Template talk:fr-adj-en
You know I hate these templates, right? Ah well. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Deletion debate
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RFD with a 2-1 no consensus in February 2010. The user voting keep was Wonderfool (talk • contribs). All three call on {{fr-adj}}
directly, and could be orphaned with a simple subst:
. Deletion logic: let's not use four templates where one will do. I'd compare it to {{en-noun-es}}
(what was its name?) which automatically created an -es plural instead of -s (for boxes, for example) whereas nowadays we just do {{en-noun|boxes}}
. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- How is this different to declension templates for other languages, like Category:Russian declension templates? They have gazillions. --Parttimer 21:27, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
- Well, these aren't declension templates. S'pose they're not bad templates in themselves, just they complicate things rather than simplifying them. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
- So don't use them. Template work like that: if you don't know how to use it, don't use it, ignore it. In my ideal Wiktionary, everything could be done in a template. --Parttimer 09:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
- Well, these aren't declension templates. S'pose they're not bad templates in themselves, just they complicate things rather than simplifying them. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2010 (UTC)