Template talk:In use

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Edit request 28 May 2024

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Add a =reason param to provide explanation why the in use parameter is being used on the page. Qwerty284651 (talk) 13:46, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:14, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 18 July 2024 unnatural wording

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To my ear, "short while" sounds wrong. It is missing from Wiktionary. According to Google Ngrams, the usage of "little while" is more than 4 times more common than "short while" and "short while" was even rarer historically: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=for+a+little+while%2Cfor+a+short+while&year_start=1700&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 . {{in use section}} needs the same fix. 174.92.25.207 (talk) 07:43, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 18:23, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 2 September 2025

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Replace with {{In use/sandbox}}, which has a few minor improvements and no linter errors:

"please" was used 3 times and many terms were repeated often
it didn't use standard pb, which is used for templates with more than one paragraph
clarify purge link (wasn't even grammatically correct) and put important timestamp info first

it's mainly a copyedit, nothing else changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FaviFake (talk • contribs)

It appears that the rendering will change if |1= and |2= are used. Are there testcases? – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:55, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95 There wasn't a change in functionality, only in the wording used; I've now created them: {{In use/testcases}} FaviFake (talk) 07:37, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:07, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merging the underlying code of In use and GOCEinuse

The templates {{In use}} and {{GOCEinuse}} are based on the same underlying code, but {{In use}} has been improved a lot while {{GOCEinuse}} has largely remained the same, with some small changes to the text. To help maintenance of both templates, I propose we merge them into one.

Nothing will change if someone uses {{In use}} alone, but if someone uses {{In use|GOCE=any value}}, then the template will output almost the exact same template as {{GOCEinuse}}. Except that now there's an added benefit: improving one codebase will improve both templates.

You can check it out at {{GOCEinuse/testcases}}, since I've also rewritten {{GOCEinuse/sandbox}} (now it's simply a wrapper for {{In use/sandbox}}). Again, it would output almost the same message (I've also incorporated some very minor improvements into the GOCE version of "in use" which benefit both).

It works as tested in the appropriately modified testcases, and has no linter errors. I don't see a reason to keep them separate if the output can remain the same and is still so similar between the two. Thoughts? FaviFake (talk) 15:03, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]