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	* ''Keep '<s>(Weak) Merge and delete one</s>''' one into the other. Both templates are relatively new. {{tl\|CATV America}} isn't included in any of the pages it references; it's prettier and not as dense, but is it going to be used? - ] 06:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)		* ''Keep '<s>(Weak) Merge and delete one</s>''' one into the other. Both templates are relatively new. {{tl\|CATV America}} isn't included in any of the pages it references; it's prettier and not as dense, but is it going to be used? - ] 06:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
	*: US is big enough that it makes sense to give it its own template - ] 16:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)		*: US is big enough that it makes sense to give it its own template - ] 16:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
	:'''Reply''' It's being used as I create new articles, and I'll continue to use it unless it ends up getting deleted. --] 16:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
	*'''Delete''' Per nom, too many non existing interwikis and the original has all of them, delete it and use the original one.]]</font></sup></font> 12:25, 4 February 2007 (UTC)		*'''Delete''' Per nom, too many non existing interwikis and the original has all of them, delete it and use the original one.]]</font></sup></font> 12:25, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
			* '''Strong Delete''' --] 16:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
	:'''Reply''' The original one (]) ''doesn't'' have all of the links, and if it did would be even more unwieldy than it is now. I've started articles for many of the missing links, and will continue to do so over the next few days (as well as flesh out the initial stubs whenever I can). --] 16:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
	* '''Keep''' Having the cable systems categorized by country makes more sense than by continent, and is consistent with the structure already in place in the ]. Given the large number of cable companies, it also makes more sense to have cable separate from satellite (and from IPTV, etc.) as was ] on the talk page for the original ] template that served as the parent of them all. --] 16:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

	* '''Keep''' I agree that cable systems by country are a much better idea than by continents.] 21:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)		* '''Keep''' I agree that cable systems by country are a much better idea than by continents.] 21:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

	* '''Delete''' The Cable in The Americas ] includes other multichannel television providers that do not use cable, such as FiOS, DirecTV, and USDTV <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 23:40, 4 February 2007 (UTC).		* '''Delete''' The Cable in The Americas ] includes other multichannel television providers that do not use cable, such as FiOS, DirecTV, and USDTV <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 23:40, 4 February 2007 (UTC).
	:'''Reply''' That's precisely why the ] template was created – the existing template (]) was getting to be too big, and it was suggested that it be broken into more manageable sub-templates. One proposed replacement (]) had the problem that it broke companies down by continent rather than by country, and also it didn't break apart cable providers from other kinds. I was under the impression that having several, smaller templates was preferable to having one very large template, but if that's not the case then I'll be glad to change my vote. --] 16:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

	*<s>'''Delete'''</s> I'm not sure if this is a good use for a nav template in the first place, let alone for ''two'' nav templates. -- ] 04:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)		*<s>'''Delete'''</s> I'm not sure if this is a good use for a nav template in the first place, let alone for ''two'' nav templates. -- ] 04:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

	:'''Reply''' The point of the ] template (along with templates for other countries and provider types) is to replace ]. Creating and populating the template for US cable companies is simply the first step in that process. --] 16:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
	::Like I said, I'm not a big fan of these kinds of nav templates... but if you guys got a plan for them then might as well let you run with it and see how it turns out. -- ] 16:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)		::Like I said, I'm not a big fan of these kinds of nav templates... but if you guys got a plan for them then might as well let you run with it and see how it turns out. -- ] 16:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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	:'''Reply''' those are arguments against these nav templates in general rather than this one in particular, and applied to this particular case, argues in favor of this one over its predecessor ], which is the whole reason it was created. Deleting this template will leave us with just ] or ], both of which take up even more space in the footer, are less current, and will more quickly become unmanageable (owing to their more inclusive nature). --] 20:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Template:Stationery-logo

Broken, not used. Abu badali 23:50, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete as unused, broken and full of typos – Qxz 19:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete: redundant, orphaned, and generally poor quality. Chris cheese whine 01:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Copyright 1975 Volkswagen of America

Delete; if the image is validly "fair use", this template isn't necessary. If not, the image should be deleted. —An gr 13:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:NOT GFDL

Template reads "This file is fair use has not been licensed under GFDL". 1. There's no such thing as a "fair use file". We have no reason to tag all non-GFDL images (are we going to tag public doman images, cc-by or cc-by-sa images, etc?). The accompanying category Category:Images not licensed under GFDL should go as well. --Abu badali 23:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete. Should we have a tag for images which aren't in the public domain too? -Amark moo! 05:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete; images should say what their license is, not what it isn't. —An gr 13:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete {{Fairusein}} is a better template for these types of images. -- Selmo 00:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete --GunnarRene 02:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Copyrighted_Flickr_Photo

A "fair use image" tag for "Copyrighted Flickr Photographs:". There's nothing inherently "fair use" about a non-free image posted on Flickr. If none of the existing fair use image tags applies, then the image can't be used. The accompanying category Category:Copyrighted Flickr Images should go as well. --Abu badali 23:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete. This at first looks just redundant, but then it turns out that it left out the reduced resolution that's in the standard copyrighted fair use template, which is important. Any pictures with this tag should be tagged correctly or deleted. -Amark moo! 05:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete; it's extremely rare that a copyrighted image from Flickr is non-replaceable anyway. —An gr 13:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete Flickr photographs can be replaced with free use images. -- Selmo 00:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:DS9 navigation

Is redundant, because previous and next episode info is already in the specific episode infobox. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 22:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete ~~Keep~~. This template is used by close to 200 pages. I'm not sure I see why it should be deleted? - grubber 04:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Comment But, about 75% of those pages have this exact same information in the episode infobox at the top of a ds9 episode page. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 05:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
You're right. I hope someone will clear the template out of the pages so we dont end up with a redlink on the bottom of 200 pages tho. - grubber 16:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Comment Okay, here, I'll try and remove it from the pages that have the template and infobox.. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 19:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete unneeded, can easily be removed by bot or assisted browser. No major issue here, just something overlooked and then copied a great many times. It's almost a housekeeping thing. -- Ned Scott 04:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete (Nominator) Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 05:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete As Illyria05 explained, this template is completely redundant, as the same information is replicated in the infoboxes. Chairman S. Talk 06:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. 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). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy keep. Okay, so this is a bit procedural, but head to WP:MFD for userspace discussions. Cheers, Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 06:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Peter M Dodge/Userboxes/AGF

Useless repeat of User AGF. Urhixidur 15:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Keep Falls under userspace and is therefore ineligible for TFD. How do we know that {{user AGF}} isn't a useless repeat of the userfied one? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 17:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Comment. It's an unused template (no incoming links) but it is in userspace. I have placed a note on the user's talk page about the template. We'll see if he wants it deleted. - grubber 18:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
DELETE. The user has declared he is not using this template and doesn't care if it's deleted. - grubber 04:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Keep unless User:Peter M Dodge wants it deleted. It's in userspace, and it's not harming anything. Gavia immer (u|t) 18:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't particularly care. Delete away, if you want. I don't use it anymore. Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge (Talk to Me) 20:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Keep If ok with everybody, I'd like to use it. I like it because it gives userpages a positive feeling, and I follow it anyway. Nevermind, I didn't know there was a template for it. First time I saw it. I say it's up to Peter then. JackSparrow Ninja 20:48, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Whatever, but being a "useless repeat" is not a good reason for deletion. -Amark moo! 05:33, 5 February 2007 (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 template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Template:Bell System

This template is redundant to the AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest templates. It is not well designed and ultimately adds clutter to virtually every Bell Telephone related page. The user that came in here thinking he could "run" the AT&T related articles; creating Wikiprojects, this template, rearranging redirects, adding new, redundant categories, etc., seems to have disappeared. I suggest partially replacing this with a category "Bell Operating Companies". --X570 15:50, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Ferrol

