Template talk:Help me/Archive 2

Parameters

When you ask for help using this template, how should you use the parameters? I don't see much parameter content in the template documentation.--Mr. Guye (talk) 20:14, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

No parameters are necessary, users are told to place their question alongside on the talk page. You can pass the question as the first parameter to the template, but according to the comments the functionality exists solely for backwards compatibility. That's probably why it's not in the documentation. – Train2104 (t • c) 21:34, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

@Train2104: Ok, thanks.--Mr. Guye (talk) 01:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

answered

Can this template be coded to accept an answered parameter to deactivate, like {{admin help}} does? Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 17:46, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

How does X work?

How do I frame the wording so that this does not appear to be a straight advertising plug? All I want is to have it so that my Facebook shares of the content from my luma.one site will pull information about our company from Wikipedia. 65.92.19.29 (talk) 12:37, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

I assume this is related to Draft:LumaOne. I'll reply on your user talk page; this page is for discussions about the {{help me}} template itself. Huon (talk) 14:47, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

The person who managed the Wikipedia page died, we need to make changes, we do not have the login details, how can we get the user name and password? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.246.29.131 (talk) 12:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Please go to the page specified by Huon, this is not the place to discuss this. That said, if an account holder has died, no one else may use their account. You need to create your own account. You should not share login information. 331dot (talk) 14:45, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

kindly give some ideas how to proper edit the article?

please describe shortly for me to developing article. LIPUROUT (talk) 12:01, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

LIPUROUT This is not the proper place to seek assistance. Please use the Help Desk or Teahouse. 331dot (talk) 12:02, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

The "Help me" template in your language ?

In the navigation pane to the left of this article/section, go to the "Languages" section, then click your language. You will be brought to the "Help me" template version in your language. :) SvenAERTS (talk) 14:38, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Adding the "Help me" template in your language if your language is not in the list of languages?

This template can be found by going - in the navigation pane to the left of this article, to the language section and then find your language. But my language is not in that list. Anybody knows how to add languages to that list? I have no time to find out now. I need it for the Dutch wikipedia / https://nl.wikipedia.org/ - Dutch = Netherlands/Nederlands, spoken in the Netherlands/Flanders and some of their former colonies. ThySvenAERTS (talk) 14:45, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Per the edit notice: Please do not post your "Help Me" requests on this page. The {{Help me}} should go on your user talk page, and editors will leave their answers there. This page is for discussing the help me template itself. Praxidicae (talk) 14:57, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

@Praxidicae: I think it is clear I am NOT asking help for me, I am discussing the "Help me" php hypertext namely that it is possible to find the "Help me" php hypertext equivalent in several other languages - if the respective language in the navigation pane on the left. I am asking how to get more languages in the languages pane - I don't understand why not all languages that have a wikipedia are not mentioned there. Secondly, I assume that making the php template in another language is pretty straighforward: the code can stay the same for 98%, it is just the words the user gets to see that need to be translated. And I would even expect it is possible to have an auto-translate module help out there. If these 2 elements are no "discussing the template itself", then I don't know what is. Please remove that claim. Sincerely yours

@SvenAERTS: It's possible that there is no exact equivalent to the {{Help me}} template on the Dutch Wikipedia; I don't know Dutch so won't be much good at searching for it. But there is a "Nederlands" link in the languages list at Wikipedia:Help desk, so if you are looking for help with a problem at the Dutch Wikipedia, one option would be to post at nl:Help:Helpdesk. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:14, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

@SvenAERTS: (More) Setting up an exact Dutch-language equivalent to this template isn't trivial. Writing a template that says "Ik zoek hulp" [or similar - Google Translate] is the easy part, but you also need a way to alert potential helpers that the template has been used. At the English-language Wikipedia, the current number of help requests is displayed prominently, eg at the top right of the {{Admin dashboard}}, and I believe there's a bot monitoring the requests and posting them to an IRC channel. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:29, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Documenting expectations for use of this template

While I realize that we do not want to discourage editors from asking for help, User:SvenAERTS has raised the question at User talk:SvenAERTS#Use of help templates of whether the template should or should not be used to draw attention to suggestions about improving an article's content. I think I speak for the community consensus in saying that we do not want this template to be used for every content suggestion, but I stand ready to be corrected on that. Is there some wording that could be added to the doc page for this template that would make this clearer without being discouraging?

My initial suggestion would be to add a small statement to the explanation of {{Help me-inappropriate}} saying Some of the uses considered inappropriate include asking for help unrelated to Wikipedia, nonsense questions or using the template to seek attention for routine content suggestions. This addition would serve to document this community expectation but should not present any sort of barrier to an editor's initial use of the templates to seek whatever sort of help they want. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 08:15, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Grammar error in last sentence

The last sentence of text in the template reads "You'll be receiving help soon so don't worry." when it should have a comma between the words "soon" and "so", resulting in the corrected sentence being "You'll be receiving help soon, so don't worry.".

 Done...--Moxy 🍁 00:19, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 March 2020

Harry S Truman DOES NOT HAVE AN PERIOD AFTER THE S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Change 98.184.230.43 (talk) 17:58, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done 98.184, "Please do not post your "Help Me" requests on this page. The {{Help me}} should go on your user talk page, and editors will leave their answers there. This page is for discussing the help me template itself." — xaosflux ^Talk 18:18, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

MANUAL

Please l will like to know if the manual reading with the Honor smartphones is only in Deutsch and if it is please can it be also in English because it state in the description of smartphone online that it is in * Hinweise Sprachen Bedienungs-/Aufbauanleitung Deutsch (DE) Sprachen Menüführung — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:189B:F200:F965:AEFF:88C2:1C82 (talk) 19:18, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Template is invisible on en.m.wikipedia!

I was very surprised to see (or, to be more precise, not see) that when I put a {{help me}} on my talk page, there is no evidence that I have done so. I do know it is there, because I can see it if I use the desktop interface (and because it has been answered – and it is still invisible!). If this behaviour unavoidable, can the documentation page at least be updated to say so? Better still, can we resolve the issue because it must be very confusing for newbies. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:50, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2020

Steve Hoffman's bio is about me. As anyone can see, it's hopelessly outdated. Is it possible to either updated it or remove it. I'd prefer to have it removed since it's not being maintained. Thanks. 157.131.103.37 (talk) 00:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Will respond on the article's talk page – Thjarkur (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Documentation

The documentation is a bit misleading. I have been informed that this template is for "Wikipedia-specific – editing, navigating etc", and not for general help requests; see this diff. I was advised by Rich Smith to raise it here rather than just going ahead and fixing it. Can someone either improve the doc to clarify the use case, or else should I try? Martin of Sheffield (talk) 17:43, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I'm R Ashish Pandey i want to that why my page deleted because i have provided you a Genuine Link and content and I'm a poet writer which is published my poet offline so kindly suggests my what to do next in this. R Ashish Pandey (talk) 02:09, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Question for administrator

<how to permanent delete my user account>

Aniket Gupta 19:31, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Ankiet, I responded on your talk page. This page is to discuss the template itself and not to request help. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:37, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I'm R Ashish Pandey i want to that why my page deleted because i have provided you a Genuine Link and content and I'm a poet writer which is published my poet offline so kindly suggests my what to do next in this. If you want any government documents then please let me know i will provide you the same. R Ashish Pandey (talk) 02:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

You may want to read the comment right above yours. DonIago (talk) 01:20, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Admin help

I am unable to do so but can you please fix The Diary of Anne Frank page. The Synopsis is clearly not the correct page and is full of graphic sexual language. 1.144.105.215 (talk) 12:04, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

The Diary of a Young Girl (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I believe this has been fixed. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:53, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 29 January 2022

Please sync {{Help me-helped}} with Template:Help me-helped/sandbox (diff). This change replace the current raw html markup to instead use {{Tmbox}}. The only visible change is the color of the border, as it has changed from an implicit notice to an explicit style, in order to bring it in line with the other templates of the help me series -- Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 13:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done firefly ( t · c ) 16:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2022

Lylake (talk) 21:13, 25 February 2022 (UTC) (help me)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Primefac (talk) 21:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Changing the wording of the answered admin helpme

I recently helped a user who had used {{admin help}} on their talk page. When that was finished, the {{admin help/helped}} template has the following advice: This request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page. At the template's suggestion, the user went to my talk page to continue a discussion that would have better been done on their talk page. Is there some other wording that would not suggest fragmenting discussion? SWinxy (talk) 04:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

The problem I see is that if the responding user hasn't watchlisted the talk page of the user they replied to and isn't otherwise pinged, then leaving an additional message on their own talk page won't accomplish anything. DonIago (talk) 04:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Edit request to complete TfD nomination

Template:Help me has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but it was protected, so it could not be tagged. Please add:

{{subst:tfm|help=off|1=Help me-helped}}

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. interstatefive  (talk) - just another roadgeek 01:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

 Done Primefac (talk) 07:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)