Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Wallpaper

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Template:Wallpaper

In the absence of a "Commons:Deprecation requests", I have filed this. There is one user whom demands a vote as a precondition for the template to be deprecated. {{Wallpaper}} can be kept but should be deprecated and the main intention of this nomination is to gather consensus.

Commons featured Wallpaper tagging is currently handled by {{Assessments}} with parameter value "1" for normal aspect ratios and "2" for "WideScreen" aspect ratios.

-- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 23:28, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

•  Info -- It is not true what とある白い猫 says. This is just a childish trick to force his "Assessment" template against consensus. I have removed the "Deprecated" template from the Wallpaper file. Please check Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#とある白い猫 -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:46, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

  The template has 4 uses just because your reverted (revert warred) to keep this template in use (despite stating "You are quite right, I don’t give a s* for whether the wallpaper thing is put inside the template or not (though it seems a useless piece of information if applied this way, and only to FP)"). You demanded a vote (proper procedures) and I provided you with one. Oh, pull the other leg... -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 16:24, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

•  Keep If it's in use, it's in scope, a small minority cannot declare something deprecated and then mass-remove it. More concerning, this template is not limited to featured pictures, so merging with the assessment template doesn't make sense. --99of9 (talk) 03:25, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

  Template is limited to featured pictures. It reads (emphasis mine) "This featured picture is fairly large and has an aspect ratio of approximately 4:3 or 5:4, making it suitable as a computer wallpaper." -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 23:07, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

  Ok, sorry, I don't know how I missed that. --99of9 (talk) 01:12, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

  The template was merged into the assessments template. Nothing is being "removed". -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 21:42, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

•  Keep I never liked this template but that is not enough reason for deletion. But the wording and categorization should be corrected to apply to all pictures, not only to FP. And the recent changes to migrate the info to the Assessment template should be reverted. Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:25, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
  • This template was created on 14 July 2007‎ to handle featured pictures only. You are trying to change the scope of something this template had from the start. Why has not this thought occur to you until today? Also vast majority of "wallpaper" taggings were made through the assessments template not through the wallpaper template. There is no version to revert to in such cases. -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 21:27, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
•  Delete. Please delete it or merge it to {{Assessments}} or make it more general by merging other same templates to it (like {{Wallpaper-en}}, {{WideCommonsWallpaper}} and {{WideWallpaper-en}}) or change it to let non-featured pictures use it also. If it is about featured picture, why {{Assessments}} doesn't handel it [via a parameter]? I want to ask, If a suitable for background wide picture is featured on commons, enwiki, dewiki, frwiki, what templates it must use? {{WideCommonsWallpaper}}, {{WideWallpaper-en}}, {{WideWallpaper-de}} (fortunately doesn't exist yet!!) and {{WideWallpaper-fr}}? And if this picture is not wide? Possibly {{Wallpaper}}, {{Wallpaper-en}}, {{Wallpaper-fr}} and {{WideWallpaper-de}}?!! This functionality totally is something that {{Assessments}} must support (if it is really needed because I think every picture can used as a background, no-matter that our screen ratio is compatible with that picture ratio or not) −ebraminio^talk 20:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
  • I can extend the code of Assessments template to handle Wikipedia flavors of wallpaper assessments. This template ({{Wallpaper}}) and {{WideCommonsWallpaper}} is already handled by {{Assessments}}. Not all pictures are suitable to be wallpapers IMHO as some featured pictures are fairly small (such as animations). The idea is to mark the aspect ratio as well (wide/non-wide) which currently cannot be done automatically. -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 16:31, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

 Delete - {{Assessments}} covers this, and I just don't see it as a particularly great concept: almost anything can be used as wallpaper. Rd232 (talk) 00:16, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

•  Delete. Now that Assessments handles this, deletion due to deprecation is fine. Wizardman 16:13, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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Deleted: Per consensus. INeverCry 19:40, 12 October 2012 (UTC)