A few weeks ago, I went through our UIBs to simplify their messages. Most had redundant information and information that made them not stay to their standard size, and most pushed their borders to ungodly lengths. However, I was up against a rich patrolling crowd.
Now, not including the “This author” phrase, I found out that if you keep the content up to 4-6 words long, it keeps things tidy. Although we have about 1600-1700 UIBs, I cleaned up all of the easiest ones with my sockpuppet in three - albeit long - sessions.
I left a few untouched in the search between User #, User A to User S, and those I didn’t touch I’d log in pen on a nearby piece of paper. Now, I’d like to open up this conversation to see how we should go about fixing the remaining ones from User T to User Z and those I’ve logged.
I also found discrepancies in certain UIBs which need some content splitting and template page moves to fix the titles - but some are so puzzling that Step A has to come before Step B because Step A holds the key to Step B’s better template name - those I’ve also logged on another sheet of paper.
Notice, I didn’t say I was going to fix all
of them - at least not at this time
. I can attempt these easy fixes rather quickly, but only if I’m not going to get reverted - even with patrollers who know who my sockpuppet is. Rather than revert the edit, either fix it to simplify it another way or talk to me about the particular edit in question so we can find a middle-ground, because the ones I’ve done the most with have been ones I’ve created in the past and I seem to be the only owner of at this moment, per WhatLinksHere!
Let me clue in some talk from @Rupert28
who’s been proactive with these fixes, and who I’ve talked to in the past about what they feel should happen with these, but haven’t gotten exact numbers from them.
I came back to this post - to update it for the last round of edits. However, I noticed nobody is chiming in and I want to discuss this with more editors to see what their take is, especially those who I’ve been talking with over this issue in the past - as I previously mentioned in this post.
