Template talk:Multiple issues/Archive 13

Request to remove old-style parameters
Now that Magioladitis has fixed all of the articles in Category:Pages with multiple issues using deprecated parameters, is it time to remove the old code from this template? I recommend we could do the following: What do you think? GoingBatty (talk) 04:33, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Subst: All pages in Talk, Template talk, User talk, Wikipedia (these are static and should never change)
 * Fix: Any articles that have the old style added
 * No actions: All pages in Draft, Template, User, Wikipedia talk (these are sandboxes that the owner should change)
 * Support and am willing to help with substitutions and fixes. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 13:38, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * , I think we can start. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:52, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I posted at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle and Wikipedia talk:AWB to make them aware of this conversation. GoingBatty (talk) 00:05, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I updated the code at Template:Multiple issues/sandbox to remove the old code, which you can see at Template:Multiple issues/testcases. GoingBatty (talk) 00:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Umm... Okay, but I'd like to see an intermediate state where there is a section that adds all pages using a deprecated parameter name to a maint cat like . At least until the old uses are all cleaned up. , do you want to add that to the sandbox or do you want me to?  :) — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 00:43, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree that old uses have to be cleaned up (per my suggestion above) before the changes are made to the live template, and I'm willing to do that cleanup. Could you please help me understand the difference between the existing Category:Pages with multiple issues using deprecated parameters and your proposed ?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:47, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Other than the category pagename doesn't meet the standards for page name ("Multiple issues" is a cased noun), which although I don't care about, others apparently do based on a recent discussion I was in, that is a fine category for the purpose. What I'm wondering is how that category is populated though, because it is not evident in the template itself. Thanks. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 01:32, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The category is populated via Template:Multiple issues/message, which I think could be sent to TfD after this cleanup. GoingBatty (talk) 01:41, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I see. I have no fault with that at this time.  How will that be affected by cleaning out all the code that supports those parameters.  I'm assuming based on what I've seen it will have no impact, but want to be sure.  I'd wait on sending that to TfD or sending the category to CfD for at least six months to make sure there aren't any rogue tools that are still adding the parameters and there are no users trying to add the old parameters not knowing better (I'd imagine that users are less likely than a tool). — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 01:50, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree there's value in waiting to do the TfD/CfD. However, since the sandbox code doesn't call Template:Multiple issues/message, the category wouldn't get populated anymore once my proposed change to Template:Multiple issues is made.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:48, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

GoingBatty I think for drafts, we can either convert to new style or send for MfD any STALEDRAFT that has not been edited for 3 or more years. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * We can fix articles in the Draft namespace too. Has the Draft namespace has been around for more than three years? GoingBatty (talk) 15:40, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty my mistake. The latter refers to sandboxes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:42, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No need to send them to MfD as STALEDRAFT. CSD:G13 says, This criterion applies to all WikiProject Articles for creation drafts in project space and project talk space, as well as userspace drafts and drafts in the Draft: namespace that are using the project's AFC submission template.  Simply tag them for G13 if they already have a AfC banner or tag with  and wait six months. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 16:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

GoingBatty In many cases in the talk space, adding nowiki tags was OK. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:11, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Tag can be removed from many talk pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:13, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I removed the tags from a couple of article talk pages. Using nowiki tags instead of substing on article talk pages is OK with me.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:55, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Now we are down to 27. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:21, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all your work on this - sorry I wasn't much help. The Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia articles are protected so only admins can edit them.  I edited a couple, and the rest look like tests of the templates to be left alone.  Do you think we're ready to change the template now?  GoingBatty (talk) 02:49, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Go for it. Just one question - what is the purpose of the following code? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:33, 23 January 2015 (UTC)


 * That's the magic I added to hide the orphan template, when it's supposed to be hidden. Wbm1058 (talk) 13:54, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Should that be documented in a comment in the template code, so future editors of this template don't accidentally remove it? GoingBatty (talk) 15:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I added a comment in the template's sandbox. To clarify, that line is using the Module:String replace function to replace the pattern style="display: none" with nothing (i.e. remove it). Orphan by default hides its message, but we always show it when it's sandwiched inside multiple issues, so that's the trick that brings it back. Wbm1058 (talk) 17:15, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

,, let's wait 7 days to check whether any new items will be added. For instance, this happened yesterday. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:43, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

