Template:Help me-helped/doc
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Help me-helped. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
 | This template is used on approximately 15,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
Usage
[edit]After a {{Help me}} request has been answered, this template may be added in place of the Help me template (as opposed to nulling the request), to indicate that the request has been answered and to provide instructions to the user about what to do if they have additional questions.
Please only use this template to respond to a user's first helpme request. By virtue of the fact that a user has asked a second question using the help me template, it is known quantity that the user understood the instructions and knows they may repost and how to do so. Accordingly, subsequent help me requests should be nulled using {{tl}}, {{tlx}} or similar. This avoids redundancy and saves the space this template takes up.
If a user asks a helpme request using the form: {{Help me|question}}, do not use this template but rather null the request using {{tlp}} or {{tnull}} so that the question asked is not removed from view.
This template should not be substituted but should remain transcluded.
See also
[edit]For those who ask:
{{Admin help}}– When you need help from an administrator.{{Edit semi-protected}}– When you need other editors to update a page, if you are not autoconfirmed and thus can not edit a semi-protected page.{{Edit extended-protected}}- use this template for pages with extended confirmed protection.{{Edit protected}}– When you want to request an edit of a fully protected page.
For helpers who answer:
{{Help me-nq}}– A message that can be used when a user used the {{Help me}} template but didn't write a question below it.{{Help me-IRC}}– A message that asks the user to come to IRC for more help.{{Help me-working}}– A message that tells the user that their question is being worked on. Also provides IRC information.{{Help me-expired}}– A message that tells the user that their question was answered by a question, but they didn't reply.{{Help me-helped}}– A message telling the user that a helper has answered their question.{{Help me-rdq}}– A message telling the user that their question could be answered by the reference desk.{{Help me-inappropriate}}– A message telling the user that a helper has deemed their question as an inappropriate use for the {{Help me}} template.{{Help me-ns}}– A message that can be used when a user used the {{Help me}} template but is looking for an answer from a specific editor.