Difference between revisions of "Category:Editing Notices"

Clicklaw Wikibooks encourages editors to use editing notices to alert readers and other editors to the status of pages. Throughout the editing stages, please change the editing notice to update the status of the page based on changes you have made, or concerns you find. The following Editing Notices are templates (prebuilt elements that are ready to plug right into pages on the wiki) and are transcluded into a particular page by inserting the code "{{NAMEOFTEMPLATE}}" (replace "NAMEOFTEMPLATE" with the name of the editing notice template you want to include) towards the top of the page (or wherever you want the editing notice to appear):

For example:

This	Will give you this
Inserting {{OKCOPY}} at the very top of the page in edit mode to render a notice stating that the page has passed the copy edit stage.	This page is ready for final edit. Content is up-to-date for the new Family Law Act but may have typos. Rollover definitions, links and formatting should be intact.

Some Editing Notices contain a field that must be customized. For example Template:REVIEWED works to let readers know who reviewed the page last, and when. But you need to provide the who and when details when you place the code into the page:

For example:

Alternatively, rather than typing out your username and the date, the wiki platform lets you simply insert four tilde characters ~~~~placed anywhere consecutively in a page, to automatically render a signature and timestamp when the page is saved: