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Template-protected edit request on 28 October 2025

change "yo momma" to "yo mama" as it is more commonly used Harringstars ᐸ Talk
Contribs 07:09, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done in Special:Diff/1319273962. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:32, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

"There's no obvious way to track the number of people who e.g. get a uw-FOO template"

 Courtesy link: User talk:Ritchie333/Archive 128 § "You can't educate people with templates"

In this 2022 discussion about templating regulars, Iridescent said,

"there's no obvious way to track the number of people who e.g. get a {{uw-medrs}} template..."

That used to be the case, but there is a solution now. I was always frustrated by this as well, and decided to look into it some time back to see what could be done about this problem. It turns out, there was always a way, but it was indeed very non-obvious. I set out to work around this by hiding the obscurity in this template, and then transcluding a wrapper in the potted documentation used in all of the user warning templates. As a result, you will now find a line like this in the Usage section of the {{uw-medrs}} doc:

• Find examples of this template substed onto User talk pages using this advanced search link. (Patience; this may take a while.)

Clicking that link gives the number and list of users who have received the {{uw-medrs}} template, and from that, further analysis about usage, trends, or effectiveness of the template could be performed. This is now part of the documentation for all user warning templates, thus solving the original problem raised by Iridescent. Now, if we could only get people to read the doc, but that is a problem of a different order... Mathglot (talk) 19:48, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Oops, forgot to ping other discussants @Martinevans123, Jo-Jo Eumerus, and Tryptofish:. Mathglot (talk) 19:49, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

{{uw-aitalk1}}

Can someone add the newly created uw-aitalk series of templates here? It seems to follow the standard rules of what should be in a uw, but exclusion from this list (as well as AV, etc.) makes it difficult to find. Somepinkdude (talk) 14:01, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

I added it. 137a (talk • edits) 22:41, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Usernames that represent... persons?

A discussion you might be interested in: Template_talk:Uw-coi-username#Usernames_that_represent..._persons? CapnZapp (talk) 20:22, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Uw-aitalk Discussion notice

Template talk:Uw-aitalk3#What is the actual offense here? CapnZapp (talk) 20:28, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

changed wording

Now that the community has rejected the deletion of this template ({{uw-archive}}) we must deal with it. First off, the wording has been changed to no longer claim the false assertion that 75 kB is a specified limit. I've updated the quoted bits of the linked guideline to reflect this, and I have essentially reworded this to much more gently ask the talk owner to voluntarily consider archiving.

Note that a friendly courtesy "ask to archive" template already exists: {{Please archive}} CapnZapp (talk) 15:51, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Wording updates following TA changeover

It's occurred to me that some templates in the series may need IP to be replaced with TA in the near future. And {{uw-multipleIPs}} will probably need to be moved to {{uw-multipleTAs}} or similar. {{Shared IP advice}} can probably just be deprecated, unless someone thinks it needs to be sent to TFD instead. Anyway, may be worth prepping some maintanence. 184.152.65.118 (talk) 18:02, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Edit request to complete TfD nomination

Template:Uw-ablock has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but it was protected, so it could not be tagged. Please add:

<noinclude>{{subst:template for discussion|help=off}}</noinclude>

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. — AP 499D25 (talk) 12:57, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done Phuzion (talk) 13:17, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Temp Account Bug

It seems like the templates are breaking once temporary accounts have been introduced. Now, the uws are all linking towards the personal sandbox, regardless if it's a temp account or not. Is there some way so that it will still link to WP:Sandbox for temporary accounts, because it's clearly not happening? HwyNerd Mike (t | c) 07:40, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

I've created the {{If temporary account}} metatemplate to detect whether a user is a temporary account. It's currently used in {{Uw-ecr}}. However, I don't see a problem with a temporary account using their own user sandbox instead of the shared one. — Newslinger talk 19:23, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

@Newslinger: Being directed to a nonexistent page may confuse new users. Also, are temporary users able to create their own sandboxes? –Gluonz ^{talk contribs} 00:41, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing that up. I don't know, and I should have confirmed this before making an assumption. According to mw:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/FAQ, "Temporary accounts have their own user pages and user talk pages". However, according to Wikipedia:How to create a page, "Please note that only logged in users can create pages in non-talk namespaces." I'm not sure if that latter restriction extends to user subpages for temporary accounts, and it would be helpful to confirm this.​ — Newslinger talk 21:37, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Uw-confusinglinks1

Would this be considered a single-level or a multi-level template? There's currently only one template in this series, but it's structured like all the other uw1 templates. 137a (talk • edits) 17:03, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Template:Uw-fv1 as well. It seems like fv is supposed to be short for "false reference" or something. 137a (talk • edits) 00:09, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

@137a: It's "failed verification", akin to {{fv}}. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:02, 11 November 2025 (UTC)