Template talk:Tfd

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Contents 1 Documentation 1.1 Usage 1.2 See also 2 Discussion 3 Minor change 4 Requested move 5 Question: 6 Request to have sort key added 7 {{PAGENAME}} default parameter 8 Add Usage section 9 TFD text showing up on every page that uses target template 10 Typo? 11 Proposal 11.1 Other proposal

[edit] Documentation

{{Tfd}} is protected at the moment. Use {{Editprotected}} on this page to propose an edit.

[edit] Usage

Usage (at top of page): {{tfd|name of template}}

The Template for Deletion is used to mark a template as a candidate for deletion.
Discussion about the deletion takes place in Wikipedia:Templates for deletion.

• name_of_template: The name of the template is usually the first parameter, to create a link to the appropriate TFD page section. If there are special characters the proper substitutions have to be made to match the section heading anchor. Don't include Template: in the name of the template.
• It's often a good idea to add {{tfd}} in a <noinclude> section of the relevant template, otherwise the TFD note will show up on all pages using the nominated template. This could be considerd as disruptive, but "hiding" the TFD can also be controversial.

[edit] See also

• Template:Tfd (edit talk links history) - this template
• Template:Tfd-inline (edit talk links history) - inline usage
• Template:Catfd (edit talk links history) - Category and TFD
• Template:Tfd2 (edit talk links history) - second step in a TFD process
• Template:Catfd2 (edit talk links history) - similar (cat with same name)
• Template:Tfdnotice (edit talk links history) - TFD info on related pages

[edit] Discussion

Archived by Omniplex 20:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC):

1. Use in template vs. in template talk
2. Category
3. Slight modification
4. Insertion of tag
5. Self-referential {{tfd}}
6. TFD'd
7. Smaller is better
8. either/or?
9. A choice of sizes
10. Let's Talk
11. it's entry link
12. Edit summary
13. Consensus?
14. Another change
15. moved from main page
16. See also

[edit] Minor change

Please change the template to

i.e. add ucfirst so it always link to correct template entry on the tfd. _→AzaToth 19:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

There was a requested move from Template:Tfd/Temp to here - please see Template_talk:Tfd/Temp and comment WhiteNight ^{T | @ | C} 20:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question:

So, suppose someone wanted to nominate this for a TfD, what template would they have to use for that? (=--205.188.116.7 06:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

They could use this one, as it would not have been deleted yet. :) --Abu Badali 03:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request to have sort key added

Please add the sort key to the template. So:

[[Category:Template templates]]

should be changed to

[[Category:Template templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]

– Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 07:24, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Done. howcheng {chat} 17:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{PAGENAME}} default parameter

Please stop defaulting the parameter to {{PAGENAME}}. This results in markup that is correctly only when looking at the actual template page - it's translated to the name of the page the template is displayed on, not that of the template itself. Since the whole purpose of the tfd template is to link from pages where the template is transcluded to tfd, this is never useful. In fact, it's actively harmful, in that it prevents taggers from noticing that the tfd link is incorrect. —Cryptic (talk) 10:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

For an experiment with this see {{ subst:tfd1 }}, this should work only for simple PAGENAMEE cases. -- Omniplex 19:03, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

This should really be fixed! --Swift 12:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Add Usage section

Please unprotect this page, I want to make it easier to understand. Browsing around I notice a lot of people actually forget to include the second parameter which links to the vote. --Col. Hauler 09:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

See above for the usage, [[Category:Requests for unprotection]] had no effect, there's no such category. -- Omniplex 19:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TFD text showing up on every page that uses target template

Is it the goal to have TFD warnings showing up on every page that the template is used on? I was really confused by the text on Image:617patroclus.jpg until I found that it was from Template:Image information. -Harmil 19:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typo?

Just noticed that the word "discrete" in the template should actually be "discreet". The two oft-confused words have very different meanings (see Wiktionary), almost to the point of being antonyms. --Stratadrake 17:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

wiktionary:discreet vs wiktionary:discrete — MrDolomite | Talk 20:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Dragons flight 20:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal

To change ' See [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|templates for deletion]] to help reach a consensus on what to do. ' to ' See [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:{{{{subst: subst:}}: PAGENAME}}]] to help reach a consensus on what to do. ' Passer-by 18:48, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other proposal

This template is too discreet for a deletion proposal template. It could use a small red icon to be more easly noticed. It works! --Abu Badali 03:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Something conspicious, specialised, with TFD text on it, and perhaps which redirects directly from the Image to the TFD page itself. . Or at least keep the formatting within the template to be deleted. -Ste|vertigo 16:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)