Template:Uw-autobiography

Information icon Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you.

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Usage

• {{subst:Uw-autobiography}}
• {{subst:Uw-autobiography|Article}} references a specific article
• {{subst:Uw-autobiography|Article|Additional text}} adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"
• {{subst:Uw-autobiography||Additional text}} or {{subst:Uw-autobiography|2=Additional text}} also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article.

Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Uw-autobiography}} rather than {{Uw-autobiography}}.

To customize your message, parameters are available; one to add the article name, and one to add additional text at the end of the message. If your param value contains an equal sign (as urls often do), then be sure to explicitly specify the positional parameter by number; i.e., use |1= or |2= followed by the value; e.g., |1=XYZ=Repainting, or |2=https://www.bbc.com/search?q=Kent+weather.

Notes

• Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending.
• Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.^{[2026; 2025; 2024]} (Patience; this may take a while.)
• This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project. You may discuss the visual appearance of these standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page.
• This documentation is generated by the {{Single notice}} template, and used by numerous single-level user warnings or notice templates. It is located at Template:Single notice/inner(edit talk links history).

See also

{{Welcome-auto}} – a combo welcome message, as well as gentle advice about the same issue that this template warns about

Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Subpages of this template.