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This was previously a re-direct page to another template talk page, but obviously there is not going to be any merge of these two templates, so I am removing the redirect and making each of the templates have their own talk pages.
Howto page will not have references to transwiki:ing, unless the (minor) content dispute can be solved. Message box that implicitly suggest transwiki:ing should be used for that purpose.
Santtus 12:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I have reworded this template to cite WP:NOT#IINFO, because it previously did not make explicit why "how to" content is inappropriate according to Wikipedia's content policies. Please feel free to revert or reword if this edit was in error. -- Muchness 07:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
For how-to materials, or anything that is predominantly instructional, I think we should make it much more clear that Wikibooks is the correct destination. I would like to make the reference to Wikibooks in this template more prominent. I would also like to include mention that authors who are interested in writing instructional material may accompany their articles to Wikibooks as well. What I dont want to see is valuable instructional material get deleted, or authors of instructional material get disenfranchised, just because Wikipedia is the wrong place for it. -- Whiteknight ( WB:Whiteknight) 01:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
can someone create an {{ advice}} page to do the same thing. It's more intuitive for those who don't have all the templates memorized. 165.21.154.93 ( talk) 11:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I often find that only one section of an article has how-to content, but the current Howto tag only really covers the whole article: it reads "this article contains instructions..." etc. There is also a Howto-section template, but this is a redirect to Howto itself, so does not solve the problem. There are two obvious solutions:
Any thoughts? Richard New Forest ( talk) 21:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
{{howto|section}}
. .
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk 23:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)I'm still confused. The template page says "Add {{Howto|date=January 2015}}
to the top to the article in question. If the problem only related to one section, add {{Howto|section}}
to the top of the section." But it appears I cannot use both "section" and "date" (when I tried, the message said article instead of section). And if I add {{howto|section}}
, then do I need to add {{howto|date}}
at the top of the article also? Thanks.
Paleolith (
talk) 19:32, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
NightWolf1223, pinging you to let you know that the recent change causes some potentially undesired effects, making "no" display in place of "section" in places such as Isometric video game graphics. Not sure what is the correct solution, a code change or a bot run to update code in cases like this. YuriNikolai ( talk) 23:56, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
How-to template. |
|
This was previously a re-direct page to another template talk page, but obviously there is not going to be any merge of these two templates, so I am removing the redirect and making each of the templates have their own talk pages.
Howto page will not have references to transwiki:ing, unless the (minor) content dispute can be solved. Message box that implicitly suggest transwiki:ing should be used for that purpose.
Santtus 12:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I have reworded this template to cite WP:NOT#IINFO, because it previously did not make explicit why "how to" content is inappropriate according to Wikipedia's content policies. Please feel free to revert or reword if this edit was in error. -- Muchness 07:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
For how-to materials, or anything that is predominantly instructional, I think we should make it much more clear that Wikibooks is the correct destination. I would like to make the reference to Wikibooks in this template more prominent. I would also like to include mention that authors who are interested in writing instructional material may accompany their articles to Wikibooks as well. What I dont want to see is valuable instructional material get deleted, or authors of instructional material get disenfranchised, just because Wikipedia is the wrong place for it. -- Whiteknight ( WB:Whiteknight) 01:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
can someone create an {{ advice}} page to do the same thing. It's more intuitive for those who don't have all the templates memorized. 165.21.154.93 ( talk) 11:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I often find that only one section of an article has how-to content, but the current Howto tag only really covers the whole article: it reads "this article contains instructions..." etc. There is also a Howto-section template, but this is a redirect to Howto itself, so does not solve the problem. There are two obvious solutions:
Any thoughts? Richard New Forest ( talk) 21:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
{{howto|section}}
. .
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk 23:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)I'm still confused. The template page says "Add {{Howto|date=January 2015}}
to the top to the article in question. If the problem only related to one section, add {{Howto|section}}
to the top of the section." But it appears I cannot use both "section" and "date" (when I tried, the message said article instead of section). And if I add {{howto|section}}
, then do I need to add {{howto|date}}
at the top of the article also? Thanks.
Paleolith (
talk) 19:32, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
NightWolf1223, pinging you to let you know that the recent change causes some potentially undesired effects, making "no" display in place of "section" in places such as Isometric video game graphics. Not sure what is the correct solution, a code change or a bot run to update code in cases like this. YuriNikolai ( talk) 23:56, 2 April 2022 (UTC)