Talk:Second Life Railroad/SLRR History

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Moving page

I have moved the SLRR History from 2010 and beyond to this new page. 2005 to 2009 can still be found at Second_Life_Railroad/SLRR_History. The old page gotten larger than the 32K maximum. --Stryker J 17:29, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

To Stryker, this is not a good idea, the history must remain on a single page.
It is long because it was not written succinctly, some text was copied/pasted in it's entirety and not edited down for this wiki topic.
The only headings needed are "2008" etc., a subheadings for every item is not necessary.
Your suggestion to "find the latest SLRR information on the history 2010 page" makes absolutely no sense.
Also, there is no such thing as a "history beyond the present." Up to date information should be placed on the SLRR main topic page only.
Would you like to change it back to the way it was? or shall I...
Jer Straaf 10:05, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

  • For editing purposes it's much easier to use sub-headings. So I suggest to keep those. Seeing as the documents will be added to continually it probably wise to split them at some point in time anyway. I could reverse the order of the document... but to be honest that makes no sense to me. You start a book by reading from chapter 1. Not from the last chapter backward. Lets leave the pages as they are arranged now. --Stryker J 10:20, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


No, we will not leave it the way it is. Please answer me directly.
Would you like to change it back to the way it was? or shall I...
Jer Straaf 10:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

  • See my previous answer with reasoning. Lets leave the pages as they are arranged now please. --Stryker J 10:43, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


You have not presented any valid reasoning in support of this horrible change and you have obviously not understood my sound reasoning for returning the history to a single page format.
I will contact Torley Linden immediately, he can adjudicate this matter.
Jer Straaf 11:07, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

  • Reasoning in a nutshell again then: 1). The wiki editor if self gives a warning when a page gets larger then 32K. 2). The subheadings are needed for ease of editing and the index. 3). Pages are written and read from the top down and clearly marked they continue on other pages. 4) I have immediately accommodated your 'concern' by adding additional links in the description of both pages.
  • I agree with the fact there is no "history beyond the present". So you may want to come up with a better term for that. The pages are now fully linked and reverting it will cause links on other pages to fail. And just because you want something does not mean that I automatically have to agree. I still think its best to leave the pages as they are arranged now. --Stryker J 11:20, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

For simplicity's sake...

@Jer It isn't clear to me which specific passages you find objectionable. I won't assume and I don't have the luxury of time to look through all edits, so please quote and summarize with specific actionables. Otherwise, others have a hard time understanding what you mean.

Since there's a lot going on here, it may help to start fresh knowing that: alternate views can be presented within an article from each perspective. For example, "While Bob saw the burgeoning steampunk movement as important to e-commerce, Alice disagreed because it hurt her dieselpunk fashions. Complicating the matter further, John saw an opportunity to merge the two."

The point is, attribute these perspectives, and make it clear they aren't universally shared. Similar to how Wikipedia has both "positive", "negative", and "mixed" reviews cited in the "critical response" of movie reviews — Inception is a particularly weighty example.

- Torley-favicon.png on 2010-09-01 @ 5:29 AM Pacific



  • retracting older comments --Stryker J 17:04, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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