On 30 October 2011 08:06, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Surely making it only available to those users who
understand markup
completely undermines one of the great unintended consequences - that it's
really useful for posting talkpage messages? New users can use those
templates in a *perfectly* meaningful way - as a way of communicating
instead of relying some pseudo-HTML markup language they're too new to
understand. They could communicate...ohh, I don't know, just off the top of
my head....maybe "can someone please explain to me how markup works?"
Zee logical attack line would be to make one of the wikilove options
(probably the first one) a simple "a message for you" rather than "a
kitten for you" or "an ironclad battleship for you" or whatever the
options are.
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geni