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== Bug? Feature? ==

I have just discovered a bug (feature?) in the {{tl|uw-advert}} template (which I presume is a common bug/feature in all of the uw-xxx templates). If the original warner forgets to subst the template, then the name in the warning ("Hello, I'm <name>...") changes whenever a different editor posts a message after the original warning. Thus, if user A warns user B, and then user C comes along and makes a completely unrelated post on user B's page, the template will be now read "Hello, I'm C..." when it should read "Hello, I'm A". I don't know if the subst bot is smart enough to fix this error by examining the page history and replacing the correct name, or if will just leave whatever name happens to be there by the time the bot updates the page, but in either case, even a temporary misattribution seems to be a bad bug. <font color="green">[[User:WikiDan61|WikiDan61]]</font><fontspan colorstyle="color:green" size="5px;">WikiDan61</fontspan>]]^{[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]}_{[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]} 14:36, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

:Yes, this is because it uses the {{tlc|REVISIONUSER}} [[H:MW#Variables|variable]], which indicates the editor at last edit. If you subst: the user warning template (as all of them should be), the {{tlc|REVISIONUSER}} gets substituted as well, so the name is fixed. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:51, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

== Missing shortcut - {{tl|Bv}} ==