User:Mathglot/sandbox/Templates/Deletion process cheat sheet/Last Afd new
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Usage
Given an article name (param 1), finds the last known nom level from a list, and invokes Last Afd-N (where 'N' is the level number) to search the Afd nominations of the article for the most recent nom starting at that level number, instead of starting at level zero.
Example
{{.../Last Afd|Jimmy Wales}} ⟶ {{.../Last Afd-8|Jimmy Wales}} = 9
Notes
This is a performance-enhancing template. For certain highly nominated articles, this template skips to the last known nom depth before beginning the search for last nom in order to save expensive parser function calls. This also helps avoid returning incorrect values, when an article has been moved and nominated under different names. Failure to include a template here that has been nominated five or more times, or including it at the wrong level, incurs no risk of returning inaccurate results.
As time goes on and articles already in the list at level N are nominated again and end up at N+1 or later, the template doesn't need to be updated to move it to the new level, although it may be. Having articles at the "right" level is a performance consideration, not an accuracy one. Only in the case of an article which has been moved to a different name since it was included here, does the template need to be updated; in that case, the new name should be added at the correct level. Whether the old name is removed or not is irrelevant with respect to the new article, but if the old name is red-linked rather than a redirect to the new one, it should be removed as some other topic might occupy the old title at some point.