Template:Request ping/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Request ping. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Request ping}}).

This template is used on talk pages to ask other users to ping the poster with any reply. It would normally be placed just before the poster's signature.

This template must be substituted with the subst: keyword for it to work properly.

The most common usage is simply {{subst:Request ping}}

which renders as

If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{u|<Current user name>}} to your message, and signing it.

Where "<Current user name>" is transformed into the username of the user saving the edit, the template substitutes the magic word {{REVISIONUSER}}.

{{subst:Request ping|Example}}

renders as

If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{u|Example}} to your message, and signing it.

{{subst:Request ping|Example|cond=you want to talk}}

renders as

If you want to talk, please ping me by adding {{u|Example}} to your message, and signing it.

first (unnamed) parameter

This should be the user name of the user who wished to be pinged, as an Example for User:Example. If not supplied, this parameter is replaced with the user's name who saved the edit. To keep this from changing with later edits, the template must be substituted using "subst:"

cond

This optional parameter is for text to replace you reply here in the output with some other condition. It should be appropriate to follow "If" and precede "please ping me." See the example above. (alias condition)

{{Repi}} and {{ReqP}} are shortcuts to this template.

Credit goes to EN:User:I dream of horses, who wrote a similar code for use in her signature, but without the parameters.

• {{Please ping}} – alternate version with a variety of parameters that generates this: (please use {{ping|Example}} on reply)
• Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines