Template talk:Being merged

This template was considered for deletion on 2020 September 29. The result of the discussion was "merge".

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@Trialpears: Looking again at this, I wonder whether we need this template and Template:Merging. Klbrain (talk) 18:49, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Klbrain How could I forget about that! Yep they're intended for the same purpose with the main difference being the categorization, which is basically useless for {{merging}} since it places it together with all the thousands of proposals without consensus. I will take care of it tomorrow. I don't think a whole TfD should be necessary. --Trialpears (talk) 21:55, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The categorization process is helpful, though; keeping a (hopefully small) list of mergers ready to be completed. So, I'm sitting on the fence ... Klbrain (talk) 22:10, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was planning on changing it to Category:Articles currently being merged, which is what {{Being merged}} is currently using. --Trialpears (talk) 22:15, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a good idea. Klbrain (talk) 07:38, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Broken template compatibility

Soumya-8974 I think your recent changes broke the namespace detection that ensured {{Being deleted}} was invoked in template space. This used to be a redirect there and I think we should keep it working since in many cases the template is being merged and not deleted. One example of an affected page is {{Infobox name module}}. Could you take a look at this? ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 22:40, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Does this template need page type switches?

Hey! I can't really think of a significant or reasonable reason why {{Being merged}} needs a switch for different page types - is this template really being used in non-article pages? ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 09:14, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ItsPugle, it used to be a redirect to {{Being deleted}} which is used for TfDs and used to be backwards compatible using switches when I created it. Looks like someone removed that feature though. --Trialpears (talk) 09:21, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Trialpears: Hm, I think {{Being deleted}} is a significantly different template here. {{Being merged}} has its own place I feel. Apart from its historical use with TfD, is {{Being merged}} used on any other non-article pages? ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 09:56, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ItsPugle, Tep, currently it's used at MOS:ROMANIZATION and it may be used for other non-article mergers in the future. --Trialpears (talk) 10:33, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Trialpears: 👍 I'll have a crack at improving how it works for non-article pages. ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 09:27, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Test of the message

A minor point, but I wonder whether it might be better to "merge this page to" rather than "merge this page with" when a 'target' is set; it's helpful for readers to see the intended direction. Klbrain (talk) 10:09, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]