Talk:Great-tailed Grackle
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[edit] HTML is unorthodox?
The so-called 'unorthodox editing trick' was discussed on WikiProject:Birds months ago, and ended up being used with quite a few bird articles, to preserve useful information (the Further Reading sections) in spite of the fact that the contributions often dwarfed the article itself. I fail to see a compelling reason for removing the scrollbar box, and unless someone can come up with one I intend to restore it. - Ken Thomas (talk) 13:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- OK, then I bow to your superior information and apologise. But why have I never seen that technique used on any similar article on Wikipedia? Flapdragon (talk) 14:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
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- There are quite a few of the not-very-interesting bird species articles that have them. What happened was a user (can't remember the guy's name) showed up quite awhile back and started adding these massive Further Reading sections to certain articles. They were obviously somewhat relevant, and obviously had involved a ton of work, so nobody wanted to delete them - but at the same time the articles themselves were pretty much dwarfed by the wall of text. So it was discussed at WP:B and a few of us ended up following this guy around putting scrollbars around his contributions. It's obviously not a perfect solution, but it's better than deleting them, I think. - Ken Thomas (talk) 23:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
