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This template was considered for
deletion on 6 May 2021. The result of the discussion was "merge".
The following is a closed discussion of a
requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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Template:Olympic Channel →
Template:Olympics.com profile – On 29th of April 2021 www.olympicchannel.com has been completely merged into a new IOC platform/web-site Olympics.com. New platform is the successor of the old one and is the platform to host all the athletes database. Old www.olympicchannel.com links redirect to olympics.com.
VLaiquendi (
talk)
17:04, 2 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I would say these two databases are redundant. In your example of Michael Phelps, clicking on either the Olympic Channel or IOC profile link results in
this URL being displayed.
162 etc. (
talk)
15:30, 3 May 2021 (UTC)reply
They are because right redirects are made at the respective websites for both of them. Problem is if we change IOC profile template the resulting URL with the current ID will be
this URL and will result in error 404. So some of the current athletes pages will have broken links with their current IOC athletes IDs. Any ideas on how to resolve this or it's not an issue?
VLaiquendi (
talk)
16:07, 3 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks!
WP:TFD says: "On this page, the deletion or merging of templates and modules, except as noted below, is discussed. To propose the renaming of a template or templates, use Wikipedia:Requested moves." Wouldn't it be easier if we rename
Template:Olympic Channel to
Template:Olympics.com profile first as they are definitely the same thing and then raise a more thorough and complex discussion at
WP:TFD?
VLaiquendi (
talk)
07:28, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Renaming
Template:Olympic Channel just to have it later merged with
Template:IOC profile is adding a lot of extra work for nothing. The name of the template is not displayed on a wiki page, it's only seen in the code. I've edited the template to use "Olympics.com" as the output text, I think this is a good step in the meantime. Ultimately, I think this template should disappear altogether (because of the existence of the redundant
Template:IOC profile), but again, that's not something to discuss in RM.
162 etc. (
talk)
16:29, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
As for the redundancy of
Template:IOC profile it cannot be really used for future articles as it has olympics.org links and the code there cannot be easily renamed to olympics.com because IDs do not correspond to what is being used at olympics.com website. Hope that makes sense!
VLaiquendi (
talk)
16:54, 6 May 2021 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.