On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote:
> And back to literal words... I'm really tired of the attitude "since the > rules aren't meant to be taken literally, we won't fix them so that they > make more sense if someone does try to read them literally". Not really so. For example, I spend a huge amount of time<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FT2/Project_contributions>trying to make things make more sense, be more balanced and representative of "how it really is intended to be taken". Just today and yesterday I spent reviewing the interface wordings for RevDelete and Flagged Revisions to try and improve their commonsense-ness -- see my contribs<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20091001134721&limit=50&target=FT2>here and on the flagged rev's test wiki<http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20091001115755&limit=200&target=FT2>for this weeks work. The problem is there comes a point where you can't improve them in terms of definitiveness without them being so long as to defeat easy readability ("tl;dr"). At that point we rely on the reader to figure it out. if you can spot improvements that others haven't, and they reflect the spirit better than the present wording, then Be Bold and see if others agree they are an improvement, and fix them! FT2 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
