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Like I mentioned on Discord, I am a bit confused on this proposal's existence. As far as I know, where to put boss attacks is already standardized, and that is to say to put it in the character/boss page, which would make option 2 and 3 the same. {{User:Gigi/sig}} 12:44, 10 April 2024 (UTC) | Like I mentioned on Discord, I am a bit confused on this proposal's existence. As far as I know, where to put boss attacks is already standardized, and that is to say to put it in the character/boss page, which would make option 2 and 3 the same. {{User:Gigi/sig}} 12:44, 10 April 2024 (UTC) | ||
==Add a guideline to discourage edits that don't correct or add any new information (April 10, 2024 - April 24, 2024)== | |||
Mentioned this a couple times in the past week or so about this, and finally it's time to make it a proper proposal. | |||
For context, while not that common, sometimes there are edits on WiKirby that simply change a part of the text to one thing or another and both the version before and after the edit are correct and not incomplete. Two major examples are adding or removing the [[wikipedia:Serial comma|Oxford comma]], and adding or removing contractions to words (don't to do not, for example, and vice-versa): both are correct in English, so there is little to no point in changing from one way or another. In particular, due to both ways being correct, this can easily create a dispute between editors, and in the end there is no real resolution as there is no one way that is more correct or incorrect. So, in a similar vein to other past proposals (see [[WiKirby:Proposals/Archive-2023#Standardize_wiki_text_to_favor_some_words_without_hyphens_(December_17th,_2023_-_December_24th,_2023)|here]] and [[WiKirby:Proposals/Archive-2023#Deciding_upon_pronouns_for_characters_with_none_(March_24th,_2023_-_April_7th,_2023)|here]]), my proposal is to add a new mantra to the [[WiKirby:Writing specifics|writing specifics]], that is something like: | |||
'''Don't correct what is correct''' - Unless something is incorrect, don't correct it. | |||
(The above can be reworded of course, this is just my first idea, feel free to suggest changes) | |||
Also, for clarification, this is not to say that we shouldn't change European English spelling to American English, that is a guideline we have on WiKirby to prefer American English stuff so that is unrelated to this proposal, and any other specific rules we may have about how to write things is also unrelated to this proposal. To put it another way, if there is no specific guideline on WiKirby to say we should say one thing one way or another, an editor shouldn't come to a page to just change it because they prefer it another way. While this mostly applies to spelling, this could be expanded to for example to changing mentions of NTSC and PAL to North American and European: as there's no rule (at least right now) on WiKirby to prefer one way or the other, there shouldn't be edits to "correct" these one way or the other. | |||
What do you all think? {{User:Gigi/sig}} 16:13, 10 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
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