Forum:Why were citation templates deleted?

I note that the citation templates such as DW and DWM 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)
 * I know that the DW template had some issues with creating a bunch of garbage non-desired links in the "most wanted" special age due to MediaWiki's improper handling of the "ifexist" construct, which the DW template used to determine if it needed to point to "the article" or "the article (episode)". -- sulfur 12:56, December 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * The discussion was on the template's talk page which has been deleted along with the template.
 * sulfur's got the gist of the discussion basically the templates were creating a lot of red links and messing around with the wanted pages list. There were some other issues also with the template that made it somewhat counter intuitive. --Tangerineduel 14:12, December 5, 2010 (UTC)