At a minimum, help text should note this. This is true for things like addwitnessaddress especially.
{
    CWallet * const pwallet = GetWalletForJSONRPCRequest(request);
    if (!EnsureWalletIsAvailable(pwallet, request.fHelp)) {
        return NullUniValue;
    }
    if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() != 1)
        throw std::runtime_error(
            "abandontransaction \"txid\"\n"
            "\nMark in-wallet transaction <txid> as abandoned\n"
            "This will mark this transaction and all its in-wallet descendants as abandoned which will allow\n"
            "for their inputs to be respent.  It can be used to replace \"stuck\" or evicted transactions.\n"
            "It only works on transactions which are not included in a block and are not currently in the mempool.\n"
            "It has no effect on transactions which are already conflicted or abandoned.\n"
            "\nArguments:\n"
            "1. \"txid\"    (string, required) The transaction id\n"
            "\nResult:\n"
            "\nExamples:\n"
            + HelpExampleCli("abandontransaction", "\"1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d\"")
            + HelpExampleRpc("abandontransaction", "\"1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d\"")
        );
    ObserveSafeMode();
    LOCK2(cs_main, pwallet->cs_wallet);
    uint256 hash;
    hash.SetHex(request.params[0].get_str());
    if (!pwallet->mapWallet.count(hash)) {
        throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY, "Invalid or non-wallet transaction id");
    }
    if (!pwallet->AbandonTransaction(hash)) {