Wikipedia:Templates for discussion

Template:Last edit

• Template:Last edit (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This doesn't work... Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. Talk to me. 13:13, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Bids for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

• Template:Bids for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This is a template with mostly redlinks, and it's likely to stay that way. Just proposed Athens bid for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics for deletion. The only remaining article is Singapore bid for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, which might make sense to merge into Bids for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics anyway. Dreamyshade (talk) 00:59, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Japanese deity genealogies

• Template:Eight generations of Izumo (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Generations of Jimmu (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

These templates contain two primary issues that concern me:

1. It is not possible to separate myth from history in a template like this. The only way to do that would be if it were made into an article, but I don't believe these are notable concepts qualifying for a page.

2. There is no single agreed upon genealogy as there are multiple conflicting mythological accounts (contained within the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki which are inherently political documents), as well as several alterations done throughout the years for political purposes. This means a Wikipedia editor would have had synthesize sources and decide which of those is "correct", which I feel violates WP:OR.

I propose deleting these templates and handling these mythological genealogies as they are in Ōyamatsumi by simply discussing them in the article. Erynamrod (talk) 20:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

• Comment I'm fine either way but I just want to add, if this tree does stay we need to decide on what genealogy the page will follow. Both the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki list different parents, children and siblings for different people. Maybe we can merge the two templates together if they stay? Camillz (talk) 10:52, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

I agree we would have to choose to stick to one if we kept them, but then doesn't that mean we have as editors chosen to present that single genealogy as the primary one? And how to we make it very clear what is myth and what is history?

A slightly different view, but the Genealogy Wikiproject states: "Wikipedia is not a genealogy. Family histories should be presented only where appropriate to support the reader's understanding of a notable topic." But wouldn't having one single genealogy in this case actually lead readers to understand the topic less as it will imply there is one primary genealogy? Erynamrod (talk) 12:33, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

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Comment: if this is a content issue, then this is less TfD territory. Decide on the relevant talk page what to use, and place it on the relevant pages. If there are conflicting myth lists and you want the trees, then maybe both are valid, while indicating the sources for each tree and explaining in prose the differences. Gonnym (talk) 12:39, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

My argument is that there are too many possible trees to even have any, and therefore we should have none, because having just one, even if it sticks to one source, implies that is the correct genealogy, and it would be biased to present any of them as the correct genealogy. So I am suggesting deletion.

Also, these two specific trees aren't notable concepts that deserve their own trees as far as I can find. There is Template:Three generations of Hyuga which is a specific concept that has been the subject of academic research (it's done incorrectly in this template and I intend to fix it, which is why I haven't nominated that one for deletion).

The creator of these two trees has been been banned for several reasons, but they've recreated Template:Eight generations of Izumo here on Simple English[] but have decided it's an entirely different concept (it's also not that concept, I don't know why they are trying to claim it is), which only adds to my belief that this particular template doesn't present a specific notable concept but rather muddies the waters around the fact that these genealogies are varied and political. Erynamrod (talk) 09:07, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Infobox song contest country/CanadaOTI

• Template:Infobox song contest country/CanadaOTI (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused as Canada in the OTI Festival was deleted. Gonnym (talk) 07:42, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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Delete, unused and contains no links. BLAIXX 22:49, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Infobox song contest country/Equatorial GuineaOTI

• Template:Infobox song contest country/Equatorial GuineaOTI (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused as Equatorial Guinea in the OTI Festival was deleted. Gonnym (talk) 07:43, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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Delete, unused and contains no links. BLAIXX 22:49, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Sports governing bodies in Chad

• Template:Sports governing bodies in Chad (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template containing only a single link to an existing article on a governing body and listing many that don't exist such as pelota vasca. AusLondonder (talk) 18:53, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Asian of the Century

• Template:Asian of the Century (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

A list of people in a single issue of a magazine in 1999 is not a suitable topic for a navbox. --woodensuperman 09:34, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete, topics are not related enough to require a navbox with their membership. BLAIXX 22:47, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup

• Template:NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Only two unique links ("Final" is a redirect to the parent article). BLAIXX 03:37, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:AcademicSearch

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

The Microsoft Academic Research site was shut down on December 31, 2021. Any invocation of this template results in a confusing redirect. I think invocations of the template should be globally replaced with {{citation needed}} templates. Back in 2017, the IDs were renumbered and AFAICT nothing was done to address that. Seems like this template is not maintained, and it would be best just to start over. -- mikeblas (talk) 22:49, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Ozone aircraft

• Template:Ozone aircraft (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

The articles listed on this template are all redirects except two. The template isn't needed. PhilKnight (talk) 14:06, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

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Template:6arelyhuman

• Template:6arelyhuman (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Following a recent AfD, this template now lists only the artist and one song in which they are featured. In its current form it serves little navigational purpose and appears unnecessary; therefore deletion is proposed. Sricsi (talk) 19:22, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete, not enough links to be useful for navigation. BLAIXX 03:41, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Cr-IPL/home

• Template:Cr-IPL/home (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unnecessary template; could be replaced with plain wikitext. Vestrian24Bio 13:24, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Comment: I'm looking at the usage as 2007–08 Sheffield Shield season and I don't see any space issues where "Home team" can't be written fully. Why do we need an ambiguous abbreviation here? Unless there is an actual valid usage here, I'm leaning replace with full text and delelte. Gonnym (talk) 18:15, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Cr-IND

• Template:Cr-IND (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template only produces plain wikilinks; No need to use a template to do that. Vestrian24Bio 13:21, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Keep With 30+ teams in Indian domestic cricket and 4/5 tournaments yearly, this is very useful for editors like us, which makes it easy to create league fixtures where it generates team names with just code.Godknowme1 (talk) 13:58, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Milica Majstorović

• Template:Milica Majstorović (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

only used in two articles, which can be connected by simple in-article linking or see also linking Frietjes (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Nina Petković

• Template:Nina Petković (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

only used in one article Frietjes (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand

All links are in the navbox for the topic of the pandemic in New Zealand at Template:COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand. All it needs is to add the navbox to these pages for each year. --~2026-13909-16 (talk) 15:58, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

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U2 album navboxes

• Template:All That You Can't Leave Behind (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Boy (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:No Line on the Horizon (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Rattle and Hum (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:The Unforgettable Fire (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:War (U2 album) (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Zooropa (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Nothing here other than track listings, not really an appropriate use of a navbox, better left for normal navigation through articles, etc. There's also {{U2 songs}} with all the songs in chronological order. --woodensuperman 16:33, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. Seems fine to me; these list the songs on the album for navigation, while {{U2 songs}} lists all songs in chronological order ... which isn't so convenient sometimes. -- mikeblas (talk) 22:58, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:GECF

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

Navbox with no transclusions. The links in the navbox body to not point to articles about the topic of the navbox. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:02, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Abraham

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

Another linkspam sidebar... Per WP:SIDEBAR, this is far from a group of articles with a single, coherent subject. It will never be fully transcluded and is useless for navigation, serving instead as decoration. Let's not take away so much space from images and real educational content. MediaKyle (talk) 11:03, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete Weak delete per nom. (If anyone thinks the content should be kept, then they can convert it into a footer template.) Feline Hymnic (talk) 12:24, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Downgrading my previous "delete". That had been based on the excessive amount of screen real-estate it had been swallowing and its consequent over-dominance of the main subject matter. Since then, the change by Wikieditor662 (to whom thanks!) has largely addressed that aspect. Feline Hymnic (talk) 22:15, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTDATABASE. GenoV84 (talk) 15:46, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Strong Keep this is far from a group of articles with a single, coherent subject. this is simply incorrect. Abraham is the main subject, and every other article on there is related to him. These are a group of articles that all center around the main page and help guide readers towards other similar and related pages and understand the topic better. There's no reason for this to be deleted.

