Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 6: Difference between revisions

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*'''Comment:''' I created the script which became the basis for some of these templates. I have not be able to come up with a way of replacing the functionality of these maintenance templates with categories. Having said that, the only templates named above that serve useful functions for my script and that are important to be kept are the major English code variants ({{tl|Use American English}}, {{tl|Use British English}}, {{tl|Use British English Oxford spelling}}, {{tl|Use Canadian English}}) –&nbsp;these codes all have distinct and more or less well-defined orthographies compared with each other. The other codes are merely "richer" (mostly just have an additional lexicon outside of mainstream British or Commonwealth English) but have no incidence on spelling variants that the script acts on. So the other templates, including I would say {{tl|Use British English}}, can be simply consolidated under the {{tl|EngvarB}} template. If you look in the [[:Category:EngvarB|category trees of the template]], you will see that they are all grouped under same. My script already replaces these other templates, but to do this job wholesale requires a bot. '''I propose therefore that we delete all except <nowiki>{{Use American English}}, {{EngvarB}}, {{Use British English Oxford spelling}}, {{Use Canadian English}}, and converge all the deleted into {{EngvarB}}</nowiki>'''. Incidentally, I don't think it's helpful to entrench language ghettoes that these other templates seem to imply. --<small><span style="background-color:#ffffff;border: 1px solid;">[[User:Ohconfucius|'''<span style="color:#000000; background-color:#EEE8AA">&nbsp;Ohc&nbsp;</span>''']]</span></small>[[User talk:Ohconfucius|^{''¡digame!''}]] 20:51, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

*'''Keep some of the templates.''' Redrose64 makes some good points. I think that we should definitely keep the {{tl|Use American English}}, {{tl|Use British English}}, {{tl|Use British English Oxford spelling}} and {{tl|Use Canadian English}} templates. Should the community decide to delete the rest, I would support the amalgamation of the deleted into {{tl|EngvarB}} per Ohconfucius. Nevertheless, at this time, I don't see why the {{Tl|Use Australian English}}, {{Tl|Use Bangladeshi English}}, {{Tl|Use Commonwealth English}}, {{Tl|Use Hong Kong English}}, {{Tl|Use Indian English}}, {{Tl|Use Irish English}}, {{Tl|Use Jamaican English}}, {{Tl|Use New Zealand English}}, {{Tl|Use Nigerian English}}, {{Tl|Use Pakistani English}}, {{Tl|Use Singapore English}}, {{Tl|Use South African English}} and {{Tl|Use Trinidadian English}} should be deleted. When they are used, they provide the benefit of allowing an editor to see the variant of English an article uses by viewing the article in the wikitext editor. —[[User:Ntmamgtw|Ntmamgtw]] ([[User talk:Ntmamgtw|talk]]) 15:29, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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