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::Hey, it's all good. Not sure what you wrote (as opposed to anyone else that then pounced upon it, before I first saw it), but we have our own Rube Goldbergesque way of bashing it all into a (largely) mutually-approved shape. I think I spot some further changes I'd like to make, so I'm going to dive back in in a moment, but it has to start somewhere!
 
::Hey, it's all good. Not sure what you wrote (as opposed to anyone else that then pounced upon it, before I first saw it), but we have our own Rube Goldbergesque way of bashing it all into a (largely) mutually-approved shape. I think I spot some further changes I'd like to make, so I'm going to dive back in in a moment, but it has to start somewhere!
 
::...the only big picky thing I'd say (to whoever did this, here or elsewhere recently), is that its fairly standard to note use the <code><nowiki>[URL link text]</nowiki></code> format when you can use the hand {{template|w}}-template to write <code><nowiki>{{w|Wiki article title|link text}}</nowiki></code>, instead, and often this lets you miss the "<code>|link text</code>" part out because the Wiki article title ''is'' the link text you want. I mean someone <s>who died whilst</s> creating a template to make this more streamlined, ought to have their work put to good use... ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.21|162.158.74.21]] 23:36, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 
::...the only big picky thing I'd say (to whoever did this, here or elsewhere recently), is that its fairly standard to note use the <code><nowiki>[URL link text]</nowiki></code> format when you can use the hand {{template|w}}-template to write <code><nowiki>{{w|Wiki article title|link text}}</nowiki></code>, instead, and often this lets you miss the "<code>|link text</code>" part out because the Wiki article title ''is'' the link text you want. I mean someone <s>who died whilst</s> creating a template to make this more streamlined, ought to have their work put to good use... ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.21|162.158.74.21]] 23:36, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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Added Citation-needed for pacincko inspiration.  I mean, I think the order of appearance is even wrong for that to be possible.[[User:RandalSchwartz|RandalSchwartz]] ([[User talk:RandalSchwartz|talk]]) 00:04, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

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Sorry if this is a mess (it's my first time editing). ProgrammerG (talk) 22:02, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

It's honestly much better than anything I could have done. Trogdor147 (talk) 22:04, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, it's all good. Not sure what you wrote (as opposed to anyone else that then pounced upon it, before I first saw it), but we have our own Rube Goldbergesque way of bashing it all into a (largely) mutually-approved shape. I think I spot some further changes I'd like to make, so I'm going to dive back in in a moment, but it has to start somewhere!
...the only big picky thing I'd say (to whoever did this, here or elsewhere recently), is that its fairly standard to note use the [URL link text] format when you can use the hand {{w}}-template to write {{w|Wiki article title|link text}}, instead, and often this lets you miss the "|link text" part out because the Wiki article title is the link text you want. I mean someone who died whilst creating a template to make this more streamlined, ought to have their work put to good use... ;) 162.158.74.21 23:36, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Added Citation-needed for pacincko inspiration. I mean, I think the order of appearance is even wrong for that to be possible.RandalSchwartz (talk) 00:04, 7 June 2023 (UTC)