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Edit Warring
Hi, Please take your issues to the talkpage, I'm not fussed who's right or wrong point is you've both gone over
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Security and Maintenance
Hey. Look, what I am going to say is just a tip from an old timer to another; feel free to ignore it, no hard feelings.
Good beneficiary actions in Wikipedia have previously been stopped and banned because the person doing them gave a bad impression. For example, Archive.is is an awesome service but it was banned here for a very long time, because its maintainer did fishy stuff that put everyone into skeptical mode. See? A good thing got banned because it rubbed people the wrong way.
Let's assume
That said, Windows 10 is a soup in which competing components have co-existed for three years now:
FleetCommand (Speak your mind!) 22:39, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- @FleetCommand: A cursory review of the edit history for that article will show that I didn't rename the article. Someone else did that. All I did was observe that the article name didn't match the lead section, so I thought, hey, here's something to do (because I care about good lead sections), and I fixed it up. I don't care much one way or the other what that article is named right now. Reality is, "Secure and Maintenance" will be removed in a future Windows 10 version and the article will get renamed then. Warren -talk- 00:35, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, yeah. That's the worst thing that could happen: People have negative attitude towards what you do but that's not even your fault; somebody else (in this case, Imgif) tripped their tripwire. But that doesn't mean you can't do anything about it. Okay, for a long time, I thought what I am going to say is a nasty trick, but it turns out it isn't. When someone does something stupid, like what Imgif did, you can become part of those people who have gone into defensive mood. Then, you show them good quality work and actually become their hero. It is not nasty or a trick because, what you do is good quality work in lieu of a consensus you yourself suggested. Becoming the hero is just a consequence. FleetCommand (Speak your mind!) 04:50, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Removal of Content from Darvin
I noticed that you had reverted my changes to the article
]- @WP:AFD and see what the community thinks of those beliefs. Warren -talk- 17:49, 25 December 2017 (UTC)]
Orphaned non-free image File:Windows XP Event Viewer.png
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Your signature
Just as an FYI, <span style="color: X">[[A]]</span>
will not apply the desired color to the link. What you want to do is move the span inside the displayed text portion of the link e.g. [[A|<span style="color: X">B</span>]]
.
With your signature, that would be going from:
<b><span style="color:#1018ff;font-family:Zapfino,Monotype Corsiva;"> [[User:Warren|Warren]]</span> [[User talk:Warren|-talk-]]</b>
-> Warren -talk-
to something like:
<b>[[User:Warren|<span style="color:#1018ff;font-family:Zapfino,Monotype Corsiva;">Warren</span>]] [[User talk:Warren|-talk-]]</b>
-> Warren -talk-
--Izno (talk) 14:57, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. The colour did work when I first created it, mind you this was over 10 years ago. Warren -talk- 15:29, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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TfD for Template:MacOS derivations
Hello
As you are one of the top ten contributors to the
To summarize the long conversation there (and the changes that happened afterwards), IMHO, this navbox:
- Is redundant to the {{MacOS derivations}} offers can be integrated into the former via editing.
- Diseminates unreferenced information. A navbox should only help navigate.
As such, it should either be deleted or merged. Currently, this discussion is only attended by the template's creator, and one other anonymous editor (IP) who doesn't have any other contributions to Wikipedia.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 07:41, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Nomination for merging of Template:Mac OS History
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Boldface
Regarding your revision on
- @MOS:BOLD:
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- I have bolded the part that you need to understand. There are other articles that point to sections of the Power Mac G4 article, based on the name of each generation of the product. This justifies the bolding of the Power Mac G4's various names.
- Also, I will repeat the reminder you've already received that editing articles to change one style to another is not appropriate behaviour on the encyclopedia. Is this going to be an ongoing problem with you? I hope not. Wikipedia needs productive editors who curate and improve content, not people who waste time lecturing experienced editors on style guidelines they haven't read. — Warren. ‘ talk , 02:04, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
- You’re fully right. I didn’t know this since MOS:BOLDTITLEalso mentions this so that others won’t miss this information like I did.
- This matter isn’t about style in the same sense. What you linked to was a post about spaces in headings, which don’t change the appearance of the article outside source editing mode. I don’t see how it’s relevant.
- Thanks for explaining! I’ve reverted my revisions on talk contribs 02:09, 3 June 2018 (UTC)]
- You’re fully right. I didn’t know this since
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Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox OS component
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RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles
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