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This header template is placed on talk pages of templates and modules to link to previous relevant TfD discussions.
Usage
{{Old TfD|date=|result=}}
e.g.
{{Old TfD|date=2025 August 30|result=keep}}
Old TfD naming scheme
For templates that survived a TfD debate before 4 January 2006, use |link=Not deleted/MONTHNAME YEAR to modify the link to point to the relevant deletion discussion.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Old TfD
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-default pagename | 1 | For when the page has been moved since the deletion debate, or if it was nominated under the name of another template in a multiple nomination: {{Old TfD|date=|result=|Template:pagename}} | String | optional |
| date | date | no description | Date | required |
| result | result | no description
| String | required |
| Merge target | merge | For merger proposals. Changes "deletion" to "merging with target". | Page name | optional |
| Additional wikitext to merge message | more_merge | To add additional wikitext to |merge=. E.g. |more_merge=and [[target2]], and [[target2]] — linking and punctuation needs to be added manually in this parameter (which begins immediately after the value of |merge= with a space character between it and the value of |more_merge=). If the merge targets all share the same talk page, you can use the special value |merge=self to just output "merging" without specifying template names. | Content | optional |
| link | link | Replaces |date= | Content | optional |
| Talk page section | talk disc discuss | no description
| String | optional |
| small | small | no description | Boolean | optional |
See also
- {{Tfm}} – the parallel template for merging
- {{Tfd}} – basic template
- {{Tfd|type=inline}} – inline usage
- {{Tfd2}} – second step in a TFD process
- {{Tfdnotice}} – TFD info on related pages
- {{Catfd}} – TFD with corresponding category
- {{Catfd2}} – second step in a TFD process with corresponding category (same name)
- {{Old XfD multi}} – good for recording multiple discussions