Wikipedia:Notification

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WP:NOTIFY

Updated graphics for the Wikimedia Foundation's Notifications tool

Notifications of editors are mandated or recommended in some circumstances. If you are discussing another editor on a

talk page

it makes sense not to do so behind that editor's back. When you nominate a page for deletion, it makes sense to let the editor who created the page know that you would like to have the page they created deleted.

Discussing another editor

If you begin a discussion of another user on a common notice board, it is expected that you will notify the subject user by posting a message on their talk page (and/or through off-wiki email, if the subject has chosen to enable that function). There are two sides to most stories, and

good faith

requires the assumption that the subject of the complaint may have a valuable perspective to contribute.

The posting directions of various administrator noticeboards expressly note the expectation of notification. For example, the Admin's noticeboard requests that and ANI expects that you "inform other users and editors if they are mentioned in a posting, or if their actions are being discussed". Sockpuppetry investigations suggests users opening an investigation "[c]onsider notifying" all accused users.

These warnings, however, are not isolated, unrelated provisions applicable only to the pages containing them: editors are expected to offer the

common sense

are advised.

If a covered posting does not indicate that notification has been completed, other editors should consider checking the subject's talk page for an appropriate notification, and adding one if missing.^[1] Action should not generally be taken on an issue (aside from obvious vandalism and other unambiguous violations of community standards) until the subject has been notified and given a chance to explain their perspective on the matter.

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WP:SIGNUP
. But if you just can't wait, ask another user to notify the defendant, or indicate the notification problem in your original posting so that someone else can do it for you.

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[1] WP:SIGNUP
. But if you just can't wait, ask another user to notify the defendant, or indicate the notification problem in your original posting so that someone else can do it for you.

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Discussing another editor

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