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→Degree symbol: :::Not the point. ° is simple and familiar to many people, and will work in on any HTML page. {{music}} is a Wikipedia-specific template that requires reading documentation to figure out what to do with it. People are free to use whichever method they want to produce the desired output. ~~~~ |
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:The purpose is to have an easy way of writing it that doesn't involve remember complex keyboard shortcuts or figuring out where in the interface the degree sign is hiding. No different than mentioning the &ndash; and &mdash; entities for – and —. As for this creating "more work", this isn't something that needs to be fixed in the first place, and ease of editing takes priority over other concerns.  <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 14:42, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
::{{reply|Headbomb}} Doesn't {{tl|music}} satisfy the requirement to provide an easy way of making the character without keyboard shortcuts or clicking through menus? Isn't it easier for editors compared to HTML entity syntax which references a word ("degree") unrelated to the diminished chord semantic? -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] ([[User talk:Beland|talk]]) 21:09, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
:::Not the point. &deg; is simple and familiar to many people, and will work in on any HTML page. {{music}} is a Wikipedia-specific template that requires reading documentation to figure out what to do with it. People are free to use whichever method they want to produce the desired output.  <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 21:17, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
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