User talk:ferret

Reverting change for Tetris page

Hello, Ferret! Thank for reverting my change. Now the page is slightly harder to read. Did you consider my revision? Shaynes75 (talk) 19:29, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

@Shaynes75 We should never put random br HTML tags in an article. Did you consider that whatever you were trying to solve for you did not help, or made it worse, for readers at other resolutions and device formats? -- ferret (talk) 21:02, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

It solved the problem on all my devices. What do you want me to do? 2600:1700:6EF0:DB00:88EF:620A:5B69:9261 (talk) 22:04, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

@Shaynes75 Not insert br HTML tags. Because you are not everyone, and arbitrary line breaks are not the solution to whatever issue you believe there is. They cause large gaps and whitespace for other readers. -- ferret (talk) 23:57, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

It wasn't a belief it was demonstrable error in how the page was rendered. However, if this how how Wikipedia management treats a donor then I won't be donating my money to Wikipedia anymore. Since you started whining about my improvement, my account is inaccessible, thus I am unable to donate. Good job!

At no point have you offered a better solution, just complained because I didn't edit the page in a way approved by you, someone whose resistance of which I was unaware until today. 2600:1700:6EF0:DB00:CDAA:4917:6B71:8F11 (talk) 03:26, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Are you really that unfamiliar with the concept of pages looking differently in different devices? It's a pretty common thing. Your change may have helped how it looked on your device, but it didn't help on others. Ferrets comments were correct, and if you're going to throw a tantrum over an admin calmly telling you not to do something as simple not adding extra spaces, then editing Wikipedia is probably not going to be your thing. Sergecross73 msg me 12:58, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Ferrets comments were both rude and unhelpful. He didn't show a enter way to correct the problem. When I added the dreaded BR tag the text rendered correctly on my iPhone, iPad, Windows tablet and desktop.

I've been editing Wikipedia pages for year never had this much resistance. I don't care if,som alleged extra white space hurt his feelings, my minor edit made the page easier to read. Shaynes75 (talk) 16:38, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Ferret was simply straight to the point. And correct no less. And no one's buying the rest of what you're saying. Experienced editors who know what they're doing would never say "Well since you didn't let me add extra white space to an article I'm no longer donating money to Wikipedia." That's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Please just stop. Sergecross73 msg me 17:04, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Also, I'm a volunteer, I have no knowledge of whether you've donated or not, nor would the fact you've donated grant you any special status to make problematic edits. Nothing has been done to limit access to your account, either. -- ferret (talk) 13:05, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Need help with a page move

Sorry to bother you with this, but I'm trying to move List of Yakuza characters to Characters of the Yakuza series for more proper titling per similar articles, however the target is already a redirect with two bot edits. Would you be able to help?-- Kung Fu Man (talk) 17:17, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

 Done -- ferret (talk) 18:25, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Joy Mech Fight

Games like Mother are listed as VC-only, so what's the issue with listing Joy Mech Fight as NSO-only? --Meester Tweester (talk) 22:50, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

@Meester Tweester Then that's wrong. The column in the table is for release dates. Putting a non-date doesn't help anyone with the purpose of the table. -- ferret (talk) 23:27, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

If you don't like it, shouldn't all the "VC-only" be changed to dates then? --Meester Tweester (talk) 14:27, 7 September 2023 (UTC)