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Wikiquette

FarMcKon — 2007-02-18T15:02:59Z

Renamed to "Wiki Community/Etiquette"

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- Wikiquette is short for Wiki etiquette. We don't have much of that around here. - - - - == Humor == - Humor is encouraged. That being said, we also want to be the 'People's guide to Rochester". Some complaints have been filed at the ["RobertPolyn" complaints Dept.] about humor being distracting or problematic. There is a balance somewhere in there, god only knows if we'll ever find it. When in doubt, make the joke anyway, and '''someone''' will let you know if it's out of line. - - == Commenting on Edits == - Always supply a comment to describe what change you made to a page, even if the comment length is longer than the change itself. The comments summarize the changes and can be examined in the change-log for a page. It is much easier to find a specific change (a fictional example might be the deletion of the website for a business) if the change log included a comment that indicated that specific change. Include minor changes in comments so the search for a specific alteration can skip those entries. - - == Fact and Opinion == - Separate fact and opinion. This seems to be more of an issue on pages about businesses where an author will praise or disparage an establishment based on their own opinions. Facts include things like location, decor, and prices -- try to keep the factual part of a description bias-free, somewhat positive, or at least friendly. Opinions include the quality of services, details of an individual visit, or basically anything where another individual might have an entirely different experience. Opinions are best expressed in a Comment. Feel free to add a Comment block to the page if it's lacking one. - - == Talk, Talk Talk == - Feel free to edit anything at will, but you have to realize that the 'revert' option is easy to use, so you should comment on edits if you feel they need to be justified. - - If you see something of ''opinion'' you disagree with, comment on it in the Talk section before you just edit or edit it then leave a comment. There is nothing worse than seeing something you saw as OK changed, and not understanding why someone had a problem with the sentence or paragraph. - - == Editing to Add More Information == - Edit pages to add more information rather than remove information. If you find a factual error, you may wish to note it as a misconception and explain why it's wrong rather than just deleting it. Avoid removing facts just to parallel the structure of other pages -- start updating the other pages instead. In cases where a page needs to be cleaned up, try to move whole sentences and paragraphs instead of rephrasing: you may miss a piece of information that was important to someone else and it will seem like you arbitrarily deleted it.	+ #redirect Wiki Community/Etiquette

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rottenchester — 2007-01-28T23:38:28Z

Encourge expressing opinions in comments.

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- Separate fact and opinion. This seems to be more of an issue on pages about businesses where an author will praise or disparage an establishment based on their own opinions. Facts include things like location, decor, and prices -- try to keep the factual part of a description bias-free, somewhat positive, or at least friendly. Opinions include the quality of services, details of an individual visit, or basically anything where another individual might have an entirely different experience.	+ Separate fact and opinion. This seems to be more of an issue on pages about businesses where an author will praise or disparage an establishment based on their own opinions. Facts include things like location, decor, and prices -- try to keep the factual part of a description bias-free, somewhat positive, or at least friendly. Opinions include the quality of services, details of an individual visit, or basically anything where another individual might have an entirely different experience. Opinions are best expressed in a Comment. Feel free to add a Comment block to the page if it's lacking one.

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JasonOlshefsky — 2005-10-12T12:34:03Z

Add "Editing to Add More Information" section.

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-	+ == Editing to Add More Information == + Edit pages to add more information rather than remove information. If you find a factual error, you may wish to note it as a misconception and explain why it's wrong rather than just deleting it. Avoid removing facts just to parallel the structure of other pages -- start updating the other pages instead. In cases where a page needs to be cleaned up, try to move whole sentences and paragraphs instead of rephrasing: you may miss a piece of information that was important to someone else and it will seem like you arbitrarily deleted it.

