Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24096104-20151031120905

Hello.

I've been noticing people have been incorrectly using Messages boxes (mostly Anboxes). I will tell you how to use them.

When putting one on a page, be sure to label the timedate. This lets people know how long the notice is there to let them know that the page has been unattended for a time. Make sure to only include the current month and year as of your revision, not anything else.

And also, do not remove a message box until the issue has been resolved. You can't remove one just because you don't like it and sometimes the case is that you don't want it on a page you care about or on your page.

Finally, when labeling a page for deletion, never remove all of the page content. This can confuse administrators who have been told to delete the page, and so they don't know why it should be deleted.

Thank you for your time, and I hope this information sticks in your head so these mistakes will not happen again.

This post will be highlighted for one day so people who make this mistake will read it.

This post will again be highlighted for one day since people still seemed to not use only the month and year in timedates. (November 11th, 2015)

MappingPez, author and artist Profile 12:09, October 31, 2015 (UTC)   