Template:Old prod/doc

Purpose
The purpose for this template is to reduce repeated proposed deletion (PROD) nominations of the same article.

Use this template to flag that this article has gone through a proposed deletion proposal in the past, and is hence ineligible for a second PROD, and also that editors could benefit from checking up on past discussions before nominating it for deletion to AFD.

This template should not be used for Proposed deletion of biographies of living people / prod blp deletions, that is a separate process with separate criteria, independent of the regular proposed deletion process.

When to use
Add it mainly to article talk pages where a) you consider future deletion proposals likely, and b) you consider the denial of such proposals equally likely.

Specifically, this template documents the facts that:

Although it can be used for documenting active (seconded) PRODs, it will generally be added only after a PROD has been contested and removed.

This template populates Category:Past proposed deletion candidates.

Ideally, the contester should add it manually to the talk page. This is a courtesy, and also a handy record of the rationales given by the proposer, seconder (if any) and contester.

If you contest a PROD, then you should also notify the nominator by placing a Deprod on their Talk page.

Usage

 * Vertical format: copy-paste the following text, then fill in the appropriate parameters:

Depending on the value of nomdate, the template takes different appearances:
 * If nomdate is within the past 7.25 days, the template produces: (nomdate set to today in example)


 * If nomdate is older than 7.25 days, the template produces: (nomdate 1 year ago, in example)

However, it takes the latter appearance, regardless of nomdate, if the declined is set (to any value), or if con is specified.

There are three types of editors, each with two optional parameters:
 * 1)  is the editor who initiated the PROD.
 * 2)  is the editor who seconded the PROD.
 * 3)  is the editor who contested the PROD.

There are two optional parameters for each editor:
 * 1)  is the appropriate date in ISO 8601 format, e.g.,  . (Note that {{#time: Y-m-d}} will supply the current date.  Please do not use ISO date, as it introduces unwanted HTML tags.)
 * 2)  is the text they provided (perhaps copied from the Edit summary).

This template will automagically generate appropriate output based on the parameters supplied, e.g., only the editors.

Examples
Using just the editor parameters:

- Using some of the parameters:

- Using all of the parameters (notice that the order does not matter):