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The UW-M links only link to the redirect page. (Problem resolved)

University of Wisconsin

I have reverted Miaers' wikilink b/c it does not actually go to where he thinks it goes. The University of Wisconsin is redirected to UW-Madison, which makes linking the first instance in that sentence a mistake. As there is no DAB page, there is no reason to have University of Wisconsin wikilinked in that sentence. Please do not re-revert it as it only will serve to confuse. Cheers, PaddyM 22:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Miaers

This is a copy of the discussion I had with Miaers on my talk page:

Please stop moving pictures around in the article. They are placed on the top to avoid unnecessary blank spaces. Removing reference is vandalism. The dates you wikified are unnecessary. They are totally unrelated with the contents of the article. Miaers 21:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

All full dates should be wikied, the pictures running down the side in the article cause problems when viewing the page in Safari. The edit buttons for each section get pushed to the end of the article. I tried to put each image at the correct point in the article. Paul/T+ 21:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

That is not true. You should try to avoid unnecessary wikify according to MOS. Those photos are quite fine. Please don't move around again. Miaers 21:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is.
If a date includes both a month and a day, then the date should almost always be linked to allow readers' date preferences to work, displaying the reader's chosen format.
As for the photos, again, when viewing the page in Safari the edit buttons get messed up. This is not "fine". Paul/T+ 21:30, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Please read Misplaced Pages:Only make links that are relevant to the context. Nobody believe your story. If it does not work, it doesn't work either way. Miaers 21:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

From that link:
Because of the date preference formatting MediaWiki software feature, "how" to link and "when" to link dates can not be treated independently one from the other. Unrelated to that software issue, there is no general consensus that the habit of linking separate years (that are date indications that only consist of a "year") should be abandoned, although most Wikipedians disfavour that habit currently. Details about when and how to link dates can be found in Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates.
Regarding the pictures, if they are separated within each section, the edit links work correctly. An even better way to deal with the problem would be to put all the photos in a gallery in their own section. I'll try and mockup an example of that quickly. Paul/T+ 21:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

No bother. It works fine on Macs here. I think it your own computer problem. The current arrangement is a gallary itself. Miaers 22:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I should warn you that if you revert the article one more time you will be in violation of the WP:3RR. The problem isn't limited to Safari on my end either, I see the same thing in Camino as well. At the very end of the article you will see ... when the pictures go down the right side of the page. Paul/T+ 22:10, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, I'm not removing references. You don't need the whole reference every time you use it, that is why the references have names, so you can just refer to the name. The actual citation only needs to be in the article once. If you look at the actual article you would see this. Paul/T+ 22:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

The 3RR is not appliable to problematic images. The previous reference has information about how to add references. It is much better than yours. Anyway, I'll have you reported for an incident. Miaers 22:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I've copied this discussion to the talk page. Lets continue this discussion there.Paul/T+ 22:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I should probably point out that Miaers reported me. (What did I do? I have no idea.) In response I posted his reverts to the 3RR noticeboard. Paul/T+ 00:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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