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What is "extreme"? By adding this descriptive to the template we are injecting POV about what is not extreme wealth verses what is acceptable wealth. E.g., a little wealth might be okay (for each of us), but at some point too much wealth is not okay. Where is the cut-off? I submit that the un-definable "extreme" description hobbles this template. (Recognizing that this template has few watchers, I simply submit the comment for consideration. If my comment does not stimulate reply I shall submit my concerns to another WP forum.) – S. Rich ( talk) 03:17, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I WP:BOLDly moved this template to {{ Wealth}}, but Anna Frodesiak moved it back to {{ Extreme wealth}} and asked for a discussion. I'm 100% on board with that.
So, I propose that the name of this template should be {{ Wealth}} instead of {{ Extreme wealth}}. This really is an issue of semantics. The "extreme" qualifier is vauge and without a clear definition it will lead to confusion. The template can be (and is still) about excessive and "extreme" wealth, but the simplest, clearest available name for the subject should be used; which, luckily, is {{ Wealth}}. I'm happy to have a discussion about the pros/cons.
On a practical note: FYI, {{
Wealth}} is currently a redirect and I've corrected the /doc subpage so that everything currently works as expected at the old name while this discussion happens. I had already changed all the transclusions to be {{
Wealth}} instead of {{
Extreme wealth}} but changing those back can wait until this discussion concludes (or not, it won't really make a big difference either way). There is no rush to change because the redirect will have the content display as expected regardless of the name of the template (assuming the "name" parameter is set properly, which it is currently). The only houskeeping item we need to keep in mind are double redirects, of which there might be one or two. I'll go check right now. (We are good, I guess
Anna Frodesiak took care of it!) What do you think? -
Paul
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C 05:43, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Seems pretty arbitrary. 2601:14D:8700:A560:F8F7:6758:885A:B0C4 ( talk) 22:03, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Wealth template. |
|
This template does not require a rating on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What is "extreme"? By adding this descriptive to the template we are injecting POV about what is not extreme wealth verses what is acceptable wealth. E.g., a little wealth might be okay (for each of us), but at some point too much wealth is not okay. Where is the cut-off? I submit that the un-definable "extreme" description hobbles this template. (Recognizing that this template has few watchers, I simply submit the comment for consideration. If my comment does not stimulate reply I shall submit my concerns to another WP forum.) – S. Rich ( talk) 03:17, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I WP:BOLDly moved this template to {{ Wealth}}, but Anna Frodesiak moved it back to {{ Extreme wealth}} and asked for a discussion. I'm 100% on board with that.
So, I propose that the name of this template should be {{ Wealth}} instead of {{ Extreme wealth}}. This really is an issue of semantics. The "extreme" qualifier is vauge and without a clear definition it will lead to confusion. The template can be (and is still) about excessive and "extreme" wealth, but the simplest, clearest available name for the subject should be used; which, luckily, is {{ Wealth}}. I'm happy to have a discussion about the pros/cons.
On a practical note: FYI, {{
Wealth}} is currently a redirect and I've corrected the /doc subpage so that everything currently works as expected at the old name while this discussion happens. I had already changed all the transclusions to be {{
Wealth}} instead of {{
Extreme wealth}} but changing those back can wait until this discussion concludes (or not, it won't really make a big difference either way). There is no rush to change because the redirect will have the content display as expected regardless of the name of the template (assuming the "name" parameter is set properly, which it is currently). The only houskeeping item we need to keep in mind are double redirects, of which there might be one or two. I'll go check right now. (We are good, I guess
Anna Frodesiak took care of it!) What do you think? -
Paul
T
+/
C 05:43, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Seems pretty arbitrary. 2601:14D:8700:A560:F8F7:6758:885A:B0C4 ( talk) 22:03, 28 January 2022 (UTC)