Wiktionary:Votes/2020-01/Deprecating topN

Deprecating
Voting on: Deprecating all columnating templates, such as top3, forbidding their use under entry sub-sections, i.e. Descendants, of Proto-Slavic, Proto-West-Germanic, etc. -- 19:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Schedule:
 * Vote starts: 00:00, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Vote ends: 23:59, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Vote created:  19:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Discussion:
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Grease_pit/2017/April
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Grease_pit/2017/May

Support

 * 1)  for descendants, otherwise abstain. —Rua (mew) 17:34, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1)  Columns improve legibility and are particularly pleasant looking when delineating language families in descendants lists, as seen in Proto-Slavic. There used to be an issue with auto-balancing in some browsers, but that's since been fixed. --  08:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  Do not see a single reason. I see only possibilities to better presentation that we should not cut off. Fay Freak (talk) 09:19, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , see no practical reason for deprecating it. --Robbie SWE (talk) 17:28, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 1)  Agree that legibility is usually improved by columns, as long as the descendants lists split properly across them. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 16:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) . These particular templates are useful if you don't want to hide the content. DonnanZ (talk) 19:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 3)  per Fay Freak. The implementation could be modernized to something more responsive if need be. פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 21:28, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 4)  --Droigheann (talk) 01:20, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) . mellohi! (僕の乖離) 13:30, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * 6)  per Victar. Latin descendant sections also greatly benefit from the columns given that they're in the main namespace; readers don't have to scroll forever to get to through one language entry. Julia ☺  ☆ 00:42, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Abstain

 * 1)  I don't understand what this is all about. What is the rationale for the deprecation of columnating templates? Since, e.g. derived terms and related terms are usually formatted as columns. Who wants to deprecate the templates? Was this vote created because someone wants to abandon the use of columnating templates specifically for descendants? Or is this about orphaning the technique that, instead of column autobalancing, relies on the middle section templates (e.g. mid3) to indicate where the middle is? I wonder whether this vote was created to prevent yet another batch of non-consensual volume editing or non-consensual use of admin tools, in which case I thank you for the vote. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:34, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Decision

 * 1-9-1, fails. &mdash; surjection &lang;?&rang; 00:02, 16 February 2020 (UTC)