Template talk:quote-poem

Template seems redundant

 * Is this quotation template really required? Seems like it's wholly replaceable by . — SGconlaw (talk) 04:39, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree. I've been modifying it because it exists and is in use, but all those uses should be replace with . should also go away. Benwing2 (talk) 04:43, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've wondered about the utility of too. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:46, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess I just used it once to quote a poem. Doesn’t matter to me if T:quote-book would’ve been used instead.Jonteemil (talk) 08:49, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * This could be useful if it had special facilities for quoting multiline poems and including line breaks. DTLHS (talk) 17:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Have to say I'm not super-enthusiastic about that. How many lines of poetry would the template be expected to deal with? Seems like it is a lot easier to have editors separate lines with obliques, or line-break tags if they really must set the quotation out in separate lines (which I think is unnecessary). — SGconlaw (talk) 18:01, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I am going to do a bot run to eliminate this template. I've already written the code. The only question is this: Currently this template sets notitle=1 when the work containing the poem isn't specified. Should I do that, or should I allow the template to display the "please enter the title" message? Benwing2 (talk) 02:32, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * My preference would be to allow the template to display the message. Yes, it will look unsightly in the short term, but hopefully that will prompt editors to add the missing information. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:11, 21 February 2019 (UTC)