On 5/16/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
But on looking at the template itself, it's not that bad. Can't you just grit your teeth?
I think part of the annoyance is that the template is so often put in a ridiculous place (such as the two examples I gave where it was in a section which was already obviously about plot). Can I just grit my teeth? Sure. It's what I do when I see something stupid on all those other sites that I *can't* edit.
There's lots about WP that annoys me, but I find my life is less stressful if I just ignore the small stuff and enjoy the good bits.
One of the things I like about WP is that if something annoys me I can usually fix it. And I've removed that template from articles lots of times.
But yeah, I should get less stressed about things. And when people spell the word "its" with an apostrophe, I shouldn't cringe. And I should stop worrying about whether the term "anal-retentive" should be spelled with or without a hyphen. I doubt I'm going to succeed though.
Like having one of my photographs selected to illustrate a day of the year. [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 23]] - I stood out in the cold for about ten minutes before I got the curl of the flag just right, and I'm proud of that small detail, even if my ungloved hands still give me twinges of pain each year on that day...
I was quite pleased when I ran across one of my photos on a website outside of Wikipedia. Granted, it was a Wikicities site, but still :).
And hey, that photo is awesome (though I couldn't help but wonder whether the statue is a derivative of the original photo and therefore your photo is copyright-tainted - see, this is what I've gotta stop).
Anthony