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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; deleted as G6 by Goodnightmush (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 20:19, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Unpublished interview with Douglas D. Love, April 30, 2011 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Only used in one article, to which it specifically relates. Subst and delete. DH85868993 (talk) 11:20, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete and don't subst. The text is "I was interviewed as a source for this article on April 30, 2011. I was a judge at the Ancient Mariner Regatta when Stephan Geiger, rather than sitting in the breeches buoy chair, crouched on it, thereby "surfing the chair" and got the team for the SSS Intrepid disqualified from the event. Douglas D. Love, May 31, 2012", which is being used as a reference in an article. You can't use personal experience or "unpublished interview" as a source, ever. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 13:11, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete TPH is quite right. And as Wikipedia isn't a reliable source, posting this titbit here doesn't qualify it as fit for use as a WP:RS. Peridon (talk) 13:59, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Templates are created to enable the same thing to appear in multiple places, and there's no way that such a chunk of text could belong in multiple articles, even if it were appropriate for this one. Nyttend (talk) 14:36, 12 August 2012 (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.