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Using AFC

Various policies and guidelines tell conflicted or paid editors to use WP:AFC.

On {{uw-coi}}, shouldn't:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;

say something like:

other than in the Draft namespace (where you should declare your CoI), avoid avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;

(which could be split over two bullet points)? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:53, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I prefer it as it is. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 12:25, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a matter of personal preference; it's a matter of giving (new) users correct and relevant information. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:36, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uw-block edit request for dark mode compatibility

This edit request to Template:Uw-block has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please merge changes at Template:Uw-block/sandbox so future substitutions are dark mode compatible. You can also check testcases (Template:Uw-block/testcases). —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 07:38, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Sohom (talk) 12:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 1 September 2024

This edit request to Template:Uw-editsummary2 has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Currently, {{uw-editsummary2}} uses File:Information.svg with the empty argument |link=, preventing it from linking to its information page. According to Help:Pictures § Links, since the file's CC BY-SA license requires attribution, the image should link to its information page. Therefore, I think it should be changed from:

[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon|link=]]

to:

[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]]

jlwoodwa (talk) 17:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed {{uw-editsummary}} also had this issue, I have fixed it as described above. {{uw-editsummary2}} still needs this fix. Tollens (talk) 18:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 20:29, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the license fix. It's unfortunate that it's necessary, though — from a usability standpoint, it's not very helpful to have a link to an icon file page in a notice. Sdkb ^talk 21:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that these links are annoying as a user, I've clicked them by accident before and it is very confusing to get suddenly sent to the media viewer. It would be great if a CC0 icon set could be found or created to replace the ones often used for these templates, since it wouldn't require any attribution whatsoever. I'm sure such icons probably exist but am also nearly certain that changing these very commonly-used icons would make a non-zero amount of people unreasonably upset. Tollens (talk) 04:33, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the information icon currently displayed on the side of the closed edit request template in this section, for instance, is public domain (File:Information icon4.svg). Tollens (talk) 04:36, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder template for undue detail per WP:BALANCE?

It's possible that a majority of edits I have to routinely revert are that aren't covered by a template are substantial additions of sourced, verifiable, but deleterious material that is some combination of tangential, excessively detailed, redundant, or otherwise irreparably undue as to unbalance the coverage or coherence of the article. {{uw-fringe1}} is the closest, but is obviously not appropriate in most cases described above. Perhaps the template can standardize the common suggestions to move the content to a more specific article, more briefly summarize it in context, or compare with how analogous content is treated across several related articles Remsense ‥ 论 22:17, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Templates Lang1 through Lang4

{{lang1}}, {{lang2}}, {{lang3}} and {{lang4}}, which are redirects to different user warning templates, have been nominated for discussion or deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 19#Template:Lang1. Please leave any comments you have there to keep discussion in one place. Thryduulf (talk) 18:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New template?

Is there any way we can create a template regarding people who comment on closed discussions? Because I ran into that problem a couple weeks ago and had to use a generic level 2 disruptive editing template and append a message onto it; when I think a level 2 template specifically for commenting on closed/archived discussions would have been a lot more appropriate. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 21:31, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]