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

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:It doesn't really matter to me whether we decide that "class" is properly classified as HTML (because the same word is used in this context in HTML) or as wikitext (because that word is used in this context in MediaWiki core). All that matters to me is that editors understand how to make one of those and how to change them if someone else made one of those – and that they ''not'' get lost in details about hex codes or other "advanced" details that are only occasionally used in Wikipedia articles. [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 19:07, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

::(Also, |} isn't technically required at the moment. The parser is currently cleaning up after people if they forget to close the table. It's kind of messy/unreliable, and the parser won't support this forever, but closing a table is technically not required right now.) [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 19:10, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

:::Well I disagree. There has to be a bridge between [[Help:Table]] and an introduction. That could be described in a single page. To not describe the eight symbols used by table nomenclature, and then to expect them to dive straight into incredibly complex [[Help:Table]] is at the very best extremely shortsighted. Are you really expecting for people the jump easily? <b style="font-family:'Segoe Script',cursive;">[[User:Mrjulesd|<span style="color:orange;">--Jules</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mrjulesd|(Mrjulesd)]]</b> 01:34, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

== Deciding on tutorial content ==