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Wikipedia talk:Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia talk:Policies and guidelines

Add some images

I talked to someone a little while ago who did some work with new editors. One of the problems she identified was that all of the policy, guideline, and help pages look the same. The result is that everything blends together, and they can't remember it. This is actually two problems:

  1. They all look like Wikipedia articles, and
  2. They all look like each other.

The first probably isn't under our immediate control, but the second is.

The problem makes sense (the human brain keeps track of different colors, unexpected things, little jokes, etc. better than an oblong gray blur of text), and I think that we should take advantage of the way the brain works by adding a picture or colored box here or there. I'm not suggesting that every policy should have a big picture in the lead, but these are all good things:

If this makes sense to you, then please consider adding an image occasionally, whenever you find a page (or section) that could use a little lightening and anchoring, and an image that is a good fit for it. If you're interested in this idea but not sure where to start, then Wikipedia:Image use policy should probably have an image to illustrated every major point. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:01, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

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Brackets are used by Google Sheets to identify notes. Wikipedia displays [1] as a citation so it is made unclear as to their functionality. Brackets are used inside the word application to denote an endnote. This is a special hardship on an artists or a writer. 174.214.48.187 (talk) 20:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Lifestyle of people

Detail aware how they are and name birthday and job private. 24.223.82.124 (talk) 17:08, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, but I can't parse that as an English sentence. What are you trying to say? Phil Bridger (talk) 18:45, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Interpretation of "widespread consensus"

I need some help with closing a discussion that IMHO hinges on the interpretation of the words "widespread consensus" in WP:PGCHANGE. Please reply at this Discussions for discussion thread. Thank you. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 16:57, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 25 March 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved per snowball clause . (closed by non-admin page mover) – Hilst [talk] 16:04, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines → Wikipedia:Guidelines and policies – The reason for this controversial move request is so that the topics are listed in alphabetical order, per WP:AND, and because I think the words 'guidelines' and 'policies' sound clearer and make more sense in that order. PK2 (talk) 09:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

  • Oppose Solution in search of a problem. Policies are first because they are more important than guidelines. * Pppery * it has begun... 13:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Oppose per the above !vote. –Gluonz talk contribs 13:55, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Oppose per above. I'm no fan of the status quo but in this case we're not talking about a substantive change. And the proposal will affect years of practice by thousands of editors and links to subsections. -
Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:45, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Weak oppose as mentioned policies generally are more important and come first thus being a more logical order. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:51, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Oppose Alphabetical is a default ordering if there isn't a conventional or more logical ordering. More important first is the usual convention when things differ in importance. Anyway you should brought this up twenty years ago when the page was created ;-) NadVolum (talk) 19:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Even more important is that editors who have been around for some time know this by the current name or abbreviation. No good reason has been provided to deviate from the status quo and I can see none. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:56, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Rename per referenced policy. Writehydra (talk) 22:35, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Oppose - as said above, policies carry more weight than guidelines, hence they come first. estar8806 (talk) ★ 20:38, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Oppose Per others, as policies are more important. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Oppose, per above logic and descriptors. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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