User talk:Smokestack Basilisk

Hello, Smokestack Basilisk! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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An award for you!

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	This Barncompass is in appreciation for all your cleanup work. Thanks!

Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:56, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh well deserved and well done! --Saqib (talk) 12:14, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Smokestack Basilisk (talk) 12:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Automated edits

Thanks for your using AWB to change some articles.

Unfortunately some of the current settings you are using are not helpful.

2 examples:

i) We try to abbreviate in listings where it does not cause ambiguity: Daily 10:00-17:00, closed 25 Dec is preferred to Daily 10:00-17:00, closed 25 December according to wv:date
ii) It gives a better visual clue to editors who are editing manually/ traditionally, if there is a blank line before a new heading.

I'm also interested to know why the edit to the "Eat" section in our Auckland article referenced above removed this HTML comment:
<!--this long list needs to be trimmed down to max 9, or broken up into categories--> --118.93nzp (talk) 19:53, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

I wasnt aware of the date format policy, I was just trying to make the format a little cleaner as I have seen a lot of different formats. I find the full date format easier to read which is why I was using it. As for the spacing issue it was just a preference. Ill take more care. Smokestack Basilisk (talk) 19:59, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, some of our MoS is a bit peculiar. For example, we use the maximum possible abbreviation for days of the week on the basis that our print version is important and a print out may end up very bulky if we do not heavily abbreviate in listings. The spacing is not yet mandated by our MoS and probably should be discussed - for example I think that some HTML can be intimidating and hard to understand by newbie editors (non-breaking spaces are not noticed - other than in their absence - by 'readers', of course) and prefer for that reason, for there to be no space between the unit and it's following amount. (It's also a tad shorter of course and, if we're writing M rather than Mo for Monday in listings, more consistent in our approach to the maximum possible abbreviation where it does not introduce ambiguity...). Thanks for listening!

On the topic of abbreviation, can I call you "Bas" or do you prefer your full user name (you can call me 118 if you like...) --118.93nzp (talk) 20:12, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Error in AWB script

Please note that your edits are creating error with images. For example Bohemian Paradise and Birmingham (England) has taken the spaces out of a picture file name. --Traveler100 (talk) 09:40, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, Ill take more care. Smokestack Basilisk (talk) 18:40, 23 December 2013 (UTC)