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Revisions on repair template

Revisions on repair template

Your revisions on Template:Repairs have been reverted several times, twice by normal users and once by wiki staff. I thought you might want to pay better attention to the revision history of an item before starting what could easily escalate into an edit war. I'm going to revert the latest edit to the newest version by Kotarou3, which was a recreation of the version by Angevon. I'd rather not see this get out of hand, but I will report any edit wars that I find, so that they can be resolved quickly and efficiently.

Glitchfinder19:46, 9 May 2011

Oh my, you're right, it had been reverted earlier. I wasn't paying attention. Now the question is why is this incorrect style being opted for? Does this wiki have a manual of style? If not, why derogate from the universal convention of putting a space between a number and its measurement symbol? (See the Chicago Manual of Style, ISO:1000, and NIST Special Publications, to quote just a few)

Urhixidur19:53, 9 May 2011
 

I think you'll find that the answer to that is rather unsatisfactory. The wiki started out with it being formatted incorrectly, and, to keep formatting consistent without editing hundreds of equipment pages, we leave it that way. Based on your talk page, I can tell you've encountered this kind of issue before, notably with the Shoes category. Personally, I'd rather go with the correct style, but you'll have to take it up with Angevon, who is the one who does most of the formatting design for the wiki. The staff of this wiki aren't exactly sticklers when it comes to following English conventions to the letter, especially in cases like this, where commonplace conventions in many parts of the English speaking world (Notably, the USA) may contradict that. Anyway, there is something that I'm sure Angevon would appreciate help on more so than this. He's currently working on including some new templates into all of the equipment pages, but has not managed to even approach completion. Any help he gets in that area would probably be much appreciated, assuming that the templates are used correctly. In fact, the template we are discussing is one of those that has yet to be properly included in all equipment pages. As it is, thank you for understanding, and I'm glad I was able to prevent this from escalating into an edit war.

Glitchfinder20:05, 9 May 2011