Template:Old TfD/sandbox

This template was considered for deletion on {{{date}}}. The result of the discussion was "keep".

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Old TfD (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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This header template is placed on talk pages of templates and modules to link to previous relevant TfD discussions.

Usage

{{Old TfD|date=|result=}}

e.g. {{Old TfD|date=2024 September 6|result=keep}}

Old TfD naming scheme

For templates that survived a TfD debate before 4 January 2006, use |link=Not deleted/MONTHNAME YEAR to modify the link to point to the relevant deletion discussion.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Old TfD in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Old TfD

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Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Non-default pagename	`1`	For when the page has been moved since the deletion debate, or if it was nominated under the name of another template in a multiple nomination: {{Old TfD\|date=\|result=\|Template:pagename}}	String	optional
date	`date`	no description	Date	required
result	`result`	no description Default keep	String	required
Merge target	`merge`	For merger proposals. Changes "deletion" to "merging with target".	Page name	optional
Additional wikitext to merge message	`more_merge`	To add additional wikitext to \|merge=. E.g. \|more_merge=and [[target2]], and [[target2]] — linking and punctuation needs to be added manually in this parameter (which begins immediately after the value of \|merge= with a space character between it and the value of \|more_merge=). If the merge targets all share the same talk page, you can use the special value \|merge=self to just output "merging" without specifying template names.	Content	optional
link	`link`	Replaces \|date=	Content	optional
Talk page section	`talk` `disc` `discuss`	no description Default {{{1}}}	String	optional
small	`small`	no description	Boolean	optional