(07-16-2021, 07:24 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: While I have no problems with a page that starts with a "please format your request like this" layout under which requests are just typed in, we all know from long experience that if a user has a chance to ignore such a thing, they will. Is there a way to do an actual fill-in-the-blanks submission form with required fields that will automatically alert the staff to the request? (EDIT: I should probably know this, but I'm so much a content guy that I've only made the barest looks under the hood.)
Well, the thing about bots is that the user is going to want to inform us. According to the proposed rules, any unauthorized bot job is grounds for immediate permaban, and thus the onus of the new rules would encourage them to flag us down. Wikipedia talk pages have a notify style template to give people a heads up someone wants their attention, we could include those for active staff in the boilerplate for the request to ensure staff sees it.
Also, Damian Yerrick has a salient question worth some thought:
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Blog:Propo...comment-76