User talk:Some helpful person
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[edit]Hello, Some helpful person. Welcome to Abstract Wikipedia! View the Community portal or post to the Project chat if you need help with something. Happy editing!
Koavf (talk) 23:56, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
- Hooray! It wouldn’t be Wikipedia without a
{{welcome}}, would it? Some helpful person (talk) 01:03, 2 May 2026 (UTC)- I certainly don't think so. Glad you're here. Koavf (talk) 01:04, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Hi, I thought it would be worthwhile to share some pointers with you for article creation, namely about the linked article that you just made. I went and corrected some of the problems I saw, and I'd like to tell you about them so that you know what to do next time. These are not official rules, though, of course, so whether or not you choose to utilize these is up to whether or not you consider them proper.
Do not use the paragraph from list of sentences separated by spaces functions and similar functions. Japanese, Chinese, etc. do not use spaces. f:Z33068 is more appropriate as it handles these discrepancies for you. You also don't need to use HTML fragment-returning sentence generation functions (and you probably shouldn't), and you don't need to use any "string of monolingual text"-adjacent functions either. Z33068 conveniently does these things for you in a way that is consistent and puts less effort on the editor.
I have been making an effort to document what is, in my opinion, the most regular and consistent ways to do things. Self-centered of me, maybe, but I think you might find it useful to read f:User:Theki/best practices. Again, however, note that this is all opinionated, and I am not at all demanding that you do things this way. Happy editing! — rae5e <talk> 17:15, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
- Appreciate it, those sound like good practices, and choosing the right function has been kind of confusing. It seemed easiest to use whatever worked, as there do not appear to be standards in place. Will attempt to use more efficient and accessible functions. May just me, but the paragraph from sentences function does not seem to be working at the moment, whereas the space-separated one is?
Wikifunctions returned a failed response: Could not acquire WASI runner within time limitSome helpful person (talk) 17:37, 2 May 2026 (UTC)- This is an ongoing issue, the orchestrator just freaks out like that sometimes. This doesn't usually happen, see Q241691 for a working article that does things this way. I think the WASI runner error is tracked on Phabricator, but I can't find it... — rae5e <talk> 18:05, 2 May 2026 (UTC)