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If process guidelines are met, move templates to the appropriate subsection here to prepare to delete. Before deleting a template, ensure that it is not in use on any pages (other than talk pages where eliminating the link would change the meaning of a prior discussion), by checking Special:Whatlinkshere for "(transclusion)". Consider placing {{Being deleted }} on the template page.

Please list the actual template (or for batch nominations, all the individual templates) to be processed below, not merely a link to the discussion. This helps volunteers working on this page notice overlapping work.

Tools

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There are several tools that can help when implementing TfDs. Some of these are listed below.

Template linking and transclusion check – Toolforge tool to see which pages are transcluded but not linked from or to a template
WhatLinksHereSnippets.js – user script that allows for template use to be viewed from the Special:WhatLinksHere page
AutoWikiBrowser – semi-automatic editor that can replace or modify templates using regular expressions
Bots – robots editing automatically. All tasks have to be approved before operating. There are currently three bots with general approval to assist with implementing TfD outcomes:
- AnomieBOT – substituting templates via User:AnomieBOT/TFDTemplateSubster
- SporkBot – general TfD implementation run by Plastikspork
- PrimeBOT – general TfD implementation run by Primefac
- ProcBot – purging transclusions via User:ProcBot/PurgeList

Closing discussions

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The closing procedures are outlined at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Closing instructions.

To review

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Templates for which each transclusion requires individual attention and analysis before the template is deleted.

Template:Infobox_storm 2024 March 10 – Infobox_storm ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:WikiProject_Glass 2024 November 5 – WikiProject_Glass ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:LDS_Temple 2025 December 1 – LDS_Temple ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases ) -- merge subpages into this template and/or a module subpage
- Status values added to Template:LDS Temple. See example for code replacement. --Gonnym (talk) 17:30, 6 January 2026 (UTC) [reply ]
Template:List_has_been_split 2025 December 13 – List_has_been_split ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:(various edit notices) 2025 December 24 – (various edit notices) ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- @Beland: can you clarify this one? -Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:31, 6 January 2026 (UTC) [reply ]

There's a comment by SilverLocust in that discussion that indicates which templates to delete and which to edit. -- Beland (talk) 07:05, 6 January 2026 (UTC) [reply ]

To merge

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Templates to be merged into another template.

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Infoboxes

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{{infobox ship }} merger

Merge into the singular {{infobox ship }} (currently a redirect):
- Template:Infobox_ship_begin 2022 April 30 – Infobox_ship_begin ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_ship_career 2022 April 30 – Infobox_ship_career ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_ship_characteristics 2022 April 30 – Infobox_ship_characteristics ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_ship_class_overview 2022 April 30 – Infobox_ship_class_overview ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_ship_image 2022 April 30 – Infobox_ship_image ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_service_record 2022 April 30 – Infobox_service_record ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
  I have hacked Module:Infobox ship which implements ship infoboxen without the external wikitable that the above templates require. Uses Module:Infobox; {{infobox ship begin}} is no longer required; parameter names are changed from sentence- to snake-case; section header height for career, characteristics, service record sections is normalized; custom fields are supported. I chose to retain the individual section templates as subtemplates:
  - {{Infobox ship/image}}
  - {{Infobox ship/career}}
  - {{Infobox ship/characteristic}}
  - {{Infobox ship/class}}
  - {{Infobox ship/service record}} – Module:Infobox ship implements only the 'ship' portion of {{Infobox service record}}
  In the main infobox these subtemplates are called with the |section<n>= parameters (aliases of |data<n>=).
  
  Comparisons between wikitable infoboxen and Module:Infobox ship infoboxen can bee seen at my sandbox (permalink).
  
  —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:57, 21 May 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
  Since the intent is to use Module:Infobox directly, why is Module:Infobox ship being used to generate the infobox? I can understand if there is need for a backend module to validate a value or something, but is there really a reason to have this unique code? Gonnym (talk) 17:50, 21 May 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
  The original complaint was that the ship infoboxen templates are table templates masquerading as infobox templates. None of those templates use Module:Infobox. Module:Infobox ship answers that complaint. Yeah, we still have subtemplates, but, in my opinion, that is a good thing because the appropriate parameters and their data are contained in each particular subtemplate. The container subtemplates make it relatively easy for an editor reading an article's wikitext to understand. The current ship infobox system allows sections in any order (except for the position of {{infobox ship begin}} – not needed with Module:Infobox ship); whatever the final outcome of this mess, that facility must not be lost.
  
  Module:Infobox ship does do some error checking (synonymous parameters |ship_armor= / |ship_armour=, |ship_draft= / |ship_draught=, |ship_honors= / |ship_honours=, and |ship_stricken= / |ship_struck=). Whether {{infobox ship}} directly calls Module:Infobox or whether {{infobox ship}} calls Module:Infobox ship which then calls Module:Infobox is really immaterial so long as the final rendered result is a correctly formatted infobox.
  
