Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Level one user warnings
Overly first-person warnings vs a modicum of passive voice
The overly-first-person voicing of the level 1 warnings causes a problem - it takes away a common use case. It is not usable when I am warning due to another editor's removal, which is a very common use case. The following suggested change to the wording of {{uw-error1}} suits both 1st-person and 3rd-person use cases, is still friendly, and still takes responsibility (desired changes are bolded):
- Hello, I'm Lexein. Your recent edit to the page Jamie Lee Curtis appears to have added incorrect information, so it was removed for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks,
I would like the main discussion reopened, or at least for this version to be still available as a mod to the current voicing for all level 1 warnings. Please don't un-assist editors!
- Is this intended to discourage 3rd-party warning?
- I can always just start with level 2, because it's inefficient to edit the template output to restore the intended, and usable, meaning.
- Will prior versions be retained, renamed?
- Or shall I just create a new suite of level 1 warnings, named {{uw-error1-u}}, with -u standing for "universal use case"
So, if this is the wrong place, where is the best place to widely discuss this for all level 1 warnings? --Lexein (talk) 01:54, 17 August 2012 (UTC)