Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 September 24

This unused sidebar template is for an event that begins in June 2025. It will not be usable for over six months. It should not have been created, as far as I can tell. We should delete it; the creator can request its reinstatement when articles are available for it.

If for some reason articles that use it can be created using coverage in reliable sources, I'll be happy to withdraw this nomination. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:34, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Year parameter usage check

Template:Year parameter usage check (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Year parameter usage check category (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Now that {{Year by category}} is gone, these template are now transclusionless. We don't want to encourage creating templates which do not make use of {{title year}} (or similar), so we should delete the template. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 18:08, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Redshirt

Template:Redshirt (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

This template is used less than 250 times in {{Infobox college football player}} and in-article tables, where it does not align with the bullet points at MOS:APPROPRIATEICONS. You can see an example of its typical use at Quinn Ewers. This usage could be easily replaced with the word "redshirt". Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 21:28, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good solution 136.58.84.30 (talk) 21:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Leave the redshirt icon. Not sure about the reference to only being used 250 times. Perhaps I'm missing something. I see it all the time. 2601:5CF:4200:67A0:3725:A2C8:5E0C:E182 (talk) 00:54, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is used 236 times per [1]. Thetreesarespeakingtome (talk) 02:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks fine. I think the redshirt icon should stay too. 66.215.49.212 (talk) 19:55, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks fine. It is only used around 250 times because after graduating/going professional it’s no longer used on their page. I’d imagine it was used on 1000+ pages over last 5 years

I think the template looks good, and the low transclusion count is due to it only being used for active American college football players. I don't see any harm in keeping it. Senior Captain Thrawn (talk) 20:59, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 13:14, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whether or not the template remains in place, the information should be communicated using text for greater accessibility, both to those who browse without the benefit of images and those not familiar with the term in the context of U.S. college sports. (I know the image is linked to the appropriate page, but there's no visual indication of this, and it's not a typical use of links for images on English Wikipedia.) Using an icon could be an additional way to convey the info in the infobox. isaacl (talk) 16:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:American Family Radio

Template:American Family Radio (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Almost all of links are merely redirects to the network's article, making the navbox violate WP:EXISTING, and making it hinder rather than help a reader's attempts at navigating Wikipedia. There is already a category for American Family Radio stations, that provides easier navigation, as the redirects are italicized. The radio stations whose call signs redirect to the network's article are not independently notable and should not become articles. Tdl1060 (talk) 19:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the redirects; what remains appears to be sufficient for a navbox. Izno (talk) 22:33, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Izno:, that helped identify a couple of pages that should also be redirects and two stations that were included that apparently were not affiliates, but what we are now left with are four stations of the network's 180 that are notable enough to have articles and three affiliates. Either way, this did not really make it useful as a navbox.--Tdl1060 (talk) 16:09, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:35, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

American Family Radio is less a radio network with stations and a radio station with transmitters—in other words, there is no local output. The exceptions are stations that had history under other owners, which are what is left, and the independently operated stations that take its programming (apparently these take it for large portions of their broadcast day). The AFR-owned stations are sorted into categories as appropriate. Delete. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 12:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox sporting event organization

Template:Infobox sporting event organization (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)
Template:Infobox recurring event (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Propose merging Template:Infobox sporting event organization with Template:Infobox recurring event.
At the last TfD for this template, it was suggested that it should probably be merged to the proposed target. Both of them have a very similar scope, with only about a half-dozen parameters missing from the recurring event template (i.e. it will be an easy merge). Primefac (talk) 12:46, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]