Wikipedia talk:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback

Suggestions

1. Move to Template:Teahouse talkback
2. Make parameter 1 simpler "questions" or "lounge" (even accepting Q and L)

If these are good ideas and help is needed to implement them, let me know.

Rich Farmbrough, 19:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)

(The idea is that you type

• {{Teahouse talkback|Q|question title goes here|ts=~~~~}}

instead of

• {{WP:Teahouse/Teahouse_talkback|WP:Teahouse/Questions|question title goes here|ts=~~~~}}

Rich Farmbrough, 19:59, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)

Support these ideas. (Although I note that Template:Teahouse talkback already exists as a sort of redirect but not quite. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:09, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 24 January 2013

Can the text of the last line be changed from "by removing the {{WP:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback}} template" to "by removing the {{Teahouse talkback}} template" as the template was moved to Template space from Wikipedia space in July 2012. NtheP (talk) 15:30, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

•  Done Salvidrim! ✉ 05:32, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Spacing

This change is a minor revision that will add a space in between "Please note that all old questions are archived." and "Message added by...", as seen messed up in this example. Please change to the following code:

Extended content

<noinclude>{{pp-template|small=yes}}</noinclude>{{{{{|safesubst:}}}umbox
| image = WP teahouse logo 3.png
| imagelink = {{{1<noinclude>|WP:Teahouse/Questions</noinclude>}}}<noinclude><!--
// Section link
--></noinclude>{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#if:{{{2|}}}|#{{{2}}}}}|You have new messages
| style = background-color:#F6FAFD; border: 1px solid #3FBFFF;
textstyle = color: #6D7184;
| text = '''Hello, {{{{{|safesubst:}}}#titleparts:{{{{{|safesubst:}}}PAGENAME}}|1}}. Your question has been answered at the <noinclude><!--
// Page link
--></noinclude>[[{{{1<noinclude>|WP:Teahouse/Questions|Teahouse Q&A Board</noinclude>}}}{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#if:{{{2|}}}|#{{{2}}}}}|Teahouse Q&A board]]. Feel free to reply there!'''<br />
<span class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 88%; font-weight: normal;">Please note that all old questions are [[Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive Index|archived]].<noinclude><!--
// Timestamp, notice--></noinclude>{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#if:{{{ts|}}}| Message added by {{{ts}}}.}} You can [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} remove this notice] at any time{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#ifeq:{{{{{|safesubst:}}}issubst}}|yes
 || by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template}}.</span><noinclude><!--
--></noinclude>}}<noinclude>

<noinclude>{{Documentation}}<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES TO THE /doc SUB-PAGE, THANKS --></noinclude>

Thanks, The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 07:15, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 5 April 2013

As User:Pratyya Ghosh mentioned here, the whole thing is thrown off. I've deduced that it is because a pipe character is used in place of a pound sign to link to a specific section, so that should be fixed to create proper links. Thank you in advance! öBrambleberry of RiverClan 15:05, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Apparently this happened due to an earlier edit today which replaced the # with #. Looks like this caused issues because the parser functions in the template have # as part of them too. Anyway it's fixed now, and thanks for spotting the bug. Chamal ^T•C 15:38, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I came to the same solution in the sandbox and was surprised when I clicked reload on the test cases that the regular template was already fixed as well (took me a couple minutes to look up the html entity number for the Number sign). Good work Chamal! Technical 13 (talk) 15:42, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Spacing problems fix

The below code should fix the current spacing issues ("…questions are archived.Message added by…" and "…remove this notice at any timeby removing the…"). It adds 2 instances of {{sp}}. (The below would replace the current code.)

Code

<noinclude>{{pp-template|small=yes}}</noinclude>{{{{{|safesubst:}}}umbox
| image = WP teahouse logo 3.png
| imagelink = {{{1<noinclude>|WP:Teahouse/Questions</noinclude>}}}<noinclude><!--
// Section link
--></noinclude>{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#if:{{{2|}}}|&#35;{{{2}}}}}|You have new messages
| style = background-color:#F6FAFD; border: 1px solid #3FBFFF;
textstyle = color: #6D7184;
| text = '''Hello, {{{{{|safesubst:}}}#titleparts:{{{{{|safesubst:}}}PAGENAME}}|1}}. Your question has been answered at the <noinclude><!--
// Page link
--></noinclude>[[{{{1<noinclude>|WP:Teahouse/Questions|Teahouse Q&A Board</noinclude>}}}{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#if:{{{2|}}}|&#35;{{{2}}}}}|Teahouse Q&A board]]. Feel free to reply there!'''<br />
<span class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 88%; font-weight: normal;">Please note that all old questions are [[Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive Index|archived]].<noinclude><!--
// Timestamp, notice--></noinclude>{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#if:{{{ts|}}}|{{sp}}Message added by {{{ts}}}.}} You can [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} remove this notice] at any time{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#ifeq:{{{{{|safesubst:}}}issubst}}|yes
||{{sp}}by removing the <nowiki>{{teahouse talkback}}</nowiki> template}}.</span><noinclude><!--
--></noinclude>}}<noinclude>

<noinclude>{{Documentation}}<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES TO THE /doc SUB-PAGE, THANKS --></noinclude>

– 29611670.x (talk) 06:47, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Done. Chamal ^T•C 02:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request

