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Ambigous: is this template really about to be deleted ?

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Wladek92 (talkcontribs)

The red box displayed at the top suggests that the template will be deleted. Really ? If not, please remove this header because it is ambigous since the Example at bottom is sufficiant to show what the template does. Thank you.

Christian Wia (talk) 08:53, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

SamanthaNguyen (talkcontribs)

No, this template isn’t being deleted. What you see (the header) is just the actual template itself. (The user being shown is automated by {{REVISIONUSER}}, a magic word)

Wladek92 (talkcontribs)

... it is why it is ambigous.

SamanthaNguyen (talkcontribs)

I explained the purpose and actual representative content of the template, which should make it exactly non-ambiguous on what it does, not make it more ambiguous. This is explained in the documentation as well.

This page puts a 'Bold Red Warning' at the top of the page and adds the page to the Category:Candidates for deletion.

It should be added as the very first line on pages that you believe should be deleted from the wiki. This includes pages that no longer serve a useful purpose, pages whose content may be inappropriate (but which you are not sure about) and any other deletion that is not obviously a candidate for speedy deletion.

Do you have any suggestions?

Wladek92 (talkcontribs)

The warning frame must be at the end of the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Delete page (in this specific case!) and not at the beginning. The first line the reader sees is "This page is a candidate for deletion. The given reason is: No reason supplied!" if this is not ambigous, I cannot be more clear, and there is no need to dump here the documentation contents everyone can understand. Let someone else give here his point of view please.

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