Also, sidebars just like this are used in multiple WP:FA articles, such as Jesus and Genghis Khan. Wikieditor662 (talk) 16:56, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

PS I just collapsed the list, so it should be much shorter now. Wikieditor662 (talk) 17:13, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Being vaguely related is not enough for inclusion in a sidebar... The Genghis Khan sidebar is actually not too bad, as it's constrained to articles such as Wives of Genghis Khan and Burial place of Genghis Khan... Such articles don't exist for Abraham. Instead, this sidebar includes everything under the sun, like Ancient Egypt. This is not useful for navigation and takes away space from educational materials. See also WP:BIDIRECTIONAL -- this sidebar doesn't belong on most of these articles, so most of these articles shouldn't be on the sidebar. We really just don't need any more of these. MediaKyle (talk) 17:19, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

But WP:ATD says If editing can address all relevant reasons for deletion, this should be done rather than deleting the page. So if removing certain articles you don't think fit could be an alternative, shouldn't that be done instead? Wikieditor662 (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't think that is an alternative. If you removed all of the articles that don't belong, you'd have nothing left. This is not useful to our readers and should be deleted. MediaKyle (talk) 23:33, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Second update: I've removed some lesser significant/relevant articles. Let me know if you want me to remove even more, I can do that.

But there are definitely articles that are very much related to Abraham and are about him. In fact, I'd say he has just as many (if not more!) relevant articles to him than Genghis Khan. For example Abraham's family tree, Abraham and Lot's conflict, Abraham and the Idol Shop, and many others. Wikieditor662 (talk) 23:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:He or she

• Template:He or she (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:He/she (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Him or her (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Him/her (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:His or her (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:His/her (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:His or hers (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:He or she with Template:they.
I think that these templates should be redirected (so that old usages do not break/need replacement). Per WP:EDPRONOUNS basically. The whole point of these templates is to be gender-inclusive but if someone goes by "they" then this template will just call them "he or she". It defeats its own purpose because it does this. This may also be considered WP:INCIVIL as a microaggression. Redirect/merge proposals as follows:

• template:he or she and template:he/she→template:they
• template:him or her and template:him/her→template:them
• template:his or her and template:his/her→template:their
• template:his or hers→template:theirs Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 00:15, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

These templates seem pointless. Why not just type out his/her instead of using a template to do that? Traumnovelle (talk) 00:25, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

A deletion of all these templates would be more controversial, so I am only advocating for redirecting right now Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 01:00, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Redirect to four "they" templates. I agree with the list of four mergers in the second section. The nomination is a bit confusing, but I see why the nominations are grouped. The output of "he or she" is incorrect in the modern era for someone whose pronoun is not specified in their preferences; "they" is the appropriate pronoun to use in 2026 for a singular person of unknown gender. The same goes for the other three his/her pronoun templates. This merge should not be technically difficult: we should be able to simply redirect the four sets of "he/she" templates to the four equivalent "they" templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:31, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Replying to the "oppose" votes: It is unclear to me whether anything has changed in Wikipedia's software, but the templates that are recommended for merging no longer match the English Wikipedia's default language and are exclusionary with the potential to be hurtful. What I see when I go to Preferences and look at the gender choices is this:

Gender used in messages:

• Unspecified: Use gender-neutral terms when possible (e.g. "their contributions", "that editor") (default)
• Use feminine terms when possible (e.g. "her contributions")
• Use masculine terms when possible (e.g. "his contributions")

If we look at Wikipedia's default output when the GENDER magic word is called, we see {GENDER|Jonesey95} outputting "they" because I have the first choice selected (I have chosen not to specify my gender in my preferences, so "they" is the proper, inclusive way to refer to me). The "he/she" and "he or she" style of templates force the "no gender selected" option to output "he or she" instead of the correct, neutral output "they". Forcing this binary output excludes editors who do not identify as one of the two genders, and goes against MOS:GNL and the very helpful explanation about addressing other editors respectfully at Wikipedia:Editors' pronouns. I'm not interested in righting great wrongs here; it's a matter of making template output match the output of Wikipedia's magic word, our MOS, and basic respect for other editors. If people want to subst all of the he/she template instances to preserve what is written on talk pages before redirecting them for future use, I can see value in that, since preserving editors' original words in discussions is also something we value on Wikipedia. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

In most cases the output will be exactly identical. In the cases where it will not be, the editor who is being referred to was misgendered. I don't think its a big deal and "preservation" can be ignored Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 22:39, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose per the previous time this was tried - nothing has changed since. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:51, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose per last TfD. Talk pages are records of what was said and shouldn't be tampered with retroactively. Nardog (talk) 03:30, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

  they don't need to be, the template can be replaced with what was said and then deleted. Right now its duplication. If this is kept, then it wshould be marked as archived or the like. Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 21:49, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Welcome needed/sort

• Template:Welcome needed/sort (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Welcome needed/valid date (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused sub templates. Couldn't find usages with an insource search either. Gonnym (talk) 09:55, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Fair use candidate from Commons notice

• Template:Fair use candidate from Commons notice (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

User notice template that doesn't seem to have been used based on the bot request. Gonnym (talk) 09:50, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:BibTeX

• Template:BibTeX (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Module:BibTeX (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions, documentation, categories, or incoming links from discussions to explain why it exists. Created just over one month ago. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:28, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Keep I have to say it's hard to AGF when you list something I was working on yesterday. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 17:19, 12 February 2026 (UTC).

Especially given this edit. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 17:20, 12 February 2026 (UTC).

It is unreasonable to expect anyone to have found that edit. The template and the module had zero edits since they were created over a month ago, and the template outputs a big red error message. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:10, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Yes, but I did find it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC).

Keep as Rich Farmbrough is clearly using it. I'm reminded of the term "hostile collaboration", I forget who said that last time. Lots of ways this could've went without coming here. MediaKyle (talk) 12:25, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Userfy this template, as no changes have been made to improve it since the TFD nomination was posted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:34, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Userfy module and template. A single hour of edits was made when this was created and has since not been touched. Gonnym (talk) 21:45, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

• move to userspace, not ready for general use. Frietjes (talk) 21:14, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Functors

• Template:Functors (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Category theory (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Functors with Template:Category theory.
This should just be a group of the {{Category theory}} navbox, since a number of these are quite fundamental and topics from that navbox are often closely related to ones from this one. If there can be a large section for higher category theory topics, there can be one for functors too. 1234qwer1234qwer4 05:41, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Igen/LibreOffice

• Template:Igen/LibreOffice (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Matplotlib (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Other tool (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Igen/R (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Text Editor (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Unknown tool (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused banner template that indicate in what program an image was created. Serious question, does it even matter to the wiki? Gonnym (talk) 15:35, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

My take is that it might matter to files in wikipedia. this matters for non-free SVGs, where the tool really matters to let graphists know what tool to edit with (some tools really dump a lot of junk, exploding the file sizes), of what DPI the file is in (this matters for proportions or dimensions. Different SVG tools might have different standards, like 96 DPI for Inkscape, 70+ for Adobe I) RAPTOR7762^{Whats up?} 00:12, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete as unused more than a month after their creation. Please do not create templates speculatively, thinking that they might be used someday. Create them only when there is a need. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:39, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep if you are going to have this on the info page anyway, who is actually going to see it other than if they decided to go to the image page? Strong keep here. Robloxguest3 (talk) 15:43, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:ClockBlock/doc

