Template talk:headtempboiler

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This template tries to create uniform inflection lines using tons of complicated logic, when it's so much easier to just write '''{{PAGENAME}}''' in your inflection template. Therefore, I don't think this is needed at all. -- Liliana • 07:49, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Well technically it should be {{Latn|{{PAGENAME}}|lang=xx|face=head}}. But I agree, orphan and delete. —CodeCat 14:09, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

That doesn't actually appear to be what the template does. It appears to just add an appropriate category and documentation to the template. It also appears to have documentation for an entire category of templates. Nothing in it adds any content to be used in entries to the template, and it's not transcluded anywhere in the main namespace. --Yair rand (talk) 15:05, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes, see ex. Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:headtempboiler:suffix. -- Liliana • 19:29, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

That's a different template — one that you have not nominated for deletion. —Ruakh_TALK 20:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Isn't it implied, because it's a sub-template of the above? -- Liliana • 21:02, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

No, it's not implied, because no, it's not a sub-template of the above. {{headtempboiler}} is a utility-template used by two headword-line-boiler-templates. The deletion of the former would not entail the deletion of the latter, any more than the deletion of {{Xyzy}} would entail the deletion of {{term}} and {{t}} and {{l}}. —Ruakh_TALK 21:16, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Hmm? I don't get you. If {{Xyzy}} were a subtemplate of {{term}} (as in, {{term/Xyzy}}), deleting term would very much imply that Xyzy be deleted as well. -- Liliana • 17:02, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Right, but it's not, so it wouldn't. As I said. —Ruakh_TALK 17:10, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

As Yair says, it doesn't occur anywhere in the main namespace, so the nomination is mistaken. Nonetheless, orphan and delete: the template is merely defined as {{documentation}}<includeonly>[[Category:{{languagex|{{{lang|}}}}} headword-line templates|{{ucfirst:{{{current}}}}}]]</includeonly>, which, in addition to not being useful, also is not what its name implies. —Ruakh_TALK 20:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

'Delete, not every bit of code needs to be included via a template. It is ok just to write something out, sometimes, especially in the template namespace. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:24, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

• Kept as widely used and harmless --ElisaVan (talk) 14:38, 31 October 2013 (UTC)