Timeline for Is it okay to begin tag wiki excerpts with "for questions about..." or "a/an", or are such words noise?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Mar 16, 2016 at 18:10 | vote | accept | bwDraco | ||
| Mar 15, 2016 at 4:02 | comment | added | fixer1234 | BTW, the term is actually "article". "Particle" is an inside joke. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 1:02 | comment | added | fixer1234 | This almost seems like a locale-based issue. In the US, particles are an important thing. "I went to the hospital" implies the speaker was referring to a specific (unnamed) hospital. "I went to a hospital" implies that the specific hospital is unimportant, it's about the severity of the problem and that a hospital was required. In the US, nobody would ever say, "I went to hospital", but that's routine in the UK. To me, the PowerPoint wiki excerpt feels naked without a particle. | |
| Mar 14, 2016 at 23:06 | answer | added | Nzall | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 5:37 | vote | accept | bwDraco | ||
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 3:48 | answer | added | randomMod | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 21:55 | comment | added | random Mod | Style, then they don't affect readability? | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 21:31 | comment | added | bwDraco | @random: They're jarring because they're minor edits that only affect the style of the excerpt, so they seem very nitpicky. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 20:18 | comment | added | random Mod | Why are they jarring? Is it because they were edited, or because they start into the sentence? | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 18:37 | comment | added | bwDraco | @random: I'm already aware of this feature. I'm more concerned about what users see when they mouse over the tag itself. \@Robotnik: The full text of the tag wiki excerpt is visible on mouseover. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 15:48 | comment | added | random Mod | meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82700/… | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 15:11 | comment | added | Robotnik | Pretty sure words like "this tag is for" etc are left out of the tag preview on hover anyway. Either way it doesn't matter, so long as we are consistent in how we define tags | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 6:12 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 6:06 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Avoid naming particular persons, as this can read like an accusation of wrongdoing—this is not the message I want to convey
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 5:49 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 | history | asked | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |