Template:Gs/alert/doc

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Usage
Community-authorised general sanctions (GS) are in effect for some topics on Wikipedia. Users editing these pages may be alerted that general sanctions are in effect. You must use this template to do so.

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.

To alert a user, open a new section on their user talk page. Paste the following code into it, replacing  with the corresponding code from the table below. Type an appropriate subject line, then save the page.

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Logging
Using this template will trigger EditFilter 602. As a result, your edit containing the alert will be tagged with "discretionary sanctions alert". Edits with this tag can be searched for in user contributions, user talk page histories, Special:RecentChanges, and the log of EditFilter 602.

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

To see whether a user has been alerted to general sanctions, load the history of their user talk page and search for  under the 'tag filter' field. You can use the Ds/log template (usually alongside user in noticeboard reports) to quickly generate links for conducting searches of issued alerts.

Additionally, current instances of the template are tracked [ here] and counted [//tools.wmflabs.org/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Z33&namespace=10#bottom here]. Alerts that were subsequently deleted from the user's talk page will only appear in the EditFilter log, so this is the primary tracking mechanism.

Codes
When leaving a user an Alert, you must replace  with the relevant topic code: