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)

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)

Moves

 * Template:BFSig --> User:Bullet Francisco/Signature