It's weird but today I noticed 2 more items pop-up. Some server delay prevents us from showing all pages with deprecated parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:42, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Not weird, but commonplace. This "server delay" is called the job queue, and it used to work just fine: if a template was altered in such a way that there was a change to categorisation of pages transcluding that template, the category would be fully up to date inside the day, often in an hour or two. But around about the time that VisualEditor went live for all users (mid 2013), the job queue software was altered and is no longer as thorough as it used to be. Sometimes it can be months before a cat is properly shaken out. If absolutely necessary, we could ask to send  off to carry out a WP:NULLEDIT on all of [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Multiple_issues&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1 these pages]. -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:10, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I guess I could run my script against all pages transcluding the template. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:12, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I ran my script against all pages transcluding MI. Approx. 40 pages fixed. there is a small chance that I may have missed some parameters not covered by my script but these would be really few. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:39, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I think that even if we remove the old style code we should keep the tracking category for some time. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:43, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Could you please update Template:Multiple issues/sandbox with a proposal for how to keep the tracking category? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:56, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * maybe you could help us with that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

et al. I guess Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters will catch any problems i.e. we can now use the sandbox version. Right? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:32, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I added an example of the old style code to Template:Multiple issues/testcases, and it didn't add Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters to the page. GoingBatty (talk) 13:00, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * , just significantly increased the sensitivity of the tracking category, feel free to revert if it causes a problem, but the new tracking will catch "anything" that isn't used in the sandbox version, including parameters that were never in the template (typos, parameter misspellings, ...). Frietjes (talk) 15:11, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * note that there are two tracking categories in the live version, Category:Pages with multiple issues using deprecated parameters (which is now enhanced) and Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters (which only checks for 2). in the sandbox version, I merged these into Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters since the additional tracked parameters will be removed at that point (and not just deprecated). Frietjes (talk) 15:17, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that update - there are now many pages in Category:Pages with multiple issues using deprecated parameters to be fixed. Any idea why they're not being sorted alphabetically?  (e.g. Internet television is listed under "R")  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Upon closer inspection, it appears that the category is sorting based on the incorrect parameter instead of the article title. (e.g. Internet television has an incorrect reason parameter.)  GoingBatty (talk) 04:20, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * yes, it sorts by _VALUE_PAGENAME, so first by the parameter name, then by title. it's easy to change if you check the tracking code. Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

New version implemented
et al. Sandbox version is now live! Please check for any problems. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 08:01, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for updating the template, and thanks to everyone for helping. Since the template no longer uses Category:Pages with multiple issues using deprecated parameters, can this category be sent to CfD?  GoingBatty (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I think G6 would cover it ... &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:35, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Tagged with db-g6 - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Does this mean that any instances of it I can find I can make an edit for the sole purpose of fixing now since it is no longer just cosmetic? —  17:20, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes - they should now show up in Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters. I suspect that the category will continue to be populated as the template change works through the job queue.  I'm finding several instances where the template needs to be fixed, and cleanup categories need to be recreated.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 20:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

How do you remove 'This page has multiple issues' from a page?
I am new to wikipedia and an editor has added this to a page I have edited. How can I remove it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.75.224 (talk) 10:08, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * See response at Wikipedia talk:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 22 GoingBatty (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Use built-in collapse method
This template uses the  class collapsing method; however, jQuery’s collapse method  is available since MW 1.20, which is always loaded, so everything should be changed at one time to the Common.js version can be removed and thus the page load to be speeded up. Also, the “new” method works also without tables so (in my opinion) it’ll be semantically correcter. So please change to  This has multiple issues. Please help [ improve it] or discuss these issues on the |talk page. (The indenting has no effect, you can insert it or not; just it’s more readable here.) Thanks! --Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:48, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to make the change from  to , if you say there is no difference in functionality. I'm more hesitant with the change from tables to divs, because all of our message boxes are built with tables. I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem good to mix the two systems. Perhaps a discussion on WP:VPT is the way forward? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:12, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I don’t want to go to the village pump; if you say not to change table to div, it should work if you just change  to , and so on. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:21, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * How about trying it in the sandbox first? GoingBatty (talk) 23:04, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Tested. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:13, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Confirmed on Template:Multiple issues/testcases. Seems that the sandbox's hide/show action takes a little longer than before, but IMHO isn't a big deal if it means the article will load faster.  GoingBatty (talk) 23:45, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks nice with the gentle fading in/out. Made the change. Thanks &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:45, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Just noticed the new effect on an article I was looking at. It looks great! Props to Tacsipasci for suggesting it. There's one issue I noticed, though: sometimes, the positioning of the hide/show link makes it look like a part of the text inside the box. Anyone know where I could bring this issue up? APerson (talk!) 16:58, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

This looks like an ugly hack. It's sending every template through this module. What does it do, and can it achieved in a more efficient way? might be able to explain. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You asked the same question in § Request to remove old-style parameters, and I answered there. I added a comment explaining this to the template on 17 February 2015, but due to high-risk and a desire not to overwork the job queue, it's waiting for a more substantive change to be deployed. The problem is that I don't know of a way for Template:Orphan to determine whether it's been sandwiched inside Multiple issues or not. When the orphan tag is over two months old, it's hidden on pages where it is the only issue reported (but still categorized). However we still want to show the message when it is one of multiple issues, so the "hack" is here to un-hide it. I guess we have to keep the hack for everything, unless Template:Multiple issues parses parameter to see whether Orphan is part of that parameter. This more general implementation makes it easy to hide other standalone stale tags besides the orphan tag, while still showing them in Multiple issues, should consensus ever call for that.


 * Perhaps the more ugly hack is in Template:Orphan which had to look for parameter getting passed to it from Template:Multiple issues/message. Since the old syntax is no longer supported, I believe I can now safely remove that hack from Template:Orphan, and  thus simplify its logic. – Wbm1058 (talk) 16:03, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You can use  to hide stuff when in compact mode. I'll have a think if there is any way to do the opposite. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:56, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You'll have to help me out with CSS stuff, as I've yet to formally learn that. I suppose if this template looked for "{ {Orphan}}" in parameter 1, and replaced it with "{ {Orphan|multi=y}}" then we could keep the check for parameter in Template:Orphan and control the visibility there. I don't know which method is uglier ;) Oh yeah, I think I wanted to do it that way at first, but found that Orphan was already transcluded before I had a chance to test to see if it was there, it was already gone b/c it had already been transcluded... Wbm1058 (talk) 17:17, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I can't see how this can be achieved easily. The hide-when-compact is designed to suppress extra information when the template is used in its compact form. The situation was never envisaged when you would want to display more on the compact version than the full version. This is not intuitive. I've re-read the discussion at Village pump (proposals)/Archive 109. As this particular idea was only actually supported by 6 editors, and as the implementation is so hackish and prone to breakage, what do you think about just removing this part? In other words, orphan will be invisible both on its own and inside this template, unless the personal CSS code is used. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:09, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The most recent major discussion of Orphan was a June 2014 TfD, which closed with "the overwhelming consensus here is for the template to be retained." My implementation has not been prone to breakage; I can only recall one issue with it, related to my limited understanding of CSS, which was fixed in December 2014 by . Perhaps Jack can think of a more elegant CSS solution. The rationale for hiding stale standalone orphan templates is that people don't want to see that "big unsightly box" giving notification of a relative non-issue. The rationale for keeping it inside multiple issues is that, since we are already showing the "big unsightly box", adding one more line in that for orphans is no big deal. Whether it's "CSS compact" or not is really not relevant to the rationale. Regarding what's intuitive or not – is why I favor showing newly placed templates for a month or two: people expect to see "cleanup" templates like this. If orphan is only one of two issues, and we hide it inside multiple issues, then readers will see "This article has multiple issues", but will only see one single issue. This is not intuitive, as they will expect to see at least two issues. Elimination of support for the old multiple issues syntax greatly simplifies the complexity of my solution; I will remove the "multi" logic from Orphan, which simplifies that template. – Wbm1058 (talk) 19:04, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I understand the rationale and I appreciate the effort you have spent in achieving this, but I still don't like it for the following two reasons. Regards &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:11, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * It is unintuitive, and it confuses editors. Even though it is working as intended, there are numerous threads on Template talk:Orphan opened by editors who are confused as to what it's doing and why. Sorry if I mistakenly suggested that it broke often, but you yourself said "the template logic is a kludge and thus prone to being broken by unrelated changes".
