Template talk:sisterlinks

RFD discussion: August–October 2023
This has to be one of the most baffling templates I've ever seen: Let's replace it with commons, and move it below the wikipedia box in cases where they are both present. This, that and the other (talk) 11:32, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It says "Articles on this topic in other Wikimedia projects", but only contains functionality to link to Commons and no other projects. Moreover, Commons doesn't contain "articles".
 * The link "Wikimedia projects" goes to a non-existent talk page on Commons!!
 * It's mainly used on category pages, where the bolded link is a strange-looking version of the category name with the colon replaced by a space: Category Furniture.
 * It uses a green colour scheme and larger font size not consistent with other sister-project templates.


 * Delete as above, and I'm baffled that the link to the non-existent commons:Template talk:Sisterlinks article—which has now been deleted 10 times—is apparently hardcoded and not just from the page title of the template. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 13:40, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Theknightwho (talk) 16:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. I remember seeing a page yesterday that had at least four interwiki templates on it, though I dont remember what it was .... i think there was Wikipedia, Commons, Wikispecies, and perhaps a second Wikipedia link for a different sense of the same word. They took up a lot of space on the right side of the page. Perhaps some kind of all-in-one template could be used for those few pages that might need it, but this isn't up the job.  As for why this template seems so strange ... maybe way back in 2005, Commons was setting itself up as a hub from which other projects could be linked? I dont know.  I just wonder if this template may have made more sense when it was new.  — Soap — 14:56, 24 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete as redundant and confusing. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 02:15, 1 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete. FYI I did a cleanup of CAT:Interwiki templates a few months ago, as it was populated by enormous amounts of junk, but there's still a bunch of junk there. Benwing2 (talk) 20:44, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Orphaned and deleted. Benwing2 (talk) 04:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)