Wikipedia talk:Template index/User talk namespace/Archive 8: Difference between revisions

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::For a level 1, that sounds rather harsh and scary, especially to new users who don't know levels 2, 3, and 4 exist. '''[[User:MBisanz|<span style='color: #FFFF00;background-color: #0000FF;'>MBisanz</span>]]''' ^{[[User talk:MBisanz|<span style='color: #FFA500;'>talk</span>]]} 20:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

== Should vandalism templates link to articles or oldid's? ==

If you warn someone to stop vandalise an article, what proof do you have if you link to the already fixed article? -[[Special:Contributions/62.219.107.28|62.219.107.28]] ([[User talk:62.219.107.28|talk]]) 00:40, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

:Only takes a couple of seconds to look in the articles history, and find the diffs if there is a dispute. ^{[[User:Khukri|'''<font face="verdana" color=#6633cc>Khu</font>''']][[User_talk:Khukri|'''<font face="verdana" color=#CC66FF>kri</font>''']]} 08:11, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

::Not if the warning is an old one, or to a frequently edited article. And in some rare cases the warned user may not know what edit the warning refers to; such as hypothetically in cases of shared IPs, mistaken identity due to similar usernames, or serious failure to [[WP:AGF]]. It's kind of like saying wikilinks are a pointless feature when it only takes a couple more seconds to type out a proper HTML link. --[[User:DocumentN|DocumentN]] ([[User talk:DocumentN|talk]]) 17:50, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

== "Contact me" ==

Why does [[template:uw-unsourced2]] (and only 2) include the line "Contact me if you need assistance adding references." Is there a version that says "If you require assistance, please feel free to contact somebody else"? '''[[User:Torc2|<font color="#4B0082">&mdash;Torc.</font>]]''' ^{<font color="#4F7C4F">(</font>[[User_talk:Torc2|<font color="#4F7C4F">Talk.</font>]]<font color="#4B0082">)</font>} 22:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

:The "contact me" section was added in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AUw-unsourced2&diff=153350397&oldid=143060008 August, last year], with an edit summary "changes per comments on my talk page". It seems to have been a response to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jeepday&oldid=153383260#Sources this exchange]. [[User:Jeepday|Jeepday]] made a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Uw-unsourced1&diff=153350005&oldid=152619862 similar edit] to {{Tl|Uw-unsourced2}}, but that was reverted. --[[User talk:Charles Sturm|Sturm]] 08:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

: I have to say if you are going to issue a warning template, you have to be ready to help out and educate a new editor who may not know better. It's not all about issuing templates and then let someone clear up afterwards. ^{[[User:Khukri|'''<font face="verdana" color=#6633cc>Khu</font>''']][[User_talk:Khukri|'''<font face="verdana" color=#CC66FF>kri</font>''']]} 09:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

:: If you strongly suspect a user is making stuff up, you might consider it better to risk scaring off a good editor than to ignore a bad one potentially fouling up articles that may not be immediately fixed. --[[User:DocumentN|DocumentN]] ([[User talk:DocumentN|talk]]) 17:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

== stranded discussion ==

I recently merged the template {{tl|Test-self}} into {{tl|uw-selfrevert}}, but I didn't know where we wanted to put the discussion. So now there is some discussion from last year at [[Template_talk:Test-self]], all by its lonesome. Do we want to merge it here or archive it here so it's not sitting out there attached to a redirect?--[[User:Doug|Doug.]]^{([[User talk:Doug|talk]] <small>•</small> [[Special:Contributions/Doug|contribs]])} 23:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

:I'll slot it in to the archive here. cheers ^{[[User:Khukri|'''<font face="verdana" color=#6633cc>Khu</font>''']][[User_talk:Khukri|'''<font face="verdana" color=#CC66FF>kri</font>''']]} 16:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)