User talk:Boris1951zz

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--ЗAНИA talk 06:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

FONT tags...
Hi Can you please stop using HTML font tags in the Postage Meter Catalogs.. There are deprecated and will eventually be removed from both HTML and the mediwaiki backend?

It would also be much appreciated if you could provide a style guide, so that other contributors can know what styles are being used for the Catalogs, to ensure consistency and enable consistent de-lints to be made. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 10:48, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Something I don't understand...
Why are there two pages with roughly similar content (mostly the lede to PPS-A, but ever so slightly different page-titles?

Being:- United_States_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog/GROUP_PPS_-_Private_Parcel_Service_stamps and United_States_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog/GROUP_PPS_–_Private_Parcel_Service_stamps respectively.

Shouldn't these be merged to a Common title ?

(I'm still considering leaving Wikibooks once concerns are resolved.) ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 09:42, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I was not aware of the duplications, the original page is https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/United_States_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog/GROUP_PPS_%E2%80%93_Private_Parcel_Service_stamps, can the partial page (the first URL) be deleted
 * withour effecting the second ?
 * Thank you Boris1951zz (discuss • contribs) 20:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * It certainly can be, but you'd need to ask someone with administrator rights, to do so.ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 21:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

FONT Tags..
FONT tags are like SPAN's, you can't nest wikitext links, tables, images, some types of paragraph break, or indeed anything that generates block-like content within them. font/top and font/end were templates specially written to meet the specific use case and formatting need in those instances. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 19:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

FONT tags are deprecated in HTML5 anyway. What would be ideal is the creation as a US Postage Meter Styles template. The template itself would only contain a templatestyles line, with US Postage Meter Styles/styles.css containing CSS classes that could be used across all the Books pages, with the approriate desired formatting set up in a single place, rather than scattered in countless FONT tags. This is the approach that was used on Wikisource, until it because possible to define styles for Index: pages (from the Proofread Page extension). directly. You would then be able to use a much more meaningful  when you need to make a star or letter red., you could also potentially set font-sizes this way as well. If you need more help with this ask other Wikibooks contributors for technical assistance with "TemplateStyles".

Your comments lead me to do a lot of digging to determine if any content had actually gone missing ( I care about that as you clearly also do.). ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 19:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * i admit I was using the formatting from the previous editor, i will work to use the manner you used in some of the corrections that seemed reasonable, however the logic of the orginal formatting is so much more direct than the second way,
 * I also have not found an adequate definition of lint and what the lintbot was trying to detect, and what the connection to whitespace is, also keep in mind that if whitespace is the open space in listings, then some of that can
 * be explained by attempts to maintain a presentable and legible formatting when downloaded in a PDF or print form.
 * Thank you Boris1951zz (discuss • contribs) 20:42, 5 June 2024 (UTC)