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Template:Hurricane season bar gap[edit]

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2024 March 18. ✗plicit 13:07, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Wayamba cricket team[edit]

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The result of the discussion was delete. ✗plicit 13:06, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current squad template for defunct cricket team. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:08, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Weather infoboxes[edit]

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The result of the discussion was delete Infobox tropical cyclone and Infobox storm after replacing with Infobox weather event, with no consensus for Infobox flood. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It had been decided in a discussion at WPWX that the infoboxes for tropical cyclones, storms, and floods would be replaced by Template:Infobox weather event since there are a variety of new features as well as ease of editing with the new infobox. I had been told in the past that a TfD was required to formally deprecate templates and that a RfC was not sufficient enough. I would like to point out that around 90% of infobox tropical cyclone's transclusions have been replaced by this point as have a majority of infobox storm's. Noah, AATalk 16:47, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete after replacing tranclusions with {{Infobox weather event}}. The RfC closed with consensus to replace the infoboxes with the new template which should be implemented. Gonnym (talk) 19:48, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep at this stage.change to depreciate, see below 1999 Sydney hailstorm is a featured article which uses this soon-to-be-'depreciated' infobox, but the new infobox is garish and not suited to the article. The 1999 Sydney hailstorm article will be on the main page as Today's Featured Article in roughly four weeks time. I strongly oppose the new infobox for its garish aesthetics and therefore oppose its depreciation. Note that my opposition wasn't provided at the local consensus WPWX discussion, as no notification was provided to me that the discussion was occurring. Further, there is no 'duration' field in the new infobox that I can see (please correct me if I'm wrong), which is relevant to hailstorms. From what I can also see, 'fatalities' & 'damage' can't be captured in this either - again, directly relevant to hailstorms. Areas affected? What about the caption for the image? Per the spirit of WP:FAOWN, the "depreciation" of infobox storm needs to occur in the context of it being used on existing featured article(s) - if the new template cannot provide the same functionality as the old one, in my opinion it shouldn't be depreciated. Daniel (talk) 19:56, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Daniel: It is a modular infobox so different sub-templates have to be used. The main template has parameters for the image and its caption. Template:Infobox weather event/History contains a parameter for duration. Template:Infobox weather event/Effects has the parameters relating to areas affected and impact. There are some examples on the main template page documentation. A recent article, January 8–10, 2024 North American storm complex, also shows the usage of various aspects of the new infobox. The real reason why storms needed to be replaced is the infobox is a mess of coding that is hard to modify without screwing something up (TCs infobox has the exact same problem). This means that additional scales (namely additional tornado-related ones) or really anything else couldn't be feasibly added to it without messing up the current infobox. The sub-templates separate out various components which allows for as many scales or other items to be added as needed since they are in different templates. We copied over all the functionally of the various infoboxes and added some additional items (egs. economic losses, Torro scale, IF scale) which wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Another important change was links were moved out of the colored bars for scales to fix accessibility issues with having a link on certain colors. Noah, AATalk 20:50, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    So my question is, can every single current item in the current infobox be replicated in the new infobox, with the precise same descriptor? I can't see many of them on the various documentation pages, and couldn't when I checked prior to my original comment. Daniel (talk) 21:55, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Everything worked except for active and location but those were easily added to the duration and areas parameters to allow those to be used. If there are any missing descriptors from other areas and it is discovered, it can be resolved quite easily as I did with the two I found. Every item from the infoboxes can be replicated but it is entirely possible that some descriptors might not work if they were missed. Please see [1] which I performed on the featured article you mentioned as a test. I reverted my edit once it was performed. Noah, AATalk 22:31, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for doing that. The only two remaining objections from me are: 1) "duration" should either be between "formed" and "dissipated", or at worst after "dissipated". Chronoligcally it makes little sense for it to be prior to "formed"; and 2) I find "Overall effects" header to be both clunky and also a little insensitive given that within that section is fatalities and damage. Can this be coded to allow a custom header (for this article I would go with 'Storm impact' or something similar). If these two changes can be made, I am happy to support depreciation considering the template's colour scheme is gray (the bright colours are morbid in my opinion, but given this doesn't impact the article I am considering as part of my objection, I don't feel the need to focus on that). Thanks, Daniel (talk) 00:39, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Daniel: I put duration after dissipated to avoid issues with other options such as remnant-low, extratropical, etc. I also added in the ability to change the header for the overall effects. It can be changed by adding the following to the effects portion: |custom = name you want to use . You can see this in action here. Outside of any scale (tornado, tropical cyclone, or winter), all section labels default to gray. The colors for those scales were decided in another set of discussions and aren't exclusive to the infoboxes. Basically, regardless of which infobox is currently in an article, the same colors show up for those scale types I mentioned with the only major difference being the old infoboxes have the colored bars as a type of infobox header rather than a section header. Noah, AATalk 14:29, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks again for those changes. I formally support depreciation on the basis of these changes. Note that I do not support deletion, as it will break the history/oldid's of articles that used the infobox. But definitely 100% support deprecitation now. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 17:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep {{infobox flood}}. The linked RfC primarily discussed the cyclones template - I'm not sure it's an improvement for that one either but it's pretty much a fait accompli at this point. But because the template and the discussion have both been targeted to cyclones, the template is not well-suited to other use-cases and no strong rationales for the change have been put forward for them. The new template is much more challenging for end-users - as demonstrated by the errors seen in the pre-TfD implementation attempt. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:37, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I just wanted to say that the template wasnt targeted towards cyclones but was intended to replace all three of these infoboxes and was developed towards the goal of doing just that. The vast majority of transclusions just happen to be for tropical cyclone and tornado articles since those are the most numerous. In terms of parameters, the new template has more features than infobox flood does which was expressed in the opening comment during the RfC even if it wasnt explicitly mentioned in that part of the comment that it included infobox flood. Specifically, there are effects items such as currency conversion, year, economic losses, missing, evacuated, etc and the ability to mention the maximum rainfall that occurred during the event. All existing items were incorporated into the infobox. There are flood articles such as 2013 Colorado floods which use the infobox already and havent had any issues with it not being suited for usage. Noah, AATalk 19:35, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Looking at that article as an example, the conversion certainly doesn't seem to have improved the situation - we've increased the complexity for both the reader and the editor. I don't think "havent had any issues with it not being suited for usage" is the right bar when we could easily say the same about the previous template. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:31, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all once all infobox templates are replaced. Only 64.8% of the weather infoboxes were replaced with {{Infobox weather event}}, which means about 35.2% of the weather infoboxes are not replaced. We should give editors time to replace the infoboxes befure deleting them alltogether. Like Nikkimaria said, keep {{Infobox flood}}. RandomWikiPerson_277talk page or something 14:58, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@RandomWikiPerson277: You mean delete the first two and keep the last one, correct? Noah, AATalk 15:10, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Correct. RandomWikiPerson_277talk page or something 15:13, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was about to amend my question, @RandomWikiPerson277:, but got an edit conflict. Do you also oppose deprecation of the floods infobox? Sorry for asking a second time but I didn't think it was clear. Noah, AATalk 15:17, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I oppose. RandomWikiPerson_277talk page or something 16:34, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Winter storm bar gap[edit]

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The result of the discussion was relisted on 2024 March 18. ✗plicit 13:07, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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