Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Clearing out Special:Unused templates

Apparently there are more than 5,000 unused template of the form "langrev\language name" whose purpose seems to be to generate a language code for the use of templates. Would it be possible to create a page that used all of these templates so that it would be possible to use Special:Unusedtemplates to see unused templates with names that begin after "langrev/". One possibly useful thing to do would be to test the relationship between name and language code both ways to make sure that the information remains accurate. (Ie, a listing with lines such as " en English    "). Whether useful or not, it would be nice to not have the templates take up permanent residence in a listing that has use for maintenance purposes.

I hope you are making some progress on figuring out a way to empty out Special:Uncategorizedtemplates as well. The same logic applies: the 5,000 slots in each of the special pages are a shared maintenance resource of the community. I don't think it is reasonable to rely on other folks to make special runs to work around the problem. OTOH if you would like to make arrangements for such runs to be made periodically and indefinitely as long as these are unused, that would accomplish some of the same purposes, though not from the point of view of someone coming from another project that uses these pages as intended. DCDuring TALK 00:31, 20 July 2012 (UTC)