[Vim-l] New guidelines (policies) for editing tips

[hermitte at free.fr]

Hello,

John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate any feedback on the guidelines that I have created. I
> anticipate that most controversy would arise from my suggestions to be
> ruthless about deleting comments,

> and to NOT use the discussion page of tips under review.

There are times where the talk page is more suited than any other media.
Typically when there are doubts about how to organize a tip (which category it
should be within, etc), and when the choices are made. Having a trace of the
choices made can be interresting in order to avoid cycles of doing-undoing
changes.


John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com> wrote in another email:
> Do we (the regulars here) want to keep all the comments as a
> historical record? Do we want to delete them all? Or move them
> to the talk pages? Or delete some of them? Do we keep the author
> names and dates? Or delete them?

I'm quite the conservative type.

When a comment is about fixing a bug. Then the comment should be merged.
When the comment expressed an opinion ... I'm not for deleting or systematically
merging the comment. In such cases, moving the comment to the talk page could be
the best choice -- IMHO.

Regarding the highly commented tips, my prefered policy would be to let the
initial authors of a tip to maintain the tip, as sometimes the comments concern
bugs, enhancements, ... Unfortunatelly, I'm afraid many tips initial-authors may
not be available. :-(




In another post, someone said someting about having vim.wikia evolved to host
more than just tips. Did you have in mind hosting a forum-like page for each
main vim scripts? (Something else ?)
If yes, tips like <http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Remarks_to_script_c.vim> must not
be deleted but moved in a (new/relevant) category.


--
Luc Hermitte