• Template:ClockBlock/doc (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Humor pages should not interfere with the rest of the wiki procedures, yet User:Hex is intentionally doing so. They've reverted adding the /doc page here causing the /doc page to be unused and orphaned, and reverted deleting the /doc page here which what happens per T5. Either the /doc page is needed and should be restored, or it is not needed. Gonnym (talk) 13:36, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep and include in {{ClockBlock}}, per Wikipedia:Template namespace#Guidelines: "Templates should be clearly documented as to their usage and scope." – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:50, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

  I'm fine with that also. Gonnym (talk) 13:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete and trout both the person who thought it was a good use of anyone's time, let alone their own, to add a totally unnecessary and pointless documentation template to a humorous template in the first place and the nominator for their hyperbolic claim of "interfering with wiki procedures". Both of you need to go outside once in a while.  — Hex • talk 08:24, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

  Feel free to cite a guideline or policy. And I went outside three days ago! That should be enough. I can see outside through the bars on my cell window. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:40, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Freedom of panorama

• Template:Freedom of panorama (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions or documentation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:33, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Sébastien Vaniček

• Template:Sébastien Vaniček (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Has only directed two films. WP:NENAN. --woodensuperman 12:28, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Francis Galluppi

• Template:Francis Galluppi (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Has only directed one film with an article. WP:NENAN --woodensuperman 12:26, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Nick Bruno

• Template:Nick Bruno (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Has only directed two films. WP:NENAN --woodensuperman 12:25, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:YYYY in Australian soccer category header

• Template:YYYY in Australian soccer category header (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused after Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 23#Australian soccer by year categories. Gonnym (talk) 09:38, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 19:24, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 19:25, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete per nom. FastCube (talk) 12:57, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Franconia Members Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter Map

• Template:Franconia Members Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter Map (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused image template. Gonnym (talk) 09:29, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Please delete. Grimes2 20:12, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey case fatality rate chart

• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey case fatality rate chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey cumulative COVID-19 case chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey daily COVID-19 test chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey daily confirmed COVID-19 case chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey daily confirmed COVID-19 death chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Turkey test positivity rate chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused Graph-based COVID templates. Since they are using the disabled Graph extension, I also oppose moving these instead of deleting. Gonnym (talk) 09:26, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:McCartney III tracks

Template:Modern Rock Radio Stations in Missouri

• Template:Modern Rock Radio Stations in Missouri (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

There is all of one article in this navbox now, and it is for a station that is now defunct; it is no longer used even on that article. I don't see any reason to keep this beyond any "what if stations flip to this format eventually?" concerns that are not something Wikipedia should try to forsee. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:41, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete. Nothing to navigate to. Gonnym (talk) 08:38, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Module:SongContestData

• Module:SongContestData (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Userify this module since all of the templates that used it were moved to the creator's userspace at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2026_February_22#SongContest_templates. Gonnym (talk) 17:49, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Hatching table

• Template:Hatching table (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused template with 0 transclusions. FaviFake (talk) 14:58, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Just noting for the record a transclusion was removed in Special:Diff/1342352076 just prior to nomination. Primefac (talk) 17:13, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, it was used only on that page so i substed it and merged it with a similar table in the same article. Should've probably specified it in the nom but doesn't make much of a difference i guess. FaviFake (talk) 22:37, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete as template was subst to article so no unused. Gonnym (talk) 08:40, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:NWSL labeled map

• Template:NWSL labeled map (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused after these edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:15, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

• delete, easier to just keep the map in the article. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
• keep, I've re-purposed the data from the page into the template, so it's being used again. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 19:04, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 04:11, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete — There's no justification for a map as simple as this being separate from the only article it's transcluded onto. — AFC Vixen 🦊 08:32, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep Comment — Just because a template is currently being transcluded onto only one article doesn't mean that it won't be transcluded onto other articles in the future. As a matter of fact, I thought the purpose of templates was to encourage their use across multiple articles. As such, I don't understand the reasoning behind deleting map templates, which I've now seen several TfDs for. Assadzadeh (talk) 09:19, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  Can you think of enough use cases for this template that a simple selective transclusion like the one I had attemped at Expansion of Major League Soccer [1][2] wouldn't suffice? There'd be no predjudice against recreating it in the future if enough use cases do arise, but this is putting the cart before the horse. — AFC Vixen 🦊 10:30, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  How many use cases is enough to justify creating a separate template? As for the MLS labeled map (which we should continue discussing elsewhere), it is just too small to include 30 labels on it. That's why I increased its size in the template. Assadzadeh (talk) 16:05, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  I'd say three or four, but I hope we can at the very least agree it should be more than just one. — AFC Vixen 🦊 20:50, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  I agree with that. So, using this template as an example, when I click on "What links here", it returns 9 items: National Women's Soccer League, 2 User pages, and 6 Wikipedia:Templates for discussion. So, are we ignoring the User and Templates for discussion items for the total? Assadzadeh (talk) 22:09, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  Six are links to this discussion, one is a weird duplication of this discussion, and one is this discussion. None are actual transclusions of this map. I'm not sure what your point is. — AFC Vixen 🦊 22:45, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  I'm just trying to understand what the criteria is for creating map templates as opposed to transcluding the code in an article. Assadzadeh (talk) 01:36, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep Template has been restored on this edit: . Can also potentially keep number of bytes down so editors aren't concerned possible too large word size per WP:SIZERULE, but if that policy makes the articles less good, we could just ignore it. But Keep.

Servite et contribuere (talk) 15:37, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

WP:SIZERULE is for the prose word count in prose. I'm unsure what it has to do with this. — AFC Vixen 🦊 15:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Module:WageCompare

• Module:WageCompare (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused after several months. Izno (talk) 03:13, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete. Basically their only edit and they haven't returned. Gonnym (talk) 13:20, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

• delete per above --Lenticel ^(talk) 05:23, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Chunom and Template:Chuhan

• Template:Chunom (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Chuhan (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template:Chunom and Template:Chuhan are redundant to Template:Viet.

See:
{{Chunom|越南}} → ‹The template Chunom is being considered for deletion.›  chữ Nôm: 越南
{{Chuhan|越南}} → ‹The template Chuhan is being considered for deletion.›  chữ Hán: 越南
{{Viet|越南|context=nom}} → chữ Nôm: 越南
{{Viet|越南|context=han}} → chữ Hán: 越南

Template:Viet can also show literal translations and the Vietnamese alphabet, which Template:Chunom and Template:Chuhan.

