User talk:Anne drew Andrew and Drew/Archives/2018/February

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Anne drew Andrew and Drew in topic Headings change

Relook a RFC close

I would ask you to relook this: Talk:Trump–Russia dossier/Archive 6#RFC on lead . Is this really no consensus or is it a consensus not to include. Casprings (talk) 02:04, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

The result is effectively the same, but you're right, "consensus against including" is more precise than "no consensus to include". Closing statement has been updated. AdA&D 14:54, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Youth in Asia

Want to edit Youth in Asia in a similar way as your DYK nomination, Youth in Africa? Vanguard10 (talk) 02:47, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Youth in Africa

Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Headings change

Re [1]

When you find something like that changed, it makes sense to make an effort to determine the rationale before changing it back. If you don't know the rationale, as your edit summary said, how do you know it wasn't a good rationale? "I don't know why" is never a good reason to reverse another editor's change. That would have been very easy in this case—the answer occurred 13 edits earlier, here.

The rationale is that many editors use the page history to determine recent activity in talk spaces, and it helps to know which "Survey" or "Discussion" is being commented in. There is only one each at this moment but, if you wait until "disambiguation" is actually needed, some editors complain that you changed the heading they were used to seeing in the page history.

I don't see how Survey: Nikolas Cruz heading is less neutral than RFC about the heading of the section on Nikolas Cruz, but would Survey about the heading of the section on Nikolas Cruz be an improvement in your view? I would have used that instead but I thought it would be a bit lengthy for the page history. ―Mandruss  05:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

If you feel so strongly you may change it back. I don’t feel like explaining why headings in an rfc should be neutral shouldn’t contain one of the options of said rfc. AdA&D 05:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC)