Template talk:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Help desk

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{{editprotected}} On the last line, after "this page is highly visible across the Internet". This is causing Scsbot to emit gobs of error messages when it archives the help desk. —Steve Summit (talk) 01:50, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

 Done Skier Dude (talk) 03:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

New notice

At the moment this edit notice is pretty bare and it isn't difficult to be overlooked by newer users. I've created a notice using the {{Editnotice}} template which basically includes the same information as the old notice but stands out a lot more, hoping for some consensus on replacing the current notice with this one:

Code:

{{Editnotice
| header = Welcome to the Wikipedia Help desk
| headerstyle = font-size: 135%;
| text = * This page is only for questions about ''using'' Wikipedia, <u>not</u> for general knowledge questions. If you have any factual questions please use the [[Special:Search|search box]] or post them on the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|Reference desk]].
* Before posting here please [[Wikipedia:FAQ|read/search the FAQ]] and see if you can find the answer to your question there.
* For your own personal security please <span style="color: red">'''do not provide your email address or any other contact details'''</span> in your post as the Help desk is a '''highly visible''' page and all information placed here can be seen by the general public. Answers will be provided on this page and we are unable to provide answers via email or any other method off of Wikipedia.
<center>Finally please sign your question by placing ~~~~ at the end of your post.</center>

| textstyle =
| image = [[File:Information.svg|75px|alt=Information]]
}}

Thanks, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 23:42, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Those editnotice talk pages are practically unwatched, so you should usually leave a pointer at the respective page's talk page. Anyway, I just applied your change, formatting the editnotice to be in line with the standard is uncontroversial enough.
Cheers, Amalthea 10:11, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah thought it would be best not to make an edit protected request as I wasn't sure how controversial this would be, cheers anyway. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 10:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Ugly wording

{{editprotected}} Could someone please change

"... we are unable to provide answers via email or any other method off of Wikipedia."

to

"... we are unable to provide answers via email or any other method outside Wikipedia."

(or, if you prefer, to any other suitable form of wording that avoids the dreadful "off of Wikipedia".)

Thanks! 86.134.30.112 (talk) 21:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC).

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:51, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Blinking Text?

{{editprotected}} Because this is edit protected, could this be used instead, to make it more noticeable?

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{{ombox|type=content|textstyle=center;|text=For your own personal security please <span style="color: red"><div style="text-decoration:blink">'''do not provide your email address or any other contact details'''</div></span> in your post as the Help desk is a '''highly visible''' page and all information placed here can be seen by the general public. Answers would be provided on this page only; we would be unable to provide answers via email or any other method outside Wikipedia.}}

—Preceding unsigned comment added by A p3rson (talk • contribs)

No; too ugly. It's fine the way it is. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 22:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit request

Can we place something like "You will receive a faster reply to your question on #wikipedia-en-help (the freenode help channel)" on the edit notice?--Hallows AG (talk) 08:27, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

My only issue is certain times of day, there just aren't many admins around. For instance, Aussies coming in at dinner time (UTC+11 at 18:00) are unlikely to get a response quickly. --LauraHale (talk) 08:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Maybe discuss at Wikipedia talk:Help desk and see what people think? Please reactivate when there is consensus. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:09, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Edit request: Add Help desk templates

Please add the useful {{Help desk templates}} navbox to the edit notices to make it easier for answering users to find common answer templates. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:41, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Partly done: I added {{help desk templates navbox}} instead, as I thought it would fit better in the edit notice format. {{Help desk templates}} would take up a lot of space and would mean editors would have to scroll down each time when editing the page. Hopefully this is a good way around that. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:28, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Nice Thanks! —[AlanM1(talk)]— 09:26, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit request: grammar

Why is there a comma after "details" in the first sentence: do not provide your email address or any other contact details, —especially your passwords— in your post... ? Don't the dashes serve the same purpose as the comma, making the comma redundant and therefore incorrect? Piguy101 (talk) 18:29, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Pinging the adder of the comma: {{u|Reaper Eternal}} Piguy101 (talk) 18:31, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

 Done Mlpearc (open channel) 19:36, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 2 October 2015

Please either remove the spaces from “outside” the em dashes, or change them to en dashes and add spaces to the “inside,” per MOS:DASH. That is, please choose one of the following:

• do not provide your email address or any other contact details—especially your passwords—in your post
• do not provide your email address or any other contact details – especially your passwords – in your post

—67.14.236.50 (talk) 01:28, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 06:27, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 12 March 2019

Per their respective articles, "Help desk" and "Reference desk" should be modified to lowercase, to comply with sentence case. RAVENPVFF | talk ~ 10:35, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

The pages are called "Help desk" and "Reference desk", and all of the mentions I see use that capitalization. Are you seeing "Help Desk" somewhere? Or do I misunderstand? – Jonesey95 (talk) 10:58, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

 Not done (edit is disputed and requires discussion). — xaosflux ^Talk 13:07, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

I mean that the phrases Help desk and Reference desk (with initial uppercase letters) as they appear in this editnotice should have their first letters changed to lowercase (i.e. to "help desk" and "reference desk"). See e.g. the title here, which reads Wikipedia help desk, with "help desk" uncapitalised in sentence case. Regards. RAVENPVFF | talk ~ 11:22, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

You should get consensus for this change. All WP page titles start with a capital letter, so this would be an exception. If the page should be at "Wikipedia:Wikipedia help desk" instead of "Wikipedia:Help desk", you are welcome to start a discussion about that proposed change at the appropriate talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I think I wasn't too clear. I'm not advocating for any pages to be moved, but I'm just remarking that the phrases "help desk" and "reference desk" are uncapitalised except at the beginning of phrases on their respective pages – this implies that they are common nouns and should not generally be capitalised. This editnotice should, ideally, reflect this. RAVENPVFF | talk ~ 12:02, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

I'm clearly not communicating well enough. I'll let someone else handle this one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

This request does seem reasonable to me.  Done {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:44, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 29 March 2019

1. For clarity, please place a comma after in your post and before as the help desk, in the top message box.
2. Please change the single quotation marks in 'sign' to double quotation marks, per MOS:QUOTEMARKS.

Thanks. RAVENPVFF | talk ~ 14:45, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done (mostly) @Ravenpuff: #1 is done, for #2 I just removed the scare quotes all together. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:07, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 11 June 2020

Al Sharpton year of birth is not 1954. It may be 1944. 100.8.146.32 (talk) 00:43, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template {{Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Help desk}}. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. Mdaniels5757 (talk) 02:33, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 22 January 2021

Please remove the last editnotice as it has expires, see Wikipedia talk:Editnotice#What to do about expired editnotices? 54nd60x (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

 Done Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 22:17, 22 January 2021 (UTC)