 * We should not be putting all 126,000 transclusions of this template through some hackish code (which may well be expensive in terms of loading time) just for the benefit of one client template. Feel free to quote WP:PERF to me, but this is a general principle I work to.
 * The current confusion at Template talk:Orphan mostly revolves around the use (or not) of the  and   parameters. That's all unrelated to the display of orphan messages inside multiple issues; I believe there is limited confusion over that aspect of it, and what confusion I've seen more revolves around template editors trying to understand how it works. I think at this point it is better to focus on removing redundant code from Orphan and clarifying the intent and design of the   and   parameters. Bear with me, and after that we can revisit behavior inside multiple-issues if necessary. Best, Wbm1058 (talk) 18:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Checking for uses of this template when there are no issues
As issues are addressed and their templates are removed, when the last issue is fixed, then this template should be removed as well. I added a check for uses of this template where no issues are specified, which is now in the sandbox awaiting deployment. See Template:Multiple issues/testcases for test cases. If there are no objections, I will deploy this soon. – Wbm1058 (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I modified it a bit, so it doesn’t show the issue messages twice. Also, the error message appears in the box—I think it looks better, but it can be changed back if you don’t think so. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:37, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, that's much better. Thanks for that. Wbm1058 (talk) 20:47, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * If you want to add a tracking category for multiple issues templates with no issues (or with only one issue), then I can have BattyBot remove the template more often. GoingBatty (talk) 03:34, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty, I see that BattyBot 7 has been making this fix since February 2012. How does it find issues to fix? It seems to do just fine without needing a category. I also see that the vast majority of the fixes are for when there is a single issue, not no issues. This error check is not looking for single issues, just no issues. The intent and hope is that the editor introducing the error will see the big red message and act accordingly. If they don't, I patrol for error transclusions in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Error&namespace=0 main namespace] and will generally remove them within a few days or less. Let's see how big a problem this is, and if the error transclusions become overwhelming then we can categorize for your bot, which I would then expect to run at least daily to fix this. Wbm1058 (talk) 13:56, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I load all 120,000+ pages that transclude multiple issues and the bot checks each one. GoingBatty (talk) 17:07, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I just made the sandbox version go live. We can revisit this and create the category if this turns out to be a big problem. Wbm1058 (talk) 18:04, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry to intrude after the fact, but shouldn't it be resolution of the penultimate issue that triggers multiple issues being removed? Once it is down to a single outstanding issue, then the wrapper is no longer applicable. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:18, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, and BattyBot 7 can still periodically scan for those (monthly?) and fix them. It's all relative, but I think no issues inside the template is more severe an error than just a single issue. So I will patrol for those, which occur less frequently, and fix them more promptly than BB7 would. I just fixed a few of them, and most were caused by either vandalism or editor confusion, i.e. misunderstanding the template syntax: e.g. diff and diff. Some of them were old, long-term errors, so I don't think AWB, and thus BattyBot 7, is finding them all. Wbm1058 (talk) 18:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm curious to know how you load all 120,000+ pages that transclude multiple issues. When I ask AWB to Make list "What transcludes page" Template:Multiple issues, it cuts it off at 25,000 pages. How do you get the rest? Wbm1058 (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Bots can use AutoWikiBrowser/NoLimits plugin. Although it's called "NoLimits", I think there's actually a limit of one million.  GoingBatty (talk) 23:19, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

