Confusing
Regarding the last sentence of #2: That's the very issue. I don't think the template does, in fact, give any "hints to translators about what… could be checked"—or at least not sufficient "hints". Instead of just listing the different possibilities, it seems like you could link to pages that could be used to "diagnose" which reason is the appropriate one. Anyway, as you probably already know by now, I have invited other opinions about this.
Buyt you don't suggest any other link. For now only that link was given in the existing pages, from which there are several indications and an explicit request to contact the support.
Which "better" or additional link do you suggest in this message ? May be we can add a "reason=" parameter to the template, allowing to give additional or more precise hints ?
For the record:
- I don't have any suggestions for better links because I am not very familiar with this wiki, so I would have to do more research to find good pages to link to. I was hoping other users who are more familiar with the wiki would have some good ideas.
- I will not be adding or modifying any non-English messages in the template because I do not speak any language except English.
- Yes, adding a
reason=parameter does seem like a good idea.
And finally: I never said English was the only language provided by the template (something you claimed elsewhere). In fact, I used the phrase "the warning (in English, anyway)" here in order to explicitly allude to the fact that English was not the only language in the template (something I was anticipating you might mention in your reply) and to indicate that the English message was the only one I was talking about. I put "English" in parentheses in the phrase "the (English) message" on your talk page for exactly the same reason (meaning: the message is not only in English but that's the version I am talking about). Sorry that you misinterpreted this, but it's really beside the point, since any changes made to the English message could be replicated to the other languages in the template in the same way the original message was.