Xenharmonic Wiki:Conventions: Difference between revisions

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(please feel free to add conventions in use here, and please provide reasons for it! Thanks!)

== Wanted pages ==

Please do not blindly create pages that appear in the [[Special:WantedPages]] list. Most of them are not actually wanted.

That list is an automatically generated list based on how many other wiki pages point to a page, but it cannot tell the difference between links written by a human, and links that occur as part of a [[:Category:Templates|functionality template]]. Most of them are “false alarms”, in other words.

Here is an example of some list items on “wanted pages” that are actually legitimate, and do warrant page creation:

* Euzenius‏‎ (3 links)

* James Plamondon‏‎ (3 links)

* Joseph Ruhf‏‎ (3 links)

* LIRP-3‏‎ (3 links)

* List model‏‎ (3 links)

Here is an example of some list items that are machine-generated noise and should be ignored:

* 4L 4s (3/1-equivalent)‏‎ (5 links)

* 4L 6s (3/1-equivalent)‏‎ (5 links)

* 50/23‏‎ (5 links)

* 501edo‏‎ (5 links)

* 50th-octave temperaments‏‎ (5 links)

* 51/20‏‎ (5 links)

* 512/405‏‎ (5 links)

* 517edo‏‎ (5 links)

* 52/31‏‎ (5 links)

* 52/41‏‎ (5 links)

* 520edo‏‎ (5 links)

Of course, you can still create one of those machine-wanted pages if you actually do have something to say about it, but do not create a blank page with nothing but info boxes, as this only creates more work for editors tidying it all up, without actually adding useful human-written information for readers.

An easier and more rewarding alternative to browsing “wanted pages” is to instead check out the pages [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Things to do]] and [[Wikifuture]], which list tasks that really do need to be done.

Also check out [[:Category:Stubs]] and [[:Category:Todo:expand]]. These are short pages that need to be expanded by writing more content on them. Please help us lengthen them with more content.

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 (please feel free to add conventions in use here, and please provide reasons for it! Thanks!)
+== Wanted pages ==
+Please do not blindly create pages that appear in the [[Special:WantedPages]] list. Most of them are not actually wanted.
+That list is an automatically generated list based on how many other wiki pages point to a page, but it cannot tell the difference between links written by a human, and links that occur as part of a [[:Category:Templates|functionality template]]. Most of them are “false alarms”, in other words.
+Here is an example of some list items on “wanted pages” that are actually legitimate, and do warrant page creation:
+* Euzenius‏‎ (3 links)
+* James Plamondon‏‎ (3 links)
+* Joseph Ruhf‏‎ (3 links)
+* LIRP-3‏‎ (3 links)
+* List model‏‎ (3 links)
+Here is an example of some list items that are machine-generated noise and should be ignored:
+* 4L 4s (3/1-equivalent)‏‎ (5 links)
+* 4L 6s (3/1-equivalent)‏‎ (5 links)
+* 50/23‏‎ (5 links)
+* 501edo‏‎ (5 links)
+* 50th-octave temperaments‏‎ (5 links)
+* 51/20‏‎ (5 links)
+* 512/405‏‎ (5 links)
+* 517edo‏‎ (5 links)
+* 52/31‏‎ (5 links)
+* 52/41‏‎ (5 links)
+* 520edo‏‎ (5 links)
+Of course, you can still create one of those machine-wanted pages if you actually do have something to say about it, but do not create a blank page with nothing but info boxes, as this only creates more work for editors tidying it all up, without actually adding useful human-written information for readers.
+An easier and more rewarding alternative to browsing “wanted pages” is to instead check out the pages [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Things to do]] and [[Wikifuture]], which list tasks that really do need to be done.
+Also check out [[:Category:Stubs]] and [[:Category:Todo:expand]]. These are short pages that need to be expanded by writing more content on them. Please help us lengthen them with more content.
 == Decimal numbers ==