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[edit] Talk Page/Forum page for talking about the topic
There are many Talk pages in which people give there opinion this is not what the page is for but it is something that seem to be very desired. The idea of a forum like page would be very useful talk pages offering review on movie pages for example could be something useful for picking a movie to see some times the page are just a spoilers and if there were reviews you could read the review without having the movie spoiled .To offten pages discussing politics or history are told from the POV of those who were in controll.Soldiers who served in Iraq offering stories about thier service would be very insightful all to often the little details are over looked. a simple story of one day in iraq telling what the berics were like how they ate this would never be in a normal encyclopedia but that's what is the benifit of wikipedia offering the most complete view . The incessant unceasing perpetual, continuous, nonstop, around/round-the-clock, uninterrupted, unbroken, unremitting, persistent, relentless, unrelenting, unrelieved, yalk over POV would be solved put the FACTS on the article and the OPINION on the talk/forum pag.If anyone likes my ideas and bad spellin and grammer and has Ideas on how to go about adding a forum tab to the top an eery page email me [email address removed] ==I am Nate Riley==
[edit] swearing on talk pages?
Acceptable or no?
Lunakeet 14:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Probably not. It would seem to be, in a very, very limited manner, not so much frowned upon when it does not extend to others. However, it is generally considered impolite and should be avoided. Please read Wikipedia:Civility. Waltham, The Duke of 14:12, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
- There is absolutely nothing wrong with swearing on a talk page. Wikipedia, after all, is not censored. However, WP:CIVILITY, WP:NPA, etc. apply; personal attacks and uncivil comments are completely inappropriate, whether profanity is involved or not. Of course, in polite conversation there is little call for profanity, but just because some see it as distasteful hardly means that it isn't allowed. faithless (speak) 09:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- Excessive profanity is unacceptable here, as it would be in any collaborative working environment. Would you approach a librarian with the comment "Hey, I think this book has the wrong fucking catalog number" or your secretary with "Can you order some goddamn staples"? Bearing in mind WP:CIV and WP:NPA, ask yourself if a comment is the sort of thing that would be appropriate to say to a stranger on the street, casual acquaintance, or new coworker. Language that is likely to make such people uncomfortable – or worse, is intended to make such people uncomfortable – has no place.
- That said, we usually don't remove profanity, except in the most extreme cases. Editors who use colorful language to excess can be approached politely and encouraged to express themselves in a less heated manner. (There exists, unfortunately, a small subset of editors who have confused or conflated honesty and forthrightness with abruptness and rudeness.) TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- The use of profanity in an of itself is not the problem. As just one prominent example, the general counsel of the entire Wikimedia Foundation allowed this colorful header to remain in his talk page for almost six months. The real issue is whether someone is rude or abusive, and that unacceptable incivility can obviously occur with or without the use of profane language. — Satori Son 14:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Links to Talk pages from articles
It's my understanding that Wikipedia articles should never link to pages in the Talk name space, but I can't find that mentioned in the guideline. Am I missing something?--agr (talk) 22:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- From what I know, links in the mainspace should only lead to other pages in the mainspace; in other words, articles and lists should only link to other articles and lists. I think links to categories and images are allowed when they help with the understanding of the subject, but this is rare; the mainspace should be mostly self-contained. (There is also the ability to use templates for relevant portals, but these links are not in the prose.)
- An exception to all this is, of course, the Main Page (just for the record).
- The problem is that I cannot find the relevant passage in any guideline and how-to page pertaining to links; most of them are introduced with something like "you can use links in articles to link to other articles". As a matter of fact, I don't even know if there is such a passage. The limitation on links seems to go without saying, but it really should be written somewhere. Waltham, The Duke of 14:07, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
