Wikipedia talk:Contact us
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This is a very minor thing, but the Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects page uses a spaced hyphen in the body text, the Wikipedia:Contact us - Donors page uses an unspaced em dash, and Wikipedia:Contact us - Readers page uses a spaced em dash. Would it be preferable to have a consistent (though not necessarily MOS:DASH-compliant) dash style? Me, Myself & I (☮) (talk) 20:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
- Your raise a good point, but in the wrong place, since it is not specific to this article. Please move your comment to an appropriate WP forum for discussing WP policies. You will have to research which forum is the best match for your comment. It does not belong here. David Spector (talk) 20:06, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- @David spector: it does belong here: Me, Myself, and I are Here is not asking for a policy change, but is calling out the discrepancies in punctuation between three pages: Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects, Wikipedia:Contact us - Donors and Wikipedia:Contact us - Readers. Ordinarily, this would be discussed on the talk page for one of the three - but all of their talk pages redirect here. So this is the correct venue. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- I respect your opinion that the issue of dash usage applies mainly to this article, but disagree. It seems clear to me that there should be a WP policy for dash usage that will apply to many other articles, not just these three. There is no good reason to provide no general guidance to editors on this usage, either through a policy or through the explicit editing instructions. WP benefits from style standardization. An example is the standard or policy for titles of articles, which explains that the standard is to capitalize the first letter and use lowercase for the remaining letters, and also gives guidance as to the exceptions to this rule. The dash usage policy would be simpler than this existing title policy. QED David Spector (talk) 23:54, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- These are the phrases in question. I have added yellow highlighting to the hyphen or dash as appropriate:
- at Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects: "comments or concerns - put {{request edit}}" and "data for you - for such edits" - a spaced hyphen in both cases
- at Wikipedia:Contact us - Donors: "cover our costs through donations—almost all from" - an unspaced em-dash
- at Wikipedia:Contact us - Readers: "exclusively by volunteers — people from across" - a spaced em-dash
- Me, Myself, and I are Here is merely asking for consistency within these three pages, not consistency across the whole of Wikipedia. MOS:DASH shows that dashes are preferred to hyphens, and either unspaced em-dashes or spaced en-dashes are preferred to spaced em-dashes. So Wikipedia:Contact us - Donors has the correct usage, the others do not and should be amended. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:56, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, Redrose64, for articulating my position better than I would have. I find the Manual of Style's guidelines on dash usage more than adequate; I'm just wondering if (since these three pages are related and somewhat prominent) we should have consistent usage (for style, mainly, and MOS-compliant, if nothing else, to set an example). Me, Myself & I (☮) (talk) 01:24, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- These are the phrases in question. I have added yellow highlighting to the hyphen or dash as appropriate:
- I respect your opinion that the issue of dash usage applies mainly to this article, but disagree. It seems clear to me that there should be a WP policy for dash usage that will apply to many other articles, not just these three. There is no good reason to provide no general guidance to editors on this usage, either through a policy or through the explicit editing instructions. WP benefits from style standardization. An example is the standard or policy for titles of articles, which explains that the standard is to capitalize the first letter and use lowercase for the remaining letters, and also gives guidance as to the exceptions to this rule. The dash usage policy would be simpler than this existing title policy. QED David Spector (talk) 23:54, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- @David spector: it does belong here: Me, Myself, and I are Here is not asking for a policy change, but is calling out the discrepancies in punctuation between three pages: Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects, Wikipedia:Contact us - Donors and Wikipedia:Contact us - Readers. Ordinarily, this would be discussed on the talk page for one of the three - but all of their talk pages redirect here. So this is the correct venue. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Needs a link for reporting problems with the WP website
It would be helpful if this page had a link for reporting problems with the WP website itself: the serving of its pages to the public. That way, if the website has a problem, it can be reported to a person who volunteers to handle such reports. For example, I just encountered a transient error in connecting to WP and got an error message from my browser. If such errors are common, they will be of interest to the WP Webmasters. David Spector (talk) 20:00, 16 November 2018 (UTC)