Template talk:FlowMention

This template should be deleted.
There is now the ping template, therefore this is pointless. FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 02:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * How is it pointless? We use it every day, so, I doubt that this needs to be deleted anyway. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 02:32, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's pointless because of the ping template. FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 02:41, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Then again, I see people use the template when they are mentioning somebody on their user talk pages. I don't think that really matters that much. :/ DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 10:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * And the ping template doesn't work there as well? My point is, the FlowMention template isn't necessary. FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 02:52, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sure it does, but I'd rather let the template stay. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 10:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Why though? FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 01:05, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't make sense to just delete it anyway. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 16:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Why not? FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 03:28, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Why does it matter that this is staying? Wikipedia has, , , probably more that redirect to . - Atomicstar (talk) 19:40, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, but there's a difference between redirects and this. This is not a redirect. FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 21:08, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I know there is a difference, but still why does it matter that this is staying? - Atomicstar (talk) 13:03, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't know what the bizarre conversation styling is here with indent, backdent, indent, backdent which doesn't fit any known convention on Meta or QP, so I'm just going to respond to this at the base level and any replies to me should be with correct indentation going forward.

It stays. It's redundant but it's a shortcut that is available on every member wiki that comes by default and works just fine. You can use another form if you don't like it and its presence in this way harms no one. As a best practice I'd consider making it a redirection of one standard form of ping but that's incredibly low on my priorities for the moment and clearly it's not in DMM's priority list at all. Completely irrelevant if you're looking for redundant or useless things to request deletion for, if I got started on that a great deal of things imported in this wiki would be gone first for having no foreseeable utility of any sort to the functions of QP while this is regularly and obviously used. --Raidarr (talk) 18:02, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, in that case, can it be a redirect? FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 20:35, 13 July 2022 (UTC)