User talk:Protector of Wiki

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Again, welcome! -- Cirt (talk) 07:18, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! I hope that things will go better here. Protector of Wiki (talk) 07:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

focus

Okay, thanks! But why is the pilcrow (¶) on the first line not directly beside the first line of text? Protector of Wiki (talk) 07:31, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure I know the answer, but it has no effect on the result. Welcome to wikisource. cygnis insignis 08:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Billinghurst answered my question over at the Scriptorium. Protector of Wiki (talk) 03:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Question

You seem to be a fairly active "admin". Should Template:Nop be used at the end of every page? Protector of Wiki 04:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Keep that "active" thing to yourself!!

The only reason to use {{nop}} when editing a Page: is if the last line in the editing window happens to be the closing sentence of a paragraph. For the "normal" spacing to display when we take all double-checked pages and make articles out of them, hitting return 2x won't cut it. You'll see the double spacing or double return in the Page: namespaces but these won't transfer to the main article space (where they probaby won't be the last line of a paragraph anymore).

In order for that normal spacing between that paragraph and the "new" paragraph begining on the very next page in the same Index: the {{nop}} template should be used.

Simple way to think about it -- When the last tine in the edit window is NOT the end of a paragraph and the first line one the next page IS part of the same sentence DO NOT USE the template. If this broken sentence stituation is NOT what you are seeing then use rhe template.

So if you pretend the gray box to follow is your Page: editing window

. . . anywhere; for all imposts must be equal. It is no answer 
to repeat that an unconstitutional law is no law, so long 
as the question of its legality is to be decided by the 
State itself, for every law operating injuriously upon 
any local interest will be perhaps thought, and certainly 
represented, as unconstitutional, and, as has been shown, 
there is no appeal.
{{nop}}

If you are seeing something like the below

... anywhere; for all imposts must be equal. It is no 
answer to repeat that an unconstitutional law 
is no law, so long as the question of its legality 
is to be decided by the State itself, for every 
law operating injuriously upon any local interest will be 
perhaps thought, and certainly represented, as unconstit-

... no NOP!

George Orwell III (talk) 04:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks!!
So neither Page:Pierre.djvu/477 nor Page:1965 FBI monograph on Nation of Islam.djvu/62 need the NOP? Protector of Wiki (talk) 08:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Seems like you've got the idea -- neither one needed a NOP George Orwell III (talk) 08:39, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, George Orwell III. I'll remove them from the two pages above. Protector of Wiki (talk) 07:15, 22 October 2010 (UTC)