{{Viet|越南|lit=Viet South}} → Vietnamese: 越南; lit. 'Viet South'
{{Viet|越南|cqn=Việt Nam}} → Vietnamese: 越南; chữ Quốc ngữ: Việt Nam
S Y T · 三葉草 22:29, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Comment: ideally all 3 should not exist and {{Langx}} should be able to support this. Gonnym (talk) 08:42, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:2007 in Kenyan football

Template:OlivierAward SetDesign footer

• Template:OlivierAward SetDesign footer (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:OlivierAward LightingDesign footer (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:OlivierAward CostumeDesign footer (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No longer used after the transcluding pages were redirected/merged. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:26, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete as unused. Gonnym (talk) 08:42, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:USL Championship club map

• Template:USL Championship club map (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions. Replaced by a better map. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:24, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 12:10, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 12:12, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
• delete per nom --Lenticel ^(talk) 05:24, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:NLL arenas map

• Template:NLL arenas map (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions. Replaced by a better map. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:23, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep For those "Geographically Challenged", it's a visual aid to see where teams are located on this earth..Roberto221 (talk) 19:15, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete as unused. Gonnym (talk) 08:43, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete — prior to their replacements with {{OSM Location map}}s on the articles themselves, {{NLL arenas map}}, {{CFL labeled map}}, and {{WPBL labeled map}} were each transcluded on only one article. These templates are nowhere near large or complex enough to justify existing separately from the pages themselves. See also: the TfD discussion for {{WPBL labeled map}}. — AFC Vixen 🦊 08:03, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep — Template is now repurposed with the OpenStreetMap content that was replaced on the National Lacrosse League page. It's a useful template that can be reused in other contexts. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 12:55, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  What other contexts? — AFC Vixen 🦊 13:12, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  We're having the same discussion on multiple pages. Let's continue here. Assadzadeh (talk) 16:17, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:B−V to K

• Template:B−V to K (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions or incoming links from discussions. Created in 2024. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:18, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete as unused. Gonnym (talk) 08:43, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Silver W Award Nomination

• Template:Silver W Award Nomination (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions or incoming links from discussions. Created in 2024. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:18, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Keep as creator, meant for WP:W Awards as a nomination process. No transclusions or incoming links because no one has been nominated for it yet. I am not as active onwiki as I want to be because of life and work but I do let others take control of that project where they see fit. Thanks, Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 02:51, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete. This process never started and as the creator above noted they are not really active, no one else will use it. Gonnym (talk) 08:45, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:FPCdelrep

Template:PWHL labeled map

• Template:PWHL labeled map (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions, documentation, or incoming links from discussions. Created in June 2025. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:15, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

• keep: I've repurposed the template using content from the PWHL page, so no need to delete. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 19:07, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete and inline. Single-use template, no other uses. --MikeVitale 19:19, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
• Subst and delete. Simple and short image template that should be used directly in the article. Gonnym (talk) 09:01, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete — There's no justification for a map as simple as this being separate from the only article it's transcluded onto. — AFC Vixen 🦊 08:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep Comment — Just because a template is currently being transcluded onto only one article doesn't mean that it won't be transcluded onto other articles in the future. As a matter of fact, I thought the purpose of templates was to encourage their use across multiple articles. As such, I don't understand the reasoning behind deleting map templates, which I've now seen several TfDs for. Assadzadeh (talk) 09:55, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  Can you think of enough use cases for this template that a simple selective transclusion like the one I had attemped at Expansion of Major League Soccer [1][2] wouldn't suffice? There'd be no predjudice against recreating it in the future if enough use cases do arise, but this is putting the cart before the horse. — AFC Vixen 🦊 10:30, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  We're having the same discussion on multiple pages. Let's continue here. Assadzadeh (talk) 16:13, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Codex icon

Template:Football box collapsible teams

• Template:Football box collapsible teams (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions, documentation, categories, or incoming links from discussions. Created in October 2025. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:11, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete as unused. Gonnym (talk) 09:03, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:PD-AustralianStateGov

• Template:PD-AustralianStateGov (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions, documentation, or incoming links from discussions. Created in October 2025. Public domain files would presumably be on Commons. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:10, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

HI @Jonesey95it canb be deleted because it was originally for a commons local copy of File:Flag of the Australian Capital Territory.svg RAPTOR7762^{Whats up?} 01:07, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete as unused and G7 per author's comment above. Gonnym (talk) 09:04, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Non-free AustralianStateGov

Template:YUV to RGB

• Template:YUV to RGB (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Module:YUVtoRGB (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions or incoming links. Created in January 2026. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:06, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Comment: Module:YUVtoRGB should also be included. Gonnym (talk) 09:05, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:PWHL Year

• Template:PWHL Year (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions or incoming links. Created in January 2026. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:05, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Infobox element/symbol-to-most-stable-isotope-weight

Template:Microeconomics sidebar

Template:Where span

Template:Bridges in Germany

Template:Congo Basin endemic fishes

Template:G.A.(U.S.) GovRow

• Template:G.A.(U.S.) GovRow (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions or incoming links from discussions. Documentation refers in many places to a different template. Created in January 2026. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:56, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:ComplexDate

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

No transclusions, documentation, categories, or incoming links from discussions. Created in January 2026. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:55, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Raman Singh series

• Template:Raman Singh series (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

No transclusions, documentation, or incoming links from discussions. Created in January 2026. Nearly all links inside this sidebar are to generic topics that are not specifically related to the person or do not refer to him; the sidebar thus fails the basic requirements at WP:SIDEBAR. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:54, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Minimum wage row

Template:Infobox CPU test

T20 World Cup templates

[edit]

• Template:2007 World Twenty20 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2012 World Twenty20 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2014 World Twenty20 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2016 World Twenty20 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2021 Men's T20 World Cup (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2022 Men's T20 World Cup (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2024 Men's T20 World Cup (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2026 Men's T20 World Cup (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Everything in these edition-wise navboxes are covered by the two main navboxes ({{Men's T20 World Cup}} and {{Men's T20 World Cup qualification}}) making them redundant. So, I'm proposing they be replaced with the two main templates wherever necessary and be deleted.. Vestrian24Bio 13:44, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Also nominating,

• Template:2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

for the same reasoning. Vestrian24Bio 13:50, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Comment: the officials pages (such as 2007 World Twenty20 officials) are missing from the general template. Gonnym (talk) 14:28, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@Gonnym: Only the 2007 edition has an officials page, no other editions has it. Also, the 2007 navbox only has 2 distinct links. Vestrian24Bio 14:55, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Delete per nom Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 03:15, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - The two main navboxes don't contain enough detail for specific fixtures in the tournaments to suitably replace the edition-specific templates. woaharang (talk) 07:40, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep woaharang (talk) 07:41, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@Batorang: what do you mean.. All the related articles are included in the main two navboxes. Vestrian24Bio 13:33, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Izno (talk) 18:26, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Keep — these templates are to redirect the readers to the pages specific to that particular edition. Besides the general templates already exists. We should make it easier for general/casual readers to access these pages rather than trying to make it difficult and unnecessarily hard. If I were visiting the page as a first time reader, one shouldn't assume I have all the time and patience in the world to search through edition, sub regional edition year-wise and then click on a link to the specific edition of qualifiers or even the tournament pages. Cric editor (talk) 06:15, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cric editor: each edition only has 4 distinct articles including the main article - WP:NENAN. Vestrian24Bio 13:31, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Bhupesh Baghel series

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• Template:Bhupesh Baghel series (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused. Creator is now blocked. Gonnym (talk) 07:30, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Analysis:

• Main: Bhupesh Baghel
• Relevant:
  1. Baghel ministry is the ministry he oversaw
  2. Electoral history of Bhupesh Baghel
  3. Mahadev Betting App Case was a scandal with Baghel as a major participant
• Too broad:
  1. Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh was his position from 2018–2023
  2. Elections in Chhattisgarh
  3. 2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election and 2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election
  4. Cow_dung#Fertilizer: Mentions a Godhan Nyay Yojana program launched in 2020
  5. Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee is the organization for Baghel's party
• Irrelevant:
  1. Nava Raipur was established in 2000
  2. List of leaders of the opposition in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly: Baghel has never served as an opposition leader
  3. Indian coal allocation scam: Article doesn't mention Baghel
  4. Satyagraha: Article doesn't mention Baghel
  5. Kurmi: Article doesn't mention Baghel
• Unsure:
  1. Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana is a government program launched in 2020
  2. Swami Atmanand English Medium School was established in 2020
  3. Second Digvijaya Singh ministry (1998–2003) had Baghel as minister of transport
• External links:
  1. c:Category:Bhupesh Baghel

Verdict: Undecided, 3–6 relevant non-main links –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:46, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States/Pennsylvania medical cases chart

[edit]

• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States/Pennsylvania medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused COVID template. Gonnym (talk) 07:31, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Koreanic peoples

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• Template:Koreanic peoples (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Only four articles existed, it needs article expansion. Absolutiva 08:45, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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Keep. 5 links is enough for a navbox. Gonnym (talk) 13:25, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:False version

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• Template:False version (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is nonsense on its own merits. Generally vandals can edit articles just as easy as they could fake their text; the screenshots that result will have exactly the same impact, but only one gets a template. Mach61 06:36, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Revised rationale: This template is certainly unique among article message templates (confirmed by its placement in the index). Nearly all are cleanup messages meant for editors, and the current event templates note periods of rapid editing. Only this template is placed on an article based on outside interest (and not on the talk like {{high traffic}}) with the only removal guideline being the passage of some indefinite amount of time.

