User talk:AustralianRupert/sandbox

comments by Cinderella

Too late now for an intelligent comment but check you mail. I will get back to this at a more reasonable hour. Regards Cinderella157 (talk) 13:54, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

No worries, sent you a response. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 01:54, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi AR, I tried doing this last night but lost it and gave up in disgust with my internet. Second attempt successful. You will see that I have added suggested templates for the various posts that have to be made by the closing coord. These can then be copied to wherever and the required fields provide. The copy and paste is done from the viewing screen rather than having to go to the edit screen. I have used bold and nowiki to hopefully defeat any potential omissions and make it idiot proof. Any failure to complete a required field should show up in bold in a preview (or worse). Of course, any changes to the wording is always welcome.

When I was doing February, I wanted to know what to say? This suggestion puts everything in one place and is easy to access and use?

I do think that the instructions to coord should be on a sub-page (with a link from the comp page. Even without my edits, I think this is unnecessary clutter on the comp page.

Unless there is opposition raised in the next few days, I think that we can assume that table 4 is a goer and instructions will need to be modified a bit to accommodate that. I will be traveling for the next few days and my availability will be down. Regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 02:44, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

@Cinderella157: G'day, no worries, thanks for putting the templates together. I agree the subpage makes sense with this amount of content. I have tweaked the instructions now to hopefully capture that intent and I've created a subpage here: User:AustralianRupert/sandbox2. If acceptable, I will eventually page move that page to: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest/Co-ordinator instructions. The content in Sandbox 1 would then be copy pasted to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest (in the How it works section). Thoughts? Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 05:38, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure about implementing the scoreboard reform just yet, sorry. Given Ian's concern, I think it probably needs a bit more discussion and involvement from other co-ords. At this stage, I think maybe we should try to implement a change in the instructions while we wait to see what other co-ords think about the scoreboard change. I'm relatively sure that there aren't any major concerns about improving the instructions as they don't change the contest (they really just articulate the current situation), but I feel that there may be more concerns about changing the scoreboard as it does change the contest design a bit, so I would like to see more discussion on that point. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 06:15, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Looks good for the current version of the table but not table 4 (ie the revised scoring). Please put this into the draft once you think it has had enough time open of the co-ord page. I/we can then go through and modify both instructions for the modified table. Alternatively, you might copy to sandbox 3 and 4 respectively now? Regards,