User talk:2001:18E8:3:1087:F000:0:0:3FE

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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 04:43, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User 2001:18E8:3:1087:F000:0:0:3FE posted a message

Today (Thu 13 Jan 2022) you posted the following on User_talk:71.94.235.196:

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Out of respect, I won't repeat my previous recommendation, and I apologize if I came across as rude before; however, it is important that this template be substituted, not transcluded, when used in section headings.
2001:18E8:3:1087:F000:0:0:3FE (talk) 01:31, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your apology. The more respectful, less abrupt tone was enough to get me to look again at the {{anchor}} documentation, this time more closely. Your first message (which I deleted) was, quite frankly, not at all helpful. If you want to make editorial recommendations to other users, do not post them before you have logged in to some identifiable user ID. Anonymous users really have no standing to critique or guide other users.

In addition to being posted anonymously, the message was strange and obscure. The words "transclusion" and "substitute" were not, and frankly still are not a part of my working vocabulary. So the deleted message looked like a random crank- or troll-posting. I really had no idea what you were trying to say, nor what article you were writing in reference to, so it was not even clear that it had anything to do with me. I only get the user ID 71.94.235.196 randomly assigned, depending when and where I happen to have log into the internet.

A quick glance last time at the {{anchor}} documentation did not clear up what your issue was. I would recommend that a much more effective message would be

"For technical reasons, please always use {{subst:anchor|name_of_anchor}} instead of just plain {{anchor|name_of_anchor}} when inserting anchors in headings.

with a linked reference to technical stuff. 71.94.235.196 (talk) 02:03, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]