User talk:Afernand74/Archives/2015/August

Removing spaces in refs

Hello Afernand74,

Your recent edits of the Pluto article here, here and here removed many spaces from the article source, which have no visible change to the resulting article itself. You may not have realized it, but this type of change makes it difficult for other editors to see the important changes made to the article when viewing differences between revisions. Recently another editor added many spaces and line breaks to the same article, again with no visible change to the resulting article.

I appreciate your attention to detail, and consistency, but in the future you may want to consider not making such changes. Removing (or adding) spaces around "=" are a personal preference, not a "cleanup". Thanks. CuriousEric 18:08, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

@CuriousEric: I do understand your remarks but honestly, with all due respect, I think you barking up at the wrong tree. Here is your last edit of the page [1]. You'll notice that several references are messed up because somebody/something added whitespaces to urls. Eg: ref 1: "= 1&body_group=mb&sstr=9 "Horizon Online Ephemeris System for Pluto Barycenter". JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System @ Solar System Dynamics Group. Retrieved 16 January 2011. (set Observer Location to @sun to place the observer at the center of the Sun)"

In order to fix them swiftly, I first ran a script to standardise withespacing across the article to speed up the corrections and then manually corrected everysingle one, one by one. My edits were not about a personal taste for withespacing conventions but about fixing the article. Hope I made my intentions clearer. Thanks Afernand74 (talk) 10:25, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Afernand74: I do agree with no whitespace around "=", and wish it was standardized. But I haven't found a Wikipedia policy recommending spaces or no spaces in WP:CIT, so I interpret that as meaning spacing is a personal preference. I recently came across this edit by another editor, where spaces were added, and just wanted to avoid any edit-waring, with editors adding and then removing spaces, which makes it difficult to see the important (visible) changes when looking at the revisions. In my edit I moved an existing ref. I probably should have removed the spaces, but sometimes I don't bother. Thanks for your efforts. CuriousEric 15:22, 4 August 2015 (UTC)