Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User prog-0

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was keep. harej 00:23, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User prog-0[edit]

Transferring nomination incorrectly placed at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 January 24#Template:User prog-0. Userboxes are supposed to be discussed at MFD. Comments already made in the TFD discussion, including the original nomination statement by Koavf (talk · contribs), are reproduced below. RL0919 (talk) 00:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User prog-0 (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages)

Meaningless and unnecessary —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The meaning is quite clear: The user understands that they have no programming skills and can admit to it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 16:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Several [language]-0 templates have been deleted for being unencyclopedic. What is the purpose of knowing all of the skills other editors don't have? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As much as I don't mind deletion, a possible purpose for this template could be when you have a bot operator who doesn't know how to program. Most/some bot operators can program so it would save time, if one wanted to ask a programming question about pywikipedia for example, to know about a user's lack of skills.--Commander Keane (talk) 04:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Userboxes must be necessary and meaningful? Nope. Most aren't. Smile sometimes. Collect (talk) 13:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral per Commander Keane. Userboxes need not be very useful, but they also should not be completely useless. So, even a relatively-plausible argument for utility is enough for me to lean away from "delete". –Black Falcon ^(talk) 19:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, a good indicator for saying "Don't ask me for help with programming, since I can't help you", especially since (unlike with language templates) nowhere near all capable programmers have templates saying that they're capable programmers. Nyttend (talk) 00:45, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep : No reason for this to be here andyzweb (talk) 04:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.