Template:Warningorigin

—The preceding Warning was originally posted somewhere.

Template documentation

This template adds a line below a warning to list: the original location (defaults to page-user's talkpage); original posting user; original posting time-and-date; and/or the diff of the original warning.

This may be useful if you want to indicate the author and time-and-date of an unsigned warning; if you archive warnings off your talk page; or if you want to quote a warning anywhere else.

This template takes four expected parameters (not required, but expected either in sequence or by named variable):
1. location= The page where this warning was originally posted (without double-brackets). If you are using this template in your own userspace, for instance on your own /Warnings subpage, location defaults to your own talkpage. If you are using this template outside your own userspace, or referring to a warning posted on any other page, then specify the pagename (without double-brackets) as location=pagename.
2. user= The username who posted it (without the "User:" prefix); if unsigned, see your talkpage history.
3. time= The UTC time-and-date of the original warning, as seen first in its entry on your talkpage history.
4. oldid= The "oldid=" number of the warning's diff, as seen in the URLs of the entry's "(cur)", "(last)", and time-and-date links.

For the least typing, just provide the values in location - user - time - oldid sequence:

Code:

{{warningorigin|User talk:EVula|Ben|09:47, 26 February 2007|111045354}}

Result:

—The preceding Warning was originally posted on User talk:EVula by Ben (talk⋅contribs), 09:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC), (diff).

If the named variables are used, these don't need to be kept in the same sequence:

Code:

{{warningorigin|user=Ben|time=09:47, 26 February 2007|oldid=111045354|location=User talk:EVula}}

Result:

—The preceding Warning was originally posted on User talk:EVula by Ben (talk⋅contribs), 09:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC), (diff).

As long as the correct "oldid" is provided, the location is not really necessary:

Code:

{{warningorigin||Ben|09:47, 26 February 2007|111045354}}

Result:

—The preceding Warning was originally posted here by Ben (talk⋅contribs), 09:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC).

Code:

{{warningorigin|User talk:EVula}}

Result:

—The preceding Warning was originally posted on User talk:EVula.

If you want to have your own /Warnings subpage, you may also find {{warningsonsubpage}} helpful.