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December 3

Template:LDSInfobox

Template:LDSInfobox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Moving from MFD, where template was listed by mistake. Original MFD discussion is copy-pasted below. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • 05:11, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Any LDS Church-unique info this template conveys is now more comprehensively conveyed in Template:LDSGAinfo (see, for example, redundancy on Gordon B. Hinckley). The biographical info is better presented in Template:Infobox Person (see WP:GA Thomas S. Monson) and any succession info is already presented in the Template:Succession boxs at the bottom of each article. -- Eustress (talk) 04:12, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• Tentative support for deletion, so long as someone commits to add Template:LDSApostleshipinfo to the presidents of the church pages, since this nominated template currently contains the information that would regularly be presented there for apostles who were not presidents. This is relatively complicated, but Template:LDSGAinfo does NOT contain the same information as Template:LDSApostleshipinfo—one contains apostle ordination date and one contains membership in the Qof12 date. Some people think these are always the same, but they are not, and some people have been apostles for years without being a member of the Qof12. In the end, I can't really say that I think this proposal is accomplishing much, since one template will be deleted but another will have to be added to all the pages it is on anyway. I suppose it could be seen as a type of standardization, but at the same time it's also a bit of a make-work project for someone. I think the nominator and I discussed this at one point; I just can't seem to remember where it was. (But yes, per TPH below, this needs to go to WP:TFD.) Good Ol’factory 04:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Template:Whiggishness

Template:Whiggishness (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template, though well-meaning and employed on at least some of the five articles it is in use on accurately, the template amounts to a POV-pushing template - the Whiggish view of history is a significant strain of historical thought. To specifically call it out in this form gives the false impression that we are unusually biased against this POV, and that this POV is considered unacceptable for Misplaced Pages. It is not appropriate to have a template that treats a given perspective as a specific problem. Phil Sandifer (talk) 01:27, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Too specific, a bit POV pushing. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • 03:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Template:!vote

Template:!vote (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Duplicates the functionality of {{not a ballot}}. Brought here instead of speedy deletion because:

• The "birthdays" of these templates are close together (but {{!vote}} is younger)
• {{not a ballot}} survived a TfD at one point (though it was a speedy keep)
• The templates are not identical stylistically, and the WP community should choose which is better rather than simply throw one away.
• A desire to avoid drama if at all possible. Thinboy00 @076, i.e. 00:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• The two templates obviously duplicate each other's functionality, but that's a reason for a merger, not a deletion. We should simply settle on the wording and style (perhaps a combination of the two), place the updated code at Template:Not a ballot, and redirect Template:!vote. —David Levy 01:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• Merge/redirect to Template:Not a ballot since that's the older one. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • 03:51, 3 December 2008 (UTC)