Steve Bennett wrote:
Have fun with the MOS. Generaly only refured to when when people are trying to use it in order to win a debate.
Yeah, pages which contain hundreds of distinct suggestions with no single underlying motivation present a problem. Perhaps we can produce a short mock-up of a "perfect" page with "perfect" style?
Steve
But what constitutes "perfect" or even "ideal, given existing limitations"? Many things on Wikipedia have no consensus, as a visit to FAC can tell you. Should the "perfect" article use only free images, or be satisfied with fair use where free images are impractical? Should the "perfect" article use footnotes? What about Harvard referencing? Or inline external links? And speaking of references, do we follow [[Wikipedia:Cite sources/example style]] or [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations]]? (Yes, the styles differ in some cases.) Should captions be compliant with [[Wikipedia:Captions]] or with the style currently used on most articles?
In case my point isn't clear, we can't produce a mock-up of a "perfect" page with "perfect" style. It just isn't possible when we haven't even decided what is "perfect".
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])