User:TransporterMan/Templates

Creation note: When you Move it into the Template namespace, it does not create a redirection from the page in your user namespace as it would if you were merely renaming it within your User namespace.

My Published Templates edit

The Spoilsport Award: Form in User Namespace / Form in Template Namespace

My Private Templates (stored in User Namespace) edit

Misc edit

Dotted Line Box Code (no template):
{|style = "border:thin dashed red; margin:0 5% 0 5%"
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Frequently used texts (no template):
Note that your hangon tag goes on the article in ''addition to'', not in ''place of'', the speedy deletion tag.

It doesn't make any difference if you are the copyright holder, it still cannot be used on Wikipedia ''unless'' you follow one of the processes [[Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials#Granting_us_permission_to_copy_material_already_online|here]]. Please note, however, that doing so allows anyone in the world to use your material, not just Wikipedia. There is no way other (at least none that Wikipedia will accept) to give permission in a way that only Wikipedia but no one else can use your material.

'''A warning to both editors:''' What's going on here is clearly an edit war and I must warn you both that you stand a risk of having this page protected and/or being blocked from editing if it continues. The [[WP:3RR|three revert rule]] says, "''Remember that an administrator may still act whenever they believe a user's behavior constitutes edit warring, and any user may report edit-warring, even if the three-revert rule has not been breached. The rule is not an entitlement to revert a page a specific number of times.''" Decide it by discussion, do a [[WP:RfC|RFC]], take it to [[WP:MEDCAB|MedCab]], or use some other form of [[WP:DR|dispute resolution]], but stop reverting. [Now. / I will refrain from reporting this edit war for one — and only one — more revert by ''each'' disputant, so that they can implement and/or object to any changes they would like to make after, or which are made after, considering this Third Opinion, but I reserve the right to report the edit war if it continues after that.]

Let me add a word of friendly advice: Though it may not look like it on first blush, there are strict policies on what subjects and content can and cannot be included in Wikipedia. Without a working knowledge of Wikipedia policy it can be ''very'' frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted. I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at [[WP:WIZ|the Article Wizard]] and [[WP:FIRST|Your First Article]] and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one, they're full of solid gold information. Also, if you've not done so already, you need to read the [[WP:NOTABILITY|Notability]], [[WP:VERIFIABILITY|Verifiability]], [[WP:OR|No original research]], [[WP:NOT|What Wikipedia is not]], and [[WP:COI|Conflict of interest]] policies from beginning to end. Good luck with your editing, ~~~~

Unsourced BLP warning (no template):
{{{icon|[[File:Stop hand nuvola.svg|30px]] }}}This is the '''only warning''' you will receive regarding the introduction of unsourced or poorly sourced contentious information about a living person into [[ARTICLE NAME]] by STATE HOW in violation of [[WP:GRAPEVINE|the Biographies of living persons policy]]. An exception to the [[WP:3RR|three revert rule]] applies to such material: If you reintroduce the unsourced material without providing a high-quality source ''even a single time'', you may be '''[[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked from editing]] without further notice'''. — ~~~~

Optional parameter code (no template):
{{#if: {{{3|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}}|{{{3}}}}}

Include signature or date in subst'ed template (no template):
~~<includeonly>~</includeonly> - name only
~~<includeonly>~</includeonly>~ - normal signature with date
~~<includeonly>~</includeonly>~~ - date only

Note that these can be (but need not necessarily be) nested inside another set of <includeonly></includeonly> tags.
Does not work in a non-subst'ed template (but why would you want to do that?)

Word Box: Form

{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Image|InsideText[|OutsideText]}}

Example: {{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Red x.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}} gives:

Inside TextOutside Text

OutsideText may be omitted along with the preceding |. ~~~~ can go either place
Useful image names:

{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Yes check.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Red x.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Red question mark.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Muu vaara 189.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Info icon 001.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Crystal128-eraser.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Searchtool-80%.png|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Crystal Clear app clock.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Clipboard.svg|Inside Text|Outside Text}}
{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Wordbox|Star icon 1.png|Inside Text|Outside Text}}

Better Cookie: Form

{{Subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/Bettercookie|[Reason, no period]}}

You've been given a cookie, because [Reason, no period]]. Bon appétit, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 19:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching! Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Self-whack! (for inline use, no box) Form

self-whack!

