Template:EAR/doc

Usage

• {{ear|status|message ~~~~}}
• {{ear|status|2=message ~~~~}} (necessary when your message or signature includes the = character)

Both parameters should be specified for this template; while it will work without the second parameter specified, it is considered poor form on most noticeboards to not include a reason, or to at least sign and datestamp it. At Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests (WP:EAR) at least, such timestamps are used for determining when to archive a thread.

Possible status types:

• resolved (short form: r)
• answered (short form: a)
• unclear (short form: unc)
• unresolved (short form: unr)
• stale (short form: s)
• (new!) moved (short form: m)
• (new!) stuck (short form: stu)

Examples

• {{ear|r|Foo. ~~~~}}:
  Resolved

   – Foo. ~~~~
• {{ear|a|Foo. ~~~~}}:
  Answered

   – Foo. ~~~~
• {{ear|unc|Foo. ~~~~}}:
  Request unclear

   – Foo. ~~~~
• {{ear|unr|Foo. ~~~~}}:
  Unresolved

   – Foo. ~~~~
• {{ear|s|Foo. ~~~~}}:
  Stale

   – Foo. ~~~~
• {{ear|m|To [[Talk:Foobarbaz#qux]]. ~~~~}}:
  Discussion moved

   – To Talk:Foobarbaz#qux. ~~~~
• {{ear|stu|Foo. ~~~~}}:
  Stuck

   – Foo. ~~~~

Special case

• N {{ear|a|Foo bar baz [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=139993 foo bar baz!]. ~~~~}}:
  Answered
• Y {{ear|a|2=Foo bar baz [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=139993 foo bar baz!]. ~~~~}}:
  Answered

   – Foo bar baz foo bar baz!. ~~~~

Notes

This template was created to expand on {{resolved}}, {{unresolved}}, etc. for some specialized purposes that were proposed at WT:EAR in April and May of 2009. While some of the parameters cause identical behavior to the templates above, this template was created so as to permit easy unification of the icon styles used on WP:EAR, as well as to avoid taking up multiple simple template names (such as "answered", "cant").

Changing the icons is a snap. The icons currently in here are just a group of possibilities which use the current templates' icons and maintain a stylistic similarity with the new ones.

Please be careful when making changes to this template, and especially avoid removing possible parameters as it may badly break earlier uses of the template. A default case which displays an error may be a good solution to avoid having items previously tagged one way showing up as resolved when changes to this template occur.

See also

• {{Resolved}} → 
  Resolved
• {{Unresolved}} → 
  Unresolved
• {{Not sure3}} → 
  Not sure
• {{Being worked on}} → 
  Being worked on
• {{2O}} → 
  2nd opinion requested
• {{Duplicate Issue}} → 
  Duplicate
• {{Known Issue}} → 
  Known Issue
• {{Disregard}} → 
  Disregard
• {{Moot}} → 
  Moot
• {{Off-topic thread}} → 
  Off-topic
• {{FYI}} → 
  FYI
• {{Moved discussion from}} → 
  Moved from {{{1}}}
• {{Moved discussion to}} → 
  Moved to
• {{Stale}} → 
  Stale
• {{Stuck}} → 
  Stuck
• {{WQA in progress}} → 
  Work in progress; comments welcome
• {{Wrong venue}} → 
  Wrong venue. Please move to {{{1}}}
• {{NOTHERE}} → 
  Not an issue for EAR. Referred elsewhere.
• {{Resbox}} →
  

  ? Any inline resolution template here

   – (customizable)

Misc

• Template:Done/See also, the large family of inline, comment-level templates (similar to the above, but with no box around them); {{Resbox}} can be used to convert any of them into {{Resolved}}-style hatnotes
• Template:Table cell templates/doc, the family of table-specific templates that work only in tables
• Category:Image with comment templates
• Category:Resolution templates