Except put the template in the blocking reason slot, not the user's
talk page. Users do not find out they are blocked by reading their
talk page, they find out when they try to edit and they see the big
blocking notices ([[MediaWiki:Blockedtext]] and
[[MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext]]), which display the blocking reason.
Someone really ought to change the background colour on the
Blockedtext to lavender (the pink is quite stressful), and get rid of
all the stressful red Xs.
Armed Blowfish
On 10/08/07, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I had a quite surprising experience a couple days ago;
I noticed a
[[CAT:RFU]] for one [[User:Badassfatass]], who had been username-blocked. As
is common in such cases, he yelled CENSORSHIP and HOW DARE WE. I pointed him
to our username policies (the original blocker had neglected to put the
username block template on his page), and he said "Fair enough. I will make
a new account with a reasonable name".
I guess the moral is, "at the very least, please put up the uw-ublock
template if you're going to username-block someone."
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--jpgordon ∇∆∇∆
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