User talk:Piney5000

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:20, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Roman Numerals in chapter titles

Hi, per our policy and house style we don't use Roman Numerals in chapter titles on subpages. We convert them all to Arabic. So, instead of "/Chapter XXXIX", we use "/Chapter 39". This makes for consistent linking practices. Please see WS:Style & Help:Subpages for more detail. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 01:40, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Cool, I'll move them over. Quick question: should the header links, etc. also be converted to Arabic numerals or should they remain as per the source? Piney5000 (talk) 01:44, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

The links should point to the Arabic numeral version, however, you can pipe the link to display the Roman numeral, like we did on the Constitution of the United Arab Emirates. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:53, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

You should, of course, keep the Roman numerals in the body of the text as that's what was printed; but the previous and next links need to point to the Arabic. As EP says, you can pipe the links if you choose. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It depends on who I'm doing the work for. If it's for children, I keep to the Arabic all the way. But, if it's an academic text, I would pipe. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 01:56, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

I think I'll pipe for this, and I'll keep your advice in mind for future works. Piney5000 (talk) 02:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Tom Jones

It looks as though you have created about a dozen template to format the Contents pages of this book. Doing so hides the formatting in a set of templates that then has to be maintained and updated whenever the Wiki code or HTML standards change. I see that, in these templates, you've used some formatting that is already outdated. It would be much better to use CSS to format the Contents than those templates. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:23, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Are the templates the problem, or what's in the templates? I ask because they are saving me a good deal repetition when it comes to the content of the table of contents, and not just the style, for example in how links to the eventually transcluded output are generated. It seems evident that updating a dozen templates will be easier than updating fifty or so pages in the event that standards change.

I'm definitely using a mix of inline CSS and presentational templates (which I'm assuming are the outdated formatting you're referring to) in the templates I've created, and I'm happy to convert these to CSS classes when I figure out exactly how to name my classes so that the Wiki parses everything happily. Piney5000 (talk) 19:38, 3 March 2024 (UTC)