Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings/Tabs
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Creating double redirects through bad page moves
{{subst :uw-2redirect }}
Third opinion request did not follow the guidelines
{{subst :uw-3o }}
After addition of {{subst:AFC draft |user }} or {{subst:submit |user }}
{{subst :uw-afcaddition }}
New user is likely to be using multiple accounts
{{subst :uw-agf-sock }}
Bad AIV report
{{subst :uw-aiv }}
Bad AN/EW report
{{subst :uw-anew }}
Suggesting a user archive their talk page
{{subst :uw-archive }}
Adding signatures to article space
{{subst :uw-articlesig }}
Article was undersourced and has been moved to draft space
{{subst :uw-articletodraft }}
Creating autobiographies
{{subst :uw-autobiography }}
Disrupting automatic calculation
{{subst :uw-autocalc }}
Creating articles without categories
{{subst :uw-catimprove }}
Adding incorrect categories
{{subst :uw-badcat }}
Incorrectly tagging pages for speedy deletion (for NPP use {{uw-csd }})
{{subst :uw-badcsd }}
Adding non-notable list entries
{{subst :uw-badlistentry }}
Misunderstanding proposed deletion of biographies of living people criteria
{{subst :uw-badprodblp }}
Adding bare URLs as references
{{subst :uw-bareurl }}
Adding gossip to biographies
{{subst :uw-biog-not }}
"Biting " newcomers
{{subst :uw-bite }}
Wikipedia is not for blogging or promotion
{{subst :uw-blog }}
Conforming to "bold, revert, discuss" cycle
{{subst :uw-brd }}
Conflict of interest, with an extended legal warning
{{subst :uw-coi }}
Removing columns
{{subst :uw-columns }}
Addition of controversial material to an article
{{subst :uw-controversial }}
Not attributing Wikipedia content
{{subst :uw-copying }}
Not attributing Wikipedia content
{{subst :uw-copying-nosource }}
Submitting copyrighted images
{{subst :uw-copyright-img }}
Cut and paste moves
{{subst :uw-c&pmove }}
Not adequately or properly naming your images
{{subst :uw-cryptic-filename }}
Adding speculative or unconfirmed information about future albums or events
{{subst :uw-crystal }}
Incorrectly tagging pages for speedy deletion at NPP
{{subst :uw-csd }}
Incorrectly formatting disambiguation pages
{{subst :uw-dab }}
Unnecessarily changing date formats
{{subst :uw-date }}
Adding content which will soon become dated
{{subst :uw-dated }}
Removing proper sources containing dead links
{{subst :uw-deadlink }}
Adding stub categories manually, rather than via templates
{{subst :uw-directcat }}
Incorrect use of DISPLAYTITLE
{{subst :uw-displaytitle }}
Linking to drafts from articles
{{subst :Uw-draft-link }}
Userspace draft suggestion
{{subst :uw-draftfirst }} {{subst :uw-draftfirst-empty }} {{subst :uw-draftfirst-nn }}
Draft has been moved to draft space
{{subst :uw-draftmoved }}
Not using edit summary
{{subst :uw-editsummary }} (for new users){{subst :uw-editsummary2 }} (for more experienced users)
Adding external links to the body of an article
{{subst :uw-elinbody }}
Not communicating in English (see also specific language templates )
{{subst :Uw-notenglishtalk }}
Unnecessarily changing between national varieties of English
{{subst :uw-engvar }}
Inappropriately referring to a person by a first name or an honorific prefix
{{subst :uw-firstname }}
{{subst :uw-flag }}
Fair use image removed
{{subst :uw-fuir }}
Drive-by nomination of Wikipedia:Good articles
{{subst :uw-ga-driveby }}
Editing against a Wikipedia guideline
{{subst :uw-guideline }}
Overly hasty tagging of articles for speedy deletion
{{subst :uw-hasty }}
Not completing an AfD nomination
{{subst :uw-incompleteAFD }}
Unexplained edits to infoboxes
{{subst :uw-infobox }}
Not italicizing books, films, albums, magazines, TV series, etc. within articles
{{subst :uw-italicize }}
Adding excessive redlinks or repeated blue links
{{subst :uw-linking }}
Addition of unsourced or improperly cited material for medical content
{{subst :uw-medrs }}
Removing useful links
{{subst :uw-removedlink }}
Wikipedia is not a memorial
{{subst :uw-memorial }}
Incorrectly using minor edits check box
{{subst :uw-minor }}
Adding machine translated content
{{subst :uw-mt }}
Not following Wikipedia's naming conventions
{{subst :uw-nc }}
Uploading replaceable non-free images
{{subst :uw-nonfree }}
Creating articles with no evidence of notability
{{subst :uw-notability }}
Reporting complex abuse to AIV
{{subst :uw-notaiv }}
Incorrectly marking an edit as vandalism
{{subst :uw-notvand }}
Using voting instead of consensus
{{subst :uw-notvote }}
Failed ping fix
{{subst :uw-pingfix }}
Not attributing public domain sources
{{subst :uw-plagiarism }}
Not using preview button to avoid mistakes
{{subst :uw-preview }}
Assuming another editor's gender
{{subst :uw-pronoun }}
Creating poorly referenced articles
{{subst :uw-refimprove }}
Not reverting vandalism to a 'clean' version of the page
{{subst :uw-removevandalism }}
Recreating salted articles under an alternative title
{{subst :uw-salt |Article}}
Rename request impossible
{{subst :uw-samename }}
Experimenting in articles and reverting self tests
{{subst :uw-selfrevert }}
Signature has design problems
{{subst :uw-sigdesign }}
Signature has no link to userspace
{{subst :uw-siglink }}
Using see links instead of redirects
{{subst :uw-sl }}
Wikipedia is not a social network (e.g., Facebook , Twitter )
{{subst :uw-socialnetwork }}
Flagging or deleting "spoilers"
{{subst :uw-spoiler }}
Premature inclusion of a possible sports transaction
{{subst :Uw-sportstrans }}
Using thumbnails in infoboxes
{{subst :uw-thumb in infobox }}
Not signing posts
{{subst :uw-tilde }}
Adding talk page threads to the top instead of the bottom
{{subst :uw-toppost }}
Reporting of username to WP:UAA not accepted
{{subst :uw-uaa }}
Addition of unattributed Creative commons text
{{subst :uw-unattribcc }}
Adding unreliable sources
{{subst :uw-unreliable }}
User page in inappropriate category
{{subst :uw-upincat }}
Using image from external source
{{subst :uw-uploadfirst }}
Abandoned userspace draft
{{subst :uw-userspace draft finish }}
NOINDEXing of userspace page
{{subst :uw-userspacenoindex }}
Inappropriate use of user talk page
{{subst :uw-usertalk }}
Creating inappropriate video game content
{{subst :uw-vgscope }}
Not using user warnings after revert
{{subst :uw-warn }}
Creating inappropriate article(s)
{{subst :uw-wizard }}
Using inaccurate or inappropriate edit summaries
{{subst :uw-wrongsummary }}
Not updating the access date parameter in citing templates
{{subst :uw-accessdate1 }}
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{{subst :AntiVandal }}
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