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:Noted. Template now displays "unconfirmed". [[User:Anaminus|--Anaminus]] 00:13, 2 March 2012 (EST) | :Noted. Template now displays "unconfirmed". [[User:Anaminus|--Anaminus]] 00:13, 2 March 2012 (EST) | ||
::I actually thought about changing it to "confirmation needed", but I forgot to do it. <div style="border-top:1px dashed;padding-bottom:.5em;height:1em"><div style="font-size:75%;float:left">[[User:JulienDethurens|JulienDethurens]]</div><div style="font-size:75%;float:right">2 March 2012</div></div> | ::I actually thought about changing it to "confirmation needed", but I forgot to do it. <div style="border-top:1px dashed;padding-bottom:.5em;height:1em"><div style="font-size:75%;float:left">[[User:JulienDethurens|JulienDethurens]]</div><div style="font-size:75%;float:right">2 March 2012</div></div> | ||
:::I prefer citation needed...{{User:Mattchewy/sig|date=04:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)}} | |||
Revision as of 04:39, 4 March 2012
Using the abbr Element
I'm not sure we can really consider this as an abbreviation, neither an acronym, so I don't think using the abbr element here is appropriate.
However, it would be easy to get the same appearance by using CSS.
This should give you the same appearance than the abbr attribute (I copied the appearance given to it by Firefox, IE and Google Chrome might give it a different appearance):
[confirm]
Result:
[confirm]
- Isn't abbr deprecated anyways? It's much better to avoid using deprecated elements. ( Scarfacial | Message | Talk )
- Abbr, deprecated? No... I think you're thinking about the acronym element, which is effectively deprecated. 21 February 2012
- Abbr, deprecated? No... I think you're thinking about the acronym element, which is effectively deprecated.
"Confirm"? Seriously?
Confirm is a verb or something or other like that, I never bothered to learn my verbs from my adverbs and such.
It should say "Citation needed" like wikipedia, or "Requires confirmation".
Currently it implies they can click on it to confirm what they just read- It's (excuse my baby-english) a doing word, rather than a statement, which it should be
- Noted. Template now displays "unconfirmed". --Anaminus 00:13, 2 March 2012 (EST)
- I actually thought about changing it to "confirmation needed", but I forgot to do it. 2 March 2012
- I prefer citation needed...
- I actually thought about changing it to "confirmation needed", but I forgot to do it.
