User:Bishonen/Useful warnings


 * all warnings
 * all block templates
 * Checking for open proxies: trusty tool per Favonian 2020: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/free-ip-lookup-proxy-vpn-test/lookup/203.88.145.59
 * Titles to watch for: User:TecasoTechnologiesPrivateLimited (misspelled version deleted), User:Dreams Studio & Productions (misspelled version deleted), Grace Akinlemibola, K Ranju Rangan, User:Acquire Global Corp (misspelled version blocked), Rowan Syed-Tollan (draft version repeatedly recreated, now salted), Rj Siddharth Thakur, Rare Rockstar, Sujit Meher, Dreams Beyond Grades, Mohammad Anamul Haque Nayan, The Label Life (I prodded that, and then it got speedied for copyvio) Neeraj Goswami. User:Messiah evangelical team MET; I've deleted the misspelt User:Messiah evenglical team MET as promotional. Manda Zand Ervin, Chaiti Narula, Pamilerin Adegoke, Christian Okoli, Simone Jewels, VV College of Engineering and V V College of Engineering (keep an eye out for V. V. College of Engineering, V.V. College of Engineering, etc..), Global Wellness Day, User:Thedesignergroup (misspelled account User:Thedesingergroup has been blocked), Captain Deepak Sharma.

Clever stuff by others, for plagiarizing

 * This block contains much useful stuff to plagiarize re persistent tendentious editing.
 * And so does this explanation of why a promotional bio was deleted.
 * And so does this explanation of why a promotional company page (homework!) was deleted.
 * And this terse rejection of forum/soapbox posts on talkpages.
 * This whole user talkpage has good stuff for reasoning with a paid editor.

Contentious topics sanctions
Arbcom discretionary sanctions have been superseded by contentious topics sanctions. Notes on those are a work in progress below. See also WP:DSVSCT and Contentious topics/Administrator instructions.

There are three types of contentious topics alerts (groan). Listed at Template:Contentious topics/alert.
 * Alerts

The first alert, topic code, leaves a "contentious topic alert" tag in the history.

Discretionary sanctions
To put 1RR (the only AE page sanction I care for) on an article, put f ex for American politics at the top of the talkpage, and add an edit notice to the article.

Use topic to alert users to discretionary sanctions. The template is explicitly "informational only and does not imply misconduct regarding your contributions to date". These alerts expire after one year.

See all topic codes here!

NOTE: all ArbCom sanctions now to be logged in this central log


 * Use Template:AE sanction for AE bans. No; use the simplified Template:AE sanction/topicban for topic bans!
 * Use for AE blocks. See Template:Uw-aeblock for parameters.


 * Biographies of living people alert:

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 * Complementary and alternative medicine alert (acupuncture):

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 * Pseudoscience alerts:

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 * India, Pakistan and Afghanistan:

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 * GamerGate

Community sanctions
Community sanctions are imposed via AN or ANI discussion. If there's no special page for logging sanctions, log 'em here.

There's a general template.


 * General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019. For DS alerts, use ; for blocks, use  ; for other sanctions (usually topic bans), use.


 * Community article probation for pages related to the Men's rights movement: See Talk:Men's rights movement/Article probation.
 * User alert template, for instance for the page Masculism: Masculism -- ~ expands to:

Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed, Masculism, is on article probation. A detailed description of the terms of article probation may be found at Talk:Men's rights movement/Article probation. Also note that the terms of some article probations extend to related articles and their associated talk pages. ''The above is a templated message. Please accept it as a routine friendly notice, not as a claim that there is necessarily any problem with your edits. Thank you.'' -- Bishonen &#124; talk 23:10, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * As long as the talkpage of the article in question has the template, anyone who edits the page is automatically considered to be on notice, but getting an individual alert is surely good, especially for new users.

Log alerts and sanctions at Talk:Men's rights movement/Article probation.


 * Community sanctions for caste articles:


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 * Use the template when imposing caste sanctions. Will be signed automagically. For example,

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Notice that you are now subject to a community sanction

 * Log sanctions at WP:CASTE.

expands to Gs/Ecig notification Information page is here; also log alerts and sanctions on that page. (Not at arbcom's central sanctions log, because these aren't arbcom sanctions.)
 * Community sanctions for electronic cigarettes:

ANI consensus here.
 * Community general sanctions related to the Zeitgeist Movement:

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 * Community sanctions for the Syrian Civil War and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are here. Log warnings and sanctions on that page. (Not at arbcom's central sanctions log.) Use page for notifications. There is also a 1RR rule for these pages, which does not require notice.

COI edit notice
for company page talkpages, expands to:

COI warning (polite, for new users)
, with optional parameters: Article, which expands to

Hello, Bishonen. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

PAID warning
, to say "Don't edit again until you have replied". There is a 2, 3, 4 series also.

COI questions for blocked promotional accounts requesting a name change
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Here are a few key questions:
 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the three important principles above.

Template:Welcome-COI
is useful for e. g. new writers of likely autobiographies. It expands to

Welcome!
Hello, Bishonen, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * Best practices for editors with close associations
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!

Don't write about yourself
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Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you.

Copyvio warning
Twinkle will do, but it's better to use  , the one that Diannaa normally uses. With an article name and sig, say Donald Trump, Donald Trump displays as:

Use edit summaries
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please make sure to include an edit summary with every edit. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history.

The edit summary appears in:
 * User contributions
 * Recent changes
 * Watchlists
 * Revision differences
 * IRC channels
 * Related changes
 * New pages list and
 * Article editing history

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks!

Don't change the English variety:
, which reads: In a recent edit, you changed one or more words from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you.

Fringe warning

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you added some content to a Wikipedia article that appears to be a minority or fringe viewpoint. Unfortunately, this edit appears to give undue weight to this minority viewpoint, and has been reverted. To maintain a neutral point of view, an idea that is not broadly supported by scholarship in its field must not be given undue weight in an article about a mainstream idea. Feel free to use the article's talk page to discuss this, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

Or add article and additional text as parameters like this:

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you added some content to article that appears to be a minority or fringe viewpoint. Unfortunately, this edit appears to give undue weight to this minority viewpoint, and has been reverted. To maintain a neutral point of view, an idea that is not broadly supported by scholarship in its field must not be given undue weight in an article about a mainstream idea. Feel free to use the article's talk page to discuss this, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. additional text

Please sign your comments
displays as Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either: This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
 * 1) Add four tildes  ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment; or
 * 2) With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window.

Thank you.

Bad list entry
displays as Hello. Your recent edit appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you.

Don't abuse warning templates
displays as Please refrain from abusing warning or blocking templates. Doing so is a violation of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Please use the user warnings sandbox for any tests you may want to do, or take a look at our introduction page to learn more about contributing to the encyclopedia. Thank you.

Nice sweet sock warning template
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Hello, Bishonen, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who use multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please remember to disclose these connections. Thank you.

Block messages
Special block templates:
 * Template:uw-blocknotalk

This text can be added to the end of any block message: If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:.

(Get that from the edit window, as the ~ needs to be coded, or it'll just say Bishonen again.)

Alternative: You can request unblock from an uninvolved administrator by placing  on this page.


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Userpage tags for socks
Note, these are for the user page. I'm supposed to replace all its content with the tag. I'll do that if I want to, not otherwise.


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Protection padlocks:
Use for just an icon at the top.

Reason for protecting and/or duration can be added as parameters, which will show on mouseover. Like this: But the reason parameter is fussy, basically only "vandalism" and "blp" work. will show as "This article is semiprotected until blabla to promote compliance with the policy on biographies of living people." Here's a full list of the pretty useless other reason parameters that will work.

The lock icon will choose automagically between semi, full, and pending changes padlock (silver, gold, and green) according to what protection is in place.

Must start with protecting, because these templates will not be visible on pages that are not protected.

Answering edit requests to semi'd pages
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 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format.