User talk:Scott/Notes/WikiProject template redirects
What this is about[edit]
@John Vandenberg, BrownHairedGirl, DePiep, and The Banner: Pinging you as all of you have expressed an opinion in recent RfDs about the value of standardizing WikiProject template shortcuts. Overleaf is a list I've just had produced of all of redirects to WikiProject banners. There's enough inconsistent/poorly-named stuff in the "anything else" list to keep RfD discussions going until the crack of doom. So, enjoy(?). — Scott • talk 20:02, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
- P.S. Thank you PiRSquared17 for obtaining the data for this. — Scott • talk 17:27, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: Pinging you too considering this comment that you just made. — Scott • talk 22:39, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
- I say we pull out and nuke them from orbit. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 23:46, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
- My feelings exactly. However, I'm building this page to provide some quantitative evidence to base that on. Transclusion counts are now present, and I've added a breakdown overleaf. As you can see, there are 500 that aren't used at all, and another 200 that have 10 or fewer uses (basically not used). I think those are obvious candidates for instant removal before discussion even begins about how to approach the others. — Scott • talk 15:17, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
- I say we pull out and nuke them from orbit. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 23:46, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
subpages[edit]
A large subset of the group "Beginning with anything else" is subpages (i.e. /importance /Importance /class /Class /announce /doc /usage /guide /test/ /testcases /Examples /sandbox* /Sandbox* /core* /Temp : but not {{ACIDcur/article}} or {{NorthAmNative/Anishinaabe}}) which will almost always be the result of the template being moved. In 99.9% of case, those are never transcluded/linked to directly, or were standardised a very long time ago and it is going to be very very rare that anyone is going to want to see the history of them.
They are unduly increasing the counts, and should be deleted, and should be a CSD as they pollute the autocomplete search results, consuming real time of editors who are presented with many hits for the same stem instead of just the one. John Vandenberg (chat) 16:56, 15 April 2014 (UTC)