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The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) ~ Rob^Talk 05:22, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Integral thought (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is essentially a

• Delete - Too much honour for this pseudo-philosopher. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 14:46, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also have a look at Category:Integral thought, and its subcategories, and List of integral thinkers and supporters. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 05:19, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:23, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom (and more pruning is still needed) - David Gerard (talk) 10:50, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was relisted here. (non-admin closure) ~ Rob^Talk 14:44, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Religion primary (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages
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• Template:Faith primary (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages
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The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) ~ Rob^Talk 05:35, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Clayden1st (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

template:cite book wrapper used on eight pages. Even if kept, the book link looks like something promotional to me. I'm not sure why the link is there at all. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:18, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• delete, we don't need it. Frietjes (talk) 02:27, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was keep. An editor has noted their need for this, and the only explanation for deletion has been unneeded. Strength of arguments is fairly clear. (non-admin closure) ~ Rob^Talk 22:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Chicago 16th (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

template:cite book wrapper for citing to The Chicago Manual of Style that is only used at Op. cit.. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:13, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Stop trying to delete source-specific cite templates. We have hundreds of these, they exist for a reason (namely that someone has been or will be using them extensively). I'll be using this one in particular, and various other style manual cite templates, quite a lot over the next year as I work on our pitiful articles on English grammar and usage (nearly all of which will cite this source, most of them multiple times). All of the templates of this sort need to be reworked to be cleanly substitutable (i.e. so they can be used to generate standard {{Cite book}} or whatever after being substituted), but this will take work. It's on my to-do list, and there is no hurry. These templates require no maintenance (other than that impending work, which I'm volunteering for). The only maintenance hassle associated with these templates is periodic TfDs to kill them all for no reason, which always close with a consensus to keep them. Please just give it a rest. People have been trying sporadically and misguidedly to delete single-source cite templates for at least 5 years, and the answer is always the same: If if saves people time creating valid citations to reliable sources we want that because it means more material that is present will be sourced, and more new sourced material will be added. PS: I think what's motivating this is the earlier, proper merging of redundant templates for types of citation data, e.g. DOI templates, etc., into the main templates for media of citation (book, journal, etc.). These are not the same thing. They are source-specific, to obviate the need to keep re-re-re-entering the same author, title, publisher, date, etc. stuff over and over again for the same source. It's exceedingly tedious, and it discourages encyclopedic editing to keep attacking these templates. We have an entire category tree for these templates, across all sorts of topics, and it has been long-term stable. Just leave it alone, please.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:29, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We've also deleted hundreds of them as well. The category makes sense for certain types of citations. Here, it's a static citation with no web link or something that needs to be saved used one time. I get that some people like them for their personal usage but in over four years, there is literally a single page where it is used. I get that a lot of people are the nerdy types who don't care that a page refers to a template and can figure out how this work but when it's hard enough to teach a lot of people to use ref formatting, adding that they should know that to cite the 16th edition of the Chicago Style Manual, they should use Chicago 16th and formatted it as such and so on, just for your personal simplicity is a bit much. I don't have a clue how repetitive or tedious it can be to copy this citation when it's not used anywhere else. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:10, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All templates are only used one time, until they are used more than one time. If this is deleted, I'll simply re-create it when I need it again, per

WP:NOT#BUREAUCRACY, which is also relevant here).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  16:23, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PS: If you really want, I can hasten my re-entry into that topic, and use this template a dozen times tomorrow, thus mooting your "rationale" that it's only been used once. Then what?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  16:36, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply

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• delete, we don't need it. Frietjes (talk) 02:27, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, I need it, as does anyone else who wants to expediently cite this source multiple times, so obviously "we don't need it" is a false statement. What Frietjes really means is "I don't need it, since I don't plan to cite that source". It's
    WP:IDONTLIKEIT.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  16:23, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply
    ]
    • no, that's not what I mean. but, I don't suspect you really care what I mean. if you want a method for expediently citing sources that you frequently use, just create a list in your userspace and cut-and-paste from there. this is basically {{cite doi}} or {{cite isbn}} but with a more a opaque naming convention. Frietjes (talk) 19:05, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep – It's a fairly new and very useful source for a lot of style-related discussions in and out of article space. Having a template for it isn't hurting anything. Dicklyon (talk) 01:13, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The template has been around since February 2012. How is it new and if this is in fact such a useful source, why isn't it used? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:31, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was delete. Arguments against included redundancy and extra maintenance, whereas there wasn't really any argument for that doesn't also apply to the regular citation templates. Whereas hardcoded reference templates can be useful where a source is used on a large number of pages, this one is only used on three pages, which makes the case for "need" nonexistent. (non-admin closure) ~ Rob^Talk 14:29, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:AR4 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This seems like an exceedingly complicated wrapper for Template:Citation that is used in just three pages. While this is an important citation (or four really), the absolutely cryptic nature of how the text looks to other editors is a huge burden and pales to the very minute advantage gained in something that could just as easily be stored in a reflist template. Ricky81682 (talk) 00:18, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. Both about the complicated and cryptic parts (have you seen the citation template?), as well as the burden part. The code in this template is very simple and is only long because it handles a lot of text.

