Template:Uw-copying

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from one or more pages into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as the standard installation of Twinkle adds and removes this template. Thank you!

Usage:

{{subst:Uw-copying}}

{{subst:Uw-copying|Article copied from}} references a specific article copied from

{{subst:Uw-copying|Article copied from|Additional text}} adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"

{{subst:Uw-copying||Additional text}}or{{subst:Uw-copying|2=Additional text}} also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article copied from.

• : {{subst:Uw-copying|to=Article pasted to}} references a specific article pasted to

{{subst:Uw-copying|Article copied from|to=Article pasted to}} references the specific articles copied from and pasted to

{{subst:Uw-copying|Article copied from|to=Article pasted to|Additional text}} references the specific articles copied from and pasted to, as well as additional text

• This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project. You may discuss the visual appearance of these standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page.
• Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending.
• Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Uw-copying}} rather than {{Uw-copying}}.
• To give greater detail to your message, you may add the article copied from and some additional text to the end of the template. If such article copied from or additional text includes a URL or anything which includes an equal sign ("="), it may break the parser's function unless you prefix the article copied from or the text with a named template parameter. Use "1=" if the article copied from contains an equals sign and use "2=" if the additional text contains an equals sign (such as a URL).
• This template automatically populates the relevant category with the user page. If and when the user account gets blocked, or approximately eight weeks pass with no further action, that categorization is automatically removed.
• This is the documentation for the {{Single notice}} standardized template, as used by several single-level user warnings or notice templates. It is located at Template:Single notice/inner(edit talk links history).

See also:

• {{Uw-translation}}, user warning template about translating material from another Wikipedia
• {{uw-unattribcc}}, user warning about copying material from another Creative Commons licensed site
• {{Uw-copyright}}, user warning template about copying material from outside Wikipedia
• {{uw-cutpaste}}, user warning about cut/copy and paste moves