Template talk:dative of

RFD discussion: May–June 2023
I'd like to clean up Category:Form-of templates and remove the redlinks/delete unecessary ones. This would include the ones in the title. Vininn126 (talk) 13:04, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete all. — Fenakhay ( حيطي · مساهماتي ) 14:21, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Am I right in understanding that the proposal is to use e.g. instead of ? &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 19:20, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. Vininn126 (talk) 19:55, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Vininn126 Could we please add plural of? It's just xx. Theknightwho (talk) 01:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Theknightwho (talk) 20:00, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Can we leave them uncategorized so we don't break old page revisions? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:10, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * We can deprecate them. Theknightwho (talk) 20:23, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * If we make them wrappers/redirects, that won't break the old revisions. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:24, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Deprecate all. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 20:43, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * There seems to be very clear consensus here, @Benwing2 @JeffDoozan @Surjection As bot owners, could someone help? Vininn126 (talk) 14:24, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I can help with this and in fact I already have a script from awhile ago to orphan certain form-of templates that I can easily use for this. In terms of deprecation vs. deletion, I have used a criterion of 1,000-3,000 uses; if it's less than this I feel it's OK to just delete the template rather than keeping it as deprecated, but it depends on what others think. BTW past tense of can maybe also be deleted or deprecated, and it's used on less than 1,000 pages. BTW User:Theknightwho I think plural of is used in too many places to get rid of and seems more basic than the rest. Benwing2 (talk) 20:12, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * If there are less than that, I'd agree and say delete, I agree on and also think that  requires deeper discussion, but is much more basic. Vininn126 (talk) 20:15, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I orphaned all of the templates in the subject of this section and deleted the two that had < 1000 uses. The others are deprecated. Benwing2 (talk) 02:32, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'm going to mark this thread closed. Vininn126 (talk) 09:00, 18 June 2023 (UTC)