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Revision as of 20:32, 26 May 2006 by Quiddity (talk | contribs) (Portal:Browse and Misplaced Pages:Browse are Not the same.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Hi, welcome to Misplaced Pages!
I noticed you have created the Guide to Editing. There are many similar pages such as Help:Editing, Misplaced Pages:How to edit a page, Misplaced Pages:Tutorial and Help:Starting a new page. There are also a number of style guidelines - see my post here, where I propose merging some/all of them. I feel that your guide is unnecessary duplication. Please note there is a Welcoming committee which tries to provide notices to new users such as this:
Welcome!
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Sorry no one has got around to you previously. I felt you might be trying to create something akin to the message above. I have taken the liberty of changing Guide to Editing to use a table I found on another Wikimedia Foundation site. I like it, but don't quite know where it should go on Misplaced Pages, and I thought the page would provide a good location (at least temporarily). If you want your page back, revert my changes. Finally, if you are interested in editing the help pages, consider joining the Misplaced Pages:Help Project. Feel free to talk to me if you need any help whilst editing Misplaced Pages! Gareth Aus 09:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Cheatsheet and sandboxes
Hi, just a cpl things i wanted to mention. I've made some comments on the cheatsheet image issue at Misplaced Pages talk:Quick guide.
And concerning sandbox links, the problem with making numerous individual-per-page sandboxes, is that they're open to vandalism without oversight. So horrific profanity could be left intact for indefinite time periods. This is why it's better to redirect sandbox links to the main sandbox, which gets automatically cleaned every 12 hours: as here. Thanks :) -Quiddity 19:10, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Portal:Browse and Misplaced Pages:Browse are Not the same.
Absolutely :) but they're not Misplaced Pages:Browse by overview or any of the other Misplaced Pages:Category schemes either. There are dozens of ways to access/list/categorize/ontologize the contents of wikipedia, (most are listed at "Category schemes"), but adding additional links to each of them from each page is more confusing than helpful.
Some, like the "List of basic topic lists", are woefully incomplete; and whilst they should be linked from somewhere, so that they can be slowly improved, they shouldnt be linked so prominently at the top of a page like Portal:Browse.
What i meant by my edit summary of "those links break consistent design, there are more suitable templates that could go at the bottom or in the sidebar" was that the links at top are counter to the consistent visual design we are currently using on those pages. It would be better to add a template such as the one that appears at the bottom of Misplaced Pages:Browse. I'll do that now at "Portal:Browse".
I hope that all makes sense to you. Reply here, i'll watchlist for changes. Thanks :) -Quiddity 20:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC)