Template:Off-topic talk
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This template for use on talk pages (and comparable pages, such as noticeboards) to show clearly that a discussion or section thereof is off-topic, so that later editors can skip over it if they want to.
Usage
You may either use {{Off-topic talk}} by itself for the default message, or you may customize with optional parameters.
| Template | Result |
|---|---|
| {{Off-topic talk}} | Error creating thumbnail: Off-topic |
1=, |reason=, or |note=:{{Off-topic talk|reason=Inter-personal disputes belong in user talk or at a noticeboard; this talk page is for improving the article.}} |
Error creating thumbnail: Off-topic: Inter-personal disputes belong in user talk or at a noticeboard; this talk page is for improving the article. |
2=, |label=:{{Off-topic talk|label=Out-of-scope}} |
Error creating thumbnail: Out-of-scope |
| {{Off-topic talk|label=[[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion|Custom message with link]]}} | Error creating thumbnail: Custom message with link |
| Combined: {{Off-topic talk|label=Wrong venue|reason=[[WP:TFD]] is only for actual templates; for template redirects, use [[WP:Redirects for discussion]]}} |
Error creating thumbnail: Wrong venue: WP:TFD is only for actual templates; for template redirects, use WP:Redirects for discussion |
This template will cleanly subst:, though there's not any particular reason to substitute it.
Examples: three use cases
Wrapped in {{Resbox}} as a hatnote at the top of an off-topic thread:
==What about nocturnal underwater basketweaving?==
{{Resbox|{{Off-topic talk}}}}
I think this page needs a section on nocturnal underwater basketweaving. — ConfusedPerson99, 02:39, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
:This is the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Maybe you're looking for [[Talk:Basketweaving]]? Anyway, I'm marking this thread off-topic. – Sensible23, 12:37, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Inline in the |result= or similar parameter of template-closing templates like {{Archive top}}, {{Discussion top}}, {{Hidden archive top}} ({{hat}}), {{collapse}}, {{collapse top}}, etc.:
{{Discussion top |result={{Off-topic talk}}. This is the talk page for [[WWP:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)]], and has nothing to do with Spider-Man.}}Inline in one's own comment:
* I agree with UserName123XYZ. {{off-topic talk}} – By the way, can anyone figure out why my user page has turned purple? ~~~~TemplateData
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TemplateData for Off-topic talk
This template for use on talk pages (and comparable pages, such as noticeboards) to show clearly that a discussion or section thereof is off-topic, so that later editors can skip over it if they want to.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reason | 1reason note | Text to follow the text "Off-topic" | Content | optional |
| custom message | 2label | Enter a message to replace the default "Off-topic" text.
| Content | optional |
See also
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Inline icon templates by shape and color
Any of the following inline, comment-level templates can be converted into {{Resolved}}-style hatnotes by using {{Resbox}} to put a box around the icon and text.
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| Error creating thumbnail: Already done | {{Already done}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Resolved | {{Resolved1}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Half done | {{Half done}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Partly done | {{Partly done}} |
| Blue check marks | |
| Error creating thumbnail: Semi-done | {{Semi-done}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Fixed | {{Fixed}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Fixed by reporter | {{Fixed by reporter}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Pending | {{Bug pending}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Resolved | {{Bug resolved}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Blocked and tagged | {{Blockedandtagged}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Blocked without tags | {{Blockedwithouttags}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Tagged | {{Socks tagged}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: No tags | {{No tags}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: IP block exemption granted | {{Ipbedone}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: IP blocked | {{IPblock}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Proxy blocked | {{Pblock}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Proxies blocked | {{Psblock}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Range blocked | {{Rblock}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Requested actions completed, closing | {{Action and close}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Blocked and tagged. Closing. | {{Blockedtaggedclosing}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Closed | {{Close}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Denied | {{Denied}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Disagree | {{Disagree}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Not approved | {{Unapproved}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Not bug | {{NotBug}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Duplicate bug | {{Duplicate bug}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Invalid | {{Invalid}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: No comment | {{Nocomment}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Unnecessary | {{Unnecessary}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: No comment with respect to IP address(es) | {{Nc}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Removed | {{Removed}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Closing without action | {{Closing without action}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Works for me | {{Works for me}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Likely | {{Likely}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Highly likely | {{Highly likely}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Clerk endorsed | {{Endorse}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Clerk declined | {{Decline}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Clerk declined – Checkusers will not link accounts to IPs, per the privacy policy. | {{Decline-IP}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Endorsed by a checkuser | {{Cu-endorsed}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Check declined by a checkuser | {{Cudecline}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Delisted | {{Delisted}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Inconclusive | {{Inconclusive}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Not Applicable | {{N/A icon}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Closed | {{Bug closed}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: New: | {{Bug new}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Second opinion requested | {{GA2ndopinion}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Deferred | {{Deferred}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Defer to Abuse filter | {{Deferabusefilter}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Defer to Local blacklist | {{Deferblack}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Defer to Global blacklist | {{Defermetablack}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Defer to WPSPAM | {{Deferspam}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Defer to XLinkBot | {{Deferspambot}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Defer to Whitelist | {{Deferwhite}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Pending approval | {{PendingRequest}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: GA on hold | {{GAOnHold}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: On hold | {{On hold}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Reviewing request. | {{Reviewing request}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Awaiting administrative action | {{Awaitingadmin}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Later | {{Later}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Pending | {{Tobedone}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Discussion ongoing... | {{Discussing}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Doing... | {{Doing}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: [[User:|]] is doing... | {{Isdoing}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Started | {{Started}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: In progress | {{In progress}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Checking... | {{Checking}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Reviewing... | {{Reviewing}} |
| Information mark | |
| Error creating thumbnail: Needs discussion | {{NeedsDiscussion}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Note: | {{A note}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Administrator note | {{Administrator note}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Assigned | {{Bug assigned}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Suggestion | {{Suggestion}} |
| ? Maybe | {{Maybe-t}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Not done for now | {{Not done for now}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Not sure | {{Not sure}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Not sure. | {{Not sure2}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Question: | {{Question}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: foo: | {{Question|label=foo}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Additional information needed | {{MoreInfo}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Feedback required | {{Bug feedback}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: New proposal | {{NewProposal}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Thank you | {{Thank you}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Thank you very much! | {{Thank you very much}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: You're welcome! | {{You're welcome}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Sorry! | {{Sorry}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Thanks | {{Thank}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Thank you | {{WikiThanks}} |
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| Error creating thumbnail: Great! | {{Great}} |
| Error creating thumbnail: Like | {{Like}} |
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- {{AIV}} – used by Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
- {{AN3}} - used by Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard and its subpages
- {{BOTREQ}} - used by Wikipedia:Bot requests
- {{CPC}} - used by Wikipedia:Copyright problems
- {{CUI}} - used by CheckUsers
- {{EFFP}} – used by Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives
- {{EFR}} – used by Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested
- {{EP}} – used for servicing requests in edit-protected areas
- {{RFPP}} – used by Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
- {{RFPC}}, {{RFPNPR}}, {{RFPPM}}, {{RFPR}} – used by subpages of Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
- {{UAA}} – used by Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention
- {{UND}} – used by Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion
- {{Smiley}} – used for informal communication purposes
- {{Article history}}
Others
- Template:Check mark templates, for templates like these but without text
- Template:Icon, a template that creates an inline icon/image that is used in metapages
- Wikipedia:List of discussion templates, a more linear table of essentially the same set of templates
- Template:Resolved/See also, the smaller family of thread-level hatnote templates, similar to the above but with a box around them; any template above can be converted to one of those with {{Resbox}}
- Template:Table cell templates/doc, the family of table-specific templates that work only in tables
- Category:Image with comment templates
- Category:Resolution templates