Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 December 16

• Template:FCC letter (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

The FCC has announced that the database system to which all uses of this template refer is being discontinued on January 2, 2025. All uses must be manually transferred to new links that use UUIDs, not five- or six-digit numeric IDs, in the newer Licensing and Management System. Further information and basic instructions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations#CDBS is going away. I migrated the history card information to Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards to ensure its preservation. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:45, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If I understand correctly, the FCC letter only says that CDBS *Search*, a reference, I presume, to https://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/cdbs_pa.htm , is going away. Is it possible the files won't be deleted, and will still be accessible as long as you use the direct URL? - Thomas H. White (talk) 21:59, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Thomas H. White, I'm afraid that everything via CDBS will be unavailable after that date. In any event, we should be linking to LMS for history cards and letters. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:40, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Hiero/doc/sandbox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused doc page that hasn't been edited in 3 years. Gonnym (talk) 18:32, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Grading scheme/doc/table/sandbox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused doc page that hasn't been edited in 8 years. Gonnym (talk) 18:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Infobox Hindu temple/doc/sandbox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused doc page that hasn't been edited in 5 years. Gonnym (talk) 18:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Icon/doc/sandbox (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Unused doc page that hasn't been edited in 14 years. Gonnym (talk) 18:30, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Automobile history eras (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Multiple issues with this one - firstly it only links 4 discrete articles other than the main one so WP:NENAN applies, but also there seems to be a very US-centric bias to this, and the implied main article title U.S. Classification of Automobile history eras, doesn't show the actual title of the article History of the automobile. Some of the links are already in {{Automobile configuration}}, maybe the rest could be too, or included in {{Automotive industry}} rather than this navbox. --woodensuperman 13:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Chu-accounttakenusurp (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

A duplicate of {{CHU|usurp}}, with no talk page and minor edit history. It would be better to have a single source of notices like this instead of duplicates that serve no real purpose. Gonnym (talk) 10:58, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This template pre-dates {{CHU}}, for what it's worth. While it may be a duplicate now, it wasn't a duplicate when it was created given the timeline. Daniel (talk) 23:08, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not say it was a fork, I said it was a duplicate, which it is. Gonnym (talk) 23:46, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution wasn't provided when the duplicate was created on 6 March 2007. I have no issues with this being deleted, but I would expect attribution to be appropriately provided for the unique text that I wrote on 10 February 2007, that was copied into the consolidated version on 6 March 2007, if this is deleted. I wrote that text. Daniel (talk) 00:28, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]