Category talk:Template with raw link

RFD discussion: February–April 2023
Description is: Entries using a template with a raw link as one of the parameters: either a plain link ( link ) or a linking template. For the majority of entries, these links are redundant as they simply replace the automatic link created by the template.

This seems pointless. Currently, there are also lots of false positives where the raw links are actually necessary, too: for example, any English multiword verb where the constituent words are individually linked will get flagged by this. See. Theknightwho (talk) 16:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC) RFD-deleted. There were only two subcategories: en-verb and enm-verb. The infrastructure for populating the en-verb subcat was evidently already decommissioned, as the categories only contained a test page in userspace. As for the enm-verb subcat, the enm-verb template is generally in a poor state and I think the use of raw links is the least of its worries. This, that and the other (talk) 03:42, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. cat:Template with raw link/en-verb‎ also seems to include some terms that literally don't pass links to the parameters of . &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 19:48, 2 March 2023 (UTC)