This was noted in previous AfDs. Its unique status is justified as fighting misinformation and downplayed with need to adapt to the information ecosystem we now live in, and the template is a step in that direction. ~6 years on I don't think Wikipedia's done much of anything to "adapt", and the strict separation of "encyclopedia" content and anything else (see also the rejection of suicide hotline links in articles).

More directly, I disagree with the principle this templates fights "misinformation" on. It would obviously be ridiculous to put a tag at the top of every article that gets a boost in views related to misinformation (e.g. putting a banner on top of John F. Kennedy Jr. saying that he definitely is not secretly alive). Mach61 16:28, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

• Keep per prior TFDs, which the nominator should have consulted before creating this one. Suggest withdrawing. Sdkb ^talk 09:23, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

  @Sdkb I did check out the previous TfD's, nobody made my argument. Mach61 20:25, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

  • Sorry, I overlooked that the template mentions outdated versions. Still want it deleted and have other reasons (that I left out of the nom statement); certainly WP:CCC applies for the 5 year old TfDs. Mach61 20:29, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Keep I find the argument raised by Sdkb in the old TfD compelling. It is unusual but it has clearly had legitimate uses. I don't think it should ever be a permanent notice however but that doesn't seem to be a problem right now. Trialpears (talk) 22:28, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Barbados medical cases chart

[edit]

• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Barbados medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Barbados new cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Barbados new deaths chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Barbados daily active chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Barbados deaths by age and gender chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

All are used on one article. All templates except for medical cases chart are a graph but are no longer displayed making it useless and no longer necessary. The vast majority of covid data templates like these have been deleted. Six years later there is no longer a need for these and Wikipedia is not a machine to crunch numbers for information like this. Other sites are still keeping track of such data and is not the purpose of Wikipedia. All should be deleted. --~2026-14463-52 (talk) 15:25, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:CF/GAR

[edit]

• Template:CF/GAR (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused template. Gonnym (talk) 11:55, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• Comment Looks like possibly it should be history-merged into Template:CF/Wikipedia good article reassessment; probably that was copy-pasted from Template:CF/GAR following Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 May 31#Category:GAR. Anomie⚔ 13:01, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:CFL labelled map

[edit]

• Template:CFL labelled map (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused map template. Gonnym (talk) 11:53, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete — prior to their replacements with {{OSM Location map}}s on the articles themselves, {{CFL labeled map}}, {{NLL arenas map}}, and {{WPBL labeled map}} were each transcluded on only one article. These templates are nowhere near large or complex enough to justify existing separately from the pages themselves. See also: the TfD discussion for {{WPBL labeled map}}. — AFC Vixen 🦊 08:01, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep Comment — Just because a template is currently being transcluded onto only one article doesn't mean that it won't be transcluded onto other articles in the future. As a matter of fact, I thought the purpose of templates was to encourage their use across multiple articles. As such, I don't understand the reasoning behind deleting map templates, which I've now seen several TfDs for. Assadzadeh (talk) 10:01, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  Can you think of enough use cases for this template that a simple selective transclusion like the one I had attemped at Expansion of Major League Soccer [1][2] wouldn't suffice? There'd be no predjudice against recreating it in the future if enough use cases do arise, but this is putting the cart before the horse. — AFC Vixen 🦊 10:30, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep — Template is now repurposed with the OpenStreetMap content that was replaced on the Canadian Football League page. It's a useful template that can be reused in other contexts. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 12:56, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  Again, what other contexts? Cart before the horse. — AFC Vixen 🦊 13:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

  We're having the same discussion on multiple pages. Let's continue here. Assadzadeh (talk) 16:12, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Sports governing bodies in Saint Kitts and Nevis

[edit]

• Template:Sports governing bodies in Saint Kitts and Nevis (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Navbox with four blue links, insufficient to facilitate navigation. ✗plicit 00:24, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Weak keep. 4 valid links. Gonnym (talk) 12:21, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:TV Patrol

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• Template:TV Patrol (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Textbook WP:PERFNAV --woodensuperman 16:19, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete Per nom. WP:PERFNAV.

Servite et contribuere (talk) 07:38, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Coats of arms of Polish families

[edit]

• Template:Coats of arms of Polish families (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Polish heraldry (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Coats of arms of Polish families with Template:Polish heraldry.
Duplicate scope. Karnemir (talk) 17:04, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Dom people

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• Template:Dom people (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Most of the connections listed here are unsourced and/or based primarily on the groups being peripatetic. Even the Dom, Lom, and Roma are no more closely related to each other than they are to other Western Indo-Aryan peoples. Arctic Circle System (talk) 11:06, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

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Keep and remove invalid links. Looking at Category:Dom people, it seems there are enough valid links for this navbox. Whatever doesn't belong should be removed but there are at least 7 valid links. Gonnym (talk) 12:26, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Sports governing bodies in Guyana

[edit]

• Template:Sports governing bodies in Guyana (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Navbox with only four blue links. Insufficient articles to facilitate navigation. ✗plicit 00:18, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Keep. I've removed all non-links and there are 5 blue links. Seems enough for a navbox. Gonnym (talk) 08:54, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Aviation Safety Network accident history

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• Template:Aviation Safety Network accident history (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template generates a citation to the Aviation Safety Network wikibase, which as a wiki is not a reliable source. It was previously discussed at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 491#Is ASN (Aviation Safety Network) a reliable source? where it was pretty unanimous that the source isn’t reliable. We shouldn’t have templates generating links to unreliable sources. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 09:50, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

The "Aviation Safety Network accident history" links don't work anymore and do not have replacements, so this template could just be entirely deleted. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 11:55, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Comment: I didn't read from the linked discussion that it said the source isn't reliable. It would seem that the /database/ is one that they themselves are maintaining while /wikibase is the user generated one which shouldn't be cited. Regarding the links not working, User:GreenC, is this fixable? Gonnym (talk) 12:32, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

It is fixable: Example. In this snapshot from 2006, there is no indication it is a wiki and wikibase didn't exist until 2012. From the About Us page it has a section on sources: Most of the information contained in the Aviation Safety Network site is based on information from official sources (authorities, safety boards). Sources used as a basis for the accident database are aircraft production lists, ICAO Aircraft Accident Digests since 1952, and NTSB, TSB etc. For a specific list of publications used, check out the references list. Maybe later editions went UGC? But earlier versions look OK. Just need to use the earlier timestamps on the archives. -- GreenC 17:42, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:TGLAM/Counter/Kernel

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• Template:TGLAM/Counter/Kernel (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused template. Can't find usages also with insource search. Gonnym (talk) 12:31, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

