Template:Whisperback/doc

The wb or Whisperback template is a less distracting and intrusive alternative to Talkback, Talkbacktiny and related templates. The usage examples below are pretty self-explanatory (look at where the links go, too), except that you'll need to replace " Example " with your real username.

The page need not be substituted unless you fear it may be deleted or radically changed some day, resulting in your archived whisperback notices not being the way you originally wrote them. There are probably more important things to care about. It will even work just fine after it has been moved to an archive page. The only time it must be 'd is before it is copied from one place to another, e.g. from a user talk page to another user's talk page or an article talk page because an entire discussion has been moved.

Some prefer to use this as a replacement for Template:Talkback entirely, while for others it is used to replace Talkback notices that have been answered, to reduce talk page clutter.

Topic
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Example
For example, this is how GiraffeLover could leave someone a Whisperback on the topic of giraffes:

Giraffes
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Parameter examples

 * Link to the Example topic section on User:Example's talk page:
 * Make the number of messages plural using the pl parameter:
 * Suppress the initial "Hello" using the nohello parameter:
 * Link to a non-user-talk page (with or without a section link; shown with one, which is preferred):
 * Customize the text shown for the link using the linkname parameter:
 * Customize the text shown for what is waiting (which defaults to "new messages") using the things parameter:
 * Specify who you are addressing using the greet parameter:
 * Linking in this parameter is discouraged, as the point of this template is to be simple and only link to one thing, the discussion you're notifying someone about.
 * Say what the message (vs. the topic section) is about with the about parameter:
 * Linking in this parameter is discouraged, as the point of this template is to be simple and only link to one thing, the discussion you're notifying someone about.

Deprecated parameters

 * The bare minimum form, which simply links to User:Example's talk page; deprecated because it makes the user hunt for your message:
 * Add a timestamp at the end using the ts parameter:
 * (5 tildes; deprecated and maintained only for Talkback compatibility – normally you'd just sign after it like any other post, and not use this.)