Wikipedia:Watchlist_notices
Wikipedia:Watchlist notices
In order to place a notice at the top of every registered user's watchlist, an editor can make a request at Mediawiki talk:Watchlist-messages. Once a consensus forms to list a notice, it is added, and the notice counter (the cookie-ID) is incremented. Notices should be approved for a fixed length of time after which point they will be removed.
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Wikipedia has five kinds of top-of-page messages that can be used to convey information or announcements to readers and editors.
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Adding the template {{Edit protected}} to a request will ensure that an administrator is aware of it. This is particularly useful for uncontentious changes, such as correcting a typographical error in an existing message.