  —Trappist the monk (talk) 19:06, 22 May 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
  @Trappist the monk are you still interested in working on this Module? If not, I'd like to try to get it finished myself. The massive deviation I had in mind was to make one invocation of the module do everything. Each page will require individual attention to complete the merge into a proper infobox anyway, so I reason to go the extra mile to make it nicer in general. Repeatable parameters will have the normal n number appended to the end of the parameter. An alternative would be to have subboxes for repeating sections, which would be easier in general to replace and implement. SWinxy (talk) 20:26, 20 August 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
  Sure, but I don't think that this page is the proper place to discuss. Choose some place more proper and let me know where that is?
  
  —Trappist the monk (talk) 22:58, 20 August 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
  @Trappist the monk, Gonnym, and SWinxy: what ever happened to this conversation? Is this still something you would be interested in implementing? Happy to help in any way I can... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 09:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
  Yes it is, but it's a daunting task that I've forgotten. SWinxy (talk) 19:52, 7 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Merge to Template:Infobox gridiron football team using NFL team as the base
- Template:Infobox_American_football_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_American_football_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_national_American_football_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_national_American_football_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_FCF_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_FCF_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_USFL_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_USFL_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_UFL_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_UFL_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_NFL_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_NFL_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:Infobox_Pre-modern_NFL_team 2025 October 1 – Infobox_Pre-modern_NFL_team ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
As I said in my close, I think the best thing to do would be to merge the other templates into {{Infobox_NFL_team }} and then just rename that template. Primefac (talk) 01:24, 13 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
@Dissident93: what's the status of this one? Anything I can do to help? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Template:Infobox_motorsport_season 2025 December 27 – Infobox_motorsport_season ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:Motorsport_season 2025 December 27 – Motorsport_season ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )

Navigation templates

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None currently

Link templates

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None currently

Other

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Template:Lang-rus 2025 April 17 – Lang-rus ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Open request at Template talk:Lang#Lang-rus merge. --Gonnym (talk) 11:40, 1 September 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Replace with Template:German title. Usages should be converted from incorrect ref tags to {{efn }} (and {{Notelist }} added if missing). Note that {{German title von }} wasn't part of the TfD.
- Template:German_title_Freiherr 2025 September 2 – German_title_Freiherr ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
- Template:German_title_Graf 2025 September 2 – German_title_Graf ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Module:Chessboard 2025 December 22 – Module:Chessboard ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Module:Chessboard_mxn 2025 December 22 – Module:Chessboard_mxn ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )

To convert

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Templates for which the consensus is that they ought to be converted to some other format are put here until the conversion is completed.

Template:Lang-mnc 2025 November 15 – Lang-mnc ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Gonnym, recognising that I haven't dived too deeply into this template, I'm not entirely sure where to start as far as conversion goes. Where are the translit values you gave at the TFD coming from? If I have (for example) a call like {{Lang-mnc|m={{ManchuSibeUnicode|lang=mnc|ᠠᠯᡳᡥᠠ<br />ᠠᠮᠪᠠᠨ}} |v=aliha amban|a=aliha amban}} what will the replacement look like? Primefac (talk) 12:45, 1 January 2026 (UTC) [reply ]
I'll take a look at converting transclusions and take a look at the edge cases that are left. --Gonnym (talk) 14:04, 2 January 2026 (UTC) [reply ]
Template:Graph:Chart 2025 November 16 – Graph:Chart ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Module:Graph 2025 December 1 – Module:Graph ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:Campaignbox_Eighty_Years'_War 2025_November_22 – Campaignbox_Eighty_Years'_War ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:Season_sidebar 2025 December 5 – Season_sidebar ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
I didn't want to clog up the close with this (since it's about implementation, and only my initial thoughts) but I think {{games year list }} integration would work for a lot of the existing uses of this template. Primefac (talk) 16:53, 20 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Uses are very limited. I do not think its a great idea. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:10, 28 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Template:Infobox_cricket_country_season 2025 December 15 – Infobox_cricket_country_season ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Info should probably be folded in to {{2017–18 Indian domestic cricket season }} and similar since they're already on those pages. Primefac (talk) 13:22, 26 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Template:WikidataCoord 2025 December 13 – WikidataCoord ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases ) → Convert to use {{Coord }}
- Doing... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:17, 29 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

To substitute

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Templates for which the consensus is that all instances should be substituted (e.g. the template should be merged with the article or is a wrapper for a preferred template) are put here until the substitutions are completed. After this is done, the template is deleted from template space.

None currently

To orphan

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These templates are to be deleted, but may still be in use on some pages. Transclusions should be removed from pages so that the templates can be deleted. Note that simple references to them from Talk: pages should not be removed.

Template:Center_for_Biologics_Evaluation_and_Research_graphical_timeline 2025 December 25 – Center_for_Biologics_Evaluation_and_Research_graphical_timeline ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases ) - convert timeline to plain text
Template:Ancient_Egyptian_culture 2025 December 29 – Ancient_Egyptian_culture ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:Australian_football_code_crowds 2025 December 29 – Australian_football_code_crowds ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:Look_and_Read 2025 December 29 – Look_and_Read ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:History_of_Assam 2025 December 29 – History_of_Assam ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )
Template:Fairs_and_Festivals_in_Assam 2025 December 29 – Fairs_and_Festivals_in_Assam ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases )

Ready for deletion

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Templates for which consensus to delete has been reached, and for which orphaning has been completed, can be listed here for an administrator to delete. Remove from this list when an item has been deleted.

None currently

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