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Hello, welcome to my talk page! If you'd like to leave me a message, please put it at the bottom of the page, in a new section. You can do this easily by clicking the "Add topic" button at the top of the page. Thanks! YorkshireLad ✿

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for correcting the syntax on my reports. I am not the most experienced in that regard but am learning and as such greatly appreciate the gesture. Xeed.rice (talk) 10:58, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@Xeed.rice: You're very welcome! (If you're interested, because I forgot to explain: the reason why a problem on that page triggers problems on so many others is that a lot of pages "transclude" WP:AIV—that is, they essentially treat it as a template, and include its contents wholesale, automatically updating as people add reports to the page. That means that a duplicate template argument (which was the error being generated by that particular syntax) is detected by the software on all those other pages too.) YorkshireLad ✿ 11:04, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi YorkshireLad, thank you for the knowledge about how pings work. It makes sense that it'd be tied to a signature; let's see if I can get it this time: @YorkshireLad:! In the special case you mentioned of going back to make a correction and needing to re-add one's signature to allow the pings to work... does that mean you'd need to delete the first signature (i.e. type over it) when making a minor correction or would you simply sign separately for a second time?

Cheers, MitzvahCode (talk) 20:20, 28 May 2020 (UTC)MitzvahCode

MitzvahCode, Hi! So there are some more details on Template:Ping, but my understanding is that you'd need to add a completely new line in that case for it to work—that is, write something like

Ping didn't work; pinging {{u|MitzvahCode}} again properly. ~~~~

which renders as

Ping didn't work; pinging MitzvahCode again properly. YorkshireLad ✿ 12:34, 12 March 2045 (UTC)

This message seems to have been the right syntax to ping me, but I can't tell because any post on someone's user talk page notifies them, whether there's a link to a user name or not. (Incidentally, do you know about User:Enterprisey/reply-link? It's a script that adds a "reply" link on many pages; it (usually) automatically adds the ping to the person you're replying to and a signature, though you do need to check it's worked with the "Preview" button it gives you. It's what I used for this message, for instance.) YorkshireLad ✿ 12:48, 29 May 2020 (UTC)