http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&feed=atom&action=historyTalk:Rules and guidelines - Revision history2024-03-28T22:07:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.1http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&diff=42314&oldid=prevTanstaafl: Removing obsolete information2010-09-06T22:12:04Z<p>Removing obsolete information</p>
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</table>Tanstaaflhttp://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&diff=42311&oldid=prevTonymec: /* Removing obsolete information */2010-09-06T15:45:49Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Removing obsolete information</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I was just trying to keep the section updated, since it still said that ''Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 1.5 are the most recent major releases'' :-) I have no problem with rewording the section. I think what we might want to do is to redefine "obsolete" to mean something other than older than the last two major releases. We should consider a program obsolete if it is no longer being supported (like Tony mentioned). We should also consider when the program was last updated (e.g., any program updated within the past year is not obsolete?). In any case, the issue is really keeping the article uncomplicated. How about the following? [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 15:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)<br> '''''Information about obsolete versions (i.e, versions that are no longer supported and which haven't been updated in over a year) may be removed if it is long, confusing, or distracting, if the corresponding information about current versions is present. However, a comment such as "Applies to Firefox since release 0.9" in articles about preferences is a good example of information that shouldn't be removed. It's very short, and the historical perspective can be useful. Keep in mind that older operating systems (e.g., Windows 98/Me and Mac OS X 10.3) do not meet the requirements for current Mozilla applications. Also keep in mind that some outdated versions (e.g., SeaMonkey 1, Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2) may still be popular for various reasons; use common sense before removing information that may still be useful.'''''</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I was just trying to keep the section updated, since it still said that ''Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 1.5 are the most recent major releases'' :-) I have no problem with rewording the section. I think what we might want to do is to redefine "obsolete" to mean something other than older than the last two major releases. We should consider a program obsolete if it is no longer being supported (like Tony mentioned). We should also consider when the program was last updated (e.g., any program updated within the past year is not obsolete?). In any case, the issue is really keeping the article uncomplicated. How about the following? [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 15:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)<br> '''''Information about obsolete versions (i.e, versions that are no longer supported and which haven't been updated in over a year) may be removed if it is long, confusing, or distracting, if the corresponding information about current versions is present. However, a comment such as "Applies to Firefox since release 0.9" in articles about preferences is a good example of information that shouldn't be removed. It's very short, and the historical perspective can be useful. Keep in mind that older operating systems (e.g., Windows 98/Me and Mac OS X 10.3) do not meet the requirements for current Mozilla applications. Also keep in mind that some outdated versions (e.g., SeaMonkey 1, Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2) may still be popular for various reasons; use common sense before removing information that may still be useful.'''''</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I was just trying to keep the section updated, since it still said that ''Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 1.5 are the most recent major releases'' :-) I have no problem with rewording the section. I think what we might want to do is to redefine "obsolete" to mean something other than older than the last two major releases. We should consider a program obsolete if it is no longer being supported (like Tony mentioned). We should also consider when the program was last updated (e.g., any program updated within the past year is not obsolete?). In any case, the issue is really keeping the article uncomplicated. How about the following? [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 15:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)<br> '''''Information <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> specific to </del>obsolete versions (i.e, versions that are no longer supported and which haven't been updated in over a year) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">should </del>be removed<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>if it<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s </del>long, confusing, or distracting, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>if the corresponding information about <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">all </del>current versions is present. However, a comment such as "Applies to Firefox since release 0.9" in articles about preferences is a good example of information that shouldn't be removed. It's very short, and the historical perspective can be useful. Keep in mind that older operating systems (e.g., Windows 98/Me and Mac OS X 10.3) do not meet the requirements for current Mozilla applications. Also keep in mind that some outdated versions (e.g., SeaMonkey 1, Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are </del>popular <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and remain in use, so </del>use common sense before removing information <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for older versions</del>.'''''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I was just trying to keep the section updated, since it still said that ''Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 1.5 are the most recent major releases'' :-) I have no problem with rewording the section. I think what we might want to do is to redefine "obsolete" to mean something other than older than the last two major releases. We should consider a program obsolete if it is no longer being supported (like Tony mentioned). We should also consider when the program was last updated (e.g., any program updated within the past year is not obsolete?). In any case, the issue is really keeping the article uncomplicated. How about the following? [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 15:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)<br> '''''Information <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">about </ins>obsolete versions (i.e, versions that are no longer supported and which haven't been updated in over a year) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may </ins>be removed if it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </ins>long, confusing, or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>distracting, if the corresponding information about <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>current versions is present. However, a comment such as "Applies to Firefox since release 0.9" in articles about preferences is a good example of information that shouldn't be removed. It's very short, and the historical perspective can be useful. Keep in mind that older operating systems (e.g., Windows 98/Me and Mac OS X 10.3) do not meet the requirements for current Mozilla applications. Also keep in mind that some outdated versions (e.g., SeaMonkey 1, Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may still be </ins>popular <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for various reasons; </ins>use common sense before removing information <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that may still be useful</ins>.'''''</div></td></tr>
</table>Alice Wymanhttp://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&diff=42309&oldid=prevAlice Wyman: Removing obsolete information2010-09-06T15:30:37Z<p>Removing obsolete information</p>
