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Template:Graph:Most Expensive Cars

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Another template using the disabled graph extension. If it can be converted to the new Chart extension then convert. If it can't, then delete template. Gonnym (talk) 19:35, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Keep" Easy to go to past elections. It'd be a drag to type in the full title at the top EVERY SINGLE TIME

Template:Graph:Most Expensive Paintings

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Another template using the disabled graph extension. If it can be converted to the new Chart extension then convert. If it can't, then delete template. Gonnym (talk) 19:35, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Overwatch (video game)/PlayerGrowth

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Unused template using the disabled graph extension. Gonnym (talk) 19:34, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CCI statistics

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Another template using the disabled graph extension. If it can be converted to the new Chart extension then convert. If it can't, then delete template. Gonnym (talk) 19:32, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It might be convertible to the Chart extension using some mw:Extension:Chart/Transforms, but I have no idea how to make that happen. @Chlod (module creator) or Ahecht (person who I know does both Lua and Chart stuff), do you have any insights? Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 06:39, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@HouseBlaster Should be possible to convert, but without any documentation of what it even does I can't say for sure. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:51, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The module and resulting chart showed a line chart of active CCI cases automatically based on the tables at WP:CCI and WP:CCIA, where a date on which a case was opened is a +1 in the chart, and the date a case was closed is a -1. Those deltas are then tallied to get the historical case counts. It's very straightforward, but the current design of Charts makes it impossible to create charts dynamically out of on-wiki content, as it needs to be turned into a .chart first. I'm fine with having this template deleted while there's no replacement for it yet, which will probably take a bot updating a chart on Commons. Chlod (say hi!) 18:15, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom as it currently doesn't work. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:34, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Backrooms Levels

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).

The result of the discussion was delete. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 20:02, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some sort of fancruft related to The Backrooms. None of these articles exist on Wikipedia and are unlikely to exist in the future. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:42, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template or module's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Template:Can-arpt-wx

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Template is no longer useful. I created this template some years ago when Wikipedia was being spammed by mash-up sites promoting weather reports and advertising. At the time it was used on over 1,000 articles and today is used on less than 200. Nav Canada have changed their site and the current link for any use of the template goes to https://spaces.navcanada.ca/workspace/flightplanning/ but should go to https://plan.navcanada.ca/wxrecall/ and give the weather for a particular station but no longer does. CambridgeBayWeather (#1 deranged), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 16:20, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Anarchism cleanup issue graph

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Unused template other than 3 old archives. The template is currently unusable as it uses the disable graph extension. Gonnym (talk) 16:11, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GameStop stock price graph

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Single use template. Subst to article and delete template. Gonnym (talk) 16:04, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:STV election graph

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Another template using the disabled graph extension. If it can be converted to the new Chart extension then convert. If it can't, then delete template. Gonnym (talk) 16:03, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2025 MPBL season by team

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Navbox with only 3 valid blue links. Vestrian24Bio 10:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cricket batting averages (10 innings)

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Article content on template space violating Wikipedia:Template namespace. Used on one article. Subst and delete. Template deals in stats that belongs within article space. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:33, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Best Test career bowling averages

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Article content on template space violating Wikipedia:Template namespace. Subst on articles used and delete. Template deals in stats that belongs within article space. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:31, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete: can be LST-ed where needed. Vestrian24Bio 10:56, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • As the person who created this template (16 years ago! Where has the time gone?), I think I know what this means (although "LST-ed" is new to me). If I understand this right, you would replace this template on each page with a statement like "Nash's Test career bowling average of 12.60 is the fourth lowest of anyone with at least ten Test wickets, behind only Charles Marriott, with an average of 8.72, Frederick Martin (10.07) and George Lohmann (10.75)." This seems a longwinded and less complete way of showing the information on the template; less complete because you now do not know who is else is in the top 15 and their respective averages. Indeed, templates like this one were created to give readers a better, more concise understanding of the topic. However, if the rules are now to delete templates like this, so be it, I guess. --Roisterer (talk) 12:13, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Knight Riders Group

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Sidebar used only on one article. Sidebar is not supported by a main article or information other than a redirect to a section on the main KKR team article. Also, all articles linked are covered by respective navboxes. This is not needed. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:29, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Convert to bottom navbox or delete. A navbox can be created with the 5 team links. That's a valid navbox. It's not appropriate to put for example {{Kolkata Knight Riders}} on Los Angeles Knight Riders (even though it currently has a link to it). But this template can and will follow WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. Gonnym (talk) 14:09, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If there already in other navboxes than this would probably be redundant to them. Vestrian24Bio 13:09, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Season sidebar

