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Where's the template for "I've mentioned you at [[Page#Section]], please go look there"?

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(originally on Village pump, 130614)

I remember a month or two ago being advised that there was a fairly new template I could use to facilitate discussion, but I can't remember the name and I can't find it. The idea is

  1. User A edits an article or writes on a talk page, etc.
  2. User B adds or changes or comments, and wants to tell User A about it without rehashing the whole thing.
  3. User B puts the template on User A's talk page, with parameters that specify where the discussion is and maybe some more, as well as User B's username. The template produces a banner (or whatever) that says something like "User B has written something at [[location]] and would like you to look at it. You can delete this banner."
  4. User A sees the banner, clicks on the link, sees the edit, comment, whatever. S/he takes whatever action s/he pleases and probably deletes the banner once s/he's done.

Can someone please point me to it? And is there a simple way I've overlooked to find such things, or is there really a problem with proliferation without adequate indexing? TIA.

Thnidu (talk) 03:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

The new method is the WP:Notifications "Mentions" feature.
All you have to do is link a username, and leave a 4tilde signature in the same "save".
So [[User:Thnidu]] and my signature, will ping you. (You can also use {{replyto}} aka {{ping}}, eg. {{ping|Thnidu}} to do the same thing without typing "User:") The old method that you mention above, is {{talkback}}. –Quiddity (talk) 03:48, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
(The only place I think they're listed is Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Miscellanea.) –Quiddity (talk) 03:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
@Quiddity: Thanks again for pointing me to {{ping}} 1½ years ago. I've added a twist of my own. See User:Thnidu/Template:pingme. --Thnidu (talk) 04:09, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Editing talk page comments, including my own

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(See Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages, WP:RTP for short.)

Wikipedia:Teahouse#"Not in reference" template?


Speaking of insights, Thnidu, it is recommended that editors don't refactor comments not even their own without explicit explanation because that could be very confusing. For example, there are two signatures from you there. It looked as though someone had asked a question and forgot to sign and you had added two replies trying to help them, before I went through the history. In this case, a lot less confusing would have been if you'd just added that information about what you found at the bottom of your comment, in a separate comment. If you have to change what you've said in your comments itself, it should accompany an explanation. Put the words you need to erase between <s></s> tags and add substitute words next to it. If you need to add without erasing anything, it's better to do it in a new comment, or maybe write an explanation in parenthesis at the beginning of the text that's newly added. Not saying there's a problem here specifically (you don't need to do anything about it in this thread), just a general note for the future. Happy editing! Usedtobecool ✉️ ✨ 06:58, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

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