Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 December 23

December 23

Template:Indian cuisine

Template:Indian cuisine (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template:Cuisine of India (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Indian cuisine with Template:Cuisine of India.
per the discussion for Turkish cuisine, I propose merging these templates, keeping the navbox version (same rationale as before). Frietjes (talk) 19:57, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Pakistani cuisine

Template:Pakistani cuisine (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template:Cuisine of Pakistan (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Pakistani cuisine with Template:Cuisine of Pakistan.
per the discussion for Turkish cuisine, I propose merging these templates, keeping the navbox version (same rationale as before). Frietjes (talk) 19:57, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Releases cdrtools

Template:Releases cdrtools (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Version history is of little general interest, as there will always be only one stable and one development version, so this information should instead be kept on the (by now, obscure) software's homepage. This isn't Windows or Linux, where many versions are in general use and version naming is confusing. 178.7.182.200 (talk) 00:34, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, There are over 100 pages (see Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Version) which show version histories. Many of them are for ordinary software. Moreover, the version history of cdrtools is valuable information that most readers would find interesting but difficult to find in the official site. So I think there is absolutely no reason to delete the version history of the cdrtools article. Thank you. Ekkt0r (talk) 02:02, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but the only information valueable to the reader is the current version, which is found in the infobox already. Can you name an example where a encyclopedia user may need to know about anything else than the current two version numbers from this table? They are straightforward, there are no branches (because there is only a single developer anyway). --188.104.80.39 (talk) 10:14, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

• Subst and delete single instance template pretending to be a table. There's no conceivable reason why this should be hard to edit, it's material that should be part of the article's coding, not a template. -- 65.94.78.9 (talk) 05:35, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

You might have noticed that I did add a link to the template in the section of the main article when I inserted the template. I have also added, this evening, a tip in the section of the main article to help those who would not notice the link.

Regarding the use of a template for the version history, there are many other articles using similar release templates, and most of them are only used once.

So I do not think I broke any rules. And I am always very careful when I edit any page. So please consider not deleting this template. Thank you. Ekkt0r (talk) 22:31, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

If you examine the archives of deletion discussions here at TfD, you'll note that single use templates are frequently deleted, especially when all they do is boilerplate some article element onto the page for no reason other than to have a template hold the data. The template provides no multiarticle information, nor is the article heavily edited so as to need to separate out a template to prevent edit conflicts. And several of the other software articles have their version tables directly placed into the article, not as a separate template. If there are any other articles with templated version tables, they all need to be substituted and deleted. -- 65.94.78.9 (talk) 22:38, 23 December 2013 (UTC)