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

[Sebastian Menge]

Am Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:20:37 +0200 schrieb Olivier Teuliere:
> The problem is that we have 3 "levels" of content: 1) the tip itself
> (which includes all the fixes and enhancements) 2) other comments
> ("great tip", "what if I want to do this?", etc.) 3) the meta discussion
> about the tip (what category should we place it
>    in, should we merge it with another tip, what to do with this
>    particular comment, etc.)
> 
> But we only have 2 pages: the tip page, and its talk page! So we have to
> make choices.
> 
> In my opinion, it is clear that the tip should be in its page, and the
> meta discussion in the corresponding talk page.

Yes. Sounds very good.
 
> Concerning the comments (my "level 2" above), I dislike putting them in
> the talk page, because it would mean opening 2 pages instead of one,
> from a user perspective.
> 
> Should we keep these comments on the tip page, or remove them? I am in
> favour of removing them when they have no added value (most of the
> cases), because I consider them as noise. If comments are subject to

Though I like the friendly tone of most such comments, i'm ok with 
deleting them.

As for discussions as on VimTip612: I would say they should be merged i 
such a way:

---
There are different positions on this issue:

Some ppl say: blah, because of ...
others say blubb, because of.
---

Thus remove the "thread/discussion" style.

Sebastian.