Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 September 30 - Wikipedia

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).

The result of the discussion was Delete. Replace with WP Alt Music template and appropriate parameters. (non-admin closure) Primefac (talk) 02:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:WikiProject Smashing Pumpkins (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is just a hard-coded instance of Template:WikiProject Alternative music with the pumpkins-taskforce parameter set to yes (used in 10 pages out of the 114 total in the taskforce. There is no active project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music/The Smashing Pumpkins any longer. However it doesn't pass through all the proper classes so pages like Category talk:A-Class Smashing Pumpkins articles show up as Category:NA-Class Alternative music articles rather than Category:Category-Class Alternative music articles. It would be better to stubst the uses of this template with the actual template rather than have separate versions requiring double the maintenance checking. Ricky81682 (talk) 05:53, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete convenience wrapper of {{WikiProject Alternative music}} that saves a little wikicode - that is to say,

  {{WikiProject Smashing Pumpkins |small=yes |listas=Corgan, Billy |class=c |importance=low }}
  

  whilst exactly equivalent to

  {{WikiProject Alternative music |BANNER_NAME=Template:WikiProject Smashing Pumpkins |small=yes |category=¬ |listas=Corgan, Billy |QUALITY_SCALE=standard |class=c |importance=low |pumpkins-taskforce=yes }}
  

  is essentially equivalent to

  {{WikiProject Alternative music |small=yes |listas=Corgan, Billy |class=c |importance=low |pumpkins-taskforce=yes }}
  

  so the actual saving is the single parameter |pumpkins-taskforce=yes As regards unrecognised classes, this is because {{WikiProject Alternative music}} has |QUALITY_SCALE=subpage, which brings {{WikiProject Alternative music/class}} into play, which adds certain classes (file/book/draft/category/disambiguation/template/project) to the default set (fa/a/ga/b/c/start/stub/fl/list/na), it also removes list-class. {{WikiProject Smashing Pumpkins}} doesn't have a corresponding {{WikiProject Smashing Pumpkins/class}} so it sets |QUALITY_SCALE=standard which is a bit of a cop-out. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:49, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - There's hardly anyone who maintains their related articles anymore beyond myself, let alone enough people to warrant any sort of WikiProject on them... Sergecross73 msg me 12:40, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as redundant. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:47, 3 October 2015 (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).