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Overlinking and other formatting issues[edit]

MOS:SYL says:

Date elements that do not contain both a day number and a month should not generally be linked; for example, solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month and year combinations. Such links should not be used unless following the link would genuinely help the reader understand the topic more fully; see WP:CONTEXT. Autoformatting must not be used for the following purposes:

Also, WP:CONTEXT explains why there is no need to link th same thing repeatedly, and why we don't link plain English words in most cases.

Also, WP:MOS explains that we use sentence case, not Title Case, for section headings, i.e., only the first words and proper nouns are capitalizaed. the other words in the title are not. And we don't put links into section headings.

I hope that helps. Ground Zero | t 02:53, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

COI and POV issues[edit]

I have tagged this article as having a conflict of interest, in that the major contributor is directly related to, and an official of, the organization which is the subject of this article. Neutral point of view is lacking, especially where the article discusses the union's advocacy of certain legislation and advances a particular point of view. JGHowes ^talk 04:57, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As the major contributor to this article, I'd like to point out that the NRLCA is a labor union, and when writing about its issues, it seems reasonable that their would be something of a slant toward their beliefs and opinions. I did my best to keep what I wrote as neutral as possible. I'm not sure where I "crossed the line" in your opinion, but rather than go through all this, couldn't you have just given it a little edit and neutralized it? By the way, I liked the list of former Presidents in three columns better.--Johnny Spasm (talk) 13:25, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The conflict of interest is obvious, but Johnny Spasm has been very open about the COI and also open to JGHowes attempting to fix the neutrality of the article. As long as there is cooperation I don't see that there is undue disruption that would lead to an enforcement of the suggestions at the COI guideline. If there does happen to be disruption (say, an edit war or repeated insertion of POV information) then Johnny Spasm would be encouraged to only make uncontroversial edits on the main page (typo fixes, reverting obvious vandalism) and request major changes to the text on the talk page rather than making them directly. -- Atama頭 23:23, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Atama, for your quick response to my request for a third opinion regarding the COI concern, in lieu of taking it to WP:COIN. As to the layout for the former presidents section, the previous format resulted in large amounts of white space and sandwiched text on some browsers/monitors, so I made the change to a simpler format for improved readability. JGHowes ^talk 01:48, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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