GuildWiki talk:Comments

Comments
The language is a bit stilted, if you can rephrase it to sound less formal, please go ahead.

I have opted to design section headers as part of the first comment in a asection. I often rely on my section header to be there for the text of my comment, and I certainly expect the section header to have been authored by the person who signed the first comment.

It is hard for me to imagine how a comment could vandalize the wiki; if it was gratuitious and had no bearing on the content it is placed in relation to, it would also be considered spam; but a comment can contain markup that affects comments below it, or the page around it, especially if it contained code to change its position. Overly large repetitive or pointless edits could also be considered vandalism, and there should probably be a provision giving users extended arbitration rights over their own talkpages in these cases as well. Hmm, wasn't that the point of doing this in the first place? --◄mendel► 11:47, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Maybe the User talk: provisions would be better collected in their own section. --◄mendel► 13:17, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Should we make a better distinction between vandal spam, spam without purpose, and convo spam, which is usually done by active users in a playful, usually tongue in cheek style that doesn't have malicious intent or uses broken coding?--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg|Ho ho ho!]]îğá †ħŕášħ 13:27, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Vandal spam is vandalism. Spam is advertising or otherwise unrelated posts completely out of context. I think if a user announces they don't want "convo spam" on their talkpage, we should honor that request. I'm not sure what purpose a distinction would serve. Maybe you can give some examples where this would make a difference? --◄mendel► 13:50, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Why not make it into a generic GW:TALK page that explains the purposes of talk pages and the rules for them, with clarification for User talk pages? --JonTheMon 15:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * linking it via GW:COMM would be optimal redirect imo. &mdash; Scythe   16:35, 10 Dec 2010 (UTC)