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Hi<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20090713203437.GA25727@pmichaud.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">It's a wiki, so there aren't really "rules" for creating new pages.
Just create them.</pre>
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OK, done<br>
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Please see here and comment/disagree or whatever:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/StyleGuidelines">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/StyleGuidelines</a><br>
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It's not yet linked from an of the main pages - care to comment where
it would be appreciated to be linked in?<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20090713203437.GA25727@pmichaud.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap=""> However, a good guideline is to "tread lightly"
on making significant changes to existing pages, especially if it
looks as though someone has already put a significant amount of work
into the current formulation. At that point it's good to ask "I'm
thinking of changing this page to instead be like..." and see what
comes up.
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?? If you re-read my original email do you disagree that this is
precisely what I did do? If not then fine, but I still claim that this
is exactly what I did do having started down the path of making some
changes to the docs<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20090713203437.GA25727@pmichaud.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I also think the PmWiki documentation pages now allow for "-Talk" or
"-Comments" pages where people can discuss the organization and content
of the page itself.
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Understood - in this case it's a site wide "talk" and I needed a more
immediate answer so I thought that the mailing lists were the best
option?<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20090713203437.GA25727@pmichaud.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I don't think that "PerGroup" should be treated as a single word.
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I agree - *that* is why it was highlighted in my original example. I
would agree with you that it should be spaced<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20090713203437.GA25727@pmichaud.com" type="cite">
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<pre wrap="">I think actually there is a second level of consistency we can fix at the same
time (and this has nothing to do with link styles!). This is down to
capitalisation of links, eg should we write:
- Page Directives, or
- Page directives?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->
First, I should note that I'm reluctant to declare that it should
be all one thing or another -- the English language simply isn't
so clear cut. If you're talking about the title of the page, then
it's probably "Page Directives", because American English
capitalizes all words except for articles, prepositions, and
conjunctions. If you're talking about using the phrase "page directives"
in a sentence or within a page, then its capitalization rules depend
on the usage in the sentence:
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Agree - however, if you ever write professionally then you are usually
be given quite strong house rules on what is the "recommended" styling
for various situations. Especially where there are multiple
contributors it seems to make sense to offer an opinion over the
general case (without limiting the authors creativity in special
situations)<br>
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Note that in general the documentation *is* tending to implement it's
own form of style guidelines and in general links seem to be fairly
consistent (quite possibly due to diligent maintenance by Petko?).
This thread started though because a few seem to be vacillating between
several styles<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20090713203437.GA25727@pmichaud.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I'm doubtful that such a list will be workable -- see above.
</pre>
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Actually I think you just did it! I agree it's going to be only a
guideline, but a guideline sets a precedent and it should find it's own
way from there. At least an opinion is offered and one can start from
a known position.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Ed W<br>
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