Difference between revisions of "User talk:Xenocidic"

Revision as of 01:01, 24 August 2008

My schedule

I probably won't be back until late afternoon, so you're on your own. You have a good idea how I think and feel about things, and/or what the priorities are, now. If there's anything you think I might want to discuss first before you overhaul something, we can discuss it tonight. Have a nice day! --FeralKitty (talk) 12:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Alright. At the present time my main "meta" concern is that users are forced to edit an entire article (including up to 5 platform/type tabs) if they just want to change a specific section of a single game. Solutions would be to remove the __NOEDITSECTION__ altogether, or to include an "edit this tab" button on all tabs. This is problematic without split namespaces and transclusion because the section number that signifies each main =first level tab= is arbitrary. So the options are as follows:

• Leave it as is. Users are forced to edit an entire article to change a single value and may get turned off by the enormous amount of wikicode. They'll also probably change the wrong value for the wrong platform and may mess up the tabs.
• Hard code edit this tab buttons which zero in on the =First level headers=. Problematic because new headers will force us to change the section tab and different articles will have different locations for these tabs. If we go this rouute, it should probably be simplified by an {{editthistab|X}} template: <div align="right"><big>[http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title={{PAGENAME}}&action=edit&section={{{1}}} '''edit this tab''']</big></div>
• Split articles off into separate namespaces as proposed at User talk:Jimmcq. Each article has an "edit this tab" button. (Preview at User:Xenocidic/Reddhott2) or Mousezilla)
• Re-introduce edit section tabs. Users can edit sections and they're shown as little wikicode as possible if they're just editing a section of pricing, for example. we don't have to split off into different namespaces or worry about editthistab buttons.

I'll get to work on those tasks you set for me, let me know what you think about this issue at your convenience. –xenocidic (talk) 13:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

If there were some way to retain the tabs but have users viewing only the content they needed, they wouldn't be pulling down images for content they won't be looking at (i.e. other platform images). we don't even really need separate defined namespaces, it can work with the article prefixes right away, in my opinion - if we can figure out the tabbing. It would also solve the problem that {{link}} introduced so that the page they are viewing was indeed bold in the navbox. –xenocidic (talk) 17:15, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Stop, now

Let me be exceptionally blunt. You have the habit of moving/duplicating/replicating conversations from one location to another, some of which have been from my user space.

First, stop. Period.

Second, my user_talk discussions aren't there for you to manage, organize, snip, or copy to your user space.

I'm frankly tired of the hundreds of edits that move and/or copy this to that, over the past few days. I suggest you be patient and let us continue the discussion when Jim is back, and stop taking liberties with this site's discussions or my user space.

This is probably a good time for you to voluntarily log for the night, ok? --FeralKitty (talk) 07:55, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Maybe this wiki is too big for the both of us. best of luck, –xenocidic (talk) 08:01, 24 August 2008 (UTC)