[Wikipedia-l] Put your text for the new page here

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Mon Oct 21 22:56:48 UTC 2002


(in the terminology of the forum board, *BUMP*!!!)

Paul Ebermann wrote:

>"tarquin" skribis:
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>>Could we make the text that appears in a new page form more helpful? eg:
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>>"This article does not yet exist in Wikipedia. You can begin writing a 
>>new article here, or just close the browser window" etc etc.
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>IMHO better than "close the browser window" would be
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>    ... use the back-function of your browser or click
>    on "Cancel".
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That would be better. My text was just an example to illustrate my idea.

(this list really has a problem with short-term memory -- we only seem 
to manage 3 or 4 "current" issues, and things get dropped off the 
agenda, such as the TeX [[math:]] markup idea.)







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