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Template:Infobox GAA championship main

Template:Infobox GAA championship main (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Template:Infobox GAA tournament (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Infobox GAA championship main with Template:Infobox GAA tournament.
Both templates perform the same function. {{Infobox GAA tournament}} is new and unused, while {{Infobox GAA championship main}} has been around for quite a while. {{Infobox GAA tournament}} has extra parameters, and , I think, a better name (similar to other sports - {{Infobox football tournament}}, for example). So I'm proposing the merge in that direction rather than the other way. Either way, the two should be merged with their combined parameters Teester (talk) 23:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

• Merge I agree with the proposed merging. I created Template:Infobox GAA tournament with the intention of improving Template:Infobox GAA tournament but thought the former name would be better. I based it on Template:Infobox GAA tournament and Template:Infobox football tournament. I feel it summarises GAA tournaments more efficiently, thus reflecting better on the level of organisation involved within the GAA. Wishboneash87 (talk) 15:21, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:Political neologisms

Template:Political neologisms (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

The articles to which it links - and, inherently, any articles to which it may link - are almost completely unconnected. Essentially, it's a category for words or phrases that have been coined recently, with 'recently' meaning 'in the last 70 years'. The terms are defined so loosely so as to include frequently- and long-used words, such as Euroscepticism, Political correctness, and Islamism with a series of books about Eurabia (book titles are not neologisms...), santorum (if you haven't heard of it, check it out), and the Infamy Speech - which was made SEVEN DECADES AGO.

Which is basically saying that, without any reliable sources suggesting that these things are connected, or any definitive list of 'political neologisms', the template cannot be WP:NPOV. And thus should be deleted. It ought to be a category, whereby an article's inclusion can be established on an article-by-article basis with reliable sources saying that that particular word is a neologism. But it's not a template. Bastin 22:37, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

• Keep. Useful navigational tool. Of interest to researchers of both politics, and linguistics. Please see also lots of similar templates, at Category:Politics and government templates and Category:Language templates. -- Cirt (talk) 22:44, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Comment: Yes, you said this when I raised the issue on the talkpage... and didn't provide any evidence from reliable sources. My statement above is that you'll never find any that support in reliable sources for santorum to be discussed in the same forum as Eurabia and Remix culture. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is a really bad argument - particularly when you haven't even pointed to any examples (I don't see why I should dig through useful templates to find something useless to prove your illegitimate argument). Also, you should declare your interest as the creator of the template. Bastin 22:53, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I created the template. And yes, it is discussed in reliable sources. Many of them. See the article. Your comment in reference to a specific entry from this template, seems to be advocating more about a particular article, than the template itself. -- Cirt (talk) 22:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

• Delete. Fine as a category, which it was before. --JN466 00:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
• Delete - should be a category. Difficult not to misuse. →StaniStani  01:08, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
• Weak keep We have lots of navigation templates less useful but I personally prefer categories to endless lumps of templates. My keep is in opposition to the obvious whitewashing attempt by the two above - who appear to be tag teaming anything related to the Santorum (neologism) article. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Stop assuming bad faith, SchmuckyTheCat; I came to this discussion due to Cirt's notice. If you accuse me of tag-teaming or some other offense again, I'll take it up on the appropriate notice board, where you have spent many a lovely day. →StaniStani  04:10, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

If you carry out your threat against SchmuckyTheCat, yours can be the latest in a noble tradition of complaints against him that have backfired against the complainants. The rapid-fire stub, split, template removal, and template deletion attempts that have plagued santorum and related pages for the past few days, always featuring the same cast of characters, is ample evidence of tag-teaming in itself. Since links have surfaced to discussions on Misplaced Pages Review and on the Wikien-l list about a concurrent anti-Cirt and anti-santorum campaign, the evidence of bad-faith behavior has been overwhelming. You have already marked your intentions as more ideological than encyclopedic, but gladly, you have also declared your intention to retire yourself from this public relations push. Perhaps you should stick to this promise. Quigley (talk) 20:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

• Delete Difficult to determine what should or should not be included. TFD (talk) 18:10, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Delete Agreed!--Enos733 (talk) 04:33, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
• Keep The criteria for an article's inclusion in this template is the same as with any other template or category: that reliable sources describe the article's subject as belonging to such a grouping. The term santorum, whose demotion in Google's search results is the stated goal of the faction campaigning to delete this template, has an excess of sources that attest to its being a neologism that was created and used for political purposes. If you don't think a certain article should be on this template, such as "Infamy Speech", then make the edit that you think is right on the template. TfD is not for cleanup. Quigley (talk) 20:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
• Delete. Wrong tool for the job. Revert to category, which is right tool for the job. —Scheinwerfermann ·_C21:44, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
• Delete. The connections between the individual terms are so tenuous and the potential number of entries so great that this selection does not work in a template. Keep it as a category. Sam Blacketer (talk) 23:28, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
• Comment: It is my opinion that the template has value as a navigational tool, and I continue to believe that. However, if it is determined that the community consensus is for deletion, I will abide by that and not contest it. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 06:08, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
• Keep but rename "Template:Cirt" a new neologism meaning political neologism. User:Fred Bauder Talk 15:47, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:Infobox SW books

Template:Infobox SW books (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is redundant to the normal book infobox, except that it adds irrelevant (at least for an infobox) in-universe information. It should be deleted after being replaced with the norm. Harry Blue5 (talk • contribs) 22:02, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. —Scheinwerfermann ·_C21:44, 26 May 2011 (UTC)