Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 October 15

October 15

Template:First PLA lieutenant generals

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. 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 keep. (NAC) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:45, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

• Template:First PLA lieutenant generals (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template has lots of redlinks and only 22 transclusions. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:10, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

• Keep: The redlinks are there for planned expansion, this navigational template is a carbon-copy of zh:Template:中國人民解放軍開國中將. Furthermore, the issue of there being many redlinks and 22 transclusions is a non-issue; if this template removed all the redlinks and only kept links to current articles, it would be no different to 90% of all other navigational templates. In other words, this is an editorial issue, not a deletion issue. --benlisquare_T•C•E 03:26, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
• Keep The preponderance of red links at the moment is merely a symptom of Wikipedia's poor coverage of Chinese topics in particular and non-English topics in general. It's not a deficiency of the template itself. As benlisquare mentioned above, the equivalent Chinese navbox contains no red link. The English articles are being slowly but steadily created (last time I checked, there were fewer than 10 blue links). -Zanhe (talk) 07:39, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
• Keep and dismiss: check it now, it's all blue now. -- SzMithrandir (talk) 02:44, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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).