Template:Old TfD

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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=2026 October 29|result=keep}}

Discussion link

If you specify a <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|talk= parameter (or any of its aliases) the template will attempt to use the date and the supplied talk section to produce a working link. For example: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight> produces

Note how the link (with the piped text "the discussion") is a valid TfD link into a specific discussion on the supplied date.

Alternatively, supply the link using the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|link= parameter directly, in which case the template does not try to build a link using supplied date and talk parameters.

Old TfD naming scheme

For templates that survived a TfD debate before 4 January 2006, use <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|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

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Non-default pagename",

"description": "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: ",

"type": "string" }, "date": { "type": "date", "required": true }, "result": { "type": "string", "default": "keep", "required": true }, "merge": { "label": "Merge target", "description": "For merger proposals. Changes \"deletion\" to \"merging with target\".", "type": "wiki-page-name" }, "more_merge": { "label": "Additional wikitext to merge message", "description": "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.", "type": "content" }, "link": { "description": "Replaces |date=", "type": "content" }, "talk": { "aliases": [ "disc", "discuss" ], "label": "Talk page section", "default": "{{{1}}}", "type": "string" }, "small": { "type": "boolean" } } }</templatedata>

See also

• {{Tfm}} – the parallel template for merging
• {{Tfd}} – basic template
• {{Tfd|type=inline}} – inline usage
• {{Tfd2}} – second step in a TFD process
• {{Tfdnotice}} – TFD info on related pages
• {{Catfd}} – TFD with corresponding category
• {{Catfd2}} – second step in a TFD process with corresponding category (same name)
• {{Old XfD multi}} – good for recording multiple discussions

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