Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Sri Lankan Tamil people/archive1

Notes about keeping FAC easy to read

Here are some tips for keeping pages easier to read:

• WP:SIGNATURE; annoying, big, colorful signature are hard to read and edit around
• See WP:FAC instructions:
  • Don't cap comments made by others, instead, ask them to cap if issues are resolved, and note that caps should be used very sparingly. They have to be removed before the FAC is archived because they cause archives to exceed Wikipedia:Template limits. Better yet is to avoid making lengthy, point-by-point responses so caps won't be needed.
  • Don't append sigs or commentary to edits made by others.
• Leaving previous commentary fully intact and responding under previous editors' posts is cleanest.
• Mentioning Reference number X in a dyanamic environment is confusing. Reference number 10 one minute could become reference number 11 the next.
• Be mindful of the most efficient and cleanest threading of responses.

Keeping the FAC as legible as possible will help avoid scaring off subsequent reviewers. I'm going to leave all the caps in this FAC for now, but will have to remove them when the FAC is archived.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:34, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I did not know about this. I was only trying to make the page more readable and take care of concerns raised by you earlier. Cheers :) Watchdogb (talk) 21:50, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem, the caps for now are probably fine (as long as no one whose comments you capped objects), but in the future, keeping a FAC legible will be helpful. We had similar at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mangalore/archive1 (try to read through that :-) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:59, 17 August 2008 (UTC)