User warnings are meant to guide good-faith testers and dissuade bad-faith vandals. You may place any of the warning templates listed here on talk pages to warn users against vandalism. You are responsible for making sure that the template's text is suitable to the violation. If the template's tone is not appropriate, do not use the template. The templates are just a shortcut instead of typing. If you cannot find a template that says what you want to say, then just post a message for the user on his or her user talk page.
User warnings are for preventing further vandalism and/or disruptive changing, and not to punish users. If a user stopped vandalizing some time ago, and their change history does not suggest a pattern of frequent vandalism, there is no need to warn or block the user. Likewise, if a user is in the middle of an obviously bad-faith vandalism spree, there is no need to issue the less serious warnings, or even to warn him or her before applying a temporary or a permanent block.
The warning templates are split into two types of warnings: single-issue templates which are one-off messages usually to provide information hints and tips, and multi-level warnings that can be issued with different levels of seriousness which are normally used for changes that do not meet Wikipedia's criteria or policies. When issuing multi-level warnings, use only one warning level at a time. Using several templates with different warning levels at the same time does not serve any purpose, since the user will not have read the less serious warnings before you issued more serious ones.
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==Warnings== ((RepeatVandal)) ===July 2024=== # warning # warning * block # warning ===August 2024=== # warning #: comment about warning #:: comment # warning * block
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Description | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 4im |
Different types of nonconstructive changes | |||||
Negative unsourced changes to biographies of living people | ((subst:uw-biog1)) | ((subst:uw-biog2)) | ((subst:uw-biog3)) | ((subst:uw-biog4)) | ((subst:uw-biog4im)) |
Making bad pages | ((subst:uw-create1)) | ((subst:uw-create2)) | ((subst:uw-create3)) | ((subst:uw-create4)) | ((subst:uw-create4im)) |
Breach of copyright | ((subst:uw-copyright1)) | ((subst:uw-copyright2)) | |||
Not applying the Manual of Style | ((subst:uw-mos1)) | ((subst:uw-mos2)) | ((subst:uw-mos3)) | ((subst:uw-mos4)) | ((subst:uw-mos4im)) |
No neutral point of view | ((subst:uw-npov1)) | ((subst:uw-npov2)) | ((subst:uw-npov3)) | ((subst:uw-npov4)) | ((subst:uw-npov4im)) |
Changing tests | ((subst:uw-test1)) | ((subst:uw-test2)) | ((subst:uw-test3)) | ((subst:uw-test4)) | ((subst:uw-test4im)) |
Vandalism | ((subst:uw-vandalism1)) | ((subst:uw-vandalism2)) | ((subst:uw-vandalism3)) | ((subst:uw-vandalism4)) | ((subst:uw-vandalism4im)) |
Removing content from pages | ((subst:uw-delete1)) | ((subst:uw-delete2)) | ((subst:uw-delete3)) | ((subst:uw-delete4)) | ((subst:uw-delete4im)) |
Deliberately adding wrong information | ((subst:uw-error1)) | ((subst:uw-error2)) | ((subst:uw-error3)) | ((subst:uw-error4)) | |
Adding unsourced information | ((subst:Uw-unsourced1)) | ((subst:Uw-unsourced2)) | ((subst:Uw-unsourced3)) | ((subst:Uw-unsourced4)) | |
Unacceptable page moves | ((subst:uw-move1)) | ((subst:uw-move2)) | ((subst:uw-move3)) | ((subst:uw-move4)) | ((subst:uw-move4im)) |
Adding spam, such as promotions of objects or ideologies | |||||
Adding spam links | ((subst:uw-spam1)) | ((subst:uw-spam2)) | ((subst:uw-spam3)) | ((subst:uw-spam4)) | ((subst:uw-spam4im)) |
Using Wikipedia for advertising or promotion | ((subst:uw-advert1)) | ((subst:uw-advert2)) | ((subst:uw-advert3)) | ((subst:uw-advert4)) | |
Behavior towards editors and articles | |||||
Not assuming good faith | ((subst:uw-agf1)) | ((subst:uw-agf2)) | ((subst:uw-agf3)) | ||
Personal attack directed at a specific editor | ((subst:uw-npa1)) | ((subst:uw-npa2)) | ((subst:uw-npa3)) | ((subst:uw-npa4)) | ((subst:uw-npa4im)) |
Changing others' talk page comments | ((subst:uw-tpv1)) | ((subst:uw-tpv2)) | ((subst:uw-tpv3)) | ((subst:uw-vandalism4)) | |
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Notices | Warnings | ||
Description | Template | Description | Template |
Adding incorrect categories | ((subst:uw-badcat)) | Creating or changing articles to attack people | ((subst:uw-attack)) |
"Biting" newcomers | ((subst:uw-bite)) | Project disruption | ((subst:uw-disruption)) |
Starting empty or underpopulated categories | ((subst:uw-emptycat)) | Removing quick deletion templates from articles | ((subst:uw-qd)) |
Direct copying of article from English Wikipedia | ((subst:uw-encopypaste)) | Removing deletion requests from articles | ((subst:uw-rfd)) |
Information on cross-wiki attribution | ((subst:uw-encopyright)) | Userpage or subpage is against policy | ((subst:uw-userpage)) |
Making inappropriate jokes | ((subst:uw-joke)) | Change warring | ((subst:uw-3rr)) |
Changing between national types of English without a good reason | ((subst:uw-lang)) | Conflict of interest | ((subst:uw-coi)) |
Tips on creating new articles | ((subst:uw-newarticle)) | Making bad changes using more than one IP | ((subst:uw-multiip)) |
Use "Other websites", not "External links" | ((subst:uw-otherweb)) | ||
Removing the sandbox header | ((subst:uw-sandbox)) | ||
Reverting self tests | ((subst:uw-selfrevert)) | ||
Not making changes in simple English | ((subst:uw-simple)) | ||
Not making changes in English | ((subst:uw-notenglish)) | ||
Check spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. | ((subst:uw-spellcheck)) | ||
Remember to subst: templates | ((subst:uw-subst)) | ||
Not signing posts | ((subst:uw-tilde)) | ||
Image uploads not allowed in Simple English Wikipedia | ((subst:uw-upload)) | ||
Not warning vandals | ((subst:uw-warn)) | ||
Use "Related pages", not "See also" | ((subst:uw-relatedpages)) | ||
Adding false claims to userpage | ((subst:uw-claims)) |
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Description | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 (Indefinite) |
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Blocks | ((subst:uw-block1)) | ((subst:uw-block2)) | ((subst:uw-block3)) |
Username block | ((subst:UsernameBlocked)) | ||
Username hard block | ((subst:UsernameHardBlocked)) |
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Page headers | New user | Deletion notifications |
((ISP|ISP Name)) ((SharedIP|Organization)) ((SchoolIP|Organization)) ((anonblock|Optional comments)) ((schoolblock|Optional comments)) ((unblock|Reason)) ((pp-semi-usertalk)) ((pp-usertalk)) |
((subst:welcome)) ((subst:welcomeg)) ((subst:welcomeip|Your username)) ((subst:welcomespam)) ((subst:firstarticle)) |
Quick deletion nominations
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