Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User car-free

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous 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 delete. Wizardman 00:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User car-free

This userbox was created in Template space contrary to WP:UBX and WP:UBM. It also substantially duplicates an existing userbox in User space. It should be deleted or moved to the editor's User space. DieWeisseRose (talk) 06:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete as a substantial dupe of something already in userspace, or userfy if the editor really wants this version. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 08:16, May 18, 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Looking at this edit, I think that the user was inexperienced at the time, and misunderstood how templates work (he has been editing since then, and is now more experienced), and he hasn't made any major improvements that really make the userbox different. Given this, I don't think that he never intended to create a version of the userbox, he probably must have moved it there because he must have thought in good faith it was a better place. Actually, I see lot of userboxes on User:Ashleyvh that also look like duplicates (does someone recognize them?) They are not duplicates of anything I can find:
• no need to delete, they are listed at User:UBX/Userboxes/Health {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Diabetic user}} {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Diabetic contributor}}
• listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Food#Tea {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Redbush tea}}
• listed at User:UBX/Userboxes/Beliefs {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Freecycle}} {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Public transport}}
• listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Books {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Postcyberpunk}}
• listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Television_(shows) {{User:Ashleyvh/Userboxes/Torchwood}}

as well as what look like others userboxes on template space, someone please check them and say which are good for template space and which are just copies from userspace (today i'm too tired for this): Damn, these templates are used on a huge amount of user pages, and have dozens of similar ones. This would need a bot updating all the transclusions and could cause a lot of disruption.

• listed at Category:Place_of_residence_user_templates {{user London}}
• Listed at Category:School_user_templates {{User The Open University}} {{User Imperial College}}
• This is part of the huge list at Category:Academic_degree_user_templates {{User degree/MBA1}}
• Listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Interests#Sustainability {{User Recycle}}
• Listed at Category:WikiProject_user_templates {{User LGBT Project}} {{User WikiProject Environment}}
• Listed at Category:Computer-related_user_templates {{User dvrk2}}
• listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Grammar {{User Oxford Spelling}}

(please keep them transcluded for a few days because this way it's easier to identify them) --Enric Naval (talk) 00:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

• The only ones that could be userfied in a reasonable manner are {{User MacMini}} and {{User_Teeline}} because they have no incoming links except this user. The rest need to be done with a bot to update all the transclusions, and userfying at User:UBX, and any such massive move should probably be brought first to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) or other forum. --Enric Naval (talk) 14:53, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

• Keep or userfy. Userbox guidelines do allow for userboxes in the template namespace. -- Ned Scott 04:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete as a duplicate or userfy (a distant 2nd choice). Although some userboxes are allowed in the template namespace, not all of them are. Wikipedia:Userboxes#Which namespace? suggests that userboxes which are not encyclopedic in nature (such as this one) should generally be in the user namespace. However, given that the template is a duplicate, I consider deletion to be preferable to userfying. –Black Falcon ^(Talk) 01:09, 27 May 2008 (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.