CommonQuestions

[Matthew East]

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Hi again,

* Francis Giannaros:
> On Sunday 09 July 2006 16:00, Matthew East wrote:
>> * Francis Giannaros:
>>> Alrighty, well I'm going to be editing the page accordingly now, since
>>> there were no objections.
>> Well, as you can probably gather by the fact that I told you over irc
>> that I objected and the fact that I made the change in the first place,
>> I disagree with you.
> 
> I presumed you didn't have any after my post since several days have past 
> since I sent that mail to the list, but nevermind.

Well, two. But we're all volunteers here so sometimes you need to be
patient about replies...

>> There is really no need to phrase headings in the form of questions, all
>> that happens is that extra words are added which in fact make the text
>> _less_ scannable.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> Before - What is the numbering system of the releases about? What is the
>> next release of Ubuntu?
>>
>> After - Ubuntu releases and version numbers
> 
> Totally agreed, but that's got nothing to do with this table of contents issue 
> (of whether it should have the sub-headings in there or not). 

Well, my view is that it has everything to do with it. I think that
sub-headings which contain long and/or multiple questions aren't useful
on a table of contents, because they aren't scannable. Reducing them to
proper headings would probably make a big difference.

Matt
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