An infobox that's specific to a single city but isn't used in its article. No transclusions, and seems not useful at all; redundant with the generic infobox its code was taken from. --Flyingtoaster1337 14:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete. No need for this single-use template (that's not even being used). - grubber 18:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete - if it's not going to be used in multiple places, what's the point of having it around instead of just the code? delldot | talk 01:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Miss USA state pageants

Delete - Appears to be unused and I think it has been superceeded by {{Miss Universe Organization titleholders}}. I'm posting a {{tfdnotice}} for User:PageantUpdater. --After Midnight 14:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete. Created last May and currently not in use. - grubber 18:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete. Can't even remember creating this! -- PageantUpdater • talk | contribs | esperanza 21:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Emot

Same justification as the recently deleted Template:Smiley. Misplaced Pages is not a social network, image emoticons add server load for no encycloapedic benefit. Guy (Help!) 13:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep or else someone will be going after the Barnstars for the same reason. NipokNek 14:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- To be fair, this is an utter non sequitur. There's nothing remotely similar between images and emoticon templates which are used inline frequently with comments. --Cyde Weys 15:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete per earlier TFD precedent on smiley templates. Also, this template was used by our template vandal yesterday. We should use very few templates in our user discussions, primarily internal link templates. NoSeptember 14:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment. Why not just require it to be substed then? —Dark•Shikari 15:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment I use this template a lot, so my first reaction is keep. I attempted subst on it, and it din't work: simply puts in a long list of image names, and it still requires the server to parse. I vote keep, but if server load can be reduced by removing it, then delete. xCentaur | ☎ 16:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment - Also consider the reasons for not having images in signatures, which apply for smileys too. NoSeptember 17:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Speedy delete. Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/August 2005#Template:Sad, Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/January 2006#Template:Smiley, Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 January 31#Template:Smiley. If people insist on inserting images into discussions, let them insert the actual images. Re-upload at File:).png and similar as necessary. —Cryptic 21:31, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Remove images and still print the text equivalents as in {{{1}}} for compatibility. Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 05:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Comment Call this a comment since I already expressed my opinion above. If the template is causing too much load, fix the template. Legislating behaviour ("We don't want people using smilies") is always a bad idea. NipokNek 07:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Speedy delete as a template redundant to the recently deleted Template:Smiley. It's not about "legislating behavior" — a whole separate slippery slope argument on its own — it's about maintaining the focus of what the wiki is, an academic encyclopedia. There're forums, IRC, email, chat, and many, many other venues for editors who want to get together for social networking, which is all well and good. But this isn't the place for it. Tijuana Brass 10:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete — I definitely agree with NoSeptember here. We should be using as few templates in the course of regular discussion as possible. I don't want commenting to eventually become a mess of various formatting and emoticon templates. It'll be hard to read in edit source mode (which I read a fair number of comments in, because I frequently know before hand that I want to comment, so I'll click over to edit, read the conversation, and put in my comments as necessary without having to try to find where they would go again if I read it in normal mode and then clicked over to edit). The conversation should look the same in edit mode as it does in normal mode (well, except for those infernal sigs), but the use of various templates like this emoticon causes some of the meaning to be lost in the edit source. I really don't see why we would want to move closer to a chat room, or a bulletin board, or IM. And anyway, if you really really want emoticons, you can do it in plaintext and nobody will be able to stop you :-P Cyde Weys 15:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:CATV_USA

There is no use for this template when there is a better template already available. The better template is Template:CATV_America.

