--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 6. September 2016 22.00.54 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> ... is going to quickly turn into a clusterf*** if people don't step >> in sharp-ish and help out. > > Well, I added a note in the talk page first of all, which more or less says > that people should review edits and deploy "citation needed" rather than pick > fights on the talk page. I guess it's probably unwise for you to do major > edits for now because that will just upset them even more, but on the positive > side, the page isn't in bad shape right now anyway. only because i reverted a bunch of factually inaccurate stuff!! > It would be good to put a prominent glossary of terms somewhere that can then > be used to enforce consistency on the Wikipedia page and throughout the other > documentation. I can't find an obviously-located glossary page at the moment. > And since the standard mentions "CPU Card" whereas the Wikipedia page mentions > "Computer Card", people get confused without such guidance. yeahyeah no this is great stuff - i need to add alex's clarification about naming as well > Anyway, I've since added a bunch of citations: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EOMA-68&oldid=738088717 > > I hope that other editors can source their material and maybe even widen the > sources to other sites than the ones I had to hand. yeahyeah. > Paul > > P.S. A stupid bot caused an edit conflict on the page, and I got the useless > MediaWiki exhortation to merge my edit with the conflicting one (great when > you've got two plain text widgets and nothing else to help you) and not to > just overwrite the existing page text with my own. But it's actually easier to > do an overwrite, save the page, and then to see the differences and fix up if > necessary. Of course, the bot was just adding a date to a "citation needed" > tag, that being a top priority task to ensure maximum page quality, naturally. that's happened a lot... i do edits on sections, one at a time, now, because of that, so as not to lose too much / get into too much hassle. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
