Template talk:en-verb form

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This template needs the head= parameter (as in {{infl}} and many other templates). — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 14:02, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

RFDO discussion: September 2013–January 2015

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Template:en-verb form

The categorization should always be done by the definition-line template like {{en-past of}} or {{present participle of}}. This template serves to double-categorize entries by Category:English verb forms as well as the more specific category. Replace with {{head|en}} and delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:43, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't think this template adds much value, so I agree with deleting it. But why do we have categories for all of the individual verb form types? Are those really useful or necessary? —CodeCat 17:36, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't think they're either more or less useful than Category:English verb forms. Categories that are very small or very big aren't generally useful to human users. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:40, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Delete, there are similar templates for other languages, they should be deleted as well. --Z 06:52, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Delete per nom. (I'm not sure if all "similar templates" should go, but this one should.) —Ruakh_TALK 07:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Not all form-of templates categorise. In fact a lot of those used for languages other than English don't. {{inflection of}} and {{conjugation of}} don't, nor do {{feminine of}}, {{masculine plural of}} and such. I was hoping that we could make this more consistent by adopting a rule that the headword template always categorises, and the form-of template never does, but I don't know how realistic that is. —CodeCat 12:05, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that's a reason to keep this template though; it might justify {{en-past}}, {{en-simple past}} and so on as headword templates, but not one template to cover all different cases. 95.148.116.152 12:07, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Deleted. — Keφr 20:30, 10 January 2015 (UTC)