Template talk:Infobox Wikipedia user

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Wouldn't it be more appropriate for Wikipedian to link to Wikipedia community instead of Wikipedia? Laura240406 (talk) 06:31, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 18 January 2025

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The current format isn't creating any valid links anymore. Vestrian24Bio 05:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 07:45, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Vestrian24Bio 09:25, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 20 February 2025

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I haven't specified the "gender" parameter, but this template shows a male symbol (♂) next to my name with the tooltip "male" and puts me in Category:Male Wikipedians. (Edit: I've since changed this; see permalink for reference.) I guess what's happening is it's pulling from the setting "Gender used in messages", but the thing is, that setting is about grammatical gender, not gender proper.

The software uses this value to address you and to mention you to others using the selected grammatical gender option.

In my opinion, my gender is irrelevant to Wikipedia; I only provide my pronouns for convenience/clarity. As well, from what I understand, there are gender-non-conforming people who use masculine/feminine pronouns but don't identify as male/female, so we should try to be inclusive of them.

So, two things to change:

I shouldn't need to specify the "pronoun" parameter if I've already specified my pronouns in the setting "Gender used in messages"; it should automatically say "he/him"
The template shouldn't assume "masculine pronouns" means "male". (As a workaround for now, you can specify gender=.) The user should need to specify their gender explicitly to get the male/female symbol.
- Alternatively, it could still show the symbol but clarify in the tooltip "uses masculine pronouns" or something along those lines.
- Maybe the template could check if the user is already in Category:Male Wikipedians/Category:Female Wikipedians and infer the "gender" parameter in that case.

— W.andrea (talk) 02:18, 20 February 2025 (UTC) edited 02:20 and 02:30[reply]

The template can't see what categories a page is in, AFAIK. As for assuming pronouns based on gender, see preferred gender pronoun for why that is a poor assumption. If you have an idea about how the template could work better, feel free to change the code in the template's /sandbox page and test it on the testcases page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:11, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 23 June 2025

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I'd like to have something that says when I got added to the AFC reviewers list. Can we add something like that? » Gommeh (he/him) 17:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure - Template:Infobox Wikipedia user/sandbox - go for it. Reactivate when ready to be deployed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]