Keep '~~(Weak) Merge and delete one~~' one into the other. Both templates are relatively new. {{CATV America}} isn't included in any of the pages it references; it's prettier and not as dense, but is it going to be used? - grubber 06:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
US is big enough that it makes sense to give it its own template - grubber 16:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete Per nom, too many non existing interwikis and the original has all of them, delete it and use the original one.Tellyaddict 12:25, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Strong Delete --Bill Clark 16:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep I agree that cable systems by country are a much better idea than by continents.75.14.211.175 21:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete The Cable in The Americas Template:CATV_America includes other multichannel television providers that do not use cable, such as FiOS, DirecTV, and USDTV —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.123.165.15 (talk) 23:40, 4 February 2007 (UTC).
~~Delete~~ I'm not sure if this is a good use for a nav template in the first place, let alone for two nav templates. -- Ned Scott 04:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Like I said, I'm not a big fan of these kinds of nav templates... but if you guys got a plan for them then might as well let you run with it and see how it turns out. -- Ned Scott 16:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete I prefer categories over these kinds of lists.
They take up a great deal of space on the footer

They require manual maintenance to be current

As they grow they become unmanageable
Alan.ca 20:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Template:Manhattan_Streets
Template:Manhattan_Streets (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Most of the links are not notable and will remain redlinks, and the box is unnecessarily, but inevitably large. Template:Streets of Manhattan, while not completely redundant, covers most of the streets in this template. Notable one-way streets can still be found in the Streets in Manhattan category. --talk to Ytny 02:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete; this is better presented as a category and possibly a list. --NE2 02:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete and convert to a list (maybe List of city streets in Manhattan or something similar). --TMF 03:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep the template provides a convenient means of navigating to other streets in Manhattan, that cannot possibly be accomplished by use of a category or list, all of which would be external to the article. Dozens of articles already exist for those not found on the Streets of Manhattan template, and more are being created. Unless anyone can explain what is lost by retaining this useful template, this TfD is just a matter of imposing an arbitrary personal preference on the issue. Alansohn 04:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
I'll need to go back and read the WP on templates, but my understanding was that we preferred to avoid templates that take up large amounts of space, especially in smaller articles, which most one-way street articles are. Also, the number of blue links on the template a little misleading since one-way streets from 23 to 42 all redirect to Manhattan streets, 23-42. In addition, articles for 1st, 2nd and 3rd are almost word-for-word identical and mention very little about the streets themselves. That still leaves 19 one-way street articles by my count, but with the exception of West 4th Street (Manhattan), very few claim notability of the streets themselves or expanded beyond stub status (I realize this is now starting to sound like an Afd for non-notable street articles, but I digress). I'm not sure if there are enough full articles to make this template worthwhile. talk to Ytny 04:48, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
If your actual issue is that it takes up a lot of space, there are far simpler solutions than the destructive choice of deleting the whole template. Perhaps a change in font size might solve the problem. This does not seem to be a serious attempt to address a Misplaced Pages problem; it seems to be more and more an attempt to impose a rather arbitrary aesthetic choice, by taking away the most useful means of navigating to different streets. That the nomination doesn't even bother to mention any Misplaced Pages policy should be clear demonstration that this nomination is just an arbitrary personal choice. Alansohn 16:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

While there is no policy re: size, but there is a guideline at WP:NAV, which advises against large templates on small pages, which one-way street articles almost invariably are. But the size is a secondary issue and symptomatic of the main problem, which is that the vast majority of the links will remain red, and the template is and will continue to be less useful than the bi-directional street template. If you discount the duplicate links between 23 and 42, and many of the minor streets that are non-notable and should be deleted, there's just not much to navigate to. And as far as specific deletion criteria, I argue that the template is not helpful (not enough notable articles to be worthwhile), and the template is redundant to another better-designed template - not completely redundant, but for all intents and purposes. -- talk to Ytny 17:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

