User talk:Brandished

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Brandished! I am Themfromspace and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Them From Space 05:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of PLCash

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Editing other people's comments on talk page

Hi, just to let you know, I have reverted your edit to Talk:Time per WP:TALKO. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 07:01, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From the page you linked to:

Editing comments:

... The basic rule – with some specific exceptions outlined below ...

An exception to the "do not edit others comments" rule:

Some examples of appropriately editing others' comments...

Fixing layout errors: This could include moving a new comment from the top of a page to the bottom, adding a header to a comment not having one, repairing accidental damage by one party to another's comments, correcting unclosed markup tags that mess up the entire page's formatting, accurately replacing HTML table code with a wikitable, etc.

I understand the importance of rules, but please understand that many rules cannot be absolute in which case special exceptions are needed, as in this case. I've reverted the page to my last edit. --Brandished (talk) 07:59, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think that what you did, was correcting a layout error? Did the original author (92.29.36.126) make an error by omitting some spaces? If so, what is keeping you from adding       to every paragraph to every section on every talk page? DVdm (talk) 08:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did the original author make an error?

Most likely is my assumption. This is based on:

It was 5-spaces, rather then the 1 that would have been necessary to achieve similar code formatting.
5 spaces is a standard paragraph delimiter in MLA Style. My guess is the original author was unaware of WikiMedia's code formatting that occurs when starting a line with a space and was simply trying to conform to MLA Style.

Do you think that what you did was correcting a layout error?

Yes. The text as it was created an overflow error (on my browser anyways). With the code and blank line, I achieved the same formatting I believed the author was attempting, as how I formatted the text would have matched how it would have appeared to the original author inside the edit page.

My apologies, I assumed with over 500 edits you would have been well aware of the Non-Breaking SPace format code and your original revert was an over-zealous attempt at correcting vandalism.

What is keeping you from adding " " (5-spaces) to every paragraph (with 5-spaces) to every section on every talk page?

Ironically time... and interest. I usually wouldn't bother with something like this, but I made an exception as I thought the author's comment was insightful and didn't want others to miss it due to odd formatting. --Brandished (talk) 10:37, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, OK. I had not looked at the original source, just at the diffs, where the only visible difference was the repeated   which you added. I should have edited the original source to find out what was really happening. You merely corrected the original failed-multi-spaces-attempt. My apologies. DVdm (talk) 11:05, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]