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</table>Alice Wymanhttp://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&diff=42308&oldid=prevAlice Wyman at 15:25, 6 September 20102010-09-06T15:25:48Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:I was just trying to keep the section updated, since it still said that ''Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 1.5 are the most recent major releases'' :-) I have no problem with rewording the section. I think what we might want to do is to redefine "obsolete" to mean something other than older than the last two major releases. We should consider a program obsolete if it is no longer being supported (like Tony mentioned). We should also consider when the program was last updated (e.g., any program updated within the past year is not obsolete?). In any case, the issue is really keeping the article uncomplicated. How about the following? [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 15:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)<br> '''''Information specific to obsolete versions (i.e, versions that are no longer supported and which haven't been updated in over a year) should be removed, if it's long, confusing, or distracting, and if the corresponding information about all current versions is present. However, a comment such as "Applies to Firefox since release 0.9" in articles about preferences is a good example of information that shouldn't be removed. It's very short, and the historical perspective can be useful. Also, keep in mind that older operating systems (e.g., Windows 98/Me and Mac OS X 10.3) do not meet the requirements for current Mozilla applications. Also keep in mind that some outdated versions (e.g., SeaMonkey 1, Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2) are popular and remain in use.'''''</ins></div></td></tr>
</table>Alice Wymanhttp://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&diff=42307&oldid=prevTonymec: /* Removing obsolete information */2010-09-06T15:19:20Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Removing obsolete information</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It was brought up that a few KB articles now exist about individual extensions (some have already been trimmed down to redirects). A proposal was made to prohibit such new articles in the future, to avoid a situation in which extension authors create new KB articles to promote or "market" their own extensions. Being discussed here: [[Knowledge Base changes#Extension listings in the Knowledge Base]] [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 00:35, 19 July 2008 (UTC)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It was brought up that a few KB articles now exist about individual extensions (some have already been trimmed down to redirects). A proposal was made to prohibit such new articles in the future, to avoid a situation in which extension authors create new KB articles to promote or "market" their own extensions. Being discussed here: [[Knowledge Base changes#Extension listings in the Knowledge Base]] [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 00:35, 19 July 2008 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That's a good general guideline but I disagree with the suggestion that information about Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 is fair game. There are many users who have not upgraded (or upgraded and then gone back to 2.0.0.24) because they strongly dislike 3.*, and unlike browsers where its critical to get security upgrades, if you apply common sense its safe to use 2.0.0.24 for several more years. This isn't the normal reluctance to upgrade to a new major version that we saw with 1.5 and 2.0.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tanstaaflhttp://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rules_and_guidelines&diff=37039&oldid=prevAlice Wyman: Prohibiting articles about individual extensions2008-07-19T00:35:15Z<p>Prohibiting articles about individual extensions</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The rules and guidelines don't deal with whats appropriate in a user page. Normally this isn't an issue. However some user pages have mild adult content and others promote home based businesses though the entire page isn't devoted to it. I suggest that we adopt as a rule of thumb that we'll use the same rules as the forums (but do not duplicate that list of rules). As an example, this would let the author of the aid4mail shareware mention he's the developer and what his web site is (since he's a small business selling software that related to Mozilla), but not post anything that could be interpreted as a small ad. [[User:Tanstaafl|Tanstaafl]] 22:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The rules and guidelines don't deal with whats appropriate in a user page. Normally this isn't an issue. However some user pages have mild adult content and others promote home based businesses though the entire page isn't devoted to it. I suggest that we adopt as a rule of thumb that we'll use the same rules as the forums (but do not duplicate that list of rules). As an example, this would let the author of the aid4mail shareware mention he's the developer and what his web site is (since he's a small business selling software that related to Mozilla), but not post anything that could be interpreted as a small ad. [[User:Tanstaafl|Tanstaafl]] 22:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I agree. We can simply link to http://forums.mozillazine.org/rules.php and state that the same rules apply regarding no offensive language, no spam, advertising or adult content, etc. on user pages. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 02:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I agree. We can simply link to http://forums.mozillazine.org/rules.php and state that the same rules apply regarding no offensive language, no spam, advertising or adult content, etc. on user pages. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 02:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::That forum link is now dead. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 00:35, 19 July 2008 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Copyright/License problems==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Copyright/License problems==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I suggest we think about adding a short "Copyright/License problems" section in [[Rules_and_guidelines]] that sets peoples expectations. I'm splitting this out as a separate topic from "Using external sources and references in KB articles" in [[Knowledge_Base_changes]] . It has some useful background you should read before commenting on this suggestion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I suggest we think about adding a short "Copyright/License problems" section in [[Rules_and_guidelines]] that sets peoples expectations. I'm splitting this out as a separate topic from "Using external sources and references in KB articles" in [[Knowledge_Base_changes]] . It has some useful background you should read before commenting on this suggestion.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I moved the sections [[In-house_style#Articles that apply to more than one application]] and [[In-house style#Removing obsolete information]] from the [[In-house style]] article to this article. See the discussion in [[Talk:In-house_style#Keeping_this_article_about_style]]. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 14:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I moved the sections [[In-house_style#Articles that apply to more than one application]] and [[In-house style#Removing obsolete information]] from the [[In-house style]] article to this article. See the discussion in [[Talk:In-house_style#Keeping_this_article_about_style]]. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 14:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Proposed guideline for add</del>-on links==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=Add</ins>-on links<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=</ins>==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Discussion </del>here: [[Knowledge Base changes#Using AMO links instead of author's website whenever possible]]. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 17:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Discussed </ins>here: [[Knowledge Base changes#Using AMO links instead of author's website whenever possible]]. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 17:13, 9 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">July 2008 (UTC) Section added, under [[Rules and guidelines#Article content]]. [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 00:35, 19 July 2008 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Prohibiting articles about individual extensions===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It was brought up that a few KB articles now exist about individual extensions (some have already been trimmed down to redirects). A proposal was made to prohibit such new articles in the future, to avoid a situation in which extension authors create new KB articles to promote or "market" their own extensions. Being discussed here: [[Knowledge Base changes#Extension listings in the Knowledge Base]] [[User:Alice Wyman|Alice]] 00:35, 19 </ins>July 2008 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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