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Hi, Colin. I agreed with your 20:22, 26 Dec. response (diff) to this Teahouse question today, including the sensible advice from your PractiseFirst snippet. One thing to note going forward, though: you should always substitute that snippet, thus:
{{subst:User:ColinFine/PractiseFirst}}
and never transclude it ({{User:ColinFine/PractiseFirst}}). The principle underlying this is that Talk pages should not change later when templates do, but should always reflect the words the commenter used at the time. Specifically, the Teahouse or other Talk page should always reflect your words at the moment you made the post, and not be subject to change later on if the template is edited. By transcluding it, the archived discussion will show whatever words are in the current version of PractiseFirst, and not the words of the version when you originally transcluded it.
Substitution exists for precisely this reason: it freezes forever the wording from the version of a template at the moment you made your comment, thus ensuring that the words will not change in the future, when the template does. This is the reason that all warning templates and all welcome templates must *always* be substituted. The same thing applies to PractiseFirst, {{HD/WAAI}}, and all of your other snippets. So, please always use {{subst:User:ColinFine/SnippetName}}. And thanks again for your volunteerism at the Teahouse. Mathglot (talk) 22:28, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm. Thank you, @Mathglot. If I'd thought about it, I would have chosen to transclude, on the grounds that these will only be edited to improve them (and somebody has edited {{HD/WINI}} since I created it). But I see the point about talk pages not changing subsequently.
Just noticed that Pigsonthewing added a doc page to {{HD/WINI}} that says exactly that. If it would help you remember, I can do the same for User:ColinFine/PractiseFirst. It's even possible to set it up so that unsubsted versions get substed later by bot, but I'll have to go remind myself how that's done; but then you wouldn't have to remember. Mathglot (talk) 09:52, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
New Pages Patrol is hosting a one-time, two-month experimental backlog drive aimed at reducing the backlog. This will be a combo drive: both articles and redirects will earn points.
The drive will run from 1 January to 28 February 2026.
The drive is divided into two phases. Participants may take part in either phase or across both phases, depending on availability.
Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled during the drive.
Two-month drive-exclusive barnstars will be awarded to eligible participants.
Each article review earns 1 point, while each redirect review earns 0.2 points.
Streak awards will be granted based on consistently meeting weekly point thresholds.
Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
