User talk:Gazza: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:45, 2 May 2007

I've made the following changes:

All links to users had the User: bit inserted.
I checked to see if the User page already existed under a variation of the linked name.
- Please create redirects instead at the targets of the links to the appropriate User: pages. See updated how-to-play. Thanks much for your patience and understanding.
By doing this, I could go along and put "..." on the User pages. This stops the names from appearing in red, but more importantly, removes that link from the Wanted pages, leaving a cleaner look at really what are the wanted pages.
- It is better that the links remain red. Users (or others) may never figure out that they need to or should replace the "...".
The Wanted pages list went from ~120 down to ~50.
- It's ok to have a high "wanted pages list".
The "..." might encourage those users to put something meaningful on their User page.
- I doubt it. If anything, the absence of red links to their names will make it *less obvious* that they should add something to their User page. Tantek 17:45, 1 May 2007 (PDT) (for above nested comments also, please feel free to remove all my comments here and rewrite your user page accordingly.)
If they do, then the links on the various discussion pages become more useful.

Note that no links were removed from any pages (that's for someone else with more authority than me to do), just tweaked.

--Gazza 06:10, 1 May 2007 (PDT)

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 * All links to users had the User: bit inserted.
 * I checked to see if the User page already existed under a variation of the linked name.
+** Please create redirects instead at the targets of the links to the appropriate User: pages. See updated [[how-to-play]].  Thanks much for your patience and understanding.
 * By doing this, I could go along and put "..." on the User pages. This stops the names from appearing in red, but more importantly, removes that link from the Wanted pages, leaving a cleaner look at really what '''are''' the wanted pages.
+** It is better that the links remain red.  Users (or others) may never figure out that they need to or should replace the "...".
 * The Wanted pages list went from ~120 down to ~50.
+** It's ok to have a high "wanted pages list".
 * The "..." might encourage those users to put something meaningful on their User page.
+** I doubt it.  If anything, the absence of red links to their names will make it *less obvious* that they should add something to their User page. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:45, 1 May 2007 (PDT) (for above nested comments also, please feel free to remove all my comments here and rewrite your user page accordingly.)
 * If they do, then the links on the various discussion pages become more useful.