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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2020 May 17. Primefac (talk) 02:46, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Template:WikiProject COVID-19 tabs (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

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Module:Loader

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2020 May 15. (non-admin closure) TheTVExpert (talk) 20:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Loader (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

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Template:SWC hand signals

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The result of the discussion was delete. (non-admin closure) TheTVExpert (talk) 20:26, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SWC hand signals (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Extremely weird and downright bizzare. It's not even a real college conference anymore. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 15:14, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

delete, mostly section links. Frietjes (talk) 17:00, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Frietjes. Mostly section links. --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Uw-recentblockwarn

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2020 May 15. (non-admin closure) TheTVExpert (talk) 12:34, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Uw-recentblockwarn (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

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Template:ParameterUseFirst

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The result of the discussion was redirect to Template:If empty. (non-admin closure) TheTVExpert (talk) 20:25, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Duplicate of {{If empty}}. I've just updated the uses (1, 2), hence it might take some time to replicate. Reh man 05:01, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. (I created this one, obviously after missing the existing one for its unhelpful name). -DePiep (talk) 12:04, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
delete, not needed and opaque name vs {{first nonempty}}. Frietjes (talk) 17:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well found. So do we propose full name change? -DePiep (talk) 21:47, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Template:If empty -- I see no valid reason for deletion. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:22, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Parameter

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The result of the discussion was redirect to Template:Para. (non-admin closure) TheTVExpert (talk) 20:24, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Redundant and unused template. Reh man 04:44, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

delete not needed (should probably be redirected to template:para after deletion). Frietjes (talk) 17:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Module:HTMLDecode

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The result of the discussion was no consensus. (non-admin closure) TheTVExpert (talk) 20:16, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Module:HTMLDecode (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Module:String (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Module:HTMLDecode with Module:String.
Consolidate string-related Lua functions. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:11, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:13, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TheTVExpert (talk) 00:06, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep both templates are used very widely. I worry a merge is likely to be complex, time consuming and result in excess effort in terms of use, has a high potential for errors during the merge process, and is likely to result in the creation of unnecessary additional parameters. I don't see any benefit to the encyclopedia, readers nor editors for this proposal. Happy to hear from other editors about this. --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Tom (LT): The number of transclusions is a bad way of determining the usage of a meta-template; Module:HTMLDecode is actually used by only 20-ish templates (and the number of pages using Module:String is irrelevant, since those uses won't break). There's no reason to think that a merge would be any more complicated than my previous merger of five modules into this one, which proceeded without breaking anything. Merging this kind of module is very different from merging templates, since you can just add
```
function str.NAME(frame)
    ...
end
```
to the end without impacting the code path taken by other uses of the module at all. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:29, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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