User talk:192.136.235.164/Archives/2015/January

January 2015
Hello, I'm LesVegas. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!

List of Internet Forums
In response to your message: 4chan does not have "members" nor are there reliable sources for metrics on individual users. The "Current Users" listed on their homepage are the number of current active connections interacting with the service; a number which constantly fluctuates from minute to minute.

I fixed the ref for Stack Exchange/Overflow, it wasn't dead, just broken. I put it back in because it is a forum, regardless of their marketing BS, and is similar content-wise to LinuxQuestions, they just have different UIs. I am open to removal despite this and if you chose to rm it again, I will not revert you. Namaste. -- dsprc   [talk]  13:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)


 * We're good. I responded on your page here. 192.136.235.164 (talk) 14:12, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk:List of Internet forums
Please don't re-organize the talk posts. Posts go in chronological order, with new sections at the bottom. See WP:TPG for more info. --Neil N  talk to me 20:57, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * OK. Read the guideline. Got it. 192.136.235.164 (talk) 21:08, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

I noticed that you reverted my changes to List of Internet forums and left a message on my talk page. The reason for my revision is that it makes the table easier to read; Right-aligned numerical values beside left-aligned text in Category field visually crowds the table and makes reading it more difficult. There is no convention for right-aligned text nor for fields of underscores in tables. If anything, center-aligned would be more desirable, and the lack of uniformity introduced in your edits throws any self-asserted "convention" out the window. Removal of external links, including the entirely unsourced WealthResults is because they are spam sinks - a long running problem with this list - and lists are supposed to primarily be for navigation. I understand you have put some effort into editing the list and may take personally your efforts being reverted but, we operate by consensus, including broad community consensus, and I am seeing no other table structured in the manner you propose. -- dsprc   [talk]  14:21, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * A further note: When introducing text alignment to each individual cell, it adds unneeded complexity to the page and significantly raises the barrier to entry for making adjustments. A more preferable method is to globally set alignment in the table header for the entire column, or even the entire table. This way, contributors can focus more on content, instead of needlessly mucking about with complex formatting or markup. -- dsprc   [talk]  14:29, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * There are other tables with left aligned text and right aligned numbers. 192.136.235.164 (talk) 14:37, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

See Also sections
Hi

You've added See Also/Link to internet forums to the bottom of a ton of articles. These are mostly likely to be reverted. Any external links at the bottom of an article should be related to an article. They've read the article and this naturally follows on to external links What you've done is better done with Categories. If you look at Digital Spy, the bottom of the page has a link to Internet Forum category — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.248.110 (talk) 01:34, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Good to know! 192.136.235.164 (talk) 01:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Simple Machines Forum has been reverted. Your edit here to Simple Machines Forum was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/smforum) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 16:01, 23 January 2015 (UTC) If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice.