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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2025 December 25. Izno (talk) 22:52, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

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Template:Game

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The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:02, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Nominating this for the same reason as Not a forum has. Crispybeatle (talk) 17:03, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Delete per nom. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 08:39, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
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Template:Buffalo Neighborhoods

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The result of the discussion was merge to Template:Buffalo. (non-admin closure) Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:07, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Propose merging Template:Buffalo Neighborhoods with Template:Buffalo.
No need for a separate events navbox. This can be easily added to the main city navbox. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:22, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

  • Merge per nom --Lenticel (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
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Template:TCMDb name

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The result of the discussion was keep as discussed below (with apologies for closing the lower-down discussion first). Primefac (talk) 18:44, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Per WP:ELNO #16. TCMDb no longer exists. Nardog (talk) 13:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Delete - Checked a few cases and the links no longer work. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:00, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Z. Patterson (talk) 03:21, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep as archive URL ELNO #16 - I doubt it means dead sites. The example provided is something else. In time, every link on Wikipedia will die, which means every link would be deleted from Wikipedia. Makes no sense. This is why we have archive URLs, archive bots, and a policy to save dead links with archive URLs. A dead site is not reason alone to delete. The template can be easily converted to archive URLs. The question is: why not. Nobody has addressed the content removal. As for conversion to AFI, this is wishful. It requires a custom slug (code) that is not obtainable except by manual searching the AFI website at least 9,000 times. That would take years of effort. Fine if you want. In the mean time conversion to archive URLs will retain the content that is otherwise missing because there is no AFI link. -- GreenC 19:21, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep as archive URL per GreenC. --Grufo (talk) 14:12, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep as archive URL WP:ELNO #16 - Website archeology of tcmdb : early versions of the site use Leonard Maltin publications for metadata, later using AFI Catalog, at least for American Films.
to use web.archive.org you would need to derive cold-turkey or Cold-Turkey (for example)
The Good Reason to keep, is that during its middle period, many films cataloged included essays which deserve noting
In this case they replaced the original article with something oddly written
perhaps it was no longer a portal to DVD sales and not a direct profit-making use of "resources"
@GreenC "manual searching the AFI website at least 9,000 times" ... search: "____" site:catalog.afi.com Piñanana (talk) 21:43, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
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Template:TCMDb title

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The result of the discussion was keep and convert the template to use archive links (replacing if necessary). NPASR if this is not possible at scale or otherwise is not technically feasible. Primefac (talk) 18:43, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Per WP:ELNO #16. TCMDb no longer exists. Nardog (talk) 13:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Delete and replace with Template:AFI film. Archives show that the data was powered by American Film Institute so any film that used this template can be replaced with Template:AFI film. Because they've shutdown the site intentionally and are a for-profit website, we shouldn't give them free traffic and instead should send the traffic to the nonprofit. When replacing the templates, the end result shouldn't be two AFI film templates (if one already existed). See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#Turner Classic Movie Database and articles gone. Gonnym (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
They are getting no traffic. The link is dead. The clicks would go to the archive URL which is a non-profit. -- GreenC 19:25, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
The traffic will still reach it from exposure. Gonnym (talk) 11:03, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
Delete and replace with Template:AFI film per Gonnym. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:43, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep as archive URL ELNO #16 - I doubt it means dead sites. The example provided is something else. In time, every link on Wikipedia will die, which means every link would be deleted from Wikipedia. Makes no sense. This is why we have archive URLs, archive bots, and a policy to save dead links with archive URLs. A dead site is not reason alone to delete. The template can be easily converted to archive URLs. The question is: why not. Nobody has addressed the content removal. As for conversion to AFI, this is wishful. It requires a custom slug (code) that is not obtainable except by manual searching the AFI website at least 9,000 times. That would take years of effort. Fine if you want. In the mean time conversion to archive URLs will retain the content that is otherwise missing because there is no AFI link. -- GreenC 19:22, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep as archive URL per GreenC. Editors will still be able to replace the template with Template:AFI film on a case-by-case basis when deemed opportune. --Grufo (talk) 14:07, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment The TCM database was not just a copy of what is found on the AFI website; AFI is limited to American films, whereas TCM also had records for several films produced outside the United States. An example of this would be Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail. Observer1632 (talk) 15:00, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep as archive URL WP:ELNO #16 - Website archeology of tcmdb : early versions of the site use Leonard Maltin publications for metadata, later using AFI Catalog, at least for American Films.
to use web.archive.org you would need to derive cold-turkey or Cold-Turkey (for example)
The Good Reason to keep, is that during its middle period, many films cataloged included essays which deserve noting
In this case they replaced the original article with something oddly written
perhaps it was no longer a portal to DVD sales and not a direct profit-making use of "resources"
@GreenC "manual searching the AFI website at least 9,000 times" ... search: "____" site:catalog.afi.com Piñanana (talk) 21:49, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
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