Template:Contentious topics/alert

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Please do not change this template unless you (i) are very sure of what you are doing and (ii) have checked the associated systems for code reliant on the text, functionality, or code you are changing. In particular, it is vital that you not change

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notice on their talk page for a particular topic area, thus declaring they are already aware of the topic sanctions. If that is the case, the filter will remind you that leaving an alert for this user is not necessary.

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governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues

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Edits containing a substituted instance of this template will trigger AbuseFilter 602. The exact text which triggers the AbuseFilter are declared in the publicly viewable

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Alerts ensure a user knows what is expected of them. Alerts are a neutral courtesy; never use them to intimidate, coerce, or shame another editor.

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genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them, broadly construed

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What contentious topic applies to this page. Specified using a shorthand code listed on this template's documentation page.

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with "contentious topics alert". Edits with this tag can be searched for in user contributions, user talk page histories,

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To see whether a user has been Alerted for a contentious topic, load the history of their user talk page and search for

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Therefore, an automatic system log of all alerts is maintained. You need not do anything except leave the alert.

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to contentious topics (except if they've previously been alerted to discretionary sanctions in any topic area)

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Edits to this template, even trivial ones, are likely to break the associated system messages and filters.

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To alert a user, open a new section on their user talk page. Paste the following code into it, replacing

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Whether to include your signature at the end of the message. Any text as the value adds your signature.

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and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes

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in noticeboard reports) to quickly generate links for conducting searches of issued alerts.

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instead of this template when alerting a user about contentious topics for the first time.

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about the contentious topics system. If this is the editor's first alert, you

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Extra content that is appended to the alert but placed before your signature.

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before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please

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Knowledge:Requests for arbitration/Editing of Biographies of Living Persons

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To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the template's

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Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Knowledge user interface.

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You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either

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gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them

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gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them

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gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them

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gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them

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gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them

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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation

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the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour

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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions

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Knowledge:Contentious topics/Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.

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post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people

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for announcing active page restrictions (except page protection)

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Knowledge:Contentious topics/Manual of Style and article titles

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the template is used outside the user talk or user namespaces.

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You also should not issue alerts to editors who have posted a

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You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and

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Knowledge:Contentious topics/Pseudoscience and fringe science

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Knowledge:Contentious topics/India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

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below. Type an appropriate subject line, then save the page.

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Category:Knowledge templates to be automatically substituted

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

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Knowledge:Contentious topics/Genetically modified organisms

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topic areas to the index above is given at the bottom of

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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence

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Standardised Knowledge arbitration enforcement templates

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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Historical elections

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