I agree with dropping the possessive. So long as it's implicit that the preferences are in fact the user's own preferences (which they must be since you cannot edit another user's preferences), the "my" is almost redundant. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I would kill the whole "my" thing with fire if possible. It's noteven the "right" way to indicate possessiveness (it implies an asocial mental mode). Here's some fun reading:
http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Your_...
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/4348/your-vs-my-in-user-interfaces
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/core/yourvmy.html
On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41672
Docs and space for further discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personal_tools
This is yet another question which begs for a copy guide to be filled
out at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Writing_style. I really love the "copy tone" and "copy rules" lists at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/ for a relevant example of what we might shoot for.
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