Help talk:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/1: Difference between revisions

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::: Your help here is really helpful. It's easy for a page with too few contributing editors to end up skewed by one person's angle. I hope at least now it's clear what content level I was attempting so that we know whether we disagree over the aims or implementation! Let me know what you think of my suggestions.

::: As a final note, I think the only remaining sections really need to still be added are ''placement'' (inc. floating and collapsing, parhaps as the new section/4) and a final ''summary'' (inc. links to the more thorough help pages). [[User:Evolution_and_evolvability|T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)]]^{[[User talk:Evolution_and_evolvability|talk]]} 11:39, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

:::::[[Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/1|1]] I see: you're trying to make all the guides look the same. And making it worse as a result.

:::::'''[[Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/2|2]]'''&'''[[Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/4|4]]''': I'm glad you see your mistake. How about just changing them back to how they were?

:::::'''[[Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/5|5]]''': how the heck were they too long and detailed before? They were about one issue: how to insert HTML attributes into content, headers, captions, tables and rows. And to remove details of this is going to cause confusion. This is a BASIC TOPIC that is FUNDAMENTAL TO TABLE CONSTRUCTION. Introducing further attributes is a MORE COMPLEX TOPIC that is explained in great detail at Help:Table. JUST REDUCING THINGS BECAUSE THEY "LOOK TOO LONG" is not a good way to approach these issues at all. I included HTML in the descriptions because this is what the section is about: ADDING HTML ATTRIBUTES.

:::::Look this guide has been built up over a long period of time, and reflects consensus and the input from a good many editors. How about just reversing these changes and starting again. For major overhauls you need build consensus otherwise you're just going to piss people off. <b style="font-family:'Segoe Script',cursive;">[[User:Mrjulesd|<span style="color:orange;">--Jules</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mrjulesd|(Mrjulesd)]]</b> 12:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)