This page is a log of my wikiblunders for posterity's sake.
TL;DR: I created a template to "fix" a presentation issue, and boldly applied it where I thought it was needed. But I didn't check how it looked using other skins.
{{
'}}
template is one of a class of several fixes to this problem. In the case of {{'}}
, it wraps an apostrophe as such: <span style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>
. I was seeing this issue while editing
ship class pages, where when comparing attributes of different classes, it's convenient to be able to pluralize italicized class names, e.g.: "the Fletchers were longer than the Gleaveses".{{
'}}
and {{
's}}
templates, I created the {{-s}}
template which was just: <span padding-left:0.1em;>{{{1|s}}}</span>
. This avoided a separate {{-es}}
template to handle the few instances of pluralized italics ending in "s" or "x". Proud of the simplicity of the template, I boldly started editing ship class pages that could use some proper kerning.Hi, I don't know if you aware of the template with the same name on the French Wikipedia ( fr:template:-s). for years, I (and others) have been finding/cleaning up places where people copy-and-paste text from the French Wikipedia to this Wikipedia. I usually do this by checking Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:-s, but now that method doesn't work. for fr:template:e, we have a tracking category, Category:Articles using E without any arguments. we could do something similar in this case if we disallow the
|1=
parameter and add tracking. or, we could rename your new template? do you have any suggestions on what to do? thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 14:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
{{-s}}
template, these editors had a much harder time of catching wholesale copy-paste transcriptions of French-to-English articles (the French version of that template just doesn't apply to English). I tried to solve the problem by creating a standalone {{-es}}
template, and removed the optional parameter from {{-s}}
, and continued with my edits. But still, what about the tight kerning for other punctuation, such as hyphenation: "Fletcher-class destroyers"?Vector.css
. It dawned on me to test other skins (I hardly ever browse Wikipedia with mobile apps). The newer skins looked fine without my "fix".{{-s}}
and {{-es}}
templates.<i>
tags generated by the wikitext parser.This page is a log of my wikiblunders for posterity's sake.
TL;DR: I created a template to "fix" a presentation issue, and boldly applied it where I thought it was needed. But I didn't check how it looked using other skins.
{{
'}}
template is one of a class of several fixes to this problem. In the case of {{'}}
, it wraps an apostrophe as such: <span style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>
. I was seeing this issue while editing
ship class pages, where when comparing attributes of different classes, it's convenient to be able to pluralize italicized class names, e.g.: "the Fletchers were longer than the Gleaveses".{{
'}}
and {{
's}}
templates, I created the {{-s}}
template which was just: <span padding-left:0.1em;>{{{1|s}}}</span>
. This avoided a separate {{-es}}
template to handle the few instances of pluralized italics ending in "s" or "x". Proud of the simplicity of the template, I boldly started editing ship class pages that could use some proper kerning.Hi, I don't know if you aware of the template with the same name on the French Wikipedia ( fr:template:-s). for years, I (and others) have been finding/cleaning up places where people copy-and-paste text from the French Wikipedia to this Wikipedia. I usually do this by checking Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:-s, but now that method doesn't work. for fr:template:e, we have a tracking category, Category:Articles using E without any arguments. we could do something similar in this case if we disallow the
|1=
parameter and add tracking. or, we could rename your new template? do you have any suggestions on what to do? thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 14:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
{{-s}}
template, these editors had a much harder time of catching wholesale copy-paste transcriptions of French-to-English articles (the French version of that template just doesn't apply to English). I tried to solve the problem by creating a standalone {{-es}}
template, and removed the optional parameter from {{-s}}
, and continued with my edits. But still, what about the tight kerning for other punctuation, such as hyphenation: "Fletcher-class destroyers"?Vector.css
. It dawned on me to test other skins (I hardly ever browse Wikipedia with mobile apps). The newer skins looked fine without my "fix".{{-s}}
and {{-es}}
templates.<i>
tags generated by the wikitext parser.