Wikipedia:Requests for geonotice/Clerk instructions

The main job of clerks is approving/rejecting requests, tidying up requests, and notifying maintainers regarding new approved requests.

Template

Clerks have the {{RFGNClerk}} template, which is used as follows:

{{RFGNClerk|TYPE}}

There is also an optional reason parameter, if one needs to be included. It is used in the format |reason=REASON.

The TYPE is one of the following:

• Accepted: Y Accepted: Please wait at least 2 days for your request to be handled by a Geonotice maintainer.
• Rejected: N Rejected: Please read the guidelines above. If you believe this was unfair, you may contest the rejection below.
• Implemented: Y Implemented: This geonotice has now been implemented, and is running live.
• Confirmed: Y Confirmed: Someone from the target area has confirmed this geonotice is active and working
• NotShowing: N Not showing: Someone from the target area has reported the geonotice is not showing on their watchlist, even after hard reloading.
• Note (This is used in the format {{RFGNClerk|Note|NOTE}}): Note: NOTE
• Moreinfo: Note: Please provide more information. If no more information is provided in 5 days, the request will be rejected.
• Toobroad: Note: Your requested target locations are too broad. Please focus your area down to a smaller and more relevant range. If the request is not focused in 5 days, it will be rejected.
• Badmessage: Note: Your requested message is not acceptable. Please provide some alternatives. If no alternatives are provided within 5 days, the request will be rejected.

User talk notices:

• UsertalkAccepted: Your recent Geonotice request has been accepted. It should be implemented in the next few days.
• UsertalkRejected: Your recent Geonotice request has been rejected. Please read the guidelines on the top of the RFGN page. If you feel it was inappropriate, you may appeal the decision.
• UsertalkImplemented: Your recent Geonotice request has been implemented! It should now be active.
• UsertalkAttention: Your attention is needed on your recent Geonotice request. It may require more information, or clarification.

Related project notices:

• RelatedProjectAccepted: A recent Geonotice request relating to this project has been accepted. It should be implemented in the next few days.
• RelatedProjectRejected: A recent Geonotice request relating to this project has been rejected. Please read the guidelines on the top of the RFGN page. If you feel it was inappropriate, you may appeal the decision.
• RelatedProjectImplemented: A recent Geonotice request relating to this project has been implemented! It should now be active.
• RelatedProjectAttention: Your attention is needed on a recent Geonotice request relating to this project. It may require more information, or clarification.

How to handle

When approving or rejecting, move the request to the appropriate section. If there are more than 1 approved request, or there is an approved request that has been waiting for implementation for over 2 days, leave a note on Gmaxwells talk page.

Once a request has been implemented, move it into the Implemented section. This should be done ASAP, so not to make it look like there are more requests waiting for implementation than there actually is. In the implented section LINK to the page. Do not keep it transcluded! This keeps the size of the page down. To simply do this, replace the {{'s and }}'s with [['s and ]]'s.

Leaving messages on the users talk page and the related project is optional, but is recommended out of courtesy. Some users will not watchlist the page.

Confirming

The Confirmed and NotShowing messages are used after implentation, to note if there are problems. For the notshowing, make sure to check that at least two users have reported it who are in the target area, and it still doesnt work after a hard reload and restart of the browser/PC.