User talk:Giving is good, as long as you're getting

Superscripts on numbers
Hi, please be aware of the wikipedia manual of style, specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29#Exceptions, which notes that ordinal numbers are never written as superscript within wikipedia. Rhialto (talk) 12:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, please explain your edits in the edit summary when they aren't obvious and you are performing them across many articles. EconomicsGuy (talk) 12:43, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * How would you suggest that information be added to those infoboxes, Rhialto? El_C 12:46, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * At first, it wasn't at all clear what information you were trying to add, until I noticed the pattern from the other articles you edited. The information you want added can already be inferred from Member_State_of_the_European_Union. It could be worth opening a discussion on that page's talk to decide how best to add this information, as the general standard is that the numbers would link to a relevant page, but that specific page is already linked from the infobox, making multiple redundant links. In any case, the standard is that ordinal numbers be written without a superscript — "7th", not "7th", as noted in the manual of style article I linked to above. Rhialto (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe someone can restore the numbers (but correctly-formatted), then, since the user has put quite a bit of work to add them (I'd do it myself, but I'm my way out)... El_C 14:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * List_of_European_Union_member_states_by_accession is probably an even-more relevant page to link to for this. Rhialto (talk) 14:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)