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Despite previous protestations to the contrary, it seems that The Great Deceiver is taking his loss of top spot on the Active Users list quite hard! His latest attempt at regaining top spot is to make lots of unnecessary changes to Tamriel Rebuilt pages that change one way of saying "We don't know where this book is" to another way of saying "We don't know where this book is".
To be fair, I can see that it makes sense to some extent, but there are far better things for TGD to be doing than this!
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As I just explained on the Community Portal (http://www.uesp.net/w/index.php?title=UESPWiki:Community_Portal&curid=76158&diff=548215&oldid=547282), this is something that has been wrong for a while.
ReplyDeleteThe same category was being used for "This might be wrong", "We don't know" and "It's definitely not there".
Since the last use was restricted to TR3 (as far as I can see) and I added all the TR3 books I didn't think there was any need to ask before changing it. OTOH, the other use was common across all namespaces so I thought I had better ask before I changed anything.
Seriously, Tiber, if this is the best you've got at the moment it's time to let the blog go.
But what if somebody doesn't know about all the templates and wants to say simply "I don't know this"? What should they use?
ReplyDeleteI *did* say I could see that it made sense to some extent, but are you not complicating things too much?
Possibly, but I don't think so. The new system lets us be more exact while still letting newer users add rough information.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, your original post missed some potential criticisms of me - please be more bitchy next time. There's also the Stub and Incomplete templates, so you could claim that it's far more complex than even YOU suggest. It's not, though.
Stubs are pages that contain almost no useful information. They're marker pages only fractionally better than a red link.
Incomplete pages are ones that have most of the details included but need expansion of major sections.
Pages Needing Data would be for pages that don't need *text* adding, but need factual information. For instance, until I added the health and magicka formulae to various OB pages recently, those pages would be in this category.
Pages Needing Verification is for pages where people have added information that other editors don't believe (while Assuming Good Faith).
A new user probably won't be adding infoboxes but if they do, the page will be added to "Pages Needing Data" under my suggestion. That will flag it for further action by other editors who may choose to reassign it to one of the other categories.
I'm going to copy this post, along with extra explanation, to the CP. You can join the debate there, Tiber.
Okay... maybe it does make sense after all. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
ReplyDeleteConversing with yourself? You *must* be crazy.
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