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Combination of uw-npov and uw-unsourced

Quite often I see contributions like this. It looks to be in good faith, but it has two issues, 1) its not NPOV and 2) its not sourced. It would be really great if there was a template that let me say both those things at once. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Previously when I have encountered this problem, I have just selected which ever template seems to represent the greater violation. Also I generally use Twinkle to warn (unless I'm Huggling). Twinkle allows you to add free text onto the end of a warning and I believe most templates support linking; you can also do this manually using an appropriately placed pipe symbol when placing the template code. Whilst a combined template is a good idea on one hand, how many do we create? There are a great many potential combinations. Pol430 talk to me 21:33, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I suppose it could follow {{Multiple issues}}. Rich Farmbrough, 23:05, 23 February 2011 (UTC).

The thing is more than other issues NPOV and Unsourced go hand in hand. Additional messages would be OK, but I'm not 100% on the wording - and would then have to save them somewhere (a user template would be great for this :p). -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 23:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, unfortunately, I personally, remain unsold on the idea of combined warnings. I feel it could lead to an unnecessary boom in the already voluminous uw-template collection. If you are going to warn about two policy infractions for one edit, why not just deliver two separate warnings that already exist—one after the other? Pol430 talk to me 23:38, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

That wouldbe taken care of with a {{Multiple warnings}}. However I do agree that often it's best to pick an editor up on just the main point, to avoid muddying the message. (Hence my preference for simple warning templates.) Rich Farmbrough, 12:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC).