Category talk:Glossary Entries

Cleaned up entries
I just went through the Glossary:0-9 thru Glossary:Z pages and cleaned up a bunch of entries that were causing issues. There were some common threads to the problems, which I'll explain here. I very respectfully request that editors keep these things in mind, when modifying pages in the Glossary namespace:

Please don't #redirect Glossary titles to other Glossary pages
It won't do what you think, and causes the corresponding Glossary: letter  page to show two identical copies of the same content. A "soft redirect" for glossary entries can be created by hand, like so: (The pipe trick causes the entry to read "See: Target Title", instead of "See: Glossary:Target Title". It's equivalent to writing .)

Please don't #redirect Glossary titles out of the Glossary namespace
That really won't do what you think, and will break the Glossary: letter  page it's included on.

Please don't wikilink the argument to the template
It breaks the Edit links that the template outputs at the bottom of each entry. If a link to a mainspace article is required, it can be used as the first word in the  argument. See Glossary:Teleportation.

Please ensure the argument matches the Glossary:Title name of the page
Again, template structure issue. If the page is renamed the template argument needs to be updated in kind.

Please keep Glossary entries to reasonable length
The Glossary entries are meant to be read all together on the index pages Glossary:0-9 thru Glossary:Z. Any overlong entries break up the flow of those pages and overpower the other. If a long entry is necessary, everything after the short intro can be wrapped in the following template to fold (hide) it by default: See Glossary:Golden Age of Comic Books, and its placement on Glossary:G, for an example.

The Glossary is fragile, and its pages observe a specific structure more rigid than the rest of the wiki, so extra care has to be taken when editing content in the Glossary namespace. Thanks. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 10:09, October 29, 2018 (UTC)