Template talk:Editnotices/Group/Wikipedia:Requests for adminship

Edit Request
Add a background color to make it stand out. Replace the following:

 Access Denied –  talk to me  21:20, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Just a note to people implementing this: the page in question has title blacklist protection, thus needs an administrator or account creator to make the change despite technically not being protected. --ais523 10:31, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Another edit request
Could you replace the jargon "RFA" with "Requests for adminship", so as not to be needlessly confusing for newer editors. Thanks,  Skomorokh   21:25, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Diannaa (Talk) 00:09, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Another edit request
This contains code for the changes I propose. Not every creation of a RfA is a self-nomination, so I've added some stuff that tells the page creator that it's polite to consult the nominee before creating the subpage. -- Σ  talk  contribs  02:27, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Has this change been discussed anywhere? I don't think you should tell people not to nominate themselves, because it is perfectly valid to do so. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:52, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, my sandbox is filled only with placeholder text so I can read the code easily, where the "Do not nominate yourself box" is the following box with the animated stop sign. It would obviously need rewording. As another note, the alt text reads "Edward Elgar in 1917", so could someone change that? -- Σ  talk  contribs  23:42, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I've updated my sandbox with more generic messages. -- Σ  talk  contribs  00:23, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I've sorted the Edward Elgar thing, silly mistake. I'll have a look at the rest later if you like.  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 06:15, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure that your request is ready and I'm not even sure what you are proposing to change. Please discuss any substantial changes on Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship and reactivate the request only when there is consensus for change. Regards &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:45, 2 September 2011 (UTC
 * It looks like Sigma is trying to put in a third option for situations where people are nominating someone else. I think that the code should work, but I'm not sure it's the best wording. Probably worth discussing further before putting in.  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 15:03, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I see - I've just achieved half of this by hiding the current message if it's not a self-nomination. Sigma: is your code ready to go? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:28, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Just checking, will that work if it's a second (or nth) nomination?  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 10:59, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't. Could we not make the assumption that if an editor is nominating themself for the nth time, that they know what they are letting themself in for? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Not really. At the moment, there are too many editors who will make 2-3 nominations before they've even hit 200 edits. In fact, I would suggest that it's more important that they see it than people who are nominating (with more knowledge & experience) to not.  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 16:51, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think I can change the code to work with an editor's 2nd+ RfA. I've replaced the placeholder text with content, though (thanks to the marvels of copy and paste). → Σ  talk  contribs  06:16, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Should I link this at WT:RFA? → Σ  talk  contribs  06:19, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * If you feel it needs more eyes, then feel free - I'm happy just discussing the changes to see if we can find something we all agree on. Speaking of which, rather than having different messages for creating a page if you are a revision user not - how about we change the wording of the note so that it says something like "Admins are yada yada, and yada yada. If you are considering nominating yourself, make sure you read yada yada. If, however, you are consider nominating someone else, please ensure you have talked to them about it first."?  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 08:31, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

WP:BOLD change
. As the traffic to this talk page is low, I've been bold. However I'm happy to be BRD'd :) Pedro : Chat  21:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me.  WormTT   &middot; &#32;(talk) 07:48, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Edit request
Can someone please change " To ask the candidate a question, please use number of question, which will format your question and add your username " to " To ask the candidate a question, please use number of question, which will format your question and add your username. " Notice the change is in adding 2= in the question parameter. Ryan Vesey 14:50, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explaining it in the edit summary. I couldn't figure out what it was that went wrong. Ryan Vesey 15:42, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

File:AnimatedStop.gif
Hi. The use of File:AnimatedStop.gif is really a bit much. Please remove this. (I wouldn't object to the notice also being toned down generally, but my primary focus is this blinking monster.) --MZMcBride (talk) 01:05, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I could go for that as well. Just a note: I was a little confused because I didn't see the notice when I looked at the template page, but if you go and try to edit WP:RFA you can see it. ~Adjwilley (talk) 01:22, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done I tried but that had no effect. Then I found that I'd been misdirected, and that  was the correct edit: a different editnotice. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:48, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That amendment that "didn't work" actually affected the editnotice for RFA subpages that don't exist (caught that when I out of curiosity looked at the deletion log of Requests for adminship/Astronut123456). I put the non-animated image there as well. Fun  Pika  22:47, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 8 November 2015
Please delete the "!" word which in front of the "vote" word. 333-blue 07:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

