Difference between revisions of "Talk:Gun Spread Formula"
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::::::And, it's not a philosophical disagreement at all -- it's a matter of making sure the information is as clear to the user as it can be. All of the boldness and bullet point stuff on the page is 'redundant', and yet it can't be said to be uneccessary. Speaking as a '''user''' of these pages, anything that helps to make it '''immediately''' obvious what the text/formula means is beneficial. | ::::::And, it's not a philosophical disagreement at all -- it's a matter of making sure the information is as clear to the user as it can be. All of the boldness and bullet point stuff on the page is 'redundant', and yet it can't be said to be uneccessary. Speaking as a '''user''' of these pages, anything that helps to make it '''immediately''' obvious what the text/formula means is beneficial. | ||
::::::--[[User:Quetzilla|Quetzilla]] 03:24, 25 December 2008 (UTC) | ::::::--[[User:Quetzilla|Quetzilla]] 03:24, 25 December 2008 (UTC) | ||
:::::::I am continuing this discussion on principle. You claim that the boldness and bullet points are redundant; they are not. Boldness aids in navigating what would otherwise be a wall of text, and the bullet points provide structure to what would otherwise be a wall of text with bolded parts. Both properties help to guide readers through the document and make it easier to find where the one specific component of the formula is defined. Furthermore, you assume that readers will understand what having parenthesis in a formula means. If you assume that, then you must also assume they know about the basic order of operations, because they cannot know what parentheses do without this basic understanding. Therefore I maintain that there is no reason to add them in this instance, nor would there be a reason to remove them if they were already there, as they happen to be on the [[Weapon Damage Formula]] page. There is an argument to keep the syntax standard across the formula pages, but honestly, there are more important things that deserve attention.--[[User:SnakeChomp|SnakeChomp]] 05:51, 25 December 2008 (UTC) | |||
== Formula still needs work == | == Formula still needs work == | ||