User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/09/15

Sunday 15 September

Ipse dixit

This exchange from Iridescent's talk page. Good to see some clever humour in these dark times.

Some terms could come in handy:

WMF: Bill of attainder

enWP: Quo warranto?

WMF: Ipse dixit (or ukase, if you please).

Kablammo (talk) 19:25, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Also of note: Dipsy brexit (or uk arse, if you please). Martinevans123 (talk) 21:46, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Sure, although while we're in this subject I'd like to register a protest at the use of the term in camera by ArbCom for this case. To someone untrained in legalese, that sounds like the opposite of what it means, as "in front of the camera" would denote a public hearing. Just saying the case will be held in private would be enough. — Amakuru (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

A process which, if not carefully confined, can lead to [a] modern-day version of Camera Stellata. Kablammo (talk) 12:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Diffusing conflict

Wikipedia:Diffusing conflict

Spaces at end of sentences

“to ease editing I'd like to insert an extra space at the end of each sentence (so two spaces between sentences, like you were taught to do in the old days on a typewriter). Of course this doesn't affect the rendered page the reader sees. I know it sounds minor but it makes it just a scrunch easier to scan through and find a passage you're looking for within the jumble of markup with in a paragraph. … Actually, I prefer to put a linebreak wherever a sentence end also has a ref, because I find this really makes finding things easy, but some people find this too radical.” EEng 19:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC) [1] §August 2019 to-do list.

“my guess is that if you put in linebreaks we'll get an infestation of gnomes taking them out again” David Eppstein, ibid.

Aside: noting EEng's use of {{stack}} to place the image next to to another one.

Small edits

Conversation about multiple small edits versus mixed-quality big ones Talk:Moors murders/Archive 20#Editing rate.

Brief history of FA by Iridescent

User talk:Iridescent at 13:13, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Add to list of user pages

(When the list materialises.)

User:FULBERT (Jeffrey Keefer) has a list of boilerplate messages to inform newbies about neutrality, undue weight, link spam, etc.

Quote from Stanton

“They really need to get with the program and see the global encyclopedia forest instead of their nitpicky "give me my jargon or give me death" trees.” – SMcCandlish, [2] a.k.a WP:NOTALEDE, at dot-point "3 August 2007".