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== Uw-error templates ==▼
== Template-protected edit request on 18 June 2025: uw-delete series ==▼
I feel that these templates should be moved to Uw-incorrect because it makes more sense. Uw-error is ambiguous and people could think it refers to other templates (eg. the vandalism Template). Uw-incorrect currently redirects there [[User:CyberTheTiger|<span style="color: brown"> '''Cyber'''</span><span style="color: black"> '''the'''</span><span style="color: orange"> '''tiger'''</span>🐯]] ([[User talk:CyberTheTiger|'''talk''']]) 02:16, 13 August 2025 (UTC)▼
{{edit template-protected|Template:Uw-delete4im|answered=y}}▼
== Uw-citevar ==▼
Announcing single-level notice {{t|uw-citevar}}, to advise a user about [[WP:CITEVAR]] issues. I will notify RedWarn and Twinkle. Please make any needed improvements. [[User:Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) 06:25, 13 August 2025 (UTC)▼
Change "<nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Introduction|welcome page]]</nowiki>" to "<nowiki>[[Help:Introduction|welcome page]]</nowiki>" [[User:Jako96|Jako96]] ([[User talk:Jako96|talk]]) 17:31, 15 August 2025 (UTC)▼
:{{complete2}} per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]] – redirect from a page move. '''''[[User:Paine Ellsworth|<span style="font-size:92%;color:darkblue;font-family:Segoe Script">P.I. Ellsworth</span>]]''''' , [[Editor|<span style="color:black">ed.</span>]] – [[User talk:Paine Ellsworth|''welcome!'']] – <small>02:02, 16 August 2025 (UTC)</small>▼
== Lead wranglers ==
I not infrequently run across editors who fall into an editing style that I am gong to call, "lead wranglers". By this I mean, those editors, usually fairly new, whose edits are made mostly to the lead of various articles, with no clear benefit, but hard to attack as clearly violating some guideline. (Probably [[WP:LEADFOLLOWSBODY]] comes closest.) These editors may be of good faith and they may be seriously trying to improve wording, grammar, or style, although rarely citations or content; their edits are pretty much always low-effort edits of uncertain value. Maybe they are improvements, maybe not, but they generally don't involve, say, significant effort to chase down a reliable source and generate a needed citation; rather, they are the low-hanging fruit of non-objectionable word diddling or just questionable changes in wording or style. At some level, maybe we have all been guilty of this on some occasion, but if I am not mistaken, there is a cohort of editors who do this to the exclusion of pretty much anything else. They just diddle the lead, leaving it no worse, maybe, but whether it is better, is doubtful, and anyone's guess.
One, or two, or a handful of such edits would probably fly under the radar and not matter, especially as there may not be a particular policy or guideline violation to point to (and template their talk page with). But at some point, one has to question whether they are really [[WP:HERE|here]] to improve the encyclopedia, or just getting off on messing with the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, with the least effort they can get away with, by continually messing with the top of the page. I view such edits as unhelpful, and potentially [[WP:DISRUPT|disruptive]].
First of all, I am interested in your feedback: whether you have noticed anything like what I am describing, and how you have dealt with it. Secondly, I am considering creating a new [[WP:WARN|advice template]] for this situation, to be called {{t|uw-lead wrangler}}, at least until someone comes up with a better name. The point of having a template is to record the event on the user talk page when warranted. Ideally, by making the editor aware, they would change their ways and improve as an editor, and that would be the best outcome. But in the worst case, it would provide a record that might be of value later to an admin looking at the user's history. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and feedback. [[User:Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) 11:28, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
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::::::::OK, I see. — [[User:W.andrea|W.andrea]] ([[User talk:W.andrea|talk]]) 17:38, 21 June 2025 (UTC)▼
== Template-protected edit request on 27 August 2025 ==
{{TPER|Tm:uw-biog3|Tm:uw-npa3|answered=y}}
These templates should also have their icons changed from File:Ambox warning pn.svg to File:Nuvola apps important.svg to match the base template ({{tlx|uw3}}) and the other uw-3 templates. [[User:Yerlo|Yerlo]] ([[User talk:Yerlo|talk]]) 21:47, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
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▲== Uw-error templates ==
▲I feel that these templates should be moved to Uw-incorrect because it makes more sense. Uw-error is ambiguous and people could think it refers to other templates (eg. the vandalism Template). Uw-incorrect currently redirects there [[User:CyberTheTiger|<span style="color: brown"> '''Cyber'''</span><span style="color: black"> '''the'''</span><span style="color: orange"> '''tiger'''</span>🐯]] ([[User talk:CyberTheTiger|'''talk''']]) 02:16, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
▲== Uw-citevar ==
▲Announcing single-level notice {{t|uw-citevar}}, to advise a user about [[WP:CITEVAR]] issues. I will notify RedWarn and Twinkle. Please make any needed improvements. [[User:Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) 06:25, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
▲== Template-protected edit request on 15 August 2025 ==
▲{{edit template-protected|Template:Uw-subtle1|answered=yes}}
▲Change "<nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Introduction|welcome page]]</nowiki>" to "<nowiki>[[Help:Introduction|welcome page]]</nowiki>" [[User:Jako96|Jako96]] ([[User talk:Jako96|talk]]) 17:31, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
▲:{{complete2}} per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]] – redirect from a page move. '''''[[User:Paine Ellsworth|<span style="font-size:92%;color:darkblue;font-family:Segoe Script">P.I. Ellsworth</span>]]''''' , [[Editor|<span style="color:black">ed.</span>]] – [[User talk:Paine Ellsworth|''welcome!'']] – <small>02:02, 16 August 2025 (UTC)</small>
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