No consensus on geo: Form

No consensus Removed {{geodata-check}} template. — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 03:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit war warning for article page: Form

This article appears to be currently undergoing a 3RR or slow-motion edit war.

Involved editors are advised to immediately discontinue the war and work out the conflict on this article's talk page. Failure to stop the war may result in this page being protected or in involved users being blocked from editing this page. — 19:15, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Try a drafting page: Form

I noticed that you have recently created an article which has been proposed for speedy deletion. Things can move very fast here at Wikipedia. To have more time to develop your article without having to fight a simultaneous battle to keep it from being deleted, consider developing it in a drafting page set up as a subpage of your user page instead of creating it a "real" article. If you would like some instructions on how to do that, click "Show" at the end of the next line.

How to Use A Drafting Page for Article Creation

If you want to be able to draft an article without being bothered by other users trying to improve or delete your page, do it in a drafting page set up as a subpage of your user page. Here's how:

Edit your user page (not the article page, the article talk page, or your user talk page). Somewhere on your user page create a link to your drafting page like this:
[[/<articlename>]|Draft of <articlename>]]
Replace <articlename>, including the brackets, with the name of your article. You don't have to include "Draft of" after the | if you don't want to do so, but it can be a useful reminder. Save your user page.
You will now find a red link on your user page which says "Draft of <articlename>". Click on it. A page that will come up which says, "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name" and has a link that says, "Start the <articlename> article." Click that link.
Start editing your article in the editing page that comes up.
Do not add category links to your draft unless you put nowiki tags around each one to deactivate it (for example:<nowiki>[[Category:Widgets]]</nowiki>); putting live category links on a draft article violates Wikipedia policy.
When you're finished, save it.
You've created your drafting page and you can go back and edit it as often as you like.

Your article will not be indexed in Wikipedia's article index so long as it is kept as a drafting page, so when you think that it's ready for scrutiny by other editors, you can create a new article page and simply copy the code from your drafting page into its edit form. Once you've done that, please delete your drafting page by adding a {{db-userreq}} tag at the very top, saving it, and then deleting the drafting page link off of your user page.

A word of warning: just because a drafting page is in your user space doesn't mean that you can put text, images, or other material on it which is, or may be, a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy, which is unsourced negative information about a living person, or which attacks, defames, or threatens a living person. That kind of stuff can be deleted immediately, without warning, anywhere it is found and can get you in trouble with the community, too.

Finally a couple of words of friendly advice: First, I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at the Article Wizard and Your First Article and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one. Read them all, they're full of solid gold information, and take them to heart. Second, if you've not done so already, you need to immediately read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, and What Wikipedia is not policies from beginning to end. Without a working knowledge of those policies it can be very frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted or heavily edited. Finally, if you are thinking that your article will be safe here because there are other articles just like it already on Wikipedia, don't bet on it. Those other articles may be just as much at risk of deletion as yours may be, but no one has happened to notice or bother with them yet.

Best wishes, thanks again, and good luck with your drafting. — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 20:25, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The first parameter is an integer 0-n that makes the box indent on the left by that percentage. 5 is more or less equal to one colon–indent.
The second parameter is always 4 tildes, nothing else, to plug in your signature and fixed date into the template.

You need to read: Form

If you've not done so already, you need to immediately read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, and What Wikipedia is not policies from beginning to end. It is extremely difficult to write an article that won't be deleted or savagely edited without a thorough knowledge of them.

Speedy deletion declined: Form

== Speedy Deletion Declined == Thank you for trying to improve Wikipedia by adding a new article. A tag had been placed on this article requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia under speedy deletion criteria G11. Please note that after review, I have declined the deletion request because:

Not unambiguously promotional

You do not need to worry about this article being speedily deleted due to G11, and there is no need to place or keep the template {{hangon}} on the article. (Indeed, if it is there, please remove it right away.) But please note that speedy deletion is only one of three deletion processes on Wikipedia; my decline does not prevent users from renominating it for speedy deletion under a different criteria (or again on the basis of G11 if you change the article in a way that brings it under that criteria), or invoking the separate, longer term deletion methods of proposed deletion or articles for deletion. (Indeed you may have found that even though I have declined it that I have re-tagged it for deletion in one of those other ways. If I did, there will be a big ugly notice at the top of the article page; if it's not there, then I didn't do it.)

