Help:User warnings

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User warnings are tiny templates which can be used by admin (and others) to advise users of things they're doing which violate. The idea for this system arose from a forum discussion, where it was decided that brief template messages placed on user pages would be the way forward. The final form of this thing arises mainly from an idea supplied by sulfur as an example of things going on at memoryalpha:Memory Alpha, as well as the current state of WWikipedia's user warning project. However it does retain a good deal of "TARDIS flair".

The system revolves around a template called {{hint}}. Parameters are added to that template to call different messages into life.