333-blue 07:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Well, in reality, it is mostly a vote. However, we customarily use !vote here (meaning "not vote", since "!" is computer notation for "not") since it is claimed that RfA is a discussion and not a vote. I would get community consensus for this change, if you really want it done.  Biblio  worm  17:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 12 November 2015
Add  to the top of the notice and   to the bottom. Kharkiv07 ( T ) 01:46, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Another request
does not return the user looking at the page when the variable is used in edit notices. Thus, the bit that added about self-noms is useless, could somebody remove that please. Kharkiv07 ( T ) 14:25, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Alakzi (talk) 02:14, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 17 October 2016
Perhaps since use of automated tools has gone up (either that or RfA criteria for many voters) then you should perhaps change it to the following: at least several thousand edits. Dat GuyTalkContribs 14:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: I think you're making this request in the wrong place, the text you're quoting is at Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Even there some consensus would be needed - even though we all know that several thousand is probably an understatement too. Cabayi (talk) 15:23, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed with . You should establish consensus first per the template-edit instructions, because that change is not obviously uncontroversial. I might suggest the appropriate place for that request is WT:RFA. ---Izno (talk) 15:29, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 22 December 2016
For the last bullet point, replace the construct "and/or" with simply "or", per MOS:ANDOR. Thanks! – void  xor  02:04, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 02:05, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 14 October 2017
-> Just easier to comprehend this way. Also, I've cleaned up, so maybe add that for clerking, it's already used for moving dicussions.  QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 17:54, 14 October 2017 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 17:28, 16 October 2017 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 13:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: I've done the first part. I'll leave this open for thoughts on . —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:03, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note that will fail confusingly if the question contains an equals sign anywhere. The "2=" prevents this. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:20, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * While I doubt people would put "=" in their question, the possibility exists. The RfA questions section includes the template again jic and I've brought the RfA template in line with John of Reading's suggestion, question number . Think we need a module that sanitizes template parameter inputs. -- QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 19:15, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've re-added the  —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; ([User talk:JJMC89|T]]·C) 20:51, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Questions that contain full-url links to diffs will often contain "="s. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|'''TALK
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done I concur with JJMC89 that the 2= needs to be there on the off chance that an = is used by a question-asker. Everything else requested has been done. Primefac (talk) 02:17, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * No, JJMC89 left it open to elicit more opinions on including which I also proposed adding since it's used to clerk. It's not controversial, so I wouldn't say there's consensus to be gathered, but more of an assessment for its need. Reopened it again. -- QEDK  ( 愛  •  海 ) 03:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Closing the edit because, in general, there should be consensus before the edit request is opened. I've copied the second part to a new section below to avoid it getting lost, so that more opinions can be gathered. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|'''TALK

Include instructions for using Template:Rfan in the RfA Editnotice
I moved this question out of QEDK's edit request to a new section to since it was getting lost in the discussion of Rfa-question, and an edit template-protected request can be opened here if consensus is achieved. has cleaned up and was proposing adding a mention of it to Template:Editnotices/Group/Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Should clerking instructions be added to the edit notice shown to all editors on RfA pages? --Ahecht (TALK PAGE ) 13:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, the only reason I put in an edit request for this too was because it seemed fairly uncontroversial. Probably better to take it to WT:RFA to garner any consensus, probably won't solicit much opinions here. -- QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 06:54, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

PAGE ]]) 18:32, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to include it. We don't need to move the discussion yet again, and WT:RFA has already been pointed to this discussion.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  10:04, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't see that, my bad. -- QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 10:21, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like there's no opposition, so you might want to draft the actual language and open an edit request. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Template-protected edit request on 26 October 2017
Add:

Per previous thread.  QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 16:47, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done StevenJ81 (talk) 17:08, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Didn't realize the eerie tense, but it should be "struck votes and refactored comments". My apologies. --<span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,sans-serif"> QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 17:15, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 17:18, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 5 May 2020
Please change proceeeding to proceeding. Thanks, — &thinsp; J 947  [cont] 04:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,sans-serif"> qedk ( t  愛  c ) 06:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for Adminship/Recent
Is there a way to exclude the above page from the editnotice to be displayed? Toadette (Happy Thanksgiving!) 09:26, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Update for RFA2024
Open to suggestions, of course. Bolding the new changes is a "for now" measure. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 01:59, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Special:Diff/1221462571. —⁠andrybak (talk) 02:19, 30 April 2024 (UTC)