grub2 pages

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)  
I suddenly felt like i might have encouraged people to change headings without them really realising the implications.  I've not seen you changing headings so far or if you have they were good anyway.  Some headings are almost essays in their own right and really should be cut down to 1 or 2 words.  The ones that are all lower-case don't bother me much (a little but not too much) but all upper-case annoys me.  

One  problem with perpetually shouting is that if you need to step it up from there then you have no-where to go.  Also it's not very friendly and we are aiming to be welcoming and friendly imo.  Again it is probably something i have done too but later try to correct it.  

Somewhere there was a question about a mention of "thanks to McClure" (or someone).  I'm honestly not sure about whether to remove it or not.  If it's possible to stop it from being an automatic link that might be good.  Mostly people see your name in the history of edits so there is no need to mention your own names.  This might be a case where we have copy&pasted from someone's guide or article and feel we should give them a mention.  If there is a better way of doing it, such as a star and then put the mention at the bottom of the page then go for it.  I think it looks quite friendly as it is.  It makes it look like we are all buddies sitting around a pub-table or something, so i would be tempted to keep it as is.  I think this project's wiki-pages are "released" under a Creative Commons CC-by-SA licence which kinda requires us to give some recognition of the people involved with creating or editing a page.  Mostly we do that through the
 page's history automatically.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





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 From: MARTIN DIXON <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>
To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>; Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 21:09
Subject: Re: grub2 pages
 


Hi Tom :) 
Thanks again.  

In your first email I was puzzled by your ref to " I tend to avoid changing headings too often unless they really scream out to be changed..."
I was not aware I had changed any headings and I had intended to revert directories to folders,but 
you might have thought that I would rush off and change the Main Directories & Files heading - no chance!!
There will be plenty of other short-link opportunities I suspect so I will do some research on that.

I have enclosed details of my recent changes (page 2) which you have already commented on 
and some questions and missed edits on (last page) just in case you have any further helpful comments.
I think that just about wraps that page up!
So a final thought - if I can roll all edits into one session and all details on to one offering do you want me to keep you informed -
if so on or off list?
Hope that's OK.  Regards, Martin


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 From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: MARTIN DIXON <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>; Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 20:25
Subject: Re: grub2 pages
 


Hi :)  
i keep getting diffs emailed to me :))  All looks good so far.  Seems that a lot of the links are full links that don't take advantage of the shorter lengths possible within a set of sub-pages.  On the plus side i think that makes them stronger as long as people don't want to download the pages for use at home or on a company network.  I've got a feeling those longer links are ones i put in [looks down at floor][shuffles feet]
Regards
 from 
Tom :)  




________________________________
 From: MARTIN DIXON <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>
To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>; Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 16:12
Subject: Re: grub2 pages
 


@ Tom

Notwithstanding your reaction - thanks.
Now be serious - attached my first shot ** mark completed edits.
I regret I have bee a bit short on explanations in the recent changes log - will try to improve!
There is one question re Saved which someone might care to consider answering.
Now I shall go and ly dwn in a drk rm.
Regards Martin


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 From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: Martin Dixon <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>; Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 15:38
Subject: Re: grub2 pages
 


Hi :)
Wow!!  Blimey!  I wasn't expecting this level  of pre-briefing!  Tbh i didn't understand it but still think you should go ahead with it.  

I suspect Doug might understand this sort of thing and it might be necessary for the Official Documentation but i prefer the wiki's because it doesn't need this level of planning.  With the wiki's just go in, quickly do some edits and then save the page and leave it or else do re-open and do some more.  Some pages have a count-down timer but if you go 'a bit over' time it still
 lets you
 save anyway.  I'm sure i've been over by several hours a few times.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





________________________________
 From: Martin Dixon <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>
To: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Monday, 23 September 2013, 7:38
Subject: Re: grub2 pages
 


  Tom Davies 19 September 2013, 19:41 Subject: grub2 pages wrote -
I think all that bit in "Displays" about "Signposting from older links" should come out now
 

@GRUB2 "team" my response to Tom's 'Signposting' challenge is
    attached - I am neither experienced nor confident enough to pursue
    that one further.
I will concentrate on GRUB 2 generally and see what else I can come
    up with.

@Little Girl - Moin OK!

Martin

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