Forum:Why were citation templates deleted?

I note that the citation templates such as and  have been deleted. I've looked for a few minutes for some sort of forum discussion about the matter, but haven't found any rationale or consensus for this deletion. And I've checked category:citation templates to discover that they are all gone. What was wrong with those templates? To my mind, they reduced the number of keystrokes needed to cite things, especially where multiple citations for a single point was necessary.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  21:16, December 4, 2010 (UTC)