FYI I've started an Afd for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 13th Streets. talk to Ytny 05:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep but add the "View-Edit-Show" links, and hide by default. It is included in a lot of pages, so it's clearly being used; but, I would also recommend going through and fixing the pages that include {{NYC Streets}} rather than this one and maybe prod that one. - grubber 06:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep seems rather useful to group together the streets in this plan. It would be one thing if the streets were just named like that for symmetry but this is a planned civic system. I think it deserves navigation. VolatileChemical 07:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delte To many non-existing interwikis, not really good enough anyway for a template.Tellyaddict 12:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Trim down -- keep only midtown manhattan 14th-59th streets. That will keep the template size down and only the notable range will be there. Also started Afd for 112th, 116th, 118th, 122nd, 132nd, 181st, 187th, --Hateu 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep I have no problem with the template. The real issue seems to be which streets in Manhattan deserve coverage. It certainly shouldn't be restricted to midtown. 4th, 125th and 181st are particularly important. Others should be judged on their merits.--agr 04:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep and do as Grubber said above. -- Robert Hear _Speak 00:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Deprecate in favour of {{Streets in Manhattan}}. This one is not much more than a redlink farm. Chris cheese whine 17:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Template:Spoiler-season
Template:Spoiler-season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
This template appears to be wholly redundant to {{spoiler}}, I can't see much value to this except adding to the "spoiler drama" - which is unneeded, imo. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 15:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Note: Nominator knew about, and has commented on, a closely linked TFD before starting this nomination: Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion#Template:Sgspoiler --GunnarRene 02:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Delete as nominator. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 15:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete Unneccessary, single template for spoiler is good enough. xCentaur | ☎ 16:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep In many articles spoilers of different episodes appear. And in other articles, it is handy to quickly see if this will be a spoiler for the reader. Cristan 17:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete. {{spoiler}} is all that's necessary for spoiler warnings. Gavia immer (u|t) 18:17, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep or possibly merge with {{spoiler-other}}. -- Ned Scott 19:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete Just a fancy spoiler for Stargate, not required.. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 22:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
You're in the wrong discussion. I agree with you that we should subst away the use of a Stargate only template, but I think we should keep the general season spoiler template. --GunnarRene 02:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete The normal spoiler template is adequate. Beno1000 01:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete - if the articles this is used on are organised sensibly in a clear chronological order, then a single {{spoiler}} tag will be sufficient. QmunkE 08:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
You just gave a reason to keep. Treating a subject in an article only in a story-chronological puts restrictions on how articles can be written. The deletion of this template might restrict some editors to story-chronological organization. --GunnarRene 02:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep It's useful to know if the spoilers are from something you've already seen or not. What harm is there is giving readers some extra info? In the case of a simple plot summary, you can get away with simply having everything in order, but not all articles about works of fiction are just plot summaries (and they shouldn't be, either). And this isn't "just a fancy spoiler for Stargate", it's a general spoiler template, it is used by the specific stargate one, {{sgspoiler}}, which is also up for deletion. --Tango 11:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep It's useful to sort through information, avoiding certain spoilers when necessary. I've managed to avoid several spoilers, because of these templates.Ghetto Gandalf 12:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm not trying to be rude or anything but seriously if you want to avoid spoilers why go into articles that *will* contain spoilers? The simple solution would be to stay away until they can't spoil you, we don't need a horde of "this section also contains spoilers as well but this time they are on series xyz, it may also contain spoilers on xyz's death." like templates, a simple {{spoiler}} suffices, always. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 16:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Why should someone have to go without certain information in order to avoid learning other information that they don't want? There is no reason at all. This spoiler template does no more harm than the standard one. If your problem is with multiple templates on the same page, then improve those pages, don't delete the template completely. --Tango 19:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete all spoiler templates. I find them rather distracting and annoying in articles. It's not a secret that if you come to an encyclopedia looking to read up on something, and you haven't seen/read it yet, you might get spoiled. --Cyde Weys 15:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
This is not the place for that discussion. Deleting all spoiler templates by voting "Delete" in each one individually is disruptive - the only reason this TFD will be meaningful is if spoilers templates as a whole are kept, so all comments here should be assuming that there is consensus to keep spoiler templates. If, in another discussion, it is decided to delete all the templates, then this discussion is null and void. Disruptive this discussion with votes that belong in another discussion is not helpful. --Tango 19:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about as your message seems slightly convulsed, however, please do not accuse another user of being disruptive because they will not agree with your points. That is disruptive. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 19:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I didn't say anything about me disagreeing with him, I said this isn't the place for his comments. He's answering a question that hasn't been asked. --Tango 21:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Matthew seems a bit confused, forgive him. -- Ned Scott 03:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete - overkill, the standard spoiler template is enough. --JiFish(/_Contrib) 16:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

