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== Respect existing work & keep the wiki tidy ==
== Respect existing work & keep the wiki tidy ==
I'm not a fan of naming hundreds of commas and temperaments for the sake of it, but putting this aside, I'd like to ask that you refrain from putting your invented terms in front of existing ones. This has been the main motivation for the removal of "magikarp" from the main namespace, and that several people in the #wiki channel on XA Discord agreed to that removal. Also make sure to avoid phrasing things as if people are actually using the names you propose. In particular, avoid using [[template:idiosyncratic terms|idiosyncratic terms]] in the lead section of pages which are likely to be browsed by many visitors (e.g. [[129/128]], which is an octave-reduced harmonic and therefore a potentially useful interval in many contexts other than temperament scraping). Finally, it's not because people in the past have done similar things that we should continue doing it now. It's fine to propose new terms, but we (myself and several other contributors) try to keep the main namespace navigable for new users, which isn't easy when most of the content isn't musically helpful. For example, I didn't need a whole rank-2 temperament data chart to tell me that 43/32 is a decent harmonic fourth and that consequently, 12edo approximates it relatively well. --[[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 04:28, 11 April 2025 (UTC)


I'm not a fan of naming hundreds of commas and temperaments for the sake of it, but putting this aside, I'd like to ask that you refrain from putting your invented terms in front of existing ones. This has been the main motivation for the removal of "magikarp" from the main namespace, and that several people in the #wiki channel on XA Discord agreed to that removal. Also make sure to avoid phrasing things as if people are actually using the names you propose. In particular, avoid using [[template:idiosyncratic terms|idiosyncratic terms]] in the lead section of pages which are likely to be browsed by many visitors (e.g. [[129/128]], which is an octave-reduced harmonic and therefore a potentially useful interval in many contexts other than temperament scraping). Finally, it's not because people in the past have done similar things that we should continue doing it now. It's fine to propose new terms, but we (myself and several other contributors) try to keep the main namespace navigable for new users, which isn't easy when most of the content isn't musically helpful. For example, I didn't need a whole rank-2 temperament data chart to tell me that 43/32 is a decent harmonic fourth and that consequently, 12edo approximates it relatively well. --[[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 04:28, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
== Backslash ==
What's with the weird backslash character? [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] ([[User talk:FloraC|talk]]) 13:28, 20 April 2025 (UTC)