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Unnecessary sidebar used on sporting event articles that takes up space. For the vast majority of articles, all of the links used on respective international sporting events are covered by their respective navboxes or are linked already on either the main tournament article or the respective yearly tournament articles. This sidebar is redundant and is not doing anything that navboxes or the articles aren't doing. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:21, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete after making sure the bottom navigation template has the links. To The Grid, when the amount of links is few in numbers, that could work. When you have dozens, then it doesn't. Because consistency should be given extra weight here, both for editors who try and mimic other pages, and for readers who expect to find certain links in specific places, then either all scenarios or none should have it. Those links are much better suited in the bottom navigation template which most if not all of these translusions have. Gonnym (talk) 14:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I think it gives a concise, easy to view summary, easy to glance at. ThaTTThoosie (talk) 11:01, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:UK general election navigation

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Obtrusive template which does not help to navigate articles on national UK elections. Better left to templates. Nothing more than a sidebar taking up space. For instance, on the 1802 United Kingdom general election article it appears next to the election infobox but in the middle in the top part of the article. And it appears like that for many articles. Navigation for election articles is best left for templates like navboxes. Plus, not everything needs a sidebar. We have already Template:United Kingdom elections that covers the purpose of this sidebar already. Navboxes are doing the job well and sidebars like these are redundant Also, in terms of finding a way to click a link to these articles, one alternative is to click the link to the preceding or succeeding election articles from the infoboxes on these articles. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Sidebar template is much more easily accessible. These articles are often lengthy and that bottombox is rather overencumbered Bejakyo (talk) 17:44, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:Leadsidebar, this violates that. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 18:43, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing there seems to state that Bejakyo (talk) 19:28, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"The placement of a sidebar in the lead is generally discouraged; it may be included on a case-by-case basis, placed preferably after the lead-section image and infobox." There is enough navigation as it is already. Just because a navbox is all the way at the bottom does not mean its not accessible. This is redundant, plus more navigation isn't merited. Articles in these series are already found elsewhere on those articles plus the templates that link to them. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:23, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is not a "violation" to keep something that is merely "discouraged". ~2025-40406-38 (talk) 23:40, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The sidebar can simply not be placed in the lead, and so far as I've seen typicaly isn't in the lead anyway, but the background Bejakyo (talk) 15:13, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: As far as I can see this template is never in the lead, so WP:Leadsidebar would not apply in this case. It has not appeared in general election articles since 1987 and not in the MPs articles since 1931. There is no MPs navbox in the general election articles and vice versa. ~2025-40604-97 (talk) 07:30, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:UK general election opinion polling

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Redundant sidebar-type template as the navbox Template:Opinion polling for United Kingdom elections is better served for navigation to articles about polls for UK elections. Plus, not everything needs a sidebar. Several UK general elections have their own navboxes that include links to opinion polling articles already. Navboxes are doing the job well and sidebars like these are redundant. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:13, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Sidebar template is much more easily accessible. These articles are often lengthy and that bottombox is rather overencumbered Bejakyo (talk) 17:44, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:Leadsidebar, this violates that. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 18:43, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing there seems to state that Bejakyo (talk) 19:28, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I use it all the time, especially to switch between Opinion polls and Leadership approval articles. More convenient than scrolling down the page (which is only going to get much longer).
Reverted without explanation. Dismissive and arrogant. ~2025-40406-38 (talk) 18:54, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Your only edits are this discussion. Your personal preferences are not at all relevant. No different than when IP's did this. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:23, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The number of my edits is irrelevant. I have been using the articles in question for a long time and as a user I find the sidebar very useful. Is it likely that I'm the only one? You can call "finding something useful" a "personal preference" if you wish, but if people prefer to use the sidebar to navigate between related articles, that is hardly irrelevant. Whether you like it or not, I have as much right to express my view here as anyone else, whether as a user or editor, and whether or not the account is temporary. I do not need to justify anything further, but for your information, since it appears to be important to you, I have made many edits, to various articles. As I'm sure you already know IP and TA numbers change frequently, automatically - I do not change them, nor do I have more than one at any one time. It just so happens this is a new one. ~2025-40406-38 (talk) 21:18, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge but check... To the closing admin, make sure to put this in the "Review" section as Template:Opinion polling for United Kingdom elections is NOT in use everywhere that that this one is. Gotta make sure they are properly replaced. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:51, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The template is used in articles without infobox, so moving to previous or next election requires to use the bottombox. Furthermore, the WP:LEADSIDEBAR discouragement seems to aim primarily to topical sidebars, whereas the template in question carries specific references to previous/next entries of the same type of page. Hrhr2 (talk) 17:10, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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