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.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
I would kill the whole "my" thing with fire if possible. It's not
even 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(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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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