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Comment - is any of Template:TGLAM in use? This seems like a whole complex system of templates for creating GLAM portals which - as far as I can tell - has never been used or referenced anywhere. Omphalographer (talk) 19:02, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Pinging a few users who may be involved: @Sturm, @GiFontenelle. Omphalographer (talk) 19:04, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

• Not apparently. Delete this page and all the rest of it (I apparently nominated another subpage in that list a while ago as can be seen). Izno (talk) 17:51, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Team Illuminate riders

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• Template:Team Illuminate riders (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Cycling team template with almost none notable athlete remaining (these were stubs deleted in recent AfDs). Svartner (talk) 09:54, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Keep unless pages are deleted. Gonnym (talk) 08:57, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

weak keep, looks like only one of the pages is at AFD, which would still leave enough for navigation. Frietjes (talk) 16:24, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

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Template:Disney+ movie

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• Template:Disney+ movie (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Disney+ series (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

User:Trivialist has marked these templates as deprecated and that they should be replaced with Template:Disney+ browse (which is an awful name). Bringing this to TfD to make this more official and not a hidden notice. Gonnym (talk) 19:06, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

The name comes from the Wikidata property, which is named after the new URL format Disney+ has been using. {{Disney+ movie}} and {{Disney+ series}} both still work, and redirect to the new format. I should have been clearer that the URL formats are deprecated, not necessarily the templates. Trivialist (talk) 20:50, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

So why is Template:Disney+ browse also needed? Either the previous two work and we don't need a new template, or they don't work and we do. Can you please clear this up? Gonnym (talk) 06:36, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Okay, here is the plan: add {{Disney+ browse|ID}} to all articles with either the {{Disney+ movie}} template or {{Disney+ series}} template, replacing ID with the ID number, which is always "entity" along with a string of numbers and letters. The Media Expert (talk) 13:38, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Sure. This might not even be needed if the template gets the ID automatically from Wikidata. Gonnym (talk) 08:14, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

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Probably keep as they seem useful. Axiom Theory (talk) 23:03, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Both the new and old templates link to the item. Which one of them is the useful template you are referring to? Gonnym (talk) 09:08, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

• Merge Do what The Media Expert said. Who knows how long the old formats will be supported. It might continue working forever but it could also stop working tomorrow if Disney decides to do so. Also we shouldn't have multiple templates producing the same effective output of course. Trialpears (talk) 22:14, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Duplicated citations

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• Template:Duplicated citations (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template works counter to the purpose of building an encyclopedia. Whenever I have encountered this template tag, it has been an instance where it would have taken less time for the editor to fix the problem than to drive-by tag it and leave. Its placement often feels like an attempt to blemish the article than to help it improve. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:25, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. I have seen tougher instances of citations that need cleanup that are not just using Wikipedia:REFILL to fix the duplicated citations. For instance, I have seen many articles in the Category:All articles with duplicate citations category that have some citations that simply can't be easily filled automatically by a simple use of a website, and that website is not necessarily available all the time. Besides, the DuplicateReferences script catches many duplicate citations, so if we shouldn't need to tag them, why not just use a bot or software to auto-replace duplicate references? It might also be difficult to account for potential bot-made errors in detection of duplicate references. And that's when manually modifying the duplicate citations are necessary. That's why I think the Duplicate Citations template should still be kept. I know there's drive-by tagging potential of that template, but I'm sure there's automated and semi-automated software we can use to speed up the emptying of that aforementioned category. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 19:48, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

For instance, in one instance of the Goa (soundtrack) article, DuplicatedReferences script has detected duplicate references but WP:REFILL can't fill all those detected duplicate references; when I tried inputting into WP:REFILL, it doesn't load any of the references and just assumes the page is all done. Also, even website like WP:REFILL make mistakes, and when inputting in WP:REFILL one cannot just blindly use the tool on any type of mainspace page, as some formats don't even match the wanted formatting method. In fact, a few of my edits where I blindly used WP:REFILL have resulted in it being completely reverted. I don't think it's a good idea for people to rely entirely on a single automated tool. Human judgement is necessary too when detecting and correcting citation formatting. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 19:53, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

I am not sure what you are referring to. The example of Goa is a perfect example of what I am talking about. It takes no effort at all to simply fix it once you identify the issue. The amount of effort needed to tag is the same as to fix. It seems you are indicating this is only useful for bots to identify. If so, the bot should post on the talk page instead of dropping tagcruft. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 20:07, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah but there are tougher examples, as I would elaborate later. Goa article is an easy example that any old bot could probably easily do alone. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:17, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Also, yes, having a bot to post into the Talk page about the duplicate citation issue would be better, but this doesn't really address the primary issue which is to balance between helping build the encyclopedia and avoiding drive-by tagging behaviors that make the situation harder to entice players editors to help clean up a page. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:26, 1 March 2026 (UTC) Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:27, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

After attempting a manual fix at Goa (soundtrack) article, perhaps what we need right now is a better automation that detects specific article revisions to find the specific citations that are duplicated so it's easier to find the actual duplicated citations? And keeping the category but bringing in more semi-automation with human-checked review would be more healthy and should address the entire issue with drive-by tagging issues. Hopefully. But there will still be issues. This revision is the edit I tried with WP:REFILL and it did nothing, and fortunately the example I was given to manually correct the citation is easy to do, being just a less fleshed out version of a citation that was duplicated. Additionally, when I tried another page, like Megyn Kelly, it turns out that one of the citations is truly duplicated but WP:REFILL couldn't detect this fix at all because despite the same parameters for the template, the text outside the template stuff (e.g. in this specific case,

Megyn Kelly (2025-08-27). Horrifying Catholic School Shooting in Minneapolis - What We're Learning About Victims & Perpetrator. Retrieved 2025-09-03 – via YouTube.

) is just plain text, which the automated software tends to ignore. And without knowing how to deal with other stuff outside the main template normally (in that example, there's just some random numbers of what is presumably timestamps in a YouTube video, not sure if the video made by the person herself is reliable anyway, but if we did use a YouTube video (like self-referential sources of claims that are indisputable and not controversial; this example has potentially controversial self-sourced claims, and no, I take no sides to either party) then I am not sure how to fix timestamps of videos and make a distinguish between whether it refers to one timestamp or another. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:17, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

The Megyn Kelly example is much harder but it's doable with manual human checking. It's just much harder without an actual semi-automated tool that compares two revisions and manually verifies if they're the same or not when comparing citations of the same website. And how is a human supposed to find lists of articles that do have duplicated citations when bots can't necessarily fix all types of duplicated citations on their own? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:39, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Fixed Breast article and also figured Arena (web browser) has a similar easy-ish fix. Unfortunately, as you said, there is indeed a lot of drive-by tagging, but the bigger problem is how to provide a solution against drive-by tagging of that template. Drive-by tagging can be inevitable, and I don't think just "drive-by tagging" should be the only reason that a template should be requested to be deleted. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 20:56, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep per @Qwertyxp2000

Louis (talk) (contribs) 00:28, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

I'd be curious to see your additional perspectives on your approval of keeping the template. Is it primarily because drive-by tagging is inevitable and bot tools can't necessarily do all that tasking alone without manual human editing? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 04:10, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

• Strong keep per Qwertyxp2000 --VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 00:39, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

