Template talk:Admin

Usage

 * Links to the user page, user talk page, and contributions, block, protect, delete and move logs of an editor. Thus
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 * To reduce the text space used by this template, you can also use Template:Admin-abbr which produces the same links but abbreviates the words.
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Comments as of 2006
After Mistress Selina Kyle moved what was previously on here to "Template:User admin2", she put content here that resembles what is currently on Template:Admin2. I prefer we only have one template and merge one to the other. The question is: should the format be the one here currently on Template:Admin or the one on Admin2? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it wasn't really appropriate for admin to be merely a userbox template, to fit in with the other similar templates like user, vandal etc - For now I've redirected since this one, I think, is better as it shows both the "normal user" info and the admin detail: If anyone has any probs tho feel free to discuss or whatever
 * I have merged the histories of the templates together and replaced all "Template:Admin2" links with "Template:Admin" as appropriate. &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( [ TALK ] )  19:25, Jan. 8, 2006
 * I didn't know at the time there was another similar template, but this one is better I think. -- Mistress Selina Kyle  (  Α⇔Ω ¦  ⇒✉  )  13:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Pipe vs. bullet
I just thought the bullet looked better. The pipe looks out of place to me. But, it's not a big enough deal, I just figured I'd leave a note in case it comes up again later. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 13:15, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Protected
Edit warring in itself is bad, more so in a widely used template, due to undue database churning. Please discuss proposed changes (and the merits thereof) on this talk page, rather than in your edit summaries. &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( [ TALK ] )  03:52, Jan. 8, 2006


 * MSK is trolling by trying to add a block log link to the admin template. Trolling, I say. -- Netoholic @ 04:48, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh give it a rest, troll-face (you insult me, I'll insult you): It doesn't deserve to be censored out.


 * And aren't you banned from editing templates anyway, as per your RfA for constantly harassing people in the namespace and generally being disruptive? -- Mistress Selina Kyle  (  Α⇔Ω ¦  ⇒✉  )  08:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


 * He's not banned from editing templates... --Khoikhoi 08:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Think before you act
Hey guys, I just found my user page had been broken in two places by people faffing around with templates. It's not a big deal, but in one case many pages were broken. Before you make a significant change, please understand how many pages use a template, and what your change is going to do to them. Regards, Rich  Farmbrough. 13:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Not working for me
See. Why are the external links not working? - Ta bu shi da yu 03:58, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello Tabu. You may have figured this out by now, but if not, the reason is that when internal link templates are used for items with more than a single word, an underscore must always be used in place of the spaces between words. For example, produces ; correctly using underscores, however, works the requisite magic: . If you want the first link (to your userpage) to appear without the underscores, you can use , which gives  — Encephalon  07:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * This bug has been fixed. The second parameter is no longer necessary, or even accepted at all. — May. 26, '06  [10:27] < [ freak]|[ talk] >

Please unprotect this template for a while
Just want to improve formatting --Col. Hauler 10:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. --CBDunkerson 23:12, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think I know what you had in mind. I've made some changes to the template. If we're done here, please consider reprotecting, as this is still a high-risk template. — May. 26, '06  [09:34] < [ freak]|[ talk] >
 * Sorry, I unprotected because I thought the protection was due to edit warring (by parties who are now banned from editing templates or Wikipedia in general). There are actually only about two hundred pages which use it, but I suppose that anything having to do with 'admins' might theoretically be a more tempting target for vandals. --CBDunkerson 10:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * On second thought it might not need full protection, but I'll semi-protect it for now. Col. Hauler should still be able to edit it, if he had some other changes in mind. — May. 26, '06  [10:26] < [ freak]|[ talk] >

add this
add mk:Шаблон:админ Guitardemon666

This template breaks WP:LA
When a lot of extra text and bells and whistles are added to this template, WP:LA experiences an error: "# Error, oversize inclusion". See this Village pump section for more details. Again today, I restored the template to a more minimalist version. Long term solution ideas are requested. Ideas? NoSeptember 20:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Add "rights" link
Since admin actions, as well as crat actions, now come up on the user rights log (because of WP:RFR), I reckon this template should now have a "rights" link, like on the bureaucrat template. Any thoughts? - Zeibura (  talk  ) 19:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a good idea! SQL Query me!  21:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I made a mock-up at User:SQL/Admin SQL Query me!  21:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, no one's said anything in a couple weeks, so, I'm going to go ahead and make the change. SQL Query me!  20:53, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Add "email" link
I don't think the template is (yet) overlong. How about adding a link to email the user, to emphasize multiple paths for contacting admins? --causa sui (talk) 22:15, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Change External Links to Internal Links
I think the external links need to be changed into internal links, which can be done by replacing everything with: User:

Thanks! -- Jab7842 (talk) 07:09, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Good idea the code is simpler, but I suggest that we make these changes over at Template:User-multi so that they benefit all these user templates. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Gives expansion depth is exceeded error
and turns up in Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 09:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

sysop
Please talk a look at the above template and merge it to this one as I cannot do this. It's helpful to link a sysop's RFA so the reader can verify the legitimacy of the use of this template. –BuickCenturyDriver 14:15, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that although done in different ways to produce substantially the same result - compare these:
 * there is indeed a significant difference in that includes a link to the relevant WP:RFA nom page. Before adding that to, we would need to add that capability to , as it appears to be absent. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:11, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That template is also sysop-protected, I leave it up to you to decide. –BuickCenturyDriver 13:33, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * there is indeed a significant difference in that includes a link to the relevant WP:RFA nom page. Before adding that to, we would need to add that capability to , as it appears to be absent. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:11, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That template is also sysop-protected, I leave it up to you to decide. –BuickCenturyDriver 13:33, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I left a message at Template talk:User-multi. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. I've added an RfA link to this template using, and performed the merge. This doesn't preclude using a more elegant solution at a later date as per the discussion Redrose linked to. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:22, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Mr. Stradivarius. –BuickCenturyDriver 10:52, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

add "count" link?
This template is used heavily at Missing_Wikipedians. The template there for regular accounts has a "count" link which would be a nice addition to this template. &mdash; rybec   18:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Template Editor protected edit request (minor wording change)
Hello there, I was wondering if it would be possible to change the last line ("Demo user is User:Example") to something like "User used for demonstration purposes in this documentation is User:Example" or "Demo user used is User:Example"? --TheSandDoctor (talk) 16:44, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The documentation is from Template:User-multi/template. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 16:52, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * My apologies, should I move this request there ? --TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:03, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Oops. It looks like that specific part is from Template:Userspace linking templates, which you should be able to edit yourself. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 17:14, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, did it over there . --TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:24, 3 October 2017 (UTC)