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Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Inline templates. I've been meaning to do this for a while. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib ツ 16:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Wen I'm using MSIE, mouseoer doesn't seem to work, instead it creates a block of text in the article. Very ugly. 惑乱 Wakuran ( talk) 01:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Mention the cases when the mouseover part will not show the message one intends, and instead just e.g., "see the sytle manual". Jidanni 18:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
When I mouseover the example, I get "Wikipedia:Manual of Style", using both IE7 and Firefox (both with Windows XP). In other words, it gives the link instead of the title. Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 14:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
<span title="You can help --" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">vague</a></i>]</span>
Looks awful and confusing as often cuts lines up mid-sentence. Anything that can be done? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.181.49 ( talk) 17:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
The documentation of this template says that "This template should be used in articles where a sentence may be vague, ambiguous, or unspecific."
Yet if you click on the link created in an article using this template, that link takes you to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Unnecessary vagueness which deals only with "Use accurate measurements whenever possible."
That's nonsense. It does not follow. There are oodles and oodles of ways in which a sentence may be "vague, ambiguous, or unspecific" which have nothing whatsoever to do with accurate measurements. Not only that, but inaccurate measurements are often not a vagueness issue. And when measurements are the issue, it is most often the identification of a particular unit of measure which can have several different meanings that is the problem (e.g., "tons", "gallons"), something not covered in the MoS link. Those measurements may well be very "accurate", but they need to be specifically identified.
But the vagueness can have to do with the meanings of lots of terminology not dealing with measurements, and it can deal with the ambiguous punctuation of the sentence and various other things. Those are covered in the statement in this template's documentation, and they should be. But the link the template creates is bullshit. Gene Nygaard ( talk) 04:39, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
By analogy with similar templates, should this template use {{
Fix-span}} instead of {{
Fix}}, so the exact text being objected to can be set off visually, as is possible with, say,
Template:Clarify (through the |text=
parameter) and
Template:According to whom (through the first unnamed parameter, a.k.a. |1=
)? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
dcljr (
talk •
contribs) 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Inline templates. I've been meaning to do this for a while. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib ツ 16:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Wen I'm using MSIE, mouseoer doesn't seem to work, instead it creates a block of text in the article. Very ugly. 惑乱 Wakuran ( talk) 01:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Mention the cases when the mouseover part will not show the message one intends, and instead just e.g., "see the sytle manual". Jidanni 18:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
When I mouseover the example, I get "Wikipedia:Manual of Style", using both IE7 and Firefox (both with Windows XP). In other words, it gives the link instead of the title. Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 14:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
<span title="You can help --" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">vague</a></i>]</span>
Looks awful and confusing as often cuts lines up mid-sentence. Anything that can be done? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.181.49 ( talk) 17:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
The documentation of this template says that "This template should be used in articles where a sentence may be vague, ambiguous, or unspecific."
Yet if you click on the link created in an article using this template, that link takes you to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Unnecessary vagueness which deals only with "Use accurate measurements whenever possible."
That's nonsense. It does not follow. There are oodles and oodles of ways in which a sentence may be "vague, ambiguous, or unspecific" which have nothing whatsoever to do with accurate measurements. Not only that, but inaccurate measurements are often not a vagueness issue. And when measurements are the issue, it is most often the identification of a particular unit of measure which can have several different meanings that is the problem (e.g., "tons", "gallons"), something not covered in the MoS link. Those measurements may well be very "accurate", but they need to be specifically identified.
But the vagueness can have to do with the meanings of lots of terminology not dealing with measurements, and it can deal with the ambiguous punctuation of the sentence and various other things. Those are covered in the statement in this template's documentation, and they should be. But the link the template creates is bullshit. Gene Nygaard ( talk) 04:39, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
By analogy with similar templates, should this template use {{
Fix-span}} instead of {{
Fix}}, so the exact text being objected to can be set off visually, as is possible with, say,
Template:Clarify (through the |text=
parameter) and
Template:According to whom (through the first unnamed parameter, a.k.a. |1=
)? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
dcljr (
talk •
contribs) 26 November 2019 (UTC)