If only there was some way to determine how many issues are placed inside the template, then we could auto-uncollapse for one issue and auto-disappear for no issues. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:54, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I think we can search parameter to find what templates it contains. The key concept here is that parameter  will not contain "{ {orphan}}", but rather the actual transcluded contents of that template. So if we find the text "is an orphan" in parameter , we can be fairly certain that Orphan is one of the templates transcluded in parameter  (at least until someone modifies that template to change its message). But we would still likely use Module:String to search, and if you feel that is an expensive function, we would just be replacing one expensive use (find  ) with another (find  ). And we would still have the problem of (less savvy) template editors not understanding what we were doing. Wbm1058 (talk) 18:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Removing hoax template from multiple issues
Hi, something that I and Gottagotospace noticed with the Template:Hoax is that it's far more serious than other cleanup messages because it implies a serious issue that could lead to unanimous deletion at XfD if true. While the Multiple Issues template is very useful for compacting different issues such as POV, lead cleanup, etc., it doesn't seem suitable that such a significant template like the hoax one should be placed in multiple issues where it's easier to miss. I propose that the hoax template support for this template be removed in favor of an additional tag.

The reason I think it'd make sense to remove this tag compared to others is because it conveys a fairly objective severity. Almost every editor on Wikipedia will agree with deletion of a hoax article (unless it's an article describing a hoax) so it's a relatively simple test at XfD. In comparison, a tag such as "may not meet the general notability guideline", while still an issue that can often lead to deletion, is often significantly more subjective and controversial. Other tags, such as ones based on neutrality or reorganization of article content, would almost certainly simply require cleanup rather than deletion. The hoax template, therefore, is in an entirely different class of template that conveys much more importance than any other, and I think including it in the multiple issues box underrepresents its significance since it can be easily missed.

So anyway, in conclusion I propose removing hoax template support from the multiple issues template in favor of the hoax template as a standalone template only. I'd be interested in hearing what other editors thought! Appable (talk) 04:37, 27 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Fundamentally agree: As with the concern expressed in the section above, this is a matter of specificity; something unambiguously mutes. I'm also interested to here the views of others. fredgandt 11:02, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hoax populates Category:Wikipedia suspected hoax articles. It seems these are tended to fairly promptly, as I currently count only eight pages in the category. Some of them are tagged for deletion. Multiple issues is a "sandwich wrapper" for other templates and cannot know what templates are wrapped inside it without using somewhat obtuse methods, which some template editors have issues with. See this discussion. The other option would be to make the "compact" version of the hoax message less compact. – wbm1058 (talk) 19:55, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * AWB general fixes may take hoax templates that it finds lying around outside the multiple issues sandwich and wrap them back up into the sandwich. I'm not sure about that, but I think it's likely. Have to find the list of "other supported tags" that AWB merges into it. I'm not aware that there is any existing concept of templates that are "too important" to wrap up. wbm1058 (talk) 20:56, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You are correct - AWB's general fixes will put hoax in multiple issues. Also, Template:Multiple issues shows hoax within multiple issues.  If there is consensus to not put hoax within multiple issues, these are two things that can be changed.  GoingBatty (talk) 03:22, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * RE: "I'm not aware that there is any existing concept of templates that are "too important" to wrap up." - to my knowledge you are correct, besides PROD, AfD, speedy, and I believe copyvio warning from bots. The thought is that truthfully suspected hoax is similar to a copyvio warning from bots in that it could lead to essentially unanimous deletion (unless the hoax is mistaken) so stuffing it into a less-severe-seeming template ignores the issue. Appable (talk) 22:49, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I've boldly changed delete on hoax on the grounds that no amount of cleanup will fix a hoax article. Of course none of the other delete-type templates are grouped into multiple issues, so if this change sticks, then it seems logical to include it in this group. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:36, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree; would recommend waiting a few weeks to see if anyone challenges that on the talk page or reverts in good faith, then formally removing from multiple issues (I guess deprecating might be the right word, and I have no idea how this would work since multiple issues is used by so many bots, etc) since templates with delete parameters should clearly not go into multiple issues. Appable (talk) 03:13, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. So is type the parameter that determines what goes into multiple issues? I'd guess that only "content" and "style" are sandwiched, while "speedy", "delete", "notice", "move" and "protection" stay outside. Or is there a hardcoded list? wbm1058 (talk) 00:15, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The code for AWB's general fixes has a hard coded list of the templates it will put within multiple issues that is not dependent on type. You could submit an AWB feature request to ask the developers to change AWB's rules, which are used by many bots.  You could also contact the Twinkle developers to see if they would need to change anything.  Since anyone can manually add any template within multiple issues, you may want to update the documentation at Template:Multiple issues/doc and Template:Hoax/doc to indicate why hoax should not be used in Multiple issues. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:03, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Where is the list documented? The list should be included in Template:Multiple issues/doc, or a link to the list should be added there. wbm1058 (talk) 02:18, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you please update AWB's general fixes documentation with the list of maintenance templates AWB includes in multiple issues? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:45, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I posted the list n your talk page. Not worth adding all these in the documentation IMO. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:49, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Just a first comment: If the person who adds hoax thinks the page has to be deleted for that reason why they do not add a speedy, prod or AfD tag too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:47, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Don't feel comfortable nominating for deletion (those sorts of processes can be a bit intimidating on Wikipedia especially if you don't have Twinkle), don't have the time to fully review sources but can't find any evidence of existence, etc? Appable (talk) 14:47, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's an interesting question, and I suppose it was discussed in detail during the 3 TfDs for this template (which are linked from Template talk:Hoax). &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * MSGJ hm.. difficult case. 3 TfDs and all with no consensus. Moreover, the template has a very low number of transclusions probably due to that. It has unclear purpose. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:48, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Or it means that the template is working well and all possible hoaxes are processed efficiently &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:10, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

At any case the page has only 4 transclusions. I am neutral. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

role="presentation" edit request
This template uses a  element, which causes an accessibility issue (see WP:LTAB). A non-table solution may be best in the long run, but for the moment, adding the attribute  to the containing table will do. This is also consistent with the other layout tables in message boxes (see Module:Message box, line 457, ).


 * From
 * 


 * To
 * 

Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 07:25, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Is there any visible effect of this change? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:07, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * In visual browsers, no. For screen readers, they'll better detect the table as layout rather than data. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 09:10, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done In that case, there seems to be nothing controversial about this request &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:49, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 3 June 2016
Instead of the "see how" link to Help:Maintenance template removal following the words "improve it", include a link to that page at the end of the text but displaying as "Learn how & when to remove these template messages". This will make the wording consistent with single-issue maintenance templates such as ; it will stand out more and is more appropriate, as the Help page is about tag removal as well as article improvement. Mockup here

Noyster (talk),  11:50, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I synced it to the sandbox, please review Template:Multiple_issues/testcases and let me know if this is what you are expecting. — xaosflux  Talk 13:58, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks Xaosflux, yes the present & proposed versions are as seen in the New syntax section, although the changes have not come through in some of the examples under Wrapped vs not wrapped Noyster (talk),  14:12, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The "learn how/when" message is originally from Module:Message box/configuration, which Module:Message box uses. Unreferenced uses removalnotice to get that message, but so does this template, somehow. I think "hard-coding" it in the current sandbox version may not be the best way to go. — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 14:54, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * not to worry about the Wrapped vs not wrapped section. Those exmaples look to be live-only. They preview fine in the sandbox version. — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 15:00, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * it appears that "remvoalnotice=yes" is set on this already, but not working? — xaosflux  Talk 15:07, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Special:Diff/717740031 suggests that removalnotice didn't work initially, or that implementing a fix for removalnotice to work involved much more work, I suppose. Noyster, I'm personally not in favor of making the change as currently suggested, mostly because the "learn how/when" message will exist in 2 places. The in-line "see how" is not too bad because this template works slightly differently than the single-message templates it wraps. — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 15:10, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Taking some back - the message's difference is that it's plural (oops) — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 15:31, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Was the new param talksection intended for this change as well? — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 15:49, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Can you take a look at this, looks like you did most of the rollouts for these? — xaosflux  Talk 15:20, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * - if there are no objections I'm in favor of rolling Noyster's update to the main template, while additional work related to the "removalnotice=yes" parameter is pending. — xaosflux  Talk 14:41, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * No objections to sync to the latest sandbox. I removed talksection since Noyster hasn't replied about it yet. — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 15:51, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. — xaosflux  Talk 15:59, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Div instead of table edit request
Template:Multiple issues to

The presence of a &lt;th> implies the right side of the box (starting with "This article...") is a data table, nested inside another data table, the whole box (containing the "!" icon and the text). Rewriting the contents as a &lt;div> can avoid confusion for screen reader users (see WP:LTAB).

Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Applied a small tweak to match the current version a bit more closely. (??) Testcases look good. This new version still looks to be a few pixels thinner at the bottom, but it's probably negligible. Can probably sync in a day unless there are further comments — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 00:15, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Other message boxes don't have that extra space, so I assumed it was an unintended side effect of using a table, which adds default border-spacing:2px in most browsers. Either with or without margin/padding is fine by me, but in either case, the top and bottom should be equal, to keep it vertically centered when collapsed. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 03:15, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * So I played around a bit more with spacing. The closest match (I think) is when the outer div has margins of 0.3em and ~0.17em and the inner div has a 0.4em top margin. More or less the results I'm personally getting on my screen in my browser at least. Thought that was a bit fussy and discarded that. I placed the inner div in the if itself to avoid extra spacing when there is no 1. Top/bottom margins are now 0.2. I'll sync in half a day, unless there are comments. Thanks :) — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 05:42, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Margins look good. How should the collapsing work with no 1? Right now it hides everything. Might make sense to remove the collapsing completely if no 1. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 07:07, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That's a really good point. Special:Diff/728875145 — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 07:14, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Synced. Please ping if there are any issues — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 17:23, 8 July 2016 (UTC)