While looking through my former article, I came across several items that are best to add, but every time I used to try(in the very beginning) I was afraid I was going to go “too far”(or too deep)? Was wondering how far I should go when adding items to the “Things You’ll Need” and (forgot the other item). I’ve been working a lot lately on improving all my former articles, but still have a ways to go on making them “just so”. Although most conform to the standard, making them even better and adding this section to all my articles would be a great help. When I first wrote an article awhile ago about folding clothes, not only did I list the flat surface, but I also listed the two hands for folding the piece. Oh, although when creating an article about a computer software/website, I tend to use “too many steps”. Although I tend to ask people to open their browser and visit the website, there another Admin advised me not to go so far. How much is too much with these types. The other day, I merged an article of mine into an existant article. Here’s the edit this Admin made, which she later told me(through IRC) gave too much information: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Request-a-New-Article-Topic-Be-Written-on-wikiHow&diff=9906391&oldid=9906264
I know this all seems like a lot, but when you see how much time I have at times, this isn’t all that much. I just have to temporarily wait for users on my computer to be escorted off the machine I use the most to upload the images(which is rare, since the other computer users are 15 years old, despite them both having Facebook accounts along with one being an adamant YouTube user–erg!).
If this is the reason of why, this shouldn’t be the reason why. I’m not sure how this relates to the “drawn out, very precise information” is given in articles.
The reason why I suggested
it would be better to remove is because it’s way to redundant and should kind of be obvious. You would want to start off articles with the “straight to the point” instructions on how to start it - not “Open your internet window”, “Go to _______”, and THEN start the instructions on how to complete it. (Also, like explained in IRC, people do not need an account to suggest topics) That is exactly why I did it again here - http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Create-a-Permalink-for-a-Single-Twitter-Tweet&diff=9916363&oldid=PREV
If the article is about Twitter, it’s quite obvious it’s relating to the website and/or their account. It’s quite drawn out to instruct them to not only open their internet browser and go to the website, but log into their account, and then finding out down at Step 4, it’s finally creating the message… why can’t readers just be instructed to create the tweet (because one would have to be logged in to create it anyways) and have it “straight to the point”? “Wait for the new page to result.”
- Is it necessary to create a step for each time a new page is supposed to load? With too much precise instructions, it kind of creates a “Is this really necessary as a step” feeling.
