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Propose mergingTemplate:Eastern name order with
Template:Western name order.
Redundant and ultimately confusing: a template called "Eastern name order" points out that the article uses "Western name order". Seems to only be used for Hungarian names; for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hmong names, the Western order template plus a Chinese/Japanese/etc. template is used.
The Chinese etc. templates might be worth merging as well, since they all have different styling/wording, but I'll leave that for another TFD.--
Father Goose (
talk) 19:28, 21 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge. I think the contents of {{Eastern name order}} would be better served at {{Western name order}} (particularly the mention of the native name), which could then serve as the basis for the merger of the other templates. IMO, a single generic name order template would be best, if possible. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 03:21, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge through the use of parser functions if needed. This advertising of TfD is doing more harm than good since such templates are widely used. I propose we do not advertise this time since this is more of a common sense measure. I can perform the merging without a need of editing pages (rather the bot would introduce one parameter of east vs west). --
A Certain White Catchi? 11:39, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, no "east" parameter is needed, as the few pages that do use Eastern name order – such as
Mao Zedong – do so because the Eastern order for that specific name is familiar in the West. And in such cases, no template at all is used. The "eastern order" template seems to only be in use for Hungarian names, and it is redundant with the Western template because it states that the article uses Western order. There still remains the question of how the text of the templates should be merged. Perhaps the least disruptive approach would be to rename
template:eastern name order to
template:Hungarian name and have the Hungarian name template read something like:
The native form of this personal name is {{{1}}}. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
with the second sentence simply being a call to
template:western name order. That still leaves the wording/formatting of each of the Chinese/Japanese/Hungarian templates inconsistent, but it's a start.--
Father Goose (
talk) 21:35, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge, making parameter 1 (the native name) optional in the resulting template. Its absence should prevent emission of the "first sentence". I prefer the additional wording "when mentioning individuals" in that {{
Western name order}} has in the "second sentence", that {{
Eastern name order}} currently doesn't. I don't see how "this advertising of TfD is doing more harm than good": I'd have been unaware of it otherwise, and I edit lots of articles on Hungarian subjects.
Si Trew (
talk) 15:52, 27 November 2016 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was Delete ~
Rob13Talk 03:28, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Template were none of the articles exist. Any of those proposed articles would be deleted per
WP:NOTSTATSJoseph2302 (
talk) 17:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete per above. All articles using it were recently deleted. Jack | talk page 13:29, 22 November 2016 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was Delete ~
Rob13Talk 03:26, 29 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete, no supporting article and Wikipedia is not a memorial of trivia.
Kierzek (
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