User talk:Tob
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[edit] Upper vs upper
- This question is kind of irrelevant, but just out of curiosity: why did you change the redirect at Lobachevsky plane from upper to Upper? As I understand it, due to limitations in Wikimedia, all articles start with a capital letter. -- Tob 08:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
The purpose of my edit was to insert the hyphen between half and plane, thereby bypassing a redirect page. An incidental other change was to make the capital U a lower-case u (not the other way around). I prefer that because capitalizing the initial sometimes makes newbies think it's necessary to capitalize the first letter of a link, and then they put a capital d in something like dog in the middle of a sentence. The first letter of a link, unlike the later letters, is case-insensitive. Michael Hardy 18:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] DOI parameters
Why are you adding doi parameters to citation templates which are unlikely ever to need them, such as {{cite book}}? Accepted practice is to include such links in the id parameter using {{doi}}, because there are many such links none of which should be singled out for special treatment (see {{arxiv}} for example). Please do not do stuff like this without at least asking: in many cases we have previously thrashed out the answer. HTH HAND Phil | Talk 17:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry to come over harsh, but we've had some trouble with people adding parameters willy-nilly to these templates which are used very widely, and the resulting change can make quite a noticeabel impact if you know where to monitor stuff. In the meantime, you can simply add {{doi}} to the id parameter on just about any of the citation templates without the bother of adding parameters. Thanks for the extra information. —Phil | Talk 17:49, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
