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→readability and quality of articles - quoting statements from the forum useful?: About verbosity, diffuseness and structure. And a warning...
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Wouldn't be a simple footer with a link to the statement better than inserting quotes? | Wouldn't be a simple footer with a link to the statement better than inserting quotes? | ||
--[[User:HHS|HHS]] ([[User talk:HHS|talk]]) 09:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC) | --[[User:HHS|HHS]] ([[User talk:HHS|talk]]) 09:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC) | ||
: Hi HHS, assuming that you are referring to my edits: those are primarily about coding issues, so it may not be obvious to you if/how those are useful, but there are a number of very concrete features that have materialized by "bootstrapping" things like this over the last years. | : Hi HHS, assuming that you are referring to my edits: those are primarily about coding issues, so it may not be obvious to you if/how those are useful, but there are a number of very concrete features that have materialized by "bootstrapping" things like this over the last years. | ||
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: All this doesn't mean however that I wouldn't agree with your comments on having a quality standard established. Or that I wouldn't appreciate your contributions. --[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 14:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC) | : All this doesn't mean however that I wouldn't agree with your comments on having a quality standard established. Or that I wouldn't appreciate your contributions. --[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 14:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC) | ||
:: I am a strong believer in that a text (including illustrations), and more so a large collection of text like for example this wiki, should be both descriptive, concise and well structured. As for articles being concise, I am not a big fan of all the quotes, though I can see ''some'' of them useful. There is a lot to say about lengths of articles, sections and paragraphs, and the sometimes unfortunately combined lack of both being not very concise and not very descriptive, that really, really does not help reading those articles. There is also a lot to say about structure in articles by the use of section and subsection headings and in particular between articles. | |||
:: Many articles strongly related to each other leave a lot to be wished for. There is often a huge amount of overlap and in addition there is often a horrendous need for having to read through related articles that in turn would require reading through the first article and then some to be understandable. I consider it totally unacceptable. Together with the diffuse verbosity of some articles it makes it really hard to penetrate the subject in question. | |||
:: As for my many small edits with rather large summaries, I have my preferences set up so that my edits by default is marked as minor. While it may not be obvious at first, those edits can quickly be hidden by clicking ''Hide minor edits'' at the top of a history page. Unless I forget to uncheck ''This is a minor edit'', only edits that will be visible, in particular in articles, will not be submitted as minor edits. | |||
:: ''Finally, as for the a bit too heated debates about edits on this wiki (dare I say quibbles) that has little or nothing to do with the discussion pages they were posted on, I have actually considered putting an identical message on a few users discussion pages asking them to '''take a few steps back''', '''calm down''' and consider '''what''' they have posted, '''where''' they posted (i.e. will a post there be useful), and '''if''' that really had to be posted, '''as well as blocking each user for 24 hours''' (three users I will not name, you can figure out who you are, and I pretty much do not care who started).'' | |||
:: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 17:09, 17 August 2014 (UTC) | |||
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