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Template:Abundant Life Church edit

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 03:56, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Abundant Life Church (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

It's not entirely clear what this nav box is navigating to. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This does not link to anything. Lastcent (talk) 21:49, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator and per Lastcent. Softlavender (talk) 02:07, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Battle edit

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 03:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Battle (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Used only to create piped links for battles using {{Battle|name}} to produce [[Battle of name|name]]. Its just as easy to teach editors how to do piped links, rather than use this template, and its way too narrow as it only applies to battles. --Netoholic @ 09:35, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Helper template with way too narrow of a scope. APerson (talk!) 13:39, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It is easy to write a piped link.No template is needed.Ssaz 12 (talk) 06:57, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not at all useful Nick-D (talk) 07:37, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not useful, multiple battles of the same name, several which are "siege of", "invasion of" etc. and as you say, a piped link is a very simple concept. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 11:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Find sources multi/gnewsrecent edit

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The result of the discussion was Withdrawn. It is already obvious that these templates will both be kept. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 19:10, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Find sources multi/gnewsrecent (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template:Find sources multi/gnews (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Find sources multi/gnewsrecent with Template:Find sources multi/gnews.
Apparently the feature that distinguished these template – search in news archive – is gone, so template:find sources multi/gnews serves no purpose any more. So basically I suggest moving template:find sources multi/gnewsrecent to template:find sources multi/gnews over pre-existing template. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 09:26, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

~~Merge~~. I don't see this as controversial, as the two have been functionally identical since Google pulled their news archive search. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:12, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. If Google's news archive search might come back, then keeping these two link codes separate is probably the best solution. If we merged them and split them again later, users will get a different search link depending on what code they chose, and they may not have been aware that there was a possibility of the links changing when they made their code choice. Keeping the news archive search around with a red "this is deprecated" notice may not look neat on the template page, but it's not going to make much difference to the transclusions. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 16:18, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. Note: this is showing up in quite a lot of draft-space pages since it's transcluded in the AfC decline template. APerson (talk!) 13:39, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Google have always maintained that they are not removing their news archive service. They say they are working on improving it.[1] The "site:google.com/newspapers" is just a temporary workround. My feeling is to leave this alone (BTW: I sometimes seem to get more hits after restricting to the "newspapers" site that I do when I have not restricted). The present nomination is causing widespread (but slight) disruption and to merge would, I suppose, cause more. Let's wait and see what Google does. Thincat (talk) 13:46, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I get six hits with this but only four with this. Thincat (talk) 14:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We have separate template:find sources multi/gnewspapers for newspapers. Also note: current naming scheme is very unfortunate: "gnews" is not simply "Google News", but "Google News archive", and "Google News recent" (which is currently broken, at least for me) is for generic Google News. I would suggest to, well, do as I proposed and introduce new options for complex news queries once Google adds corresponding services back. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 19:59, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, yes. They're very old newspapers. Thincat (talk) 20:20, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per thincat.-- Brainy J ~✿~ (talk) 16:05, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep also per thin cat. Jed 20012 (talk) 21:43, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I agree with Thincat's reasoning that because Google have indicated their news archive service may return, there's no need to merge. I also agree with Thincat about this nomination causing widespread, but slight, disruption. PhilKnight (talk) 11:17, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, most helpful features. — Cirt (talk) 15:52, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Tied edit

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The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 04:07, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Tied (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

It's not even a template. All it is is something about the 2014 Grammy awards. Call for a speedy deletion of it. GamerPro64 05:00, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Subst and delete boilerplate text that is used in only one article. Inappropriate content for a template and highly unlikely to be used in other articles -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:03, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment after deletion I propose that this template name be repurposed as a companion template to {{won}} that colorizes a table entry that says "tied", to indicate the outcome of a competition, which is tied. (such as being a wrapper to {{yes2}}, say... {{yes2|{{{text | Tied }}}}} -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:08, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Won	{{won}}
Tied	{{tied}}

Subst and delete and Support 65.94.171.126's proposal; not even sure how this came to exist. APerson (talk!) 13:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy subst and delete - Obviously an editor error (someone else put {{Tied}} in that table, but created a red link, and then creator Contributions/Peterhtoo clicked it, and put in this text - his only edit). -- Netoholic @ 18:55, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The one usage (at Scott Cam) was this vandalism that's been reverted. Support the proposal as well. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:41, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete per nom, as created in error. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 11:23, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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