Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 August 13
August 13
- Template:Cleanup (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
This template should be deleted because it is disrespectful to contributors' work. It blares like a loud horn that "this article sucks, please be so nice as to help us out by cleaning it up". This inadequate notice provides no specific guidance as to how the article should be "cleaned up". The purported " more specific clean up instructions" are useful, but the template itself provides no area to point out what exactly needs cleaning up.
It's useless, utterly useless. Whoever devised it needs a cleanup template on his userpage, blaring that he is untrustworthy. Every time I see the template, I think, "I cannot trust this article because it has been tagbombed and may contained other misinformation". It is a net negative to the project.
Also, on BLPs, how do you think the subject would react to see that his/her article sucks, accentuated by the conspicuous and ugly cleanup template? I would take great offense to see such a template on my page, were I notable, which I am, but I don't have an article yet (maybe someone can create it for me?). 64.183.70.187 (talk) 15:45, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- Template:Selfref (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
i see this being used a lotta plac es and its annoying. this is an encyclopeidia and it shudnt say "oh heres a link to some crap in the wiki space". no readers cares about that and wiki editors shud alredy no wer to find the link.Please delete. it just doesnt maake sense. acording to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (linking) we shudnt do this so please everyone just delet it ok thansk bye 64.183.70.187 (talk) 15:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- Template:Catfd3 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
I have just substantially refactored the TFD nomination instructions, and this is now even more obsolete than it was before. I suspect it has not been used for years. It's not often that a TFD process template is nominated for TFD, so let's cherish the moment to cut down on instruction creep and streamline the deletion process. — This, that, and the other (talk) 12:15, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- Delete since the template was already completely obsolete before your new refactor (which may or may not stand; people tend to revert big changes to XfD processes). I created the template to serve a particular not entirely uncommon need, back when; the need isn't there any longer, as
{{catfd2}}, of which this was a variant, no longer works the way this one does, orphaning it. This template's just old junk now. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 12:47, 13 August 2011 (UTC)