Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Template:Longquote

Template:Longquote
Really really badly designed quotation template that represents a security risk.

This is a quotation formatting template, but rather than being implemented normally using template styles or inline CSS it relies on the reader adding CSS rules to their common.CSS file to get the template to display properly. This is a really bad idea - firstly the user CSS is not available to logged out visitors, who make up something like 98% of page views, so almost everybody seeing this page is not going to see the template correctly. As a general principle basic page functionality should not require casual visitors to write their own CSS to use because writing custom user CSS has the potential to go catastrophically wrong and is not user friendly.

To try to encourage people to enable the CSS required this template has a "helpful" installer, Template:Longquote/opt-in, which copies the content of Template:Longquote/opt-in/preload to your personal CSS file. This represents a security risk. We should not, under any circumstances, be telling people who probably don't know how CSS works to copy unprotected template pages into their personal CSS file. User CSS pages are incredibly powerful, and the content put there could make the site unusable, leak personal information or contain malware. As it stands literally anyone could come along and replace Template:Longquote/opt-in/preload with malicious CSS content. — 192.76.8.85 14:08, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Vote closes: 15:00, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:32, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 19:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC)