Forum:Template Cleanup

I suggest that templates only relevant to either mainspace articles, images, categories, or any other categories used for the wiki itself be the only ones allowed to use the template namespace.

Essentially, I'm suggesting that all personal templates, such as one for signatures and talkbubble, be moved to the userspace of a user. For example, my signature is currently in the template namespace. If this goes through, it and all other personal templates will be moved to a user subpage, which is more appropriate for said templates. The template namespace should be used for mainspace articles and related namespaces only - templates used for the wiki itself, not for personal usage. It's much more professional this way, and it only makes sense, as the template namespace isn't necessarily intended for personal templates anyways. We should be using our own userspace for that sort of stuff. -- 16:27, May 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. -- Supermorff (talk) 18:16, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

It'll take time, but it's time worth taking. 18:23, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

You mean like this? 10:39, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * User:User example/sig
 * User:User example/talkbubble


 * Yes, that's what he means. -- Supermorff (talk) 11:03, May 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * I support. How would we do this, though? Is there a page we can use for reference, or what? --- 00:45, May 6, 2013 (UTC)

You just move it to userspace as opposed to templatespace.  Myself  123  00:48, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
 * I know, but isn't there a lot of those templates? How are we supposed to know if there are templates that don't belong in the templatepace? --- 00:49, May 6, 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, we could start with Category:Signatures, move to Category:Talkbubbles, and then use http://sonic.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10 for the rest. -- Supermorff (talk) 09:13, May 6, 2013 (UTC)

This seems like a good idea, may take time but as long as I am told where my talk bubble will go and how to make it appear (I don't know how to make a signature) I think we should do this. Psyche the Hedgehog 1997 (Talk)
 * You sign your signiture with four tides (~) .  Myself  123  19:33, May 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * I would but ever since I tried to modify it, it is just a bunch of coding when I publish it Psyche the hedgehog 1997 (User talk:Psyche the Hedgehog 1997)
 * I'll help you make one, Psyche :) PhysAnimation.gif]] PhysTheEchidna  ( talk ) [[File:PhysTheEchidnaSprite.png 22:17, May 19, 2013 (UTC)

Works for me. 18:55 May 15 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to get started on this, and I'm going to start with Bullet's sig. I'll keep a list of moved templates at the bottom of this page. -- Supermorff (talk) 09:25, May 18, 2013 (UTC)

I have a template for my signature?  Myself  123  20:32, May 18, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, well spotted. It was made by Launchballer who used it once. I think I'll subst and delete. Thanks. -- Supermorff (talk) 20:41, May 18, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the moves, Morff. I currently don't have a bot, otherwise I'd help you. Thanks for updating the Policy as well. -- 03:51, May 19, 2013 (UTC)


 * You could help out by finding templates and moving them (leaving a redirect behind), and listing the original and the destination below with a double/indented bullet. (Double/indented bullet is important as I need to know which ones to add to the bot.) -- Supermorff (talk) 08:21, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * Talkbubbles as well, right? -- 12:41, May 19, 2013 (UTC)

There's one problem with this. Because a user's subpages are liable to be deleted after the user has not edited for whatever amount of time it is, all the pages that use those subpage templates will have a bunch of redlinks if the user becomes inactive. PhysTheEchidna ( talk )  22:17, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * Exceptions should be made for signature templates. If not, then a bot can replace the signature template with InsertNameHere (talk) Problem solved. -- 22:19, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * I thought that would be the case. But what if the signature template was not saved under InsertNameHere/Signature ? The bot would go ahead and delete the template unknowingly. PhysAnimation.gif]] PhysTheEchidna  ( talk ) [[File:PhysTheEchidnaSprite.png 22:23, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * If it wasn't saved under /Signature, it would be saved under something such as /Sig or /Signature2. Because this information (to my knowledge) should be entered manually for the bot to cleanup the red links on other pages, this shouldn't be a problem. -- 22:28, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * I was pretty sure it would be okay... I just have no knowledge on bots :P PhysAnimation.gif]] PhysTheEchidna  ( talk ) [[File:PhysTheEchidnaSprite.png 22:30, May 19, 2013 (UTC)

Again, if people are willing to help out, they can move templates to the correct new title, then list both the old and new page names below with a double bullet. That is SU> Yes, talkbubbles will be moved too. -- Supermorff (talk) 19:59, May 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * Like this
 * Not this
 * This.

Moves

 * Template:BFSig --> User:Bullet Francisco/Signature
 * Template:Signatures/Fairfieldfencer --> User:Fairfieldfencer/Signature
 * Template:Signatures/Navij11 --> User:Navij11/Signature
 * Template:Signatures/Sacre Fi --> User:Sacre Fi/Signature
 * Template:SilverSig --> User:SilverPlays97/Sig
 * Template:Signatures/Mystic Monkey --> User:Mystic Monkey/Signature
 * Template:Signatures/Sonicrox14 --> User:Sonicrox14/Signature
 * Template:FlySig --> User:Fly the Fox/Signature
 * Template:SUsig --> User:Shadowunleashed13/Signature
 * Template:Seketsig --> User:Seketwut/Signature
 * Template:Signatures/Glitchguy --> User:Glitchguy/Signature
 * Template:Sig/SG79 --> User:Sacorguy79/Signature
 * Template:BlueSig --> User:BlueSpeeder/Signature
 * Template:SolaceSig --> User:Le Solace/Signature
 * Template:SpyroSonicSig --> User:SpyroSonic2000/Signature
 * Template:TinkaSig --> User:XxTinkaStarxX/Signature
 * Template:KatSig --> User:Katrins/Signature
 * Template:KatSig2 --> User:Katrins/Signature2
 * Template:Crimson96Sig --> User:CrimsonChaos96/Signature
 * Template:DFSig --> User:DarkFuture/Signature
 * Template:EdstaSig --> User:Edsta/Signature
 * Template:Goku436Sig --> User:Goku436/Signature
 * Template:MSig --> User:MetalShadow272/Signature
 * Template:Speedsig --> User:Speeddasher/Signature
 * Template:SpeedySig --> User:Speedy the Hedgehog/Signature
 * Template:JakeSig --> User:JaketheHedgehog/Signature
 * Template:JakeSig2 --> User:JaketheHedgehog/Signature2
 * Template:JakeSig3 --> User:JaketheHedgehog/Signature3
 * Template:ColorSig --> User:ColorMeCrazy/Signature
 * Template:FreeSig --> User:FreeSmudger/Sig
 * Template:KatHalloweenSig --> User:Katrins/HalloweenSig
 * Template:MWSig --> User:MobiusWalker/Signature
 * Template:ModrenSig --> User:ModrenSonic/Signature
 * Template:PitSig --> User:PitsBrother143/Signature
 * Template:Sonamysig --> User:Sonamyfan666/Signature
 * Template:SplashSig --> User:SplashTheHedgehog/Signature
 * Template:SplashSig2 --> User:SplashTheHedgehog/Signature2
 * Template:SplashSig3 --> User:SplashTheHedgehog/Signature3
 * Template:TinkaComicSig/Template:Tinka2Sig --> User:XxTinkaStarxX/Signature2
 * Template:WillSig --> User:Willaca/Signature
 * Template:TSODDarknessDiscord --> User:The Shadow Of Darkness/DarknessDiscordSignature
 * Template:SonicDude --> User:SonicTheHedgehogDude/Signature
 * Template:SP97 --> User:SilverPlays97/Signature