Could the template be updated with the code from this revision of the sandbox please? It adds an parameter that suppresses the "you can reply there" sentence, as requested at WP:RT. The invocation would be {{Wikipedia:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback|WP:Teahouse|example question|noreply|ts=~~~~}} Thanks! Richard⁰⁶¹² 14:00, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: - Richard0612, the other changes you've made beyond the request need some rework. The change from {{sp}} to a regular space in Special:Permalink/840428934 has left "time" running in to "by", "timeby" in one case. I can't immediately see the effect of the other. Does the change from & #35; to # have any effect when the template is WP:SUBSTed? The removal of

<!-- Wikipedia:Teahouse/Teahouse talkback -->

means that, once the template text is WP:SUBSTed there's no clue where the text came from. For those reasons I'm reluctant to implement the changes as requested. Cabayi (talk) 15:41, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Those changes weren't intentional, I must've been working from a 'dirty' copy. I'll re-apply the changes to a fresh copy of the template. Richard⁰⁶¹² 22:45, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

@Cabayi: - changes rebased onto current version. Richard⁰⁶¹² 22:51, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

 Done - Richard0612, please remember to update the documentation. Cabayi (talk) 07:50, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Cabayi: Done - one last thing, we seem to have one too many ' after the "Feel free to reply there!" text - could you delete one? Thanks. Richard⁰⁶¹² 10:00, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Richard0612, The whole point is to avoid making ad-hoc fixes in the live version. I've removed three quotes from the sandbox. Please check it's what you want. Cabayi (talk) 10:11, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Cabayi: Confirmed. Richard⁰⁶¹² 10:14, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Done, Cabayi (talk) 10:19, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Edit request - add Category

Please add the following category to this template: <noinclude> [[Category:Teahouse message templates]] </noinclude>

This is being added to all Teahouse-related message templates to make the task of managing our resources somewhat easier. Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done Is there a good reason why this template is in Wikipedia space instead of Template space? – Jonesey95 (talk) 08:25, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Jonesey95. I can't really answer that, I'm afraid. I'm only just starting to sort out and understand the mass of both current and historic Teahouse subpages and bespoke message templates that form part of the Teahouse project - hence the addition of this new category to group them all together. Nick Moyes (talk) 08:58, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

No problem, I was just curious. BTW, categories for template (and template-like) pages belong in the documentation page for that template. The documentation page is typically not protected, so it is likely that you could have edited it yourself. FYI in case you have a bunch of these to update. – Jonesey95 (talk) 10:54, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 19 November 2019

• Requested edit:
• Reason: See testcases § Links in header

– Thjarkur (talk) 20:54, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:38, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Says questions are archived after 2 days

Hello! So I'm a bit confused. This template says the questions are automatically archived after 2 days of activity, however the Teahouse says questions are archived after 3 days. Which is it, and why are the number of days before archival different? ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 21:09, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Signature didn't render properly

My signature here didn't render properly. I guess that's because of the pipe in my signature. What could be the solution other than changing my signature? Lightbluerain❄ (Talk | contribs) 09:49, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 18 January 2022

Change Please note that all old questions are archived after 2 days of inactivity. to Please note that all old questions are archived after 2–3 days of inactivity. per discussion at WT:Teahouse. Qwerfjkltalk 17:40, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: is this for some edge case, like that it might take an extra hour? The config seems to have this set to: algo = old(48h) already. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:41, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: The archiving bot runs daily, so can take up to a day extra. See Wikipedia talk:Teahouse#Archived in 2 or 3 days for further explanation. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:08, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done. P.I. Ellsworth - ed. ^put'r there 09:11, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 27 October 2025

−

| text = '''Hello, {{#titleparts:<nowiki />{{PAGENAME}}|1}}. Your question has been answered at the <noinclude><!-- // Page link --></noinclude>[[{{{1<noinclude>|Wikipedia:Teahouse|Teahouse Q&A Board</noinclude>}}}{{#if:{{{2|}}}|#{{anchorencode:{{{2}}}}}}}|Teahouse Q&A board]]. {{#ifeq: {{lc:{{{3|}}}}}|noreply||Feel free to reply there!}}'''<br />

+

| text = Hello, {{#titleparts:<nowiki />{{PAGENAME}}|1}}. Your question has been answered at the <noinclude><!-- // Page link --></noinclude>[[{{{1<noinclude>|Wikipedia:Teahouse|Teahouse Q&A Board</noinclude>}}}{{#if:{{{2|}}}|#{{anchorencode:{{{2}}}}}}}|Teahouse Q&A board]]. {{#ifeq: {{lc:{{{3|}}}}}|noreply||Feel free to reply there!}}<br />

I am suggesting a removal of the boldening of the text in the message box. The reason for this is that the {{umbox}} template that this talkback template transcludes already pre-applies bold to the text that is given to the umbox template. Thus, this three-single-quotes bold markup causes the text to be rendered in "double bold" (detailed in MOS:BOLDBOLD), which looks terrible and less readable than if it were single-bold. Plus, other talkback templates like {{talkback}} do not use this ugly double-bold style. — AP 499D25 (talk) 12:44, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done Sohom (talk) 12:15, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sohom Datta: Thanks. Just a heads up, unfortunately it looks like # was inadvertently changed to simply # due to the way it was rendered in the 'textdiff' template in my edit request (i.e. see what happened here), resulting in a certain part of the template breaking (see "Re: Question about templates" example section in the documentation). Might want to change that hash back to how it was. Regards, — AP 499D25 (talk) 12:50, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done Sohom (talk) 12:56, 30 October 2025 (UTC)