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MoS naming style

There is currently an ongoing discussion about the future of this and others MoS naming style. Please consider the issues raised in the discussion and vote if you wish GnevinAWB (talk) 20:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Section on Web Browsers

The section: Web browsers which have problems with large articles seems very weaseley and unclear about who is actually affected.

If in 2010 we are preventing pre-XP computers running IE 5 from accessing Wikipedia fully then I don't think that is anywhere near as big a deal as if we are preventing IE 6 users on XP from accessing the site for example. I therefore think the section should be clarified. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 10:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. And even if WP article sizes did cause problems on IE 6 on Windows XP, we'd be doing those users a favor by forcing them to upgrade their browser, due to all the security and other hazards the Internet Explorer 6 article describes. A number of other major websites have ended support for IE 6. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:04, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've re-read the section and to clarify my argument I think probably all the content apart from "Under certain environments, Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6 are known to have difficulty loading articles over about 400 KB. For notes on unrelated problems that various web browsers have with MediaWiki sites, and for a list of alternative browsers you can download, see Wikipedia:Browser notes." should be removed. EDIT: And maybe even the comment about IE 6 and Firefox 2 should go as well. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 12:18, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done I've removed all the content apart from that on FF2 and IE6. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:54, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Wikipedia:Article size → Wikipedia:Manual of Style (article size) — Consolidating naming per Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Poll Gnevin (talk) 16:28, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 17:30, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Per, the descriptions in our List of guidelines, this strikes me much more as an editing guideline ("non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice") than a style guideline ("advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more").—DCGeist (talk) 22:56, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Remove from the MOS? Gnevin (talk) 12:33, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rebranded as editing guideline, its natural category.—DCGeist (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit request from 203.45.100.59, 11 August 2010

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203.45.100.59 (talk) 05:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]