MW high prio links

MW high prio links

Please stop adding unnecessary complicated wikitext to MW high prio links. It's just a list. It is supposed to be easy to change. Adding more wikitext formatting to it makes it hard. No one complained about it.

Amir E. Aharoni (talk)04:42, 26 February 2022

I don't know what you think is complicate: it makes the list mich more usable, notably because you post it multiple times directly to user pages of users that get massively polluted with a very boring list instead of what they would like to present for themselves.

These long vertical lists make their user page almost unusable for something else. I just made two list titles to clarify the two sublists and then just organized these two lists into autoscaled columns. Now when you post these lists multiple times, they are correctly identifying the language for which you posted it.

And the addition was very minimimalist: two embedded templates for columns, bold subtitles for each list, and clear indication of the language code.

What is "complicate?", shouldn't you care about what users will see on their user page and allow these links to be more read and interpreted for easier use? I've not removed any item it is presentational. And still easy to change (these are still standard bulletted lists, their individual items are identical, the list order is not changed at all). And users won't edit these lists themselves (only you, but at the same time you'll change all users pages using the template by adding visible contents to them).

And why do you post that in user pages themselves and not in a thread of their talk page? After all, it is you that is sending them a message. And users would be able to read it and dismiss it, or read it later, while selecting what will interest them in their user page (and annotate items themselves as they want, something impossible with your pseudo-template that can change at any time many user pages) And now that you continue adding items to these lists, this is becoming a problem for many user pages that you have invaded massively (and with a very poor layout). As a consequence, I've seen various users dropping your post that you placed on their page (as if you were forbidding users to make their own content there about themselves). I don't believe this can be useful with the form you use.

Verdy p (talk)04:52, 26 February 2022

You did it again.

Stop.

It works as it is. No one asked to "fix" this.

Amir E. Aharoni (talk)15:19, 21 November 2022

Oh I forgot it. but no one asked you to post such giant list on their user page, with contents that interests you and you choose, ratrher than those than interest the users. Can't you save space ? Why do you post that on their user page rather than their talk page?

Verdy p (talk)15:25, 21 November 2022

They do ask, and I know what is it good for. Don't try to fix things that work well. You are only making them unnecessarily complex.

Amir E. Aharoni (talk)04:32, 22 November 2022

There was no complexity at all in what I did, your list was exactly as it was, and I even simplified and streamlined the includeonly/noinclude; adding only 2 short lines of codes to surround the list

Verdy p (talk)11:19, 22 November 2022