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You ran an extremely high-profile poll which gathered hundreds of votes and now that it's over and the results are in no-one has a clue what to do next? This was all just an enormous waste of time? Couldn't you have agreed on how to interpret the poll before launching it? Haukur 13:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems like this template is being used more and more frequently for less and less important purposes. Okay, so today you want me to choose a strong password. I can see why this is on admins' minds after reading AN/I, but I can see no need at all to annoy every registered user with it. Why not just put a reminder or two on the Village Pump and in the Signpost? There are lots of good ways to get a message to Wikipedians, and there ought to be few reasons urgent enough to cry this loudly for their attention (and risk them learning to ignore this screaming, and making the site that much less usable, and overwhelming useful information like the watchlist, which need I remind you is non-admins' key tool for preventing vandalism, with sheer noise).
So: I want to ask, politely, for a policy or at least a firmer etiquette on use of this header. May I suggest that admins who update this watchlist header use a some restraint, please, and be sure that the message is urgent and needs every Wikipedian's immediate attention. And why not include a link to this discussion page, which is almost impossible to find, so that users can easily respond to the message? -- Rbellin| Talk 03:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
#watchlist-message { display: none; }
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AmiDaniel (
talk)
00:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I've no interest in this talk page. I don't want a link to this talk page. But if there must be one, for whatever reason, could it please say talk instead of a very ambiguous t. – Tivedshambo (talk) 01:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Another editor asked for a link to the talk page above, and I suggested it too, but when there are no "annoying reminders" on the watchlist there is no need for any link. Gimmetrow 01:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Please put <div id="watchlist-message">, </div> around the latest message. Thanks. – Tivedshambo (talk) 04:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Are the elections going to be on this message, like last year? Majorly ( talk) 23:32, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I just clicked it. How does one undo that, to make it come back? Logging in and out didn't help. Will it come back when the Watchlist message next updates? Lawrence Cohen 19:09, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Is now closed. Please remove it from people's watchlists. Jonathan321 (talk) 20:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
![]() | MediaWiki:Watchdetails is a redirect to another MediaWiki interface message. It redirects to MediaWiki:Watchlist-details. It has been a redirect since May 2008. |
You ran an extremely high-profile poll which gathered hundreds of votes and now that it's over and the results are in no-one has a clue what to do next? This was all just an enormous waste of time? Couldn't you have agreed on how to interpret the poll before launching it? Haukur 13:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems like this template is being used more and more frequently for less and less important purposes. Okay, so today you want me to choose a strong password. I can see why this is on admins' minds after reading AN/I, but I can see no need at all to annoy every registered user with it. Why not just put a reminder or two on the Village Pump and in the Signpost? There are lots of good ways to get a message to Wikipedians, and there ought to be few reasons urgent enough to cry this loudly for their attention (and risk them learning to ignore this screaming, and making the site that much less usable, and overwhelming useful information like the watchlist, which need I remind you is non-admins' key tool for preventing vandalism, with sheer noise).
So: I want to ask, politely, for a policy or at least a firmer etiquette on use of this header. May I suggest that admins who update this watchlist header use a some restraint, please, and be sure that the message is urgent and needs every Wikipedian's immediate attention. And why not include a link to this discussion page, which is almost impossible to find, so that users can easily respond to the message? -- Rbellin| Talk 03:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
#watchlist-message { display: none; }
.
AmiDaniel (
talk)
00:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I've no interest in this talk page. I don't want a link to this talk page. But if there must be one, for whatever reason, could it please say talk instead of a very ambiguous t. – Tivedshambo (talk) 01:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Another editor asked for a link to the talk page above, and I suggested it too, but when there are no "annoying reminders" on the watchlist there is no need for any link. Gimmetrow 01:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Please put <div id="watchlist-message">, </div> around the latest message. Thanks. – Tivedshambo (talk) 04:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Are the elections going to be on this message, like last year? Majorly ( talk) 23:32, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I just clicked it. How does one undo that, to make it come back? Logging in and out didn't help. Will it come back when the Watchlist message next updates? Lawrence Cohen 19:09, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Is now closed. Please remove it from people's watchlists. Jonathan321 (talk) 20:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)