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We currently have two custom close reasons for the main site: one about translations and proofreading and one telling question askers to first consult a dictionary. Since these close reasons were created, an important change regarding close reasons has taken place: it is now possible to define different texts for different audiences or roles who are viewing or reviewing the closed question. Our current custom close reasons still employ the old format, in which everyone sees the same message.

More specifically, we have a close reason that goes as follows:

Please look up the meaning of words or expressions in a dictionary first. If you did so and found nothing satisfactory, mention that in your question. Do give context for where you heard or saw the word.

Using the new format for custom close reasons, we can define different formulations for different audiences or roles, to wit:

• a brief description: the bold header for the close reason (at most 100 characters).
• usage guidance: the text that will appear in the close menu, advising people when to use the close reason.
• the close description: the text that will be shown to everyone in the post notice and should be relatively short.
• the post owner guidance: text that appears in the post notice and is how the question owner (or OP) should fix the question (if possible).
• the privileged user guidance: information for users with close privilege regarding what the close reason is.

The goal of this question is to gain consensus on what the audience-specific texts should be for the "please check a dictionary first" close reason. If or when we have defined these new texts, we can contact a CM to edit them into the current close reason. (Simply creating a new close reason and deleting the old one would work technically, but may mess up the close-reason statistics and have unintended consequences for questions that were closed in the past.)

I will post my own suggestions as an answer. Please vote and provide feedback. This should be reviewed widely so as to represent a community consensus. (For similar posts like this one, see Academia SE, Language Learning SE, Science Fiction & Fantasy SE and Literature SE. Meta SE does not appear to have a post about this.)

We currently have two custom close reasons for the main site: one about translations and proofreading and one telling question askers to first consult a dictionary. Since these close reasons were created, an important change regarding close reasons has taken place: it is now possible to define different texts for different audiences or roles who are viewing or reviewing the closed question. Our current custom close reasons still employ the old format, in which everyone sees the same message.

More specifically, we have a close reason that goes as follows:

Please look up the meaning of words or expressions in a dictionary first. If you did so and found nothing satisfactory, mention that in your question. Do give context for where you heard or saw the word.

Using the new format for custom close reasons, we can define different formulations for different audiences or roles, to wit:

• a brief description: the bold header for the close reason (at most 100 characters).
• usage guidance: the text that will appear in the close menu, advising people when to use the close reason.
• the close description: the text that will be shown to everyone in the post notice and should be relatively short.
• the post owner guidance: text that appears in the post notice and is how the question owner (or OP) should fix the question (if possible).
• the privileged user guidance: information for users with close privilege regarding what the close reason is.

The goal of this question is to gain consensus on what the audience-specific texts should be for the "please check a dictionary first" close reason. If or when we have defined these new texts, we can contact a CM to edit them into the current close reason. (Simply creating a new close reason and deleting the old one would work technically, but may mess up the close-reason statistics and have unintended consequences for questions that were closed in the past.)

I will post my own suggestions as an answer. Please vote and provide feedback. This should be reviewed widely so as to represent a community consensus. (For similar posts like this one, see Academia SE, Language Learning SE, Science Fiction & Fantasy SE and Literature SE. Meta SE does not appear to have a post about this.)

Update 07.08.2021: Tag status-review added. A CM will be contacted to help us making the necessary changes.