Template talk:Red

RFD discussion: May–June 2023
This template just, making it redundant to. It is only used in five pages outside userspace. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 04:40, 15 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep It's faster to type. Just make it a wrapper for {{color|red| . Why delete? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Justin ( koavf ) For the same reason as the form-of templates above: it's just a trivial narrowing of another (perfectly good) template. It's easier to learn and remember how to use one template than several. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 05:36, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd rather type {{red| than {{color|red| . —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:23, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * For the sake of consistency, delete. Vininn126 (talk) 09:32, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's also less obtrusive and easier to read in what could otherwise become unreadable wikicode.  I noticed this when I set out to convert a user page of mine to using {{tl|color}}.  What undocumented parameters of {{tl|color}} are lost by using {{tl|Red}}?  No documented parameters are lost.  It's also easier to spell. --RichardW57m (talk) 09:44, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per proponent. Catonif (talk) 13:03, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as unnecessary. Theknightwho (talk) 04:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Just noting that it's capital {{color|#ff0000|Red}} and not just "red". And that the {{tl|color}} template doesnt work with hex codes unless i put a # sign before the color, which I find a bit odd, but I guess that's just another convention that stuck.  — Soap — 15:49, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Soap These templates insert parameters directly into CSS, so the "#" syntax (and other formats that {{tl|color}} supports) are actually part of CSS. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 06:54, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Would it be possible to make the {{tl|color}} template use red as its default color? So that, for example, {{tl|color||soda pop}} would be read as if {{tl|color|red|soda pop}}? Only then would I say that the {{tl|Red}} template is truly redundant. — Soap — 15:54, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Soap Yes, it would be trivially easy to implement that if that's what we want to do. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 06:54, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Orphaned and Deleted. Also orphaned and deleted {{tl|Lime}}, {{tl|GoldenRod}} and {{tl|oldtext}}. Made {{tl|color||foo}} default to red per User:Soap. Benwing2 (talk) 11:24, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

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