Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 November 2

November 2

Template:LDLBerlin

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

Single-use template with code partially in German. Suggest Subst and delete * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• Delete. The module invocation should be sorted before substing. Template:LexikonFranken is questionable too. --Izno (talk) 13:48, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

  It's implicit in a subst and delete result that the template is made to subst cleanly before substing it. By subst and delete, I meant a full reduction to untemplated wikitext in the one article. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:40, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

• Subst and delete Per nom. Brand-new template that doesn't even work right and doesn't seem useful elsewhere. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:53, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:Scroll gallery

• Template:Scroll gallery (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

The scroll gallery template is listed as broken however, it appears to just be a gallery set in the "slideshow mode" which can be achived with {{Gallery}} and with more functionality with the other template. Scroll gallery also has limited transclusions within articles. Terasail^[Talk] 22:55, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• Replace and delete Agree with nom, there is now a very widely used template "Gallery", which is better and more maintained than this template, and this template is only used on 6 articles. --Tom (LT) (talk) 22:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• Replace and delete per above. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• Comment Glancing at the documentation for {{Gallery}}, it's not very apparent how that would be used to make a scroll gallery. Some documentation improvements may be in order. (Whether or not scroll galleries are a good idea is a separate question that it might be good to discuss as well.) {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:37, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• Delete. I don't see what this gains us above and beyond relying on MediaWiki-native MediaGallery (aka Lightbox). --Izno (talk) 13:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:Wrapper

• Template:Wrapper (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
• Template:Wrapper template (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Wrapper with Template:Wrapper template.
{{Wrapper}} and {{Wrapper template}} are both templates that provide documentation for wrapper templates. The main difference is that the former does so through a message box, whereas the latter does so through text. We should choose one format and stick with it. {{Wrapper template}} is far more used (260 transclusions vs. just 19), so it seems to be the preferred approach. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• Agree, this sort of meta issue should definitely be standardised and also the first box is more easy to see. --Tom (LT) (talk) 22:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• Merge There should definitely be only one template for this. No opinion on which. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• Merge {{Wrapper template}} to {{Wrapper}} since the message box version is more natural (see {{Wraps infobox}}, {{Uses Infobox person}}). --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 06:24, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
• Merge to {{Wrapper}}. While the other one might be more used, from a quick glance, it's usage is for subset templates like Template:WikiProject Kentucky. Having this message as a line of text in an actual template, will cause the text to be harder to read. --Gonnym (talk) 11:50, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:Rockall

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

Small navbox that links to only 5 pages: the main article, Rockall; its corresponding category, Category:Rockall; 2 overly general topics, United Kingdom and Scotland; and Island of Rockall Act 1972, which is the only article that actually uses this navbox. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:30, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Izno (talk) 13:42, 3 November 2020 (UTC)