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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 section.

The result of the discussion was Delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:13, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Derefer (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template utilizes services that by definition have been, or will be, blocked by the spam blacklist, since they allow users to bypass the blacklist's checks via a different domain name. Indeed, after the service it used most recently was blacklisted, it now does nothing more than putting a plain external link in place. Using a different service just delays the inevitable, and when the new service gets blacklisted again sooner or later suddenly all pages transcluding this template will become uneditable due to the spam filter (this has already happened once: Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2011 March 25#Unable to get rid of "cite error" message) until someone figures out that this apparently innocuous template is responsible. Subst and delete. Any specific URLs that actually require derefering should go through the whitelist. T. Canens (talk) 21:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. There's only about 6 articles using it, so fixing those up should be trivial. It causes complicated headaches, and doesn't help much; whitelist is the better option - not circumventing it.  Chzz  ►  21:28, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - In theory, it would be possible for someone to make a derefer service for Wikipedia that respects the spam blacklist. In practice, this is used so little, the whitelist is easier. Mr.Z-man 01:27, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 section.