Template talk:Inappropriate comment

Tag Over Test
Hi, I just live tested the tag over for covering multiple comments, and then reverted. It seemed to only centered on the first comment. It could be better for this application by possibly placing a transparent box over the range and centering the note. Still a great idea. Zulu Papa 5 ☆ (talk) 01:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC) example Other people who help us besides our parents: our teachers, our mentors, our friends, our colleagues. God, what is there to say about Andy Van Dam? When I was a freshman at Brown, he was on leave. And all I heard about was this Andy Van Dam. He was like a mythical creature. Like a centaur, but like a really pissed off centaur. And everybody was like really sad that he was gone, but kind of more relaxed? And I found out why. Because I started working for Andy. I was a teaching assistant for him as a sophomore. And I was quite an arrogant young man. And I came in to some office hours and of course it was nine o’clock at night and Andy was there at office hours, which is your first clue as to what kind of professor he was. And I come bounding in and you know, I’m just I’m going to save the world. There’re all these kids waiting for help, da da, da da, da da, da da, da da. And afterwards, Andy literally Dutch-uncled – he’s Dutch, right? He Dutch-uncled me. And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish. -- Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture Comment tagged inappropriate under talk page guidelines.   example  When I got to know Andy better, the beatings became more direct, but [...] -- Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture Comment tagged inappropriate under talk page guidelines.
 * Yeah, I see it. Didn't want completely cover up another person's comment, since the box is 10% transparent, I guess you could read under it. I also intended it to only tag or collapse one comment. It's why "Template:Inappropriate comment" is singular. The large empty colored space in the first example seems distracting, any ideas on how to style it better? Maybe we should make tag over collapsible. ChyranandChloe (talk) 05:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * you could try centering the message vertically, but that still might look a bit odd. any way you look at this you're going to end up with a large swatch of empty space on the page - that might draw more attention to the opaqued text rather than drawing attention away from it.  if it were me, I'd use the two template top/bottom model and set up a div that collapses the text to a small (possibly expandable) floating box on the right of the page - takes up minimal space, doesn't interfere with page flow.  might have the text expand into a popup div as well...  -- Ludwigs 2  05:27, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe if it is possible, make a "mouse over" that removes the tag or the collapsible idea might be worth a try. If going to stay with single comment uses, then maybe an instruction note to clarify would be good.  Although in my experience things can get out of hand in groups.  (Note just made it back here cause others were admiring your work too.) Thanks again. Zulu Papa 5 ☆ (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I can do mouse over, although I need to make a proposal to WP:VPT in order to add to MediaWiki:Common.css. What'll happen is as your mouse hovers over the text, the opacity will change from 90% to 10%. Clarified the documentation about use for single/multiple comments. Collapsible? I really don't know. If you believe it'll work, develop the idea, I'll be interested. 2/0 mentioned accessibility. To my knowledge it'll do fine, should degrade gracefully. Anyways, this is it, you want to do it? ChyranandChloe (talk) 08:57, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure, I like mouse overs. Collapsible may be too much action for now. What do you want me to do? I can ask 2/0 for feedback here. Zulu Papa 5 ☆ (talk) 21:40, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Having actually looked at the documentation now, it throws no red flags for me, but WP:ACCESSIBILITY largely lies in that unfortunate realm of things in which 2/0 is interested but not competent. I have asked Eubulides to comment as my go-to person for this sort of thing. - 2/0 (cont.) 22:51, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Now at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility, but I think we are fine unless anyone can find a concrete issue with the template. - 2/0 (cont.) 15:33, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll propose on Fri/Sat. Busy. I assume we're in consensus then? ChyranandChloe (talk) 23:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

I have to say, every time I come to this page the tag-over thing strikes me as overkill. it really stands out, and not necessarily in a good way. it might be better if you changed the color to something closer to page background colors so it looks more ghosted than blanked.

or you could go the other way, and fill the empty space with multiple repetitions of the word 'neener'. -- Ludwigs 2 23:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I can see that. I think we can leave the white space alone. Change the color? Unless you want to suggest a few, I don't know. The background color is the same as talk page templates, sort of tradition I think. ChyranandChloe (talk) 17:12, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Separate from what we should fill the white space with, I've made the proposal at WP:VPT, see Village pump (technical). ChyranandChloe (talk) 06:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Notice of WP:TPG discussion
As a notice to folks follwing this templates development. Please see this discussion on Wikipedia_talk:Talk_page_guidelines as well as the guidance removal. May be time to evaluate the template benefits and weakness further. Zulu Papa 5 ☆ (talk) 15:19, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

==I'm not sure if this is a good idea only because I can think of the many times it might have been used in the past. Since these examples also are a lot like some of the Soapbox that one hears that goes off on various off-topic tangents, and may or may not come back to actual editing issues, it would be nice to know if this can be used there also. Perhaps Off topic comment would be better than it deals less with a subjective value judgment. Or maybe Inappropriate comment and/or off topic and/or excessive soapbox. Then there can't be as much debate about which it is, since it must fall under one of those categories. CarolMooreDC (talk) 20:28, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

How to sign when used?
How does one sign when deploying this template so that others know who deployed it, and when? --173.129.78.7 (talk) 01:02, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Difference between this and
Might not belong here but when should I use which template? It seems like Inappropriate comment and Redacted are used for basically the same purpose. Perhaps a clarification for when to use which template can be placed in the documentation for both templates? 172.112.210.32 (talk) 19:08, 5 December 2021 (UTC)