MediaWiki talk:Returnto

What is the point of this message? The $1 is apparently replaced with Main Page, which never seems appropriate. Would it be better to change the $1 to [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]? Superm401 - Talk 21:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

It appears underneath the source of the page when you try to edit a protected page – 86.140.176.154 11:01, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Protected edit request

Enclose this message in <span id="mw-returnto"> ... </span> tags, so that its appearence may be customized using CSS. (If it turns out that this message only displays as plain text, this won't work and will have to be reverted, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't). Thanks – 86.140.176.154 11:01, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Y Done —METS501 (talk) 16:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Please don't break this

User:Mets501's edits broke the entire functioning of the returnto message, which is to include a link back to some particular page, usually the source page of some action. This caused bugzilla:11339.

Please don't override that link again. If you think some uses are listing the Main Page instead of the correct link, please report _that_ as a bug so the software can be fixed; don't just break every other use of it. :) --brion 19:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was unaware that this was used in multiple locations and not just in the bottom of "view source" pages. Sorry again. —METS501 (talk) 20:31, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Can we get that functionality reintroduced back to the rollback function? El_C 20:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Period

I've deleted the period, so its not included in my copy paste when using rollback. Revert if need be. Mercury 13:59, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I've reverted your change; without the period, Special:Userlogout, and the confirmation screen after Special:Userlogin, both become grammatically incorrect (and possibly other pages as well); the 'return to' link looks strange on those pages after a lot of complete sentences when it isn't a complete sentence itself. --ais523 16:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Punctuation

Please add a period at the end — Return to $1. — because as an imperative, it's a complete sentence and thus needs punctuation. Nyttend (talk) 13:12, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit protected}} template. In the past, the period, although initially present, has been removed, re-added and removed again. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Please look at WP:MOS — broad consensus holds that sentences must end with periods or other punctuation. If you disagree with this, please read the sources in Full stop or any grammar book. You'll also note that mine isn't the first complaint on this subject at this talk page, and the only other comment on the subject says "revert if needed". Basic grammar says that it's indeed needed. Nyttend (talk) 14:59, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I've decided to make this change per WP:BRD because as far as I can tell, User:NJA made the change in 2010 without any discussion. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:32, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Make the linktext to the return page bigger?

This is often the most important element of a page desribing what has just happened when a user is changing contexts, logging in, etc. In those cases it would be more friendly and clear for the text to be at 250% or so of normal font size, or enclosed in a div with background color -- I sometimes have to hunt for the link even though it's the only thing I am looking for on the result page and I know the link happens to be there. (exacerbating this problem, already-viewed links are often less visible in browser skins than new links, and the user has certainly already visited the page linked to). +sj + 00:30, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I've reverted your change for now. There should be some discussion of the size first; my first reaction was "why is that so large?" (It might be better to do this on an individual basis through preferences or CSS customization. Thoughts? --Ckatz^chat_spy 06:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Bolding

{{editprotected}} I don't see the point in all the text being bolded. Perhaps just the $1 bit, but all of it looks odd. how do you turn this on 14:15, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

No consensus either way at the moment. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:08, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

This message currently does not support html/wikicode

Can someone change it back to: Return to $1. temporarily? --Splarka (rant) 09:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done Q ^{T C} 09:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Link to the watchlist

It would be helpful if the "Return to..." message after a successful login included a link to the user's watchlist. When I log in from another computer or after some break, I'd like to first check my watchlist. I'm not sure though whether the message doesn't show also after other actions when this would be redundant. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 06:45, 1 June 2012 (UTC)