Template talk:About
Latest comment: 1 day ago by MPGuy2824 in topic Template-protected edit request on 16 June 2026
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Comma as well as "and"
editThis needs to support || or |,| as input to generate a comma, as well as presently-supported |and| to generate the word "and", so that this:
{{About|humans as a species|other uses|Human (disambiguation)||Humanity (virtue)||Human nature|and|Human condition}}
works. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 March 2023 (2)
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Replace item 4, with shorter form.
{{About||other uses|Article (disambiguation)}}→
should become
{{About|||Article (disambiguation)}}→ Mcint (talk) 06:05, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Already done ElanHR took care of this. Lizthegrey (talk) 16:51, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
- Not actually fixed yet :) ElanHR and Lizthegrey, this is still broken on the page - it's missing a 3rd vertical bar. Currently it looks like this:
{{About||Article (disambiguation)}}
- but it should look like this, with the third vertical bar added:
{{About|||Article (disambiguation)}}
- Thank you!
- 136.25.161.245 (talk) 20:36, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry about that! Fixed now. Looks like it was missing an extra nowiki. lizthegrey (talk) 21:15, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Not actually fixed yet :) ElanHR and Lizthegrey, this is still broken on the page - it's missing a 3rd vertical bar. Currently it looks like this:
Template-protected edit request on 15 September 2025
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CHANGE GUNSHOT WOUND TO ASSASSINATION BY GUNSHOT WOUND- that is the correct terminology for the situation at hand. 2604:2D80:F502:B200:B8E9:1FCB:E5E4:1AF4 (talk) 13:41, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
Not done, this seems to have been posted to the wrong page, the {{about}} template doesn't include any such content. --Belbury (talk) 13:43, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 16 June 2026
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~2026-33604-80 (talk) 03:43, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Carlros
- Not done No change specified. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:45, 16 June 2026 (UTC)