A couple of suggestions: Things can move very fast here at Wikipedia. To have more time to develop your article without having to fight a simultaneous battle to keep it from being deleted, consider developing it in a drafting page set up as a subpage of your user page instead of creating it a "real" article. If you would like some instructions on how to do that, click "Show" at the end of the next line.

How to Use A Drafting Page for Article Creation

If you want to be able to draft an article without being bothered by other users trying to improve or delete your page, do it in a drafting page set up as a subpage of your user page. Here's how:

Edit your user page (not here at the article or on your user talk page). Somewhere on your user page create a link to your drafting page like this:
[[/<articlename>]|Draft of <articlename>]]
Replace <articlename>, including the brackets, with the name of your article. You don't have to include "Draft of" after the | if you don't want to do so, but it can be a useful reminder. Save your user page.
You will now find a red link on your user page which says "Draft of <articlename>". Click on it. A page that will come up which says, "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name" and has a link that says, "Start the <articlename> article." Click that link.
Start editing your article in the editing page that comes up.
Do not add category links to your draft unless you put nowiki tags around each one to deactivate it (for example:<nowiki>[[Category:Widgets]]</nowiki>); putting live category links on a draft article violates Wikipedia policy.
When you're finished, save it.
You've created your drafting page and you can go back and edit it as often as you like.

Your article will not be indexed in Wikipedia's article index so long as it is kept as a drafting page, so when you think that it's ready for scrutiny by other editors, you can create a new article page and simply copy the code from your drafting page into its edit form. Once you've done that, please delete your drafting page by adding a {{db-userreq}} tag at the very top, saving it, and then deleting the drafting page link off of your user page.

A word of warning: just because a drafting page is in your user space doesn't mean that you can put text, images, or other material on it which is, or may be, a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy, which is unsourced negative information about a living person, or which attacks, defames, or threatens a living person. That kind of stuff can be deleted immediately, without warning, anywhere it is found and can get you in trouble with the community, too.

Finally a couple of words of friendly advice: First, I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at the Article Wizard and Your First Article and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one. Read them all, they're full of solid gold information, and take them to heart. Second, if you've not done so already, you need to immediately read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, and What Wikipedia is not policies from beginning to end. Without a working knowledge of those policies it can be very frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted or heavily edited. Finally, if you are thinking that your article will be safe here because there are other articles just like it already on Wikipedia, don't bet on it. Those other articles may be just as much at risk of deletion as yours may be, but no one has happened to notice or bother with them yet.

Best wishes, thanks again, and good luck with your drafting. — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 20:03, 6 April 2010 (UTC)</includeonly

Incubation Notice: Form

{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/SDGIncNot|ArticleName|~~~~}}

User:TransporterMan/Templates/SDGIncNot

3O edit

Third Opinion Response: Cut 'n Paste Code:

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|style="padding-left:0.6cm"|''Disclaimers:'' I am responding to a third opinion request made at [[WP:3O]]. I have made no previous edits on {{PAGENAME}} and cannot recall any prior interaction with the editors involved in this discussion which might bias my response. The [[WP:3|third opinion process]] [[WP:Third_opinion/User_FAQ|(FAQ)]] is informal and I have no special powers or authority apart from being a fresh pair of eyes. Third opinions are not tiebreakers and should not be "counted" in determining whether or not [[WP:CONS|consensus]] has been reached. My personal standards for issuing third opinions can be viewed [[User:TransporterMan/WP3O/WP3O_Standards|here]].
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''Opinion:'' One particularly wise Third Opinion Wikipedian, RegentsPark, once [[Wikipedia_talk:Third_opinion/User_FAQ#goodsummary|succinctly put]] the purpose of Third Opinions like this, "It's sort of like if you're having an argument on the street in front of City Hall and turn to a passer-by to ask 'hey, is it true that the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale?'." [Insert opinion text manually here]
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''What's next:'' Once you've considered this opinion [[WP:Third_opinion/User_FAQ#What_happens_next.3F|click here]] to see what happens next.—{{subst:signature}}
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Form

Response to Third Opinion Request:

Disclaimers: I am responding to a third opinion request made at WP:3O. I have made no previous edits on TransporterMan/Templates and have no known association with the editors involved in this discussion. The third opinion process (FAQ) is informal and I have no special powers or authority apart from being a fresh pair of eyes. Third opinions are not tiebreakers and should not be "counted" in determining whether or not consensus has been reached. My personal standards for issuing third opinions can be viewed here.

Opinion: [Opinion goes here]

What's next: Once you've considered this opinion click here to see what happens next.—TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:47, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Third Opinion Request removed: Form

Your recent Third Opinion request has been removed from the list of active disputes at the Third Opinion Project:

Reason: [reason] —TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 18:39, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Third Opinion Response in progress (wait): Form

Third Opinion Request in progress:

I am responding to a third opinion request made at WP:3O and am currently reviewing the issues. I have made no previous edits on TransporterMan/Templates and have no known association with the editors involved in this discussion. (Please let me know immediately on my talk page if I am incorrect about either of those points.) The third opinion process (FAQ) is informal and I have no special powers or authority apart from being a fresh pair of eyes. Third opinions are not tiebreakers and should not be "counted" in determining whether or not consensus has been reached. My personal standards for issuing third opinions can be viewed here.—TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:47, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Third Opinion Response postwait (no disclaimers): Form / Cut 'n Paste Code

Response to Third Opinion Request:

Opinion: [Opinion goes here]

What's next: Once you've considered this opinion click here to see what happens next.—TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:57, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Third Opinion Response comment: Form

About your Third Opinion request:

Disclaimers: Although I am a Third Opinion Wikipedian, this is not a Third Opinion in response to the request made at WP:3O, but is merely some personal observations and/or information about your request and/or your dispute.

Comments/Information: [Comment goes here]

Note to other 3O Wikipedians: I have not yet "taken" this request, removed it from the active request list at the WP:3O page, or otherwise "reserved" it, so please go ahead and opine on it if you care to do so. —TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 16:58, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Considering taking request: Form

{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/TM3ORconsidering | #1, but not #2. #2, but not #1. Both #1 and #2.}}

I am considering taking your Third Opinion request:

Disclaimers: I am considering responding to your third opinion request. I have made no previous edits on TransporterMan/Templates and have no known association with the editors involved in this discussion. (Please let me know immediately on my talk page if I am incorrect about either of those points.) The third opinion process (FAQ) is informal and I have no special powers or authority apart from being a fresh pair of eyes. Third opinions are not tiebreakers and should not be "counted" in determining whether or not consensus has been reached. My personal standards for issuing third opinions can be viewed here.

Possible Clarifications needed: I have not yet accepted your request because either the issues or the number of editors involved in the dispute are not clear.

There can only be either exactly two editors or, if more than two, exactly two positions on which all involved editors have agreed, through consensus, clearly state the dispute.
The issues in the conflict must be capable of being clearly and succinctly stated.

See the Third Opinion FAQ for additional help and information.

Problem(s) with your request: [Problems go here.]

Please clarify these issues immediately below this notice. Provide diffs if they will help clarify the dispute. If the dispute has taken place in whole or in part on user talk pages, please provide refs.—TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 20:44, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Position 1: [Remove this and replace with one side's position.]

Position 1 Supporters: Each user supporting Position 1 must sign with ~~~~ for himself or herself. Sign here:

Position 2: [Remove this and replace with the other side's position.]

Position 2 Supporters: Each user supporting Position 2 must sign with ~~~~ for himself or herself. Sign here:

Not a 3O: form

{{subst:User:TransporterMan/Templates/TM3Onot}} [Followed by substantive comments.]

(Disclaimer: A Third Opinion has been requested in connection with this article or talk page. Although I sometimes act as a Third Opinion Wikipedian, I am participating in this article as just another editor and not as a a Third Opinion Wikipedian or under the guidelines set out at WP:3O, even though my participation may well result in the 3O Paradox.) [Follow template with substantive comments.]

Userboxes edit

OTR: form

This user listens to Old Time Radio almost every day.

TV1stGen: form

This user is part of the first generation who grew up watching television.