  As with the user above for SimplyLouis27, I'd be curious to see your additional perspectives on your approval of keeping the template. Is it primarily because drive-by tagging is inevitable and bot tools can't necessarily do all that tasking alone without manual human editing? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 04:11, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep: This template is used to indicate other editors of references with duplicated URLs. Note: Not all editors have DuplicateReferences in their common.js. I'm not even sure if this really is a drive-by tag, because per WP:DRIVEBYTAG, drive-by tagging is "Adding tags for non-obvious or perceived problems—without identifying the problem well enough for it to be easily fixed". To my knowledge, the majority of this tags are easy to identify and fix. Also, if you think that these tags "blemish" an article, you could just fix the problem and remove it. Why delete this template if it has the potential to be helpful? BretHarteChitown (talk) 05:55, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Perhaps, we can make the other fields required. Force people to enter the details of exactly which references are duplicates otherwise it is useless as a drive-by tag. I am still not sure why anyone would do that though because by the time you identify which citations are duplicates, you could have just fixed it. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:35, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. An editor who adds this tag may not have enough time to properly attend to these erroneous citations. This is the easy way so we should not place unnecessary burdens on Wikipedians per WP:NOTBUREAU. Remember that most editors have lives outside of Wikipedia which means that they cannot spend so much time fixing every issue. Notifying other editors of an issue is a very good idea and means that the issue will be attended to with a high priority, constructive templates such as this one should not be deleted. As per WP:PRESERVE, tagging an issue is a valid way of trying to fix an issue. Qwerty123M (talk) 10:14, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep per Qwerty123M. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 21:40, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep very useful and I've noticed articles that have had the issue for a long time getting it resolved after the template is added. Adding the template definitely doesn't take more time than fixing the problem as it is one simple click of a button (with a script, which I assume most people using it have). jolielover♥talk 12:00, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep per some of the above reasons. It's a useful notice. Could I fix a duplicate ref myself sometimes? Sure. I also frequently edit from my mobile phone, so when ReFill doesn't work and there's half a dozen references, I sometimes just don't have the time to manually fix them. I'd rather tag it either for myself later, or to bring it to someone else's attention who can correct it sooner than myself. • Quinn (talk) 18:07, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

  But that is why there is a talk page. There is nothing to warn the reader about such as issues with verification. The "problem" is not really a problem. There are two citations where there should be one. That is nothing compared to the other issues we usually tag. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 21:10, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

  Not everyone has the time and effort to notify in the talk page when some editors want to focus on bigger issues like reformatting the article's text structure, sure it's better if duplicate citations were sorted earlier but it's not good to overload a single user's efforts on small things when they're focused on bigger, higher priority things that only a small amount of editors can do alone. I get that it's hard for a single tag to divert the attention of tidiness in an article, but not all editors operate under the same ideal. Another solution could be to just place that cleanup template only in the References section where it's less prone to clogging reader retention. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 09:56, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep but refactor can we hide this thing from the public? This is a cleanup notice for editors; it doesn't serve readers in any way. There are over 5,000 people viewing 2026 Iran conflict every day, but only like 10 of them need to see this notice and consider whether to do the necessary cleanup. NotBartEhrman (talk) 18:21, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

We could put it below into the References section if that's a better solution. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 09:56, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep but make invisible to readers – Per NotBartEhrman above... it does not benefit readers to see this tag, most of whom will not understand (or care) what it even refers to. Thus for the vast majority it is cruft that makes articles more difficult to parse, and less approachable. Is this kind of thing technically possible? I think we have been able to hide certain banners from IPs before. I am wondering what people above think of this alternative compromise @Qwertyxp2000: @BretHarteChitown: @Qwerty123M: @Jolielover: @Quinntropy: – Aza24 (talk) 18:58, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

  One idea I have is to just put the template in the References section, not the top of the article. It seems more of References specific issue than a whole-article issue. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 09:56, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

  similar to the "This article is uncategorized" template Robloxguest3 (talk) 15:40, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete or move to the References section, this is pure WP:DRIVEBY that harms readability for no benefit other than making the References section a little bit tidier. The person that adds the template should fix them, but they never do. The tags often stay on pages for weeks and months. Ngl I remove it every time I see it Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 18:56, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

This probably needs an RfC. The creator of the script is totally unresponsive or dismissive of anyone's concerns, instead being convinced that the tag increases influx of new editors, completely evidence-free btw Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 19:01, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Drive-by tag removal is just as bad as drive-by tag addition, unfortunately. Also, most of the pages can be solved with WP:REFILL, due to certain references being exactly the same string of characters, but some are the same references but weirdly different strings of characters. Which is where human editors are needed for those harder cases. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 09:56, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep per above. Achmad Rachmani (talk) 07:58, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: I now used the DuplicateReferences tool and it seems like the table of duplicate references are at the References section anyway, so how about we just put all future {{Duplicate citations}} templates below Reference headers? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 10:22, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Move to references section. I personally find this one a little irritating, but it is useful. However, it is of no value to our readers, and clutters up the top of the article. It would be better applied to the references section of each relevant page. —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:31, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Move to references section absolutely no benefit to readers to having it at the top of articles. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:55, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete or move to the References section: Like another user said 9 times out of 10 it'd be far easier to just fix the issue than taking the time to make this info box. It also just feels unnecessary to a reader cause what are they supposed to do with this info? "Oh no a few sources are the same" LittleMAHER1 (talk) 13:34, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. I was not aware of such a template, and just came here after seeing the TfD at the top of 2026 Iran conflict. Definitely useful, and fully disagree with the nomination rationale. Where to place it is a different discussion. Jay 💬 13:57, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Move to references section, useful for editors but not for readers. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 14:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep, but move to talk page: Of no value to readers, and would match where we place references that could be useful but are not currently used. Note that how consensus is formed here could set a precedent for other maintenance templates, of which many aren't useful to readers. Coleisforeditor (talk) 17:48, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Move to references section, Better place to see it and work on fixes. Guz13 (talk) 18:33, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Strong keep Per Qwerty123M CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 19:20, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Strong keep. This is no different from all of the other templates with issues with the article. They may not be of interest to readers, but neither is any other template at the top of the page. It's also useful to editors since the part that they will be editing is the page itself, not the references section that just has a {{reflist}} template. And it can help keep track of the duplicated citations when it is tedious to find and remove them. It also gives a nice copyediting exercise for newer users. VidanaliK (talk to me) (contributions) 19:23, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

• Move to references section to be analogous to {{Undercat}}, per my comments in Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 72#Ugly and distracting maintenance templates on top of articles. And cc User:Polygnotus, who I know disagrees with me on this issue, but who will provide valuable input. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 23:18, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete if editors can run a script to add this tag they can run a script to fix the citations. I don't believe one should typically be required to fix an issue to place a tag but this tag is pointless. Duplicated references don't really matter there is no real degradation in quality if a reference is duplicated and fixing them takes under a minute. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:51, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

  @Traumnovelle if editors can run a script to add this tag they can run a script to fix the citations Unfortunately, making such a script is pretty difficult. For example, if you have 2 refs that contain the exact same content but they were added at different points in time they may be referring to a different version of the same page. Re-using refs is currently not userfriendly or convenient, unless they are the exact same. Another problem is WP:CITEVAR, where someone has decided in their infinite wisdom that people should be allowed to add citations in whatever form they like and no one is allowed to standardize them. This makes the life of any tool writer very difficult. fixing them takes under a minute I wish! User:Polygnotus/Scripts/DeduplicateReferences is a step in the right direction but it is far from perfect (or even finished).

