Wikipedia talk:Help desk/Header

Edit request on 28 January 2012

Change the text "how to use or edit" from pink to red. It is quite hard to read on some monitors. Rcsprinter (converse) 18:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC) Rcsprinter (converse) 18:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Per the page history it seems that Orangemike changed red to green to avoid the appearance of a red link, then Fuhghettaboutit changed it from Green to Fuchsia (pink) in an attempt to have the same look at this effect as Red. I changed it as I thought it was a reasonable request but undid my edit from looking at the history - this needs discussion - perhaps we need an alternative colour? The Helpful One 14:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Declining for now. Let's see if we can have a discussion as to whether this is even a problem before even more ping-pong with the colour of the bikeshed font. FWIW I wouldn't pick red, as not only is that a colour indicating severity (this is not a warning of any sort) but is also the canonical colour for broken Web links, especially on Wikipedia. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

High-risk?

This seems to have been full-protected 4 years ago and left that way ever since. Perhaps it was needed at the time, but I don't see a reason now. Even the noticeboard headers aren't full-protected. The only real (live-use, non-user) transclusion is on this page. Knowing full well of the better-safe-than-sorry argument, generally we don't accept that approach to justify full protection. Can someone change this to semi-protect? Equazcion ^(talk) 12:22, 19 May 2012 (UTC)