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FarMcKon — 2005-10-09T19:05:49Z

updated a bit

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- If you see something of _opinion_ you disagree with, comment on it in the Talk section before you just edit or, or edit it then leave a comment. There is nothing worse than seeing a page changed, and not understanding why someone took umbrage at a sentence or paragraph.	+ == Talk, Talk Talk == + Feel free to edit anything at will, but you have to realize that the 'revert' option is easy to use, so you should comment on edits if you feel they need to be justified. + + If you see something of ''opinion'' you disagree with, comment on it in the Talk section before you just edit or edit it then leave a comment. There is nothing worse than seeing something you saw as OK changed, and not understanding why someone had a problem with the sentence or paragraph.

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FarMcKon — 2005-10-09T19:03:41Z

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- Humor is encouraged. That being said, we also want to be the 'People's guide to Rochester". Some complaints have been filed at the ["RobertPolyn" complaints Dept.] about humor being distracting or problematic. There is a balance somewhere in there, god only knows if we'll ever find it.	+ Humor is encouraged. That being said, we also want to be the 'People's guide to Rochester". Some complaints have been filed at the ["RobertPolyn" complaints Dept.] about humor being distracting or problematic. There is a balance somewhere in there, god only knows if we'll ever find it. When in doubt, make the joke anyway, and '''someone''' will let you know if it's out of line.

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FarMcKon — 2005-10-09T19:02:57Z

Updated the complaints Dept.

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- Humor is encouraged. That being said, we also want to be the 'People's guide to Rochester". Some complaints have been filed at the ["RobPolyn" complaints Dept.] about humor being distracting or problematic. There is a balance somewhere in there, god only knows if we'll ever find it.	+ Humor is encouraged. That being said, we also want to be the 'People's guide to Rochester". Some complaints have been filed at the ["RobertPolyn" complaints Dept.] about humor being distracting or problematic. There is a balance somewhere in there, god only knows if we'll ever find it.

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JasonOlshefsky — 2005-10-08T13:34:49Z

Changed "Editing" to "Fact and Opinion"; added "Commenting on Edits."

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- == Editing ==	+ == Commenting on Edits == + Always supply a comment to describe what change you made to a page, even if the comment length is longer than the change itself. The comments summarize the changes and can be examined in the change-log for a page. It is much easier to find a specific change (a fictional example might be the deletion of the website for a business) if the change log included a comment that indicated that specific change. Include minor changes in comments so the search for a specific alteration can skip those entries. + + == Fact and Opinion == + Separate fact and opinion. This seems to be more of an issue on pages about businesses where an author will praise or disparage an establishment based on their own opinions. Facts include things like location, decor, and prices -- try to keep the factual part of a description bias-free, somewhat positive, or at least friendly. Opinions include the quality of services, details of an individual visit, or basically anything where another individual might have an entirely different experience. +
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RobertPolyn — 2005-10-08T07:30:04Z

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RobertPolyn — 2005-10-08T07:27:13Z

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RobertPolyn — 2005-10-08T07:25:53Z

Upload of image roc.jpg.

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RossHattori — 2005-10-08T05:33:13Z

Far, there is a spell checker (: (ubrage -> umbrage)

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- If you see something of _opinion_ you disagree with, comment on it in the Talk section before you just edit or, or edit it then leave a comment. There is nothing worse than seeing a page changed, and not understanding why someone took ubrage at a sentence or paragraph.	+ If you see something of _opinion_ you disagree with, comment on it in the Talk section before you just edit or, or edit it then leave a comment. There is nothing worse than seeing a page changed, and not understanding why someone took umbrage at a sentence or paragraph.

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FarMcKon — 2005-10-07T22:54:42Z

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	+ + + == Humor == + Humor is encouraged. That being said, we also want to be the 'People's guide to Rochester". Some complaints have been filed at the ["RobPolyn" complaints Dept.] about humor being distracting or problematic. There is a balance somewhere in there, god only knows if we'll ever find it. + + == Editing == + If you see something of _opinion_ you disagree with, comment on it in the Talk section before you just edit or, or edit it then leave a comment. There is nothing worse than seeing a page changed, and not understanding why someone took ubrage at a sentence or paragraph.

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FarMcKon — 2005-10-07T17:33:16Z

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	+ Wikiquette = Wiki etiquette. We don't have much of that around here. +