Template talk:nl-interj

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RFD discussion: July–November 2020[edit]

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User:Rua deleted it because "it did nothing special". There doesn't appear to have ever been a discussion about that.

Please restore it. It is confusing and inconsistent that xx-interj exists for 90+ languages but not for Dutch. Alexis Jazz (talk) 16:20, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What functionality do you propose that would make it do more than just {{head|nl|interjection}}? And do we want to keep all the other 90+ templates that do nothing else? —Rua (mew) 16:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Rua If you want that, restore {{nl-interj}} and nominate all the xx-interj templates for deletion. I won't support that btw, but the most important thing is to be consistent. At any rate, xx-interj is easier to remember. Alexis Jazz (talk) 18:04, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There may be some language-specific interjection templates that do something special that the Dutch one didn't. And {{head|nl|interjection}} is not hard to remember by any stretch of the imagination. —Mahāgaja · talk 20:24, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Mahagaja The English one does nothing special. The Chinese one does nothing special. The Esperanto one does nothing special. The German and Spanish ones only seem to do things like {{es-interj|head=¡hey!}} on hey, which could be applied to any language with punctuation. But even without arguments for memory or easier typing, it is practical to aim for consistency. I can't remember every single template we use and template use changing depending on the language is even worse. I just look at an existing English entry and try to adept that for a Dutch entry. So if English entries use {{en-interj}} and interjections exist in Dutch (which they do), I expect {{nl-interj}} to work. Now I potentially could get behind an effort to transition these to {{interj|en}}, {{interj|nl}} and so on. But unless and until that happens, undelete {{nl-interj}}. Alexis Jazz (talk) 22:28, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's far more of an argument to delete the ones that do nothing special than to restore the Dutch one. But orphaning widely used templates takes time. —Mahāgaja · talk 05:57, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep deleted, per Mahagaja. - -sche (discuss) 22:29, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]