MediaWiki talk:Common.js

Purpose and usage
What exactly does it do?

A fellow-genealogist has urged me to copy this to somewhere in the Genealogy Wikia's MediaWiki pages. Is there any reason why I shouldn't? Robin Patterson 02:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * See Help:Dynamic_navigation. --Splarka (talk) &lt;Staff&gt; 09:53, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you; seen that. Doesn't mean much to me. It doesn't suggest that