Note that WMDE is working on Sub-referencing which will fix many of these problems. Polygnotus (talk) 07:49, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

• Move to references section. Per @Ganesha811 🌀Hurricane Jacob (talk) 07:08, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
• Move to references section or make it only visible when people click edit or only for logged-in editors. Maintenance templates and tags should be placed as close to the problem as possible. It would be even better to instead use inline tags directly after the references in question so people don't need to go hunting after them. Rolluik (talk) 12:07, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per Traumnovelle, especially Traumnovelle's second sentence. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:47, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: If we are planning to keep it, I would like the DuplicatedReferences tool to ensure they always put the citation in the References section. I tried with the Spam (food) article and immediately I can see the problem with the drive-by tagging issue being a nuisance to making the article look neat. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 06:25, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

  An article with duplicated citations doesn’t look “neat” until the duplicated citations are fixed. At least with the tag added the problem is shown as having been identified and thus acknowledged, and therefore listed for being addressed. That is, it looks neater WITH the tag than without it. Without the tag, readers may conclude (1) it’s normal to have such shite, (2) it hasn’t even been spotted yet, and (3) this isn’t ever getting fixed. Elrondil (talk) 22:22, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

• Move to references section. Warnings placed at the top of articles should be limited to important information for readers. LLM generated content, undisclosed payment edits, no references, etc. are important article flaws that need disclosure. Duplicated references are a cleanup task that is irrelevant to most readers. Moving the warning to the references section places the warning where it matters. Move its location but keep the template, it is useful to discover references that can be consolidated. --Pithon314 (talk) 09:40, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

  As a reader I want to know up front that the supporting citations aren’t as numerous as it first appears; that the article isn’t well supported by proper sources. This template is meant to be used when duplicates are a non-trivial problem, which says something about the quality and maturity of the article. Let me know up front please, without me having to work it out myself. Elrondil (talk) 19:32, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep Editors like me who edit on mobile devices, Its hard to navigate the whole source code and fix references on whole page, some devices don't even open full source code and carsh (for very large pages). It is better that if someone finds duplicate refs tag it for an experienced editor with better tools and device to fix it. 𝘼𝓷𝓳𝓪𝓷𝓐 𝙇𝓪𝓻𝙠𝓐 ^{𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔨} 13:10, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep. The template identifies a problem, and while it would be nice if the person that identified the problem also fixed it, that isn’t always possible. If you force them to also fix it, they might just not let others know they identified it and the identification of the problem is lost without improving Wikipedia. It is better to show the problem has been identified and acknowledged than to just leave it, because others might then conclude this is normal and do that in other places themselves, which isn’t helping to improve Wikipedia at all. Duplicates are super-easy to spot, so really shouldn’t need someone to describe it. Elrondil (talk) 22:08, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
• Strong keep: I have thought the same thing in the nomination whenever I saw this tag. But this can be used to tag articles with many duplicated citations. It is about a issue of the page; and this one can be fixed by a just-experienced editor. Babin Mew (talk) 11:35, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
• Move to References section: Per other editors above, this isn't particularly useful to the general public, but is useful as a maintenance template and is not always trivial to fix. {{GearsDatapack|talk|contribs}} 22:09, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
• Keep as is: I see this most often when it is on a highly edited article, and on top of being a maintenance tag, it provides a reminder to check sources before adding more. It won't have that benefit if it is shoved to the bottom. Futher, when an article is being highly edited sometimes it isn't easy to simply do it yourself, so the template essentially provides a notice that other editors should be taking care. orangesclub 🍊 09:30, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• Strong Keep

The problem is, that the purpose of tags is to ask other editors to fix an issue. You use them when you don't want or have the time to fix them on your own. If you decide to be bold and fix it yourself, you probably would not tag an article. Deleting this tag is like getting rid of {{more citations needed}} and {{under construction}} or {{citation needed}}.

Robloxguest3 (talk) 15:14, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep but restrict visibility in some way. Maintenance tags are admittedly rather ugly to have on articles, but that's kind of the point. I do agree that this serves no purpose for casual readers. I wonder about more specific tags like {{In-universe}} or {{How-to}}, which are similarly only useful to editors and not readers (they address issues with style, but they are not of much concern to anyone simply reading the article, as accuracy or neutrality issues might be). — An anonymous username, not my real name 15:58, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep but hide or move to references per NotBartEhrman Cookieo131 (talk) 16:50, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep, resolving duplicate references can be nontrivial and we don't have an automation for that yet, only for detection.

Also, not everyone can use the source editor. I, for one, am a heavy mobile user, and 90%+ articles big enough to have duplicate references are too big to edit in full on mobile while in source mode. I can resolve them fine on desktop but on mobile it's a nightmare. Amberkitten (talk) 00:54, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep but hide. Not a useful template for readers, so shouldn't be at the top of articles, but if editors appreciate tagging such articles for cleaning up the references then I completely understand that. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:35, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep and add functionality - it would be good to also tag cases where a named reference is not defined, as the current set-up provides a red error message which gets lost in the refs list and isn't obviously flagged at the 'preview' or 'save edit' steps. - Yadsalohcin (talk) 09:50, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep but hide or move to references as it's really not a problem affecting the article enough to warrant shoving it in the face of people just trying to read an article. It's mostly affects us editors. Although I do have to say I agree that in the vast majority of cases people should just fix it instead of adding this template. I do see edge cases though, and the consensus is clearly against removal, so I'm going with this.
  

―Maltazarian ^{(talk${\displaystyle \lor }$investigate)} 18:49, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

• Move to talk page or hide there is no need to have this tag at the top of the article, as duplicate references are not something that readers should be aware of, creating unnecessary clutter --Ita140188 (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

• Keep - this is definitely a template helpful to article maintainers and copy editors. It's placement is currently unfortunate, but isn't that an issue with the tool that places it and not the template itself? That said, I would prefer it to be moved down to the reference section. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:28, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

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• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Afghanistan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Azerbaijan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bahrain medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bangladesh medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bangladesh medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bangladesh-daily-positivity-rates (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bangladesh-daily-deaths (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bangladesh-daily-positivity-rates (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bangladesh-daily-tests (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bhutan medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Bhutan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Brunei medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Cambodia medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Cambodia medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Cambodia medical cases summary (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Georgia medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Iran medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Iran medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Iraq medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Japan medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Japan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Jordan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Kazakhstan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Kuwait medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Kyrgyzstan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Laos medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Lebanon medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Myanmar medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Myanmar medical cases summary (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Oman medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Oman medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Pakistan medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Pakistan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Qatar medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Saudi Arabia medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Singapore medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Singapore untraced cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/South Korea medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/South Korea medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:South Korea COVID-19 vaccination charts (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Sri Lanka medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Syria medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Taiwan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Taiwan COVID-19 vaccination charts (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Tajikistan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Statistics of COVID-19 deaths in Tajikistan (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Statistics of COVID-19 infections in Tajikistan (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Thailand medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Timor-Leste medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United Arab Emirates medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United Arab Emirates medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Uzbekistan medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Uzbekistan medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Yemen medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/China medical cases by province (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Hong Kong medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Macau medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Mainland China medical cases chart/sandbox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Mainland China medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in mainland China (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India/Odisha medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India/West Bengal medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Daily chart of COVID-19 cases district wise (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Cases COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Indonesia medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel fatality rate chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel fatality rate chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel new cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel new deaths chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Israel new tests chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Charts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Malaysia medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Malaysia medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Malaysia medical cases chart/sandbox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Nepal medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Nepal medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Nepal medical cases (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Nepal medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal/core (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Philippines medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Philippines medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Vietnam medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Vietnam medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam statistics charts (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Details of COVID-19 deaths in Vietnam (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Details of first 250 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Vietnam (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Vietnam COVID-19 vaccination charts (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Saint Barthélemy medical cases chart (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Per precedent of two previous nominations of other covid data case templates from October 2024 and my previous nomination on December 2025.