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stub notice bug

I tried submitting my deletion req for FakePortal but get hit with "Stub notices can NOT be removed by users with normal privileges". Tried removing the unused infoboxes in WhatsApp, GoGuardian, Asus and Roblox, and the same dice. w h y? SinexTitan (talk) 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

I'll check this out now AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 18:19, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

This seems to be a regular issue with the abuse filter which absolutely has been talked about before. It's very annoying and in my opinion we need some sort of edit request system or a new group given to users to bypass the filter, but for now I'll just check the abuse log and apply the edit manually myself. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 18:28, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

The issue is when edits are made in-line with a stub notice, as (iirc) the filter checks for edits to the same line as the change Keith (talk) 00:50, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

the notice* Keith (talk) 00:50, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

hey can this please be fixed? it's really damn annoying. removal of redundant infoboxes on Deep Cycle Systems and Allstate are triggering it SinexTitan (talk) 14:39, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

I can remove these now. It would be cool if a usergroup would dodge the filter. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 15:01, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Idea for a new section

An "Important" / "Must-Reads" / "Starter Pack" / "Essential Reading" section showing the most important articles to view for someone new to the Consumer Rights scene, or just someone unknowing.

Furthermore, the ability to rate an article. Perhaps as a way to show which matters are trending, because of many people having said problem with said device/service. Could be a "Saved me!", "Worked", "Didn't work", where "Saved me!" can only be used maybe once a day, to show which issues a not just trending, but very crucial. These ratings could help place relevant articles at the top of a second section within "Important"/Whatever.

These two sections would give users a place to scroll and skim through, to see if there are any matters relevant for them, like a random product they own, that they didn't know had a Consumer Rights issue.

Additionally; the ability to give pledges to article writers/editors. I'm not fully sure how it would work at the moment, but it would give people a way to support editors that produce important relevant articles. Perhaps the site could take a small cut, which both contributes to funding the server costs or the "legal fund" that Rossman mentioned, but also gives people a bigger incentive to pledge to editors, knowing that some of it goes to supporting the website and its users. Sebandar (talk) 19:57, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

I would appreciate a pane with "must-reads" on the main page that highlights the articles with the widest spread effects and only includes well-written articles. Putting some articles in the same industry, like articles on Apple and Google's app store restrictions, would be especially effective, because it's nearly guaranteed that one of these applies to the reader. If you want to make a draft of this somewhere I would be down to help work on it.

I like the article rating idea. I don't know how difficult it would be to add interactive content like this to the wiki, but it sounds like a good way to receive feedback. The only official way to receive feedback currently is on the talk pages but those are all pretty dead. Some prioritization on pageviews or feedback would be nice.

On pledges, Wikipedia actually has something like this, it has a reward board where users are offered barnstars or real money to improve articles, but it's not used very much. Most users seem to be offering up prizes only for the fun of doing so, not because it's particularly effective. If the content is relevant and/or interesting, someone probably is already working on it. I don't personally think this site needs an economy but if it were to be implemented, I think we should plug donations to FULU or other affiliated foundations on the main page and then have those foundations offer microgrants for editors. Bythmusters (talk) 16:02, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Form pages

I made a change to Form:Company following Discord suggestion #181. I was going to add this to Form:Product and Form:ProductLine but these pages are protected.

So, I am requesting an edit to those two pages to replace "(supported file types = PNG|JPG)" with "(supported file types = JPG, PNG, SVG)" to represent the fact that SVGs are allowed, and also to admin-protect Form:Company since that's an important page. Bythmusters (talk) 13:13, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

“Summaries” of articles

I'd like to propose an idea that I think would help people read articles in a rush. Add a box at the top of all long pages (e.g. YouTube, or all that aren't stubs or marked as incomplete) that summarises the article (the incidents the company has been involved in, what it does, etc) in a couple of sentences. Let me know what you think. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 15:17, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

What makes this different from a lead paragraph? Would you replace the lead paragraph entirely with this template or would it be a complementary resource with links to related company/product/theme articles? You could link to categories/other articles there. I think categories on wikis in general are overlooked by most readers and putting them at the top sounds interesting. Bythmusters (talk) 16:07, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

InfoboxCompany to CargoCompany cleanup part 2

The companies have all been moved over now, the only places that InfoboxCompany exist in are in some documentation out of main namespace and on these pages where they were placed on the same line as a notice: AirAsia, Deep Cycle Systems, Allstate, Happiest Baby, Verisk Analytics, Inc., DAZN, Federal Communications Commission, Anova Culinary, Sig Sauer, RepairShopr

Converting InfoboxProductLine and finding more pages without infoboxes or cargo... sometime. Bythmusters (talk) 15:44, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Color scheme

The main Sitenotice text is nearly the same color as the link inside of it, making it hard to distinguish where the link is if you haven't clicked the link yet. A larger contrast would be nice, since the notice is going to be up for another 25 days or so. https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&action=edit

This also applies to most of the main page, blue/muddy purple on blue doesn't look the best, but that's a larger undertaking. If the main page is up for redesign it would be nice to take the color contrast into consideration. Bythmusters (talk) 16:15, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Template troubles

So, a lot of the articles with Template:Incomplete and cargo templates that display a box (any but IncidentCargo) have big foreheads right now (see a list of articles with Incomplete here). I did some testing, the Incomplete template itself doesn't have a trailing newline, and none of the cargos have a preceding newline. A <p><br></p> is being added by the parser when the two are put together, and only when they are not on the same line. I've also seen this in the wild with Template:SloppyAI and with Template:Welcome on new user talk pages. Welcome should be a simple edit fix since it's not combined with other templates, but it seems that anytime templates are combined, they must be put on the same line or they will introduce an unintended newline. You can see an instance of Incomplete and SloppyAI together causing problems on Samsung TVs.

Many Wikipedia pages have several templates next to each other without this problem, for example see 2025-2026 Iranian protests. So the problem is solvable in MediaWiki, but I don't know how much work is required to do so. According to Category:Todo, over 700 articles have these banners, which is the majority of the wiki.

If other people think it's important too, I can work on this, but I don't know how to compare this wiki's configuration against stuff in the MediaWiki documentation. Bythmusters (talk) 13:35, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh yeah, some junk from my experimenting that we should delete once the problem is resolved: User:Bythmusters/templatetesting, Qwerty Bythmusters (talk) 13:37, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Do you mean the top has more height than the rest of the box? I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 16:42, 26 January 2026 (UTC)