User talk:Quota
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[edit] Integer
Thanks for your edit to Integer. Switching from 1 1/2 to 1½ definitely improves readability. Michael Slone (talk) 21:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the feedback! quota 06:30, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Markup Language
On 14:13, 4 December 2007 (if I am reading History correctly) you introduced the acronym DTC to the Markup Language article. Is everyone supposed to know what that means? I don't. Evaluist (talk) 01:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
- DTC is a Document Type Control (combined DTD + formatting code) used in some formatters. However, what I meant to put there was DTD. Have fixed (and added link). Thanks! quota (talk) 11:04, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Spaces in headers
In general while spaces in headers are optional, there seems to be a preference against them: this article hasn't had them since it's inception here, for many thousands of edits. incidentally there are about [six] times as many articles where refs does not use spaces as where it does. Rich Farmbrough, 14:51 5 April 2008 (GMT).
- Basically there are two conceptual things going on: on the one hand when replacing something (which is technically what's happening to the header - although it will more often than not be unchanged) with something that is functionally if not actually identical preserving the non-functional differences introduces unnecessary complexity, secondly introducing conformity, or canonicalisation, is a good thing. As far as readability is concerned this is a moot point - many people prefer spaces outside delimiters rather than within. It is, incidentally only in a small number of cases that the spacing of the references header will be changed by this particular task, as there will generally not be a references header in the article. Rich Farmbrough, 12:50 6 April 2008 (GMT).
- We'll have to agree to disagree :-). The '==' are not delimiters, but markup, and abutting them to letters makes the shape of the letters harder to determine and hence harder to read. Spaceshelpmakewordsmoredistinguishable. And "introducing conformity, or canonicalisation, is a good thing" is very much a POV, which many people would passionately disagree with. quota (talk) 13:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mike Paterson
Hey Quota. I'm not really willing to restore the article because I think it will just get deleted again. I can email it to you or put it in a subpage of your userspace if you want me to, though, so you can work on it. Have you read Wikipedia:Notability (academics)? Perhaps there is more that you could add to the article to help establish his notability? Does he have any books or other publications or has he won any notable awards in his field or anything like that? Let me know if you want me to email you a copy of if you want me to make a subpage so that you can work on it in your userspace if you think you can meet the notability guidelines for academics. Cheers, Sarah 08:57, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Sarah, thanks for the response. Yes, Mike Paterson is most certainly notable -- he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, which is the highest honour a scientist can achieve in the UK. And a vast record of publications etc. Yes please send me a copy. quota (talk) 09:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, well it might help if you can add some books or other significant publications but you'll have to specify an email address in your preferences as right now your account can't receive email. Sarah 09:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
