Template:MOS-TRANS

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page relates to gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them, a contentious topic. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page. Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator.

This article should adhere to the gender identity guideline because it contains material about one or more transgender people. Precedence should be given to self-designation as reported in the most up-to-date reliable sources, anywhere in article space, even when it doesn't match what's most common in reliable sources. Any person whose gender might be questioned should be referred to by the pronouns, possessive adjectives, and gendered nouns (for example "man/woman", "waiter/waitress", "chairman/chairwoman") that reflect that person's latest expressed gender self-identification. Some people go by singular they pronouns, which are acceptable for use in articles. This applies in references to any phase of that person's life, unless the subject has indicated a preference otherwise. Former, pre-transition names may only be included if the person was notable while using the name; outside of the main biographical article, such names should only appear once, in a footnote or parentheses. If material violating this guideline is repeatedly inserted, or if there are other related issues, please report the issue to the LGBTQ+ WikiProject, or, in the case of living people, to the BLP noticeboard.

This page is not a forum for general discussion about MOS-TRANS, gender, or sex. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this template. You may wish to ask factual questions about MOS-TRANS, gender, or sex at the Reference desk.

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Usage

• {{MOS-TRANS}}
  • equivalent to the defaults: {{MOS-TRANS|ds=yes|forum=yes|they=yes}}
  • This will display the above 3 boxes which:
    1. Mark the article as a contentious topic under the active arbitration remedies to warn editors to take extra caution when editing such articles.
    2. Explain to editors that care has to be taken to follow our guidelines around deadnaming or misgendering subjects connected to the article.
    3. Shows box informing editors that article talk pages are not a forum.

If neccessary, some customizations can be made to the defaults:

• {{MOS-TRANS|f}}
  • set the gender displayed (options are f for trans women,m for trans men, nb for non-binary people)
• {{MOS-TRANS|nb|they=false}} (omit note about usage of singular they)
• {{MOS-TRANS|m|some additional text to appear inside the not a forum warning box}}
  • Adds some additional text to the notforum box
• {{MOS-TRANS|addct1=at}}
  • Adds an additional contentious topic in addition to the default code for gender and sexuality related topics
  • For a list of codes please see Template:Contentious topics/table
  • If more than one addition topic is needed, they can be appended with continued numbers added to the end of addct in the form of addctX for example:
    • {{MOS-TRANS|addct1=at|addct2=ap}} to append two additional contentious topics to the warning box box
  • Note: This will only display additional codes if the contentious topics box is displayed. It will not be dusplayed if ds=no is set
• {{MOS-TRANS|f|ds=no|forum=no}}
  • hides not a forum warning box
  • hides contentious topic warning - this should typically only be used for technical reasons such as another CTOP box already being present to which the WP:CT/GG code can be added to

Hardcoded shortcut versions

• {{MOS-TW}} – equivalent to {{MOS-TRANS|f|forum=no}} to display trans women in note
• {{MOS-TM}} – equivalent to {{MOS-TRANS|m|forum=no}} to display trans men in note
• {{MOS-NB}} – equivalent to {{MOS-TRANS|nb|forum=no}} to display non-binary people in note

Parameters

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:MOS-TRANS in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for MOS-TRANS

Manual of Style identity guideline talk-page warning.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Gender	1	The self-designated gender of the article subject. will automatically set the text to either trans women (f), trans men (m), or non-binary people (nb). If ommitted will default to transgender people Suggested values f m nb Example f	Line	suggested
Additional text inside NOTFORUM warning	2	Additional text to display inside NOTFORUM warning, such as common discussions related to the topic that may produce heated discussions. Will not display if forum=false	Line	optional
Discretionary sanctions	ds DS	Display the contentious topics warning. Default yes	Boolean	optional
Not a forum	forum Forum	Display the {{Not a forum}} template. Default yes	Boolean	optional
Singular they	they	Show a message about the usage of singular they. Default yes	Boolean	optional
The 1st additional contentious topic code	addct1	An additional contentious topic code which applies to this page. Specified using a shorthand code listed on this template's documentation page.	Line	optional
The 2nd additional contentious topic code	addct2	An additional contentious topic code which applies to this page. Specified using a shorthand code listed on this template's documentation page.	Line	optional
The 3rd additional contentious topic code	addct3	An additional contentious topic code which applies to this page. Specified using a shorthand code listed on this template's documentation page.	Line	optional
The 4th additional contentious topic code	addct4	An additional contentious topic code which applies to this page. Specified using a shorthand code listed on this template's documentation page.	Line	optional
The 5th additional contentious topic code	addct5	An additional contentious topic code which applies to this page. Specified using a shorthand code listed on this template's documentation page.	Line	optional
Small	small	Display the message in a small talk page box. Default no	Boolean	optional
Suppress error	nocat	Don't error when used on a non-talk page. Default false	Boolean	optional

Template editor notice

Please be aware that this template is used on many talk pages (including via the wrappers for trans women, trans men, and non-binary people) and is also used to embed the WP:CT/GG Arbitration Enforcement header into them.

• Care should be taken when making edits to the template itself. Consider testing changes in the /sandbox first and check the /testcases to compare changes, and consider raising a request at the Talk page page to ask for feedback prior to boldly making a change affecting many pages.
• Note that no fundamental changes about the wording of the textbox should be made without consensus to do so as a result of an RfC or similar discussion at central related places such as WP:BLPN or WT:MOSBIO as documented at MOS:GIDINFO with a long history.
• Do not remove or modify the embedded {{Contentious topics/talk notice|gg}} transclusion code if it would result in the contentious topic warning being removed from the article talk pages that are using this or one of its wrappers without alerting the ArbCom clerks at WT:AC/C about such a change beforehand.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:MOS-TRANS/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
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