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tags will help focus editorial attention and encourage the resolution of items on a talk page. It is most commonly used on user and project talk pages, since few posts (including largely informational ones) on article talk pages generate zero actual or potential action items or potential discussions.
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The purpose of the "FYI" tag is to give a visual hint to readers of talk page items, making it easier to distinguish informational posts (notices, updates, etc.) from those that raise issues that need to be resolved. As with the other templates in this series, it is hoped that the existence of such
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comment if the FYI label could be controversial (in which case anyone is free to remove it entirely) or attribution is otherwise actually needed, e.g. because of subjective content in the comment. Any editor may add attribution from page history if they think it is important (or remove it where it
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This tag can be also used in admin processes to note that an item reported to a notice board is not an action item, and can further be of help on user talk pages to sort messages for archival (especially WikiProject newsletters and other impersonal notices) from those to be retained for continued
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final and does not close a conversation. If the post in question raises issues or questions for someone, please remove the tag. Thus, the tag can also, in a roundabout way, help clarify situations that might otherwise be ignored because some users thought the post was trivial, when it was not.
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If the post reports an edit that is not functionally mandatory or otherwise virtually impossible to be disputed; even seemingly routine edits can sometimes be controversial (e.g. "typo" corrections that accidentally trigger
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If the post is purely informational, but generates a non-trivial discussion/dispute anyway, e.g. because the information is questionable (i.e., remove the template in such a case).
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Reporting something of only informational interest or action elsewhere, and to a specific subset of readers, e.g. some subset of editors at
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If the post generated an action item elsewhere that has been resolved or become moot one way or another; in such cases change
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The "nationality" parameter of ] was changed to "sport-country"; I've updated this article's infobox to comply. ~~~~
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To make an additional comment explaining what the notice is about or to whom it may be of interest:
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The article ], within the scope of this project, has been nominated for deletion at ]. ~~~~
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Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere. Ongoing for a week, but RfC tag added today.
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This template is to show an item on a talk page is strictly informational in nature, an "
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to provide a custom note, it will come after the default one:
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Place the following under the topic heading on a talk page:
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