Hi Ed - 

Unless I'm missing something, the discussion hasn't been closed one way or another yet - and all the templates still exist, so they certainly haven't been actually deleted yet.  And I would certainly read the current consensus as to keep but address certain problems.

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Kevin Gorman


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:
Looks like a determination was made to delete it, even though the
discussion seemed to indicate consensus was for keeping it?!

//Ed

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:41 AM, John Mark Ockerbloom
<ockerblo@pobox.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I posted here back in March about some templates I'd created to enable
> direct links between Wikipedia articles and resources in readers' libraries
> about (and/or by) the subjects of those articles.  (These linking
> services are still under active development, and I've been hoping to
> complete
> a port over to Wikimedia's own servers, once I have all the needed
> approvals.)
>
> Yesterday, however, all of these templates were tagged by a Wikipedia
> user for discussion about possible deletion.  (Because the higher-level
> templates used by editors invoke some lower-level templates that were also
> tagged, any usage of the links on Wikipedia pages looks pretty ugly at the
> moment.) If you're interested in the fate of these
> links and templates, please consider weighing in on the discussion,
> which you can find at
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_30#Template:Library_resources_box
>
> (And if you're interested in having your library included in the linking
> service, and aren't yet in the list of supported libraries, you can
> sign up here:
>
>       http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu//webbin/olbpcontact?type=library
>
> The service is currently available for links from both Wikipedia and
> The Online Books Page, and can possibly be ported for other sites as well.)
>
> John Mark Ockerbloom
>
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