Wikipedia:Editnotice

Editnotices are message boxes shown before the edit window when a user edits a page. All users can create editnotices for their user space, but editnotices for other namespaces can be created and edited only by administrators and template editors.

Some of the message boxes you see when editing a page (or viewing the source of a protected page) are not editnotices; instead, they are .

When a page is edited, red or blue links are often displayed at the top right of the page looking like this:

or like this:

They are links to the group and page editnotices of the page. Users with administrator or template editor permissions always see both links, even if the notices have not yet been created, since they can create and edit the editnotices. Other users only see the red "Page notice" link on their own user and user talk basepage, since they can create and edit such notices. They also see blue links to group and page notices if they already have been created, so they can find and view the source of the notice. But they still can't edit those notices, except the ones in userspace.

See also the section § Hiding the red links below.

When creating editnotices, the template {{}} can be used for formatting; see its template page for how to use it. See Category:Editnotice templates for specialized editnotices.

When editing a new user page, {{}} will show.

Insert as an as {{Editnotice userpage}}.

For example:

This appears on top of the editing box screen when people would like to edit your page. The ExampleUser part will automatically change to your username.

Anyone can create an editnotice for a user or user talk page. (But editnotices for user sub-pages can only be created by admins and template editors.) User page editnotice names take one of these forms:

You can create an editnotice for your own user or talk page with a preloaded {{}} template by using these links:

Editnotices for other namespaces and for user subpages can be created and edited only by admins and template editors. There are three main types of editnotices:

Editnotice names take one of these forms:

To edit a namespace-wide editnotice, click on the corresponding link below. To create an editnotice for a page, enter the page name and click "Create". For your own User: and User talk: pages, you don't need to type anything, just click "Create".

Page names are case sensitive—if the page shows the first character as capitalized, then it must be capitalized when entered here.

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