Template talk:User wikipedia/Administrator

Separate Commons category?
On Enwiki, I believe it would be particularly helpful to have the template categorize Commons Admins (and perhaps Meta Admins) into their own categories, as picture related issues often need the attention of a Commons admin. Does anyone have any qualms about my trying to build this functionality into the template? -- Avi (talk) 15:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Add Interwiki Links
Please add th:แม่แบบ:User Admin into the templates thanks. -- Mopza |  Talk  18:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

✅ - Template:User wikipedia/Administrator/doc, where the interwikis are, is unprotected. -- Menti  fisto  06:11, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Requesting link change
See this proposed edit. I am proposing that the link be changed to where the "group" parameter is "sysop". -- IRP ☎ 21:31, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I think that's more confusing than it helps, since ListAdmins is going to list the first username lexically larger than the one given in the parameter that is a sysop. E.g., if you were displaying the box on your page it would show instead of . I consider the first far more confusing than the latter is misleading (if that is why you are proposing this change). -- Amalthea  00:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I was intending for it to display "No user found.". Is it possible for that? -- IRP ☎ 01:19, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know. -- Amalthea 10:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Change verify link
I propose that we change verify link to: verify because it returns a simple yes or no answer to "is this user a sysop?" Tim1357 (talk) 19:17, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Request
Any chance we can use File:Admin mop.svg instead? It features the new logo, and is a vector version. The image page may need to be expanded, and the image protected on COmmons, though. If not, I completely understand, but why not? Thanks. Connormah (talk &#124; contribs) 19:21, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request - adding "uselang=en" to Special:ListUsers for non-English projects
Hi. Could someone add "uselang=en" to Special:ListUsers for non-English projects? With this change we can easily verify user on non-English projects. I already updated User wikipedia/Bureaucrat for this and it works fine. So similar change must work on this template as well. Thanks in advance. --Penn Station (talk) 12:19, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Seems sensible. Anomie⚔ 04:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :) --Penn Station (talk) 01:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Moving the period
The period should be moved to before the parentheses so the text reads "This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)" to keep consistency with other similar userboxes–see similar boxes on Userboxes/Wikipedia/Position —danhash (talk) 19:15, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Consistency is good. Anomie⚔ 02:22, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Overlinking
There are way too many links on this template. 3 already by default. The one link that would really be interesting in this context is an Easter WP:EGG. What makes it even less discoverable is that it's only optional. Of course, everybody is free to format their user boxes in whichever layout they like, but we want to be helpful to our readers and fellow editors, don't we? Here's a version which I feel is more helpful: User:SebastianHelm/adminbox. &mdash; Sebastian 21:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

SVG
What do people think about replacing the image with File:Wikipedia_Administrator.svg, in line with User wikipedia/Bureaucrat?  It Is Me Here  t / c 20:22, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

May 6, 2013 -- Edit request
Would be cool if I could use this template for test.wikipedia. I would think that it would change the id image to use the black globe, that there would be a short local page here (perhaps I can just copy and paste from there), and the (verify test) link would actually work. I'm not entirely sure how to do that on this template (not sure what the lang code is for test.wikipedia) Thanks! Technical 13 (talk) 16:01, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The code is "testwiki" - you can check by looking at WP:INTERWIKI. I've added an optional image parameter to the sandbox, and I've thrown together an example for you at the test cases page. Will that do you? — Mr. Stradivarius on tour  ♪ talk ♪ 07:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks great to me! Technical 13 (talk) 22:56, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:03, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 13 December 2013
I've updated the template with fixes from Template:User wikipedia/Reviewer. Please see it in /sandbox and replace this with its code. That's a purely technical thing, so we don't need consensus for this.

Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 22:50, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Why should these changes be made? It appears all you did was specify two colors as what they already are by default, make the logo a little smaller, reorder some of the parameters, and insert some extraneous linebreaks that shouldn't be there. Anomie⚔ 01:35, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Intended behaviour ?
User:LuHay Tari3 has this template on his userpage therefore claiming to be an admin. The "verify" option lists this user as created on 22nd August but the group filter is set to all instead of Administrator. If one missed this small but important detail one may believe this user is an Administrator. Please check code and fix if this isn't intended.--Denniss (talk) 13:30, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: This is a userbox with a "verify" link, so there is no need to change anything in this template. The user in question has been blocked, so the user page has been blanked and the block notice added.  Thank you for your help to bring this to the attention of other editors!  Joys! – Painius  15:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Recent changes reverted
Recent update was reverted, please verify testcases and use the sandbox for testing. — xaosflux  Talk 02:13, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

request change verify link to Special:UserRights
Please change verify link to, --Ans (talk) 14:15, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Please change verify link as and here --Ans (talk) 12:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I also support this, the current link to Special:ListUsers confusingly returns a different user if the user in question is not an admin – Thjarkur (talk) 23:21, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅: Special:Diff/1002547525. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:50, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 28 April 2019
Can you please change the image on this template from File:Admin mop.PNG to File:Wikipedia Administrator.svg? This image is of better quality than the one this is being used. Interstellarity (talk) 18:18, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done -, please use links in your requests. It makes the job easier. Cabayi (talk) 19:03, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , sorry about that, I will do that next time. I was going to use links, but it came out as the picture. I now know how to do that now. Interstellarity (talk) 19:17, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 26 March 2020
Please apply this diff with sandbox:


 * 1) add parameter id for the whole left box
 * 2) deprecated   →
 * 3) add aliases for parameters of Template:Userbox
 * 4) allow any positive values for recall via Template:Yesno
 * 5) general wikitext clean up. —⁠andrybak (talk) 05:02, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I've also added test cases for new parameters. It is currently tested without the  →   change. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:22, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:45, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on March 31 2022
During the recent RFC on admin activity requirements, an idea was floated to recognize retired administrators with their own category and bestowing the title of "administrator emeritus/emerita." Please update the code to include the changes, though if there is a less messy way to include Category:Retired Wikipedia administrators only in userspace feel free to do so. Please also update the documentation to include retired. I added a test case to demonstrate. — Jkudlick ⚓ (talk) 16:55, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Would it not be easier to make a new userbox at Template:User wikipedia/Retired Administrator? Terasail [✉️] 17:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I made one already, but a suggestion was made on that talk page to just add another parameter here. I can just as easily create the new template. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 17:13, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Just for me.. The verify link it completely different. The phrasing is different and any user categories would change so at that point it makes sense to have a new userbox Terasail [✉️] 17:15, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ❌ the idea seems just fine, but the "use a unique userbox" seems like the better implementation as well. At the very least this is now at step 3 of WP:BRD here. Discussion can continue, or you can boldly just create the new template and category. —  xaosflux  Talk 19:03, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I went ahead and created the new userbox and category. — Jkudlick &#x2693; (talk) 21:07, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

RfA link adjustment
When RFA is used in this template currently, it adds the link over This user, which creates an MOS:EGG issue because it is not clear that that text will lead to the RfA page. I've tweaked the sandbox to instead put it next to the verify button (and also added aliases for different capitalizations); the result can be seen here in the testcases. Please lmk how it looks; I will plan to implement in a little while if there are no concerns. Cheers,  Sdkb  talk 20:49, 19 February 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅  Sdkb  talk 06:04, 23 February 2024 (UTC)