Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 December 28
Single use template The Banner talk 16:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
WP:NENAN The Banner talk 16:45, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
Single use template, just one player has an article The Banner talk 16:45, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
Single use template, just one player has an article The Banner talk 16:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
WP:NENAN The Banner talk 16:43, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
New maintenance template of unclear utility. This was created by one user to rag on the number of templates present on just one article (1st Marine Division (Wehrmacht)), but there are numerous reasons why it's a bad and misguided idea.
Firstly, it's been deleted at least once before, per Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 March 20#Template:Too many templates, although obviously that was long enough ago that I can't just immediately speedy it as a recreation of deleted content without a new discussion.
Secondly, it's quite counterproductive to deal with an article that you think has too many maintenance templates on it by adding yet another one to the pile -- identifying the templates as the problem, instead of the content issues that the templates are tagging for in the first place, is classic "can't see the forest for the trees". The solution to "too many templates" isn't "add yet another one", it's "fix the actual content problems so that some or all of the templates can be removed".
Thirdly, the creator tried to make this template file its prisoners into a dated monthly "Wikipedia articles with too many maintenance templates" category scheme that doesn't exist to have articles filed in it -- but precisely because maintenance templates generate process overhead like that, they should not generally be created by just one user willy-nilly, and should be supported by a consensus of Wikipedians that a new process is warranted. But this would obviously have existed long before two days ago if any significant number of Wikipedians actually saw a genuine need for it, so there clearly isn't such a consensus. Bearcat (talk) 14:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Asshole. It wasn't created to rag. Calm down and next time try posting a comment that's about a third as long. KMaster888 (talk) 15:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delete Maintenance templates serve a purpose: to improve the article. It would be better to solve the issues mentioned then just shoot down the templates. The Banner talk 16:53, 28 December 2024 (UTC)