https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60358
--- Comment #6 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Ricordisamoa from comment #5) > VisualEditor should only make edits easier, I agree. > not restrict the users' capabilities. I think this is a false dichotomy. > As long as the wikitext editor allows removing required fields from > templates (and it should, indeed), VE should too. The wikitext editor lets you do lots of things that are stupid. VisualEditor's job is to make it easy to make good content, not easy to make broken pages. :-) > Sometimes the TemplateData information may be incorrect, Then the TemplateData should be fixed. > or a set of fields may be mutually exclusive (and yet one of them would > be required). That doesn't make sense. "Required" means "the template will die horribly if you don't include this". It is *not* a "we'd like you to fill this in" – that's what "suggested" is for. Most templates will have no 'required' fields. > Sometimes a user may want to remove a wrong value, and a template may > show a warning for missing arguments (always better than wrong data). If the template outputs an error, that's probably a required parameter. > Instead, a warning should be shown when a required parameter is going to be > removed. I disagree, for the reasons above. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
