Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Box-header-square

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. --Go for it! 23:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Box-header-square

Un-necessary and inferior fork of Portal:Box-header. cj | talk 09:27, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep This template is necessary to prevent all the seemingly arbitrary changes between square corners vs. rounded corners on Portal:Box-header. Slambo (Speak) 12:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

  Yes. However, the point of this nomination is that if rounded corners are indeed inappropriate for Wikipedia (aside userspace), then this template is redundant. And the changes to Portal:Box-header can more easily be avoided by simply substing it in any portals box-header subpage.--cj | talk 04:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• What on earth are templates doing in the portal-namespace? >Radiant< 16:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

  My only guess (since I'm not the one who put them in that namespace) is that they are to be used only on portals. Personally, I have no preference whether the template is in Portal: or in Template: as long as I don't have to subst or retype all the code for Portal:Trains. Slambo (Speak) 17:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

  That's a bit weird. I would prefer them moved to template namespace, especially if (as this one) they have uses unrelated to portals. >Radiant< 00:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

  This one is essential to the portal system. See Wikipedia:Portal. Jon Harald Søby 08:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

• Move to Template space nuf said. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 00:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep I created this header so that portal makers could explicitly choose square corners, and for portal differentiation. If all portals use the same template for their box style, then all portals can be vandalized by hitting one single template. They are also forced to adopt the exact same elements, everytime the central template is changed. But portal designers have a free hand in their designs, as free as on any page of Wikipedia. And I strongly urge you to resist CJ's efforts to enforce a single design upon Portals. Slambo's motive for keeping this template in order to not be at the whim of the default template is a valid one. Please save this template. Thank you. --Go for it! 03:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

  What nonsense. (And I urge you to not make accusations against other users (here and elsewhere).) I am not in the slightest opposed to diversity in design – in fact I have actively advocated it. However, the browser-specific designs you have been propagating are inappropriate for many reasons, and this and the other templates are little more than PoV forks. The strawman you put about Portal:Box-header assumes that it is the only design in use – this is false; there are, and will be in future, multiple formats.--cj | talk 04:55, 9 February 2006 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.