Forum:Fail templates & removing them


 * All above the failtrain!
 * ~Anonymous

You know what badly coded PHP can do to the servers? It can slow the server down and possibly even make it vulnerable for security/XSS holes. And that is a bad thing™.

I've looked over at a couple of largely used templates - Template:Reflist, Template:Sw and Template:W. The latter two are absolutely pointless and only meant for extremely lazy people. Do you know how many milliseconds parsing stupid templates adds to the loading times? Neither do I, but I'm sure that Domas could explain it to us. In any case, such templates slow down the site way too much. A couple of experienced Wikians whom I've talked about these templates today have commented that they're just "plain wrong" and "redundant". Trust me, these people know what they're talking about.

Reflist template is quite pointless, too. It just adds &lt;references/&gt; tag and some styling around it. Nothing overly complicated that you couldn't do by hand.

Thus, I'm proposing a removal of these templates from this wiki. They're pointless, causing site slowness and otherwise just not wanted. Please discuss the issue below. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 16:11, 3 April 2008 (UTC)