of the debate was delete. Not redirecting because it is unused. WoohookittyWoohoo! 10:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:DbIAR (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Good intentions when creating this template; however, I don't believe it's truly needed. --MZMcBride 01:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:PD-self

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The result of the discussion was Keep. — xaosflux Talk 14:55, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SNOWBALL FWIW Bzuk 06:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC).[reply
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Recommend deletion of this license tag in favor of {{PD-user}}. The reason is that this license tag does not specify exactly who created the content (it just says "I...release this into the public domain") and it's left to be assumed that the uploader is the copyright holder. This is normally unambiguous, but there are many cases in which images can be uploaded under a different name and the original upload deleted (for example, when an image is renamed) — in this case, the trail back to the original copyright holder could be lost. Recommend deprecation of this template for now - we can get a bot to convert most usages to {{PD-user}} and humans can handle the change in more complicated situations (for example, when there have been multiple versions uploaded). Videmus Omnia Talk 00:30, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it says quite clearly, I, the copyright holder... There's usually no ambiguity about who owns the copyright. —Remember the dot (talk) 01:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- if PD-self is deleted, will that mean that lots and lots of images will lose their licensing, meaning that something like Betacommandbot could tag them incorrectly for deletion? What is the safeguard if deleted that the images tagged don't end up without any licensing information? -- Guroadrunner 09:55, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't see any way to prevent mass deletions of PD-user images uploaded after PD-self is deleted. The ones currently tagged with PD-self would be transitioned to PD-user|username, but ones uploaded through the upload form would not record the username, and so they would be mass deleted. —Remember the dot (talk) 16:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep until a bot can get to all of them. However, I actually prefer the way it's written in pd-self over pd-user. Wizardman 18:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. At least bot fix rather than create deletion mania of good images. LotLE×talk 18:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - I prefer this over PD-user, and the wizard is not supposed to use parameters so that would cause problems. — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 18:51, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - having two templates helps to disambiguate. — Apple1976 21:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, if we want to transition or depreciate, we can do that, but we don't use TfD for that.. we'd just redirect (if that is the end decision). -- Ned Scott 06:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- Cleaning up the aftermath of the deletion of this template could be a significant technical hassle, and the use of the word "self" in this template does not appear to allow great scope for interpretation. The biggest problem with the use of this template actually is people who think that because they've created an image file, therefore they can dispose of all rights over the visual content of the image (even if this is actually a wire-service photo, paparazzi snapshot, etc. etc.). I don't see how shifting to PD-User will reduce this misapprehension. AnonMoos 06:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. We may discourage the use of this template, but there's no urgent need to delete anything. Such a move would entail enormous confusion. --Ghirla-трёп- 10:02, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - if a user didn't create an image, but was the copyright holder and used this template correctly, to subsequently alter their statement isn't acceptable.
    Addhoc 10:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Question If this template is deleted will it break the upload page ? Jackaranga 16:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The upload page can be modified so it isn't listed anymore, so no, not necessarily. EVula // talk // // 17:26, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, removing PD-self from the upload page is not a good thing. —Remember the dot (talk) 17:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Well, if the template were deleted, it would be even worse to still leave it on the upload page. :P As the initial nomination of the template points out, it would be replaced with {{PD-user}}. EVula // talk // // 17:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • And as I pointed out, there is not currently any good way to put PD-user on the upload form (technical limitations). —Remember the dot (talk) 17:41, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • ...yes, but that has little to do with Jackaranga's question; I was just stating that yes, it would be possible to remove this template from the Upload page without breaking anything, not that it'd be a good idea to delete the template. :) Besides, it doesn't look like the template is going to be deleted. EVula // talk // // 17:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I understand the nominators concerns and I like deleting things but, in this case I think it is not up to normal users to modify the upload form, and many new users like to use PD-Self also, perhaps because it is the only one in the list that does not contain a bunch of abbreviations and numbers in the description. Jackaranga 17:46, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per User:Remember the dot's argument, the phrase "I, the copyright holder..." means whoever's name is stated next to the author is claiming ownership of copyrights. {{PD-user}} doesn't specify who the copyright holder is, just talks about the creator. There is a difference, for example: Ford Motor Company builds or creats cars but once they sell the cars to the public, they don't own them any longer person. The person that the car is registered to is the owner of the car.--Khan1982 18:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per
    Random Picture of the Day 21:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep As someone said, the template links to over 100,000 pictures. And, what if I am the copyright holder and I release it into the public domain? Aside from the technical problems of the 100,000 linktos, it is useful if you are the copyright holder. --
    Sign) 02:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep - more useful than not.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  02:37, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I agree with most of the reasons for maintaining this template but especially Fastlizard4's two above. The language in the template is clear and it is not in violation of any laws. Orderinchaos 08:30, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Fix the issue (ambiguity of creator due to wording) instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater (deleting the template entirely, used by so many legit images). Timeshift 09:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep - per Remember the Dot. If it turns out that the copyright creator did not create an image, then delete that image. Don't just throw the whole lot out. Let's stop the copyright paranoia and assume good faith and good images in all circumstances. JRG 10:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Remember the Dot -
    Suro 16:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep per Remember the dot - thank you/ Astuishin (talk) 19:37, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question would it be possible to add a field to this template which allows equating "I", "the copyright holder", and the name of the user that uploaded the image? Then the description page could be independent from the image history, making the identity of the copyright holder even more unambiguous.
    GracenotesT § 20:37, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep per Remember the dot, especially the point that {{PD-user}} cannot easily be used on the upload form. Also, as Timeshift says, this would be a "baby/bathwater" thing. I can't see that deleting the template would cause anything other than mass confusion and mass deletion of free images. Loganberry (Talk) 20:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • ROBUSTLY KEEP as per everything above, it is one of the simplest and most straight-forward templates in use. Imagine changing two zillion files that already use this template very successfully. I would also like to call for a SPEEDY RESOLUTION under the SNOWBALL clause! FWIW Bzuk 06:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC).[reply]
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Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat copyright holder is attributed

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The result of the debate was delete. — Malcolm (talk) 19:59, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat copyright holder is attributed (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unused, redundant to {{attribution}}. —Remember the dot (talk) 22:31, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

comment as it's not even used, and isn't likely to be chosen accidently, any need for a redirect? — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 16:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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