# New topic template text

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-template-text/8591>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-template-text/8591 "2018-01-25T09:54:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-template-text/8591/1 "2018-01-25T09:54:14Z")

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AFAICT the Discourse engine allows [templates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-would-i-generate-a-template-for-all-topics/78895) for new topics that would replace the “Type here…” we currently have. This could be useful, especially for the _Usage_ category, possibly with something like this:

1. If you are cross-posting (asking this question on other sites), please link those here to avoid duplicating effort.

2. Please [quote your code with backticks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-how-to-quote-code-with-backticks/7530),

3. When applicable, please make an effort to provide a self-contained minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. This will greatly increase the likelihood of getting timely and helpful answers, by helping those who want to help you (if you have large or private data, please generate data randomly).

4. If you are using anything other than the latest stable release for Julia and the packages, please indicate this.

What did I miss?

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-template-text/8591/2 "2018-01-25T17:22:53Z")

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I think this is a good idea, except I’d change the order to 2 3 1 4