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2020 in Science

A lot of your edits are unnecessarily long. A maximum of two lines is preferable, but in some places you've written entire paragraphs. It's meant to consist of brief entries (in keeping with previous years, both for Science and other categories), so please try to be more succinct in future. Also, you've absolutely littered that page with red links, making the page appear rather messy. Wjfox2005 (talk) 12:45, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I think it would be better to discuss this at the talk page there.

I try to fit the lengths of the entries to what's being reported. If it's a major discovery which can't be explained shortly it sometimes gets a bit longer than just two lines. And a lot of other entries on these pages are longer than the most common length. I even added an note to one of those because I don't think what was reported fits the length of its entry. Furthermore, I don't think it's consensus to keep the entries to a maximum of two lines there or that this practice would make much sense. If the page is getting too long due to longer texts I would propose converting the list into some sort of table with categories and tags and display options. This way one could filter for entries one is interested in, or filter those one isn't interested in or only show the most major discoveries etc.

Maybe it would be a good idea to add a maximum line- and/or char-count a norm for the page. However, in that case – and this should probably be discussed on the talk page – I would suggest graduating this into multiple maxima for different types of entries as outlined above and on the talk page. Namely and in short, I would suggest ca. 3 maxima with one maxima being above two lines and reserved for a category of entries with ca. 7-12 entries per month and two lines or so being the default maxima. I think I mostly would have adhered to such a norm for most entries I added and would suggest you add the template to individual entries which you find inadequately long.

Concerning the red links I don't think it makes the page look messy. It's more an issue of Misplaced Pages's choice of how to display links to nonexistent articles. Imo that would be the problem as the redlinks are very important to the page and not inherently a cause of any display-issues. Maybe their display could be changed somehow (page-wide or article-wide) so that the colors (if their display remains to be handled via a different link-color) aren't clashing that much. Also see WP:REDYES.

--Prototyperspective (talk) 13:26, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hi. I see in a recent addition to 2020 in science you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 14:45, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Please start doing this immediately. Here is an example of how to do it: Diff of 2020 in science— Diannaa (talk) 13:51, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, please be aware of WP:BRD and WP:3RR. Your changes to the 2020 in science article (transcluding content from another article) have been reverted multiple times now. You don't get to restore your changes just because you feel that there hasn't been enough discussion. At this point, your proposed edit requires some consensus from discussion, and that discussion isn't owed to you. If you tag me in a discussion, I can engage there. Onetwothreeip (talk) 11:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

1. Please make a new section when adding an entry here.

2. You are in violation of WP:BRD which I have pointed out twice now.

3. They have been reverted by you.

4. I don't "feel that there hasn't been enough discussion" but would like you to adhere to WP:BRD and WP:RECENTISM. My points about only including the most recent month in 2020 in science have been ignored and there was no consensus for either your bold and large-scale change to the basic layout of the article which has been sustained for many year nor for only including the most recent month in the article.

5. a) Your proposed layout changes requires a proper debate and consensus. I did not revert it nevertheless. b) Your change of only including the most recent month in the article requires a proper debate and consensus.

--Prototyperspective (talk) 12:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

My comment is in that section because it relates to the same article. It's absurd to claim that I am violating BRD since I have not made a bold edit, it is you who has made a bold edit by transcluding content from the two split articles into the 2020 in science article. There's no consensus whatsoever for those transclusions, so it's clearly a bold edit of yours. A bold edit which has been reverted. Your points may very well have been ignored. This does not entitle you to violate BRD, and you're not entitled to have people take your points seriously.

The edits I made were discussed and agreed by talk page participants over the course of a month. I have not decided to "only include the most recent month" in the article, and I have not proposed that. Your attempted transclusions are bold edits, and can be reverted by anybody who objects to them. If I was to make a bold edit, you would be entitled to revert it to the status quo. An edit where you transclude content from other articles is most decidedly not reverting to any status quo. You made a bold edit, you've been reverted, it's as simple as that. WP:BRD is bold edit, revert, discuss; not bold edit, revert, revert, discuss. Onetwothreeip (talk) 12:36, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

1. Not making a new talk page section just because it relates to the same article is not common procedure but I don't have much of a problem with that if you insist on going against standard layout / norms for talk pages.

2. You made a bold edit by, without ever being involved in the article before, changing the basic layout of an article series which has been kept for many years and by making the page only including one month's worth of content.

3. "there was no consensus for either your bold and large-scale change to the basic layout of the article which has been sustained for many year nor for only including the most recent month in the article." (I already wrote this; it has been ignored again)

4. The edit was not agreed by talk page participants. Only one editor seemed to agree with you in the basic change without any comments about the number of months to include here.

5. The discussion wasn't going on for a month.

6. "An edit where you transclude content from other articles is most decidedly not reverting to any status quo." I was not reverting to status quo because I thought we could gain some form of unfirm consensus - I could also revert to status quo for the page instead.

7. I "would like you to adhere to WP:BRD and WP:RECENTISM. My points about only including the most recent month in 2020 in science have been ignored and there was no consensus for either your bold and large-scale change to the basic layout of the article which has been sustained for many year nor for only including the most recent month in the article."

--Prototyperspective (talk) 13:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for identifying the source of the material in your edit.

This type of edit does get picked up by Copy Patrol and a good edit summary helps to make sure we don't accidentally revert it. However, for future use, would you note the best practices wording as outlined at Misplaced Pages:Copying_within_Wikipedia? In particular, adding the phrase "see that page's history for attribution" helps ensure that proper attribution is preserved.

I've noticed that this guideline is not very well known, even among editors with tens of thousands of edits, so it isn't surprising that I point this out to some veteran editors, but there are some t's that you need to be crossed.S Philbrick(Talk) 13:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thanks I'll use this wording. I had the wording "added x items from {source article}" and didn't know a standardized edit-summary wording existed for such cases.

With "helps ensure that proper attribution is preserved" are you referring to only making it easier for people to look up the edit-history for the content or to some technical means by which the edit-history for the content is somehow attached/linked/integrated into the (target-)article's version history?

--Prototyperspective (talk) 13:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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@JoJo Anthrax: Hello, I meant to comment about the content, not the article's editors – in your terms here the ball was everything I put in front of "editors". However, you are right in that I should not have referenced editors but only point out that this what the content of this article to me seems to be (e.g. violating WP:DUE and WP:NPOV-tone as I pointed out in edit summaries earlier as well). I don't think I will raise this issue as it's simply not worth the effort (e.g. due to the number of editors involved) – but maybe somebody else could do so, I only left this comment of support on the talk page. Thanks for your notifications, I am aware of WP:AGF which I don't think to have acted in nonaccordance to.

I truly believe that core Misplaced Pages policies are being broken but as of right now I don't think that solving this is my responsibility. --Prototyperspective (talk) 14:26, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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