User talk:Guy Harris/Archives/2019/12

Nova

Can you do a once-over of the Nova article? There were interspersing edits. I'm done with the history section for now, but I'll return for the assembler section later. Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:17, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Question mark in proposed title

From Wikipedia:Requested moves##Requesting a single page move Replace NewName with the requested new name of the page (or with a question mark, if you want more than one possible new name to be considered). Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:50, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

@Chatul: It does not, however, say "Replace NewName with a suggested new name of the page, followed by a question mark", which is what you did. That makes it look as if the suggestion is to rename the page to Sector (computing)?, rather than to rename it to something to be determined. If NewName is just a question mark, the template expands to text that says

It has been proposed in this section that <the page> be renamed and moved somewhere else, with the name being decided below.

whereas if you add a question mark at the end of NewName, the template expands to text that says

It has been proposed in this section that <the page> be renamed and moved to NewName?

so the former works but the latter doesn't. There does not appear to be a mechanism to get it to say something such as

It has been proposed in this section that <the page> be renamed and moved to NewName, or somewhere else, with the name decided below.

The documentation for {{Requested move}} suggests, for that case, putting something such as "The name should be either "move" or "rename", let's discuss which is better." into the template as an argument to the "reason" parameter. Guy Harris (talk) 17:32, 17 December 2019 (UTC)