Template talk:User article ban

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Usage: {{User article ban|UserName|ProbationEndDate|~~~~}}

[edit] Wording

This is being used only on pages that Arbcom has banned certain users from. Also, hasn't only the Arbcom authority to ban someone from editing a page?

I'd propose that the wording explitly refers to arbcom and should read something like this:

The user specified is under probation and has edited this page inappropriately. The user is not prevented from discussing or proposing changes on this talk page. The ban ends on {{{2}}}. This ban must be registered on the administrators noticeboard. If you disagree with this ban, please discuss it with a member of the arbitration committee or on the noticeboard. At the end of the user's probationary period, anyone may remove this notice.

Dr Zak 18:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom enables such banning, admins enforce it. That's the intended use.

[edit] Needs an #if:

Can someone who knows template syntax check and see if it's possible to have a parameter of "indefinite" result in a changed sentence structure so it doesn't read really poorly ("ends on indefinite")? I tried, but just screwed it up. Thanx. 68.39.174.238 19:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Regular editors can't usually impose indefinite topical bans, only Arbcom can do that. There is a slightly different template, {{User article ban arb}} for such cases, but the variation in cases is so great that it may be better to keep one generic template and subst it, then fix it manually, rather than trying to create a "works for every occasion" template with lots of complicated arguments. (Indef ban from article and talk, indef ban from article only, one year ban from article and talk, one year ban from article only, etc.) Thatcher131 13:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm requesting the ability to be able to pass "indefinate" as an ending date and have the template format the language around it, instead of stating "The ban ends on indefinate", similar to the way {{prod}} will not include "because of the following concern" if no argument is passed to it. 68.39.174.238 00:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

NM, reword works with indefinite, although I'm not sure about the ending date buissiness now. 68.39.174.238 00:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, this is intended for a community imposed or admin imposed ban, and typical lengths would be a week, a month, etc., so it should be pretty obvious to all when the term is over and the notice can be removed (by substituting the template, a dated signature is attached). For Arbcom bans where the probation ends on a specific date, there is a different template. Thatcher131 02:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)