This is a documentation subpage for Template:Tfr notice. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use ((subst:Tfr notice))).

If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as the standard installation of Twinkle adds and removes this template. Thank you!

Place this template for rename (TfR) notice on the talk page of interested parties, such as the nominated template's creator. In the case of a popular or significant template, it may be appropriate to give wide notice.

Usually, templates are renamed (moved) through same Wikipedia:Requested moves (WP:RM) process as other pages, so ((subst:Rm)) is the template normally used. However, sometimes some template renames are proposed as part of a broader spate of template cleanup that also involves deletions and/or mergers, in which case it makes more sense to include the renames with the related deletions/moves at WP:TFD, to centralize the discussion.

Copy and paste the following code on user talk pages to inform editors of the discussion:

((subst:Tfr notice|CurrentTemplateName|NewTemplateName)) ~~~~))

• Note: CurrentTemplateName and NewTemplateName represent templates' names excluding the prefix Template: (or Module:).
• "Template:" will be added by default. For modules, see below.

Most template rename discussions are via WP:RM process, and take place at the template's (or module's) talk page. This is the default. The template will tell people to see the talk page, and will create a link to an RM discussion on the talk page with today's date, unless it has to be backdated with the |days= parameter, or completely overridden with |3= AKA |talk= or |discuss=.

If the discussion is at WP:TFD, then use |tfd=y to set this, and it will instead generate a link to today's TfD log, at a section named for the template being moved (CurrentTemplateName in the example above), unless overriden one of those same two ways.

• |1= or 1st unnamed parameters is the required template/module proposed for renaming; just the base pagename without "Template:" or "Module:".
• |2= or 2nd unnamed parameter is the required new name proposed for the template/module; just the base pagename without "Template:" or "Module:".
• |3= or 3rd unnamed parameter or |discuss= or |talk= is the optional custom name of the discussion section to link to; this is the part of the link after the # character.
  • The default (for RM) is "Template/Module talk:CurrentTemplateName#Requested move D[D] Monthname YYYY"; the underlined part is what this parameter can change. This is of use if the RM discussion was created with ((subst:Rm|...|heading=Something custom here)).
  • The default if |tfd=y is set is "Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/YYYY Monthname D[D]#CurrentTemplateName; the underlined part is what this parameter can change. This is of use in the case of a group TfD with a genericized title like "Various geographical coordinate templates".
  • The date in either of those can be set back 1 or more days with |days=, below.
  • This has nothing to do with the heading created on the user talk page by this notice you are leaving; see |heading=, below.
• |days= is the number of days before the current date in which the pagenames were listed at WP:RM or the TfD log. For example, if the page was listed yesterday on the log, then |days=1 would be used. If the page was listed on the log three days before today, then |days=3 would be used. Leave blank if listed the same day as you are leaving this notice.
  • This parameter will tweak dates in either the default RM mode or in |tfd=y mode; however, |3= AKA |discuss= or |talk= will make this parameter do nothing if used in RM mode, since the date is part of the #Link that gets replaced. Both parameters do work in tfd mode.
• |tfd=yes (or |tfd=y or any other value) changes the template from WP:RM behavior to WP:TFD behavior, as described above (this mostly affects the link to the discussion).
• |module=Module: (or |module=y or any other value) changes the namespace of the pagenames in question to Module: instead of Template:.
• |heading=no (or any other negative value such as |heading=false, |heading=0) will suppress the creation of a new talk-page heading for this notice. Can also be specified as |header=no.
  • |heading=3 or |header=3 will change the default second level (==) heading to a third-level (subsection) heading. This is useful when dropping off a series of such notes if you want to group them under a single main heading. This parameter option is, of course, mutually exclusive with |heading=no.
  • This has nothing to do with the heading of the discussion being linked to; see |3=, above.

• ((subst:Tfd notice)) – the parallel template for deletion notices
• ((subst:Tfm notice)) – the parallel template for merger notices
• ((subst:Tfr)) – basic template for TfR (use at the template)
• ((subst:Tfr2)) – second step in a TfR process (use at WP:TFD)