Thread:Bron Handa/@comment-31763506-20190503045159/@comment-31763506-20190511031009

Actually that's partly mitigated by Wikia magic I was not aware of. Bracket Orc End-Bracket s is the same as Bracket Orc Pipe Orcs End-Bracket in terms of display, which I didn't find out until editing the above post. I didn't look in detail how that was going to work with the irregular plural nouns of "elf" and "dwarf" though. I still think the piped display text and link combo is better for stylistic consistency though.

Keep in mind that I was writing this off the cuff in a minor temper tantrum at 2 or 3 AM my time, so I can't vouch for the full accuracy of the above. Looking again at the revision diffs it looks like the statement on the Zirantians link was actually an application of the duplicate link rule. I don't think I had read Bron Handa's explanation of his link removal criteria at the time this was written. The other substantive edits I had referred to appear to have been the addition of links on Incubus Kings and shards in the 3rd bullet point, and the addition of the word "soul" to the latter, either to enable the link or to clarify the first reference to shards as such, and some inconsistency on the inclusion of the word "The" in links to the Tower. So not all that substantive.

It is true though that there are no cases in the links which Bron Handa added of a pipe delimited display text, which leads me to conclude he doesn't know about them. There was a largely trivial series of edits where empty ref tag references to named ref tags earlier in the text had the end ref tag deleted and the begin ref tag was turned into an unended tag with an escape character at the end. I personally hate this, but it was totally pedantic and almost certainly the work of the visual editor, so I didn't think it merited mention. (It should be noted that a lot of the individual race pages had broken links because they had such ref tags isolated from the originals in the omnibus races page. Not sure whether Bron was aware of this or not, he may have been planning to go back and fix them.)

I'm playing Devil's Advocate here because I'd rather these arguments not be points of contention, given how weak they look on further review. I don't think Bron Handa's failure to consult me before editing Timeline was as bad as his making Races pages despite express admin instructions not to.

Hope this helps.