Have you looked at an expanded AR4 citation that is included in a reflist? Because the template makes it readable as opposed to complicated and cryptic :) --Kim D. Petersen 06:48, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, I have. It's only readable if you know that AR4 is supposed to output like that. If I was looking at it and wanted to fix something, it's cryptic as hell to me. Template:citation is at least logical in that the parameters reflect what the parameters do and we can point people to that and tell them it pretty easily to figure out. To add, "hey if you want to cite one of four particular citations, you should know that it's AR4 and then parameter WG1-4 and so on and so on and of course it mandates a harvard citation within it and other fun stuff all because one person likes it that way. You do realize there are more citations in here than pages it is being used on, right? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Template needs a rewrite because it misuses the {{

harvnb

}} (presumably because {{citation}} prefixes the editor name-list with 'in ' when both |author= and |editor= are set); misuses |chapter= to hold a section title; misuses |title= to hold the chapter title; misuses |author= to hold a mostly comma-separated list of names.

It is the purpose of the cs1|2 templates to provide a complete citation of the source. To do that, it needs to know the title of the work; in this case one of the various IPCC assessment reports. As used by {{AR4}}, {{citation}} does not know the title of the IPCC report. The 'title' in |editor= doesn't count because {{citation}} does not know that {{Harvnb|IPCC AR4 WG1|2007}} is not an editor's name.

It is the purpose of the cs1|2 templates to provide formatting of the parameter data when the citation is rendered. In accordance with MOS, chapter titles are rendered in upright font enclosed in quotation marks; book titles are rendered in italic font. Because there is no 'proper' title for citations created by {{AR4}}, the chapter title is rendered in italic font.

It is the purpose of the cs1|2 templates to provide complete and correct metadata to Wikipedia consumers who use reference management software. Every citation created by {{AR4}} will produce incomplete and corrupted metadata. Incomplete because there is no proper title; corrupted because |author= is a singular parameter used here to hold multiple names.

And it could be simplified.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:21, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Another reason why it should be deleted. It requires an entirely separate maintenance separate from the main citation templates. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:31, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• delete, we don't need it. Frietjes (talk) 02:27, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• I don't really mind it, but it might be simpler to just use other templates instead of rewriting this one. —PC-XT+ 22:17, 4 June 2016 (UTC) 22:18, 4 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was replace with {{Infobox book}}. This is as opposed to merging the support for custom fields, which was rejected. The custom fields can be proposed at Template talk:Infobox book if contributors feel they're needed. (non-admin closure) ~ Rob^Talk 00:01, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Infobox Harry Potter book (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Infobox book (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Infobox Harry Potter book with Template:Infobox book.
It seems unnecessary to have a separate specialized template for nine mainspace pages (and three userspace versions of the same content). It's literally just a wrapper for Template:Infobox book anyways with a few parameters set here as opposed to copied down. The reasons against these kinds of wrappers as changes to template will necessary break these kinds of templates and so little is gained from this for the very minute adjustments that would be required to just have this follow every other book article. Ricky81682 (talk) 00:06, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just to be clear, how do you propose handling the extra fields Sales, Story timeline, Chapter Count, and Word count when the template is merged into {{Infobox book}}? --RexxS (talk) 08:25, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't notice those existed. Are those parameters so important that the Harry Potter books need to be distinguishable from all other books? Sales, chapter and word count I guess could be merged but I don't know why they exist in the infobox anyways. If the main infobox discussed them and rejected their inclusion, shouldn't that consensus flow to the Harry Potter books as well? Is it a fork of the infobox to have different parameters? Story timeline I don't see why that's even a part of the infobox. Is there something so special that Harry Potter requires not just this special infobox for the series but also its own citation format? It seems to me more like it's popular and it's a great way for people in a particular project to insulate themselves from the remainder of the project. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:19, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefuly not, as now, by shoehorning them into inappropriate fields like |genre=. What a mess! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep or modify
  Join WP Japan! 20:23, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Subst: then delete as redundant; the creator (or anyone interested) should then propose the new properties on the {{Infobox book}} talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Seems to me it would be more effective to propose them first, and then migrate over rather than substing a huge amount of code into the top of the pages in question. ···
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• Merge per nom. The custom fields should not be included. We shouldn't treat the infobox for these books any differently than for other books. Why do we need a word count, etc., in the infobox? If the information is needed, then it can be dealt with in prose. --
  talk) 10:20, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Merge and drop all the custom fields. The fact the custom fields aren't in the infobox is because they aren't needed- if actually needed, they could be added by
  consensus to the normal template. No reason why HP books need/should have a special template, the whole point of a template is to keep infoboxes universal. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:56, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply
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