Guild Wars Wiki talk:Formatting/Abbreviations

How about we list by frequency of use first? SS: Most likely Spiteful Spirit, but you'd be putting it on the same level as, say Savage Slash. Makes sense? Moo Kitty 17:28, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Then we'd just get into pissing contests over which one is most widely used, which is subject to interpretation, play style, and changes over time. I'd prefer a method that is not subject to those limitations. -- FreedomBound 17:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Could we possibly have this suggestion to policy be changed so that it stands a chance of actually being helpful rather than just supplying those contributing to a bad habit with the excuse that it's policy? The major issue with abbreviations is that they cause confusion more than save time as the disambiguation pages are necessary due to the high number of users trying to look things up when they get abbreviated. Seryu 18:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome to edit it if you can think of an improvement. I just slapped it together because I figured no one else wanted to. —Jette 03:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm certain it'll wind up reverted faster than I can type it... but here goes. Seryu 04:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Changed a few things around by adding recommended courses of action. Also, rationale backing the necessity for a policy via simple illustration of the problems which has caused a demand for it. I tried to maintain as much of the original grammar as possible. From the looks of it, I missed a bit of proper sentence structure that'll make it annoying to read... back to small fixes I go. Seryu 04:47, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Listing types

Does anyone think we should be doing something like this? That edit was purely aesthetics, but I'd like to hear more from other users. --RIDDLE 17:07, 29 January 2010 (UTC)