User talk:Smokestack Basilisk

Hello, Smokestack Basilisk! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. If you are familiar with Wikipedia, take a look over some of the differences here. sats (talk) 15:42, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

An award for you!

 * 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:

--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)