~~Redirect and Delete~~ changed to Edit and Weak keep (see below) – I fail to see how any reader will find this helpful, and will only offer ambiguity to any article. If spoiler templates are here to stay (and it certainly appears so—there are currently 34 interwiki links in Template:Spoiler/doc), and there is a strong anti-spoiler presence (related TfDs: here and here), then there should be a minimal selection of spoiler templates. Redirect to {{spoiler}}—this I think is a fair solution. +mwtoews 20:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
In what way does it make anything ambiguous? Ambiguous means it has more than one possible meaning, what are the multiple possible meanings of a spoiler template? --Tango 21:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
To tell you the truth, we'll never know if this particular spoiler templates is useful or not, since everyone at this discussion has probably edited a few articles, and knows what is going on inside Misplaced Pages. We should really leave the topic of Information transformation to the psychologists. However, to a common Misplaced Pages reader of an article, such as Joe Public's Grandma, she may read an article, top-down, see the spoiler heading, and may:
Observe that the plot of the article she is reading will have details about the plot (gosh no!); but fair-enough, maybe she didn't want the plot ruined after-all

Observe that in the spoiler heading reads "Plot and/or ending details for this show" ... but wait, isn't this article already about this show? Why is this important to point out here, midway in the article?

Observe that in the spoiler heading also reads "Season #" ... okay, but this template appears to be used once in an article for a single season, which is already stated usually at the top of the article.

The only possibly useful piece of information to the reader is from the first point (e.g., {{spoiler}}). The last two points repeat information already stated at the beginning of the article, and add nothing important to the warning—thus they can only add to ambiguity of why they are repeated, since the reader should know what they are reading.+mwtoews 22:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
This show should be replaced by somthing better, be blanked even. I guess I'll just go ahead and do it. --GunnarRene 02:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I favor a change to {{spoiler-season}}, similar to the edited by GunnarRene (found here) such that the Show Name is not unnecessarily iterated in the spoiler. I will only change my vote to a weak keep, on the condition that it does not reiterate painfully obvious and unhelpful information. I now see the usefulness for the season number, for instance in Stargate SG-1, where it is used multiple times. However, this template should be avoided in articles that contain only one season (which is where this template is used most frequently, for example in Thirty-Eight Minutes and hundreds of other cases). Question: is it possible for the template to ignore the SHOW argument all-together, and only display the season number? +mwtoews 06:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Done (let's test it out ...)+mwtoews 07:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Information being repeated is a problem with the article, not the template. This template can be used without that redundancy. (Well, the season number will probably be included within the spoiler text as well as the spoiler tag, but I don't think that's a problem.) Hundreds of spoiler tags such as in Stargate SG-1 are a problem. I fixed the same problem on Jack O'Neill by just removing them all and putting a generic spoiler tag at the top and stating the relevant season very clearly at the beginning of each paragraph (see ). I'll see if I can do something similar for Stargate SG-1. This template is good for articles which aren't just a chronological plot summary. Describing the technical specifications of a spaceship when those specifications were stated in various seasons and some of the discussion about them includes spoilers, for example. Plot summaries can use a single generic tag at the top - it should always be obvious what is being spoilt. --Tango 13:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I have answered my own question, and edited the template to a much simpler one (archived here) (). This also solves the {{Sgspoiler}} problem, since there are no more default values. Are most pro-keep users happy with this change?+mwtoews 07:09, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I like not having the name of the show included by default, but it should be possible to show it for cases where they are multiple possible shows (Stargate SG-1 vs Stargate Atlantis vs the Stargate move, the various Star Trek series and films, Buffy vs Angel, etc). That can go in a different template if people want, I suppose, although it minimising the number of spoiler templates seems popular. --Tango 13:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but my argument is if this is necessary? I'm yet to find an article that mixes plot spolings from multiple sub-series and seasons, in which case your argument would be valid.

