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[edit] Help desk tools

It would be nice to have a set of templates containing boilerplate answer text for some frequently asked questions on the Help desk. I'm editing some notes about this:

• User:Teratornis/Help desk notes#Templates

To start, I want to compile a comprehensive list of all templates like this that we have now. I know only of these:

• {{Resolved}}
• {{RD1}}, {{RD2}}, {{RD3}}

Does anybody know of any more? Is there a suitable category for such templates? --Teratornis 20:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I found Category:Wikipedia standard response templates. --Teratornis 01:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I created Category:Help desk templates. --Teratornis (talk) 18:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Provide a link

I removed the obsolete content from this section, which nobody seems to follow any more now, namely to format links off to the right side of answers. Virtually all Help desk volunteers format their links inline, and I think that's the more efficient method all around. I also renamed the section to "Provide links" since most answers contain more than one link. --Teratornis (talk) 19:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)