Template:Connected contributor/doc

Usage
This message should be placed only on article talk pages.

This template adds articles to Category:Connected contributors.

To use this template, add this code to an article’s talk page: Where username is the person's Wikipedia username, and article is the article title which will appear in Category:Connected contributors.

Article titles which are people's names may be sorted by surname by presenting the surname first, as in:

The default wording assumes that the editor has not formally declared an interest; the guidance at Conflict of interest is that users are "strongly encouraged—but not actually required—to declare their interests", so there is no need to formally require a contributor to declare themselves - the template itself provides links to relevant guidance to allow the user to make an informed choice regarding declaration.
 * Declared

If the editor has declared a COI, then |declared=yes may be added to the template, and by adding |otherlinks= a link may be provided to the declaration; for example:

This produces:

If the contributor has edited the article, then |editedhere=yes may be added; for example:
 * Edited

This produces:

If the user has been banned, then |banned=yes may be added; for example:
 * Banned user

This produces:

The additional field of banned, edited, declared, etc, may be combined in any order in a template after the user and article fields; for example:
 * Combinations

This produces:

Redirects

 * Notable Wikipedian
 * NWP