Note: When making substantial changes to a template and doc, please copy the whole structure to user space or subst it here to show what you mean. Hard-linking to a version will not work as expected. Could we please leave it at "my" version and any further changes be made in user-space or another kind of sub-page?

OK, test complete, and note observed. That was my moment of being WP:BOLD...template style! (yes, I agree, probably the worst kind of bold philosophy). +mwtoews 18:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Here's the template proposed by me, with usage instruction. Template:Spoiler-season/proposal1 I've made the show OPTIONAL and said Only use when not obvious. The change proposed by mwtoews would lack the ability to refer to a specific show when discussing a concept, and actor, or something else that does not make it obvious which show in a group of shows etc. is in question. --GunnarRene 16:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Proposal 1
{{spoiler-season/proposal1|3|episodelist=List of Babylon 5 episodes}}
Results in: Template:Spoiler-season/proposal1 (The season link goes to the episode list for the show.)
{{spoiler-season/proposal1|3|Babylon 5|episodelist=List of Babylon 5 episodes}}
Results in: Template:Spoiler-season/proposal1 (The season link goes to the episode list for the show.)
{{spoiler-season/proposal1|3|Babylon 5}}
Results in: Template:Spoiler-season/proposal1 (The season link goes to the article on television seasons.)
Proposal 1 discussion
I'm not sure if I see any substantial changes to the present template, athough I acknowledge the documentation changes. I still regard the SHOW argument (#2) unhelpful and redundant, and ignoring it is a compatible change that appeared to work for my "test" (and it alows {{sgspoiler}} to be made into a redirect with no modification). Perhaps the documentation should clearly state that this template should be used where there are multiple seasons on a single article; otherwise, for articles about one season/show, keep things simple with just a {{spoiler}} tag.+mwtoews 18:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I think the compatibility has to be discussed on the individual articles. In many cases it is not needed, in others it actually is. On your second point: How about if we word that as "In articles that reveal plot information from only one season, and where it is obvious to the reader which one it is, use {{spoiler}} instead. Similarly, where a spoiler is obviously about one show, omit the SHOW parameter, but keep the SEASON parameter. See also how to remove redundancy." --GunnarRene 19:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Other discussion
Keep. Useful refinement of the spoiler template for works with many seasons. When discussing the show, this template makes it easier to organize the article in ways more beneficial for discussing the topic instead of needing to proceed in a story-chronological fashion. --GunnarRene 02:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete all spoiler warnings. Having big warnings about that an encyclopedia article contains information is ridiculous. Shanes 03:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Ah, no, see, this isn't that discussion. This is about one particular spoiler template. If you wish to get rid of them all go to WT:SPOILER. -- Ned Scott 03:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
When I want them all gone, do you really think I might want to keep this one? Here's a "spoiler" for you: No, I don't. Shanes 03:46, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
It's one thing to say "Delete because I don't like any of the spoiler warnings" vs "lets use this TfD to delete all spoiler warnings". If you only meant the former, then I apologies. -- Ned Scott 04:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete. Will be obsolete in a few weeks anyway. --Stlemur 03:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
How so? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep. Although I'm not mad about spoiler warnings on Misplaced Pages in general, I think that if we're going to have them there's no harm in them being specialized for different uses. Since television programs air at different times in different countries, it is reasonable to think that some readers might be looking for information about such-and-such a show through season 2 (the latest to air in their home country), but might not want to be "spoiled" for information through season 4, which has already aired in the program's country of origin. This is a very common circumstance, and probably one of the most reasonable cases for spoiler warnings. Therefore, it makes sense to have a specialized spoiler notice for this purpose. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete. All variants on these templates are redundant to {{spoiler}}, which does the job simply and cleanly, and carries less risk. Chris cheese whine 13:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)