Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Template:Copy to Wikiquote

Template:Copy to Wikiquote
I accidentally imported its full edit history from Wikipedia while importing the full edit history of other pages. If we have no need of it here, I suggest speedy deletion.— Jusjih 16:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Vote closes : 17:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Vote extended to 17:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC) because this template was in use here long before Jusjih overwrote it, and the discussion thus far seems not to have considered its actual use and purpose. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom: just could it be speedied, even if its history contains of others' edits technically? --Aphaia 16:55, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a speedy per author request.-- Poetlister 14:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Yehudi 15:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 16:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 20:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. --McNoddy 10:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Transwiki is a complex process that very few editors, even experienced ones, seem to understand fully. Part of the issue here is that there are standard templates that are used in other projects that, when their incorporating pages are transwikied here, should automatically include the new page in a category that allows transwiki completers to find them easily. I don't have time right now to examine what happened here, but I have serious problems with Jusjih apparently overwriting existing versions of templates that were in use, and then asking for their deletion. For the record, he is not the author of either template, and thus this is not a speedy per author request. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I accidentally imported the full edit history of this template when clicking "Include templates" at w:Special:Export without knowing what would happen then. I was unsure if I should simply delete it, so I have asked here. You consider it not speedy, then we can wait for the voting deadline. What templates have been overwritten?--Jusjih 04:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Um, the templates that were overwritten were Template:Copy to Wikiquote and Template:Move to Wikiquote. If that wasn't obvious from my statement, please examine the edit history, where you'll see that I created this one at 18:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC), and the other at 05:37, 4 April 2005 (UTC). It occurs to me, however, that depending on how the Import function works, it might not be clear whether the history is from WQ, WP, or a merged combination. (I have confirmed that at the very least, some of the history is from WQ.) It's stuff like this that has made me put off researching Import, and why I don't have time right now to determine exactly what happened here. But anyone importing material should be aware of what is already there before they choose to replace it. And one should not nominate templates for deletion without discussing how and where they are already in use. (I'm not saying that anything in use shouldn't be deleted — we've had quite a few manually imported templates that were deleted when it was found they were unnecessary and/or badly done. But your nomination made no mention of any of this, and it seems like most of the participants simply assumed you were correct and/or didn't bother to check out the template usage. Only Aphaia seems to have even noticed a problem. That's what I mean when I said at WQ:VFD/Template:Move to Wikiquote that we're getting sloppy. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)