Expanding the documentation

Charlie Kravetz cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
Sat Jun 14 15:21:21 UTC 2008


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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:02:29 +0100
Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> 
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:41 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote:
> [...]
> > Like others have said, I like the wiki banners, too.  "Cleanup
> > Required," and, "Style Cleanup," seem to be pretty similar to me,
> > though.  
> > 
> > Would we have any links included to provide further detail about the
> > headings?  Maybe use the bold parts of the heading to link back to a
> > wiki page that describes the banner's purpose in greater detail.
> > 
> > For example, Wikipedia provides a description of what would qualify
> > a page as a Candidate for Speedy Deletion [1].  If we're going to
> > use these headers, we should provide similar information about what
> > they mean.
> > 
> > I think using them is a great idea, though.  :)
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. I've created a new wiki page which sets out
> examples and guidelines for all of the banners so far [1]. Please feel
> free to make changes or add comments to that page.
> 
> Having a link back to an explanatory page is a great idea.
> 
> By the way, "banners" is a crappy name but I couldn't think of
> anything better at the time. How about "Tags" or something similar?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil
> 
> [1] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/WikiBanners
> 

I think most of these look good; shouldn't some kind of "comments
to / email / where or who to send comments to" be added to 'Candidate
for deletion'? As an average user, when I get to a page that states it
may be deleted, who do notify that I find the page useful along with
others still using it?

Thanks,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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