Template talk:table:animals

RFD discussion: September 2019–February 2020
List templates are meant for small sets of common terms. I'm not looking forward to seeing this monstrosity taking up space in entries, especially for terms that have multiple languages using the same spelling.

Also, this is a huge list (11 columns x 27 rows, if you include captions- and no provision for shrinking the table if not all the terms are included), but it's only a fraction of the vast universe of terms we have on Wiktionary- there's no way to do the subject justice with this format, and you have to use arbitrary criteria to keep it from being much, much bigger.

The criterion here is obviously the existence of Unicode emoji characters for the animal, which makes me wonder how many site visitors have font coverage for all of them (on my home computer, 6 of the emojis display as placeholders).

I would characterize this as a nice idea that just doesn't work in practice. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:22, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no permissible use case for this, particularly it is against the rule of not posting translation sections under non-English entries, or is it for posting “see also”?Then it is excessive in size, therefore cannot fit anywhere. I would say speedy delete but one can have translation table appendices on animals, and there is a picture dictionary project. Just not this please, emojis are foul here if we can use the Wikimedia Commons fund of images. Delete anyway. And if anything is done on translation tables or picture dictionary, there must be criteria to single out groups or important terms as a ground for usefulness for learners, “animals” is not enough. Fay Freak (talk) 01:52, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete -- 14:48, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete It might be useful somehow for children, but the concept is all that would be needed. DCDuring (talk) 02:38, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, including all instantiations of the table (German and Chinese). — justin(r)leung { (t...) 20:11, 16 October 2019 (UTC)


 * RFDO-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:19, 16 February 2020 (UTC)