Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2026 June 19

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).

The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:36, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Mister Supranational 2022 delegates (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

There's only one blue link in that navigational box and it happens to be the sole page where the navbox is used. Clearly unhelpful for navigation. Pichpich (talk) 21:54, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Delete. Not enough links to navigate to. Gonnym (talk) 05:36, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template or module's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).

The result of the discussion was merge to Template:Italic disambiguation. It follows of course that the modules will need to be merged as well since these are both straight invocations. Primefac (talk) 07:27, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Italic disambiguation (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Italic dab2 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Italic disambiguation with Template:Italic dab2.
I've been looking at these two templates' modules (Module:Italic title and Module:Italic title2, respectively) for a while, and I'm not clear on why these are two separate templates. They both seem to do the same; however, the templates seem to have modules with different amounts of lines of code, but it's not clear how they are differentiated, especially considering that Template:Italic dab2 has never had any type of usage information in its documentation page in the years of its existence. Although this is a "merge" discussion, it probably may make more sense to "replace all transclusions of Template:Italic dab2 with Template:Italic disambiguation, then delete move Template:Italic dab2 without a redirect to a title without "2", such as Template:Italic disambig" since Template:Italic dab2 is an unlikely search term compared to the former. Steel1943 (talk) 14:10, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I have no issues with a merge, but will oppose deletion. I think the reason for the module fork was related to Template_talk:Infobox/Archive_16#Forcing_italics but 5 years later I don't really remember. What I remember though is that Module:Italic disambiguation couldn't do what was needed and modifying a module that was used by 2% of all pages was not something that I wanted to take responsibility for. Module:Italic title2 is used by Module:Infobox television episode (for reference, is the code diff). Gonnym (talk) 14:46, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

@Gonnym: Thanks for pointing out where most/all the transclusions were coming from. It doesn't change my stance, but it definitely helps me better understand why I counted so many transclusions and couldn't track the source. Steel1943 (talk) 15:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

@Gonnym: By the way, what I meant is that the title be deleted, not the edit history. I'll update my nomination statement. Steel1943 (talk) 23:50, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I don't really care about the edit history, I just need the functionality of 2 to be kept in whatever result. Gonnym (talk) 06:16, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Merge, ideally italic 1 should be able to do whatever italic 2 is doing. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:10, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Merge. As far as I'm concerned, there's no good reason to have two templates that effectively do the same thing. Gommeh ^{(talk! sign!)} 16:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Either merge or document properly Also, dab2 is a stupid name for something that isn't used enough to need a short name. Replace 2 with something related to why italic dab isn't always the right choice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-36804-38 (talk) 03:53, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Merge Module:Italic title2 into Module:Italic title, but both modules contain features that the other does not, so some rework is required. Module:Italic title2 can italicise strings only in the dab, and has better dab detection, but in return, if a dab is present, it can only italicise strings in the dab. Then Template:Italic disambiguation would work the same as Template:Italic dab2, so the latter can be deleted. Arnav Bhate (talk • contribs) 18:22, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template or module's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.