Template talk:plural

Purpose
What is the purpose of this template? It is used in the inflection line and as a context to state that the term is the plural form, and in the inflection line followed by a colon to provide the plural form, and who knows what else. 59.112.51.139 14:30, 21 October 2006 (UTC)


 * This template is obsolete - we now use . Jonathan Webley 15:46, 21 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The template is used in the several Latin conjugation tables for formatting. --EncycloPetey 00:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If that's the only place it's used, it should be subst:ed and deleted, as you can write plural instead of NaN undefineds without losing any information whatsoever. Amazing really. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:09, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Template:singular
I've never understood why these exist, they contain precisely plural and singular, so they save precisely zero keystrokes, with no added functionality. Most of the transclusions are via inflection templates (like for Latin) where they can be simply subst:ed with no drawbacks. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:12, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree, delete them. But they also have some transclusions through, and we can't get rid of those currently. 20:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Could change them to though. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:27, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * MewBot is currently occupied, so could you do that? 20:30, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Done, though there are some legitimate uses of singular and plural in context labels that remain, but aren't harmful. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:28, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

There are and. —Michael Z. 2013-06-21 19:09 z 


 * The way is currently used ([//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Roman&diff=25805825&oldid=25580498 like] [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Jason&diff=25805808&oldid=24796552 this]), it is unnecessary and undesirable. I am cleaning up ~40 such uses now. - -sche (discuss) 04:17, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * and have only singular uses now. Most remaining uses of  are in Italian nouns. Pinging User:SemperBlotto, as I am not sure what to do with these. — Keφr 16:54, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * There are also some Latin uses in the inflection (conjugation) table. --kc_kennylau (talk) 17:02, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Both orphaned in main namespace and deleted. — Keφr 08:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

RFC discussion: August 2014–January 2015
About 62 main-namespace pages uses this nonexistent template. I suppose the solution is to have a bot incorporate the information that the term is plural into the preceding headword-line templates somehow. - -sche (discuss) 08:46, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * There are no longer any main namespace pages which use this template. I don't know who cleaned them up or how, but this is resolved. - -sche (discuss) 04:36, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Probably MewBot when it added in front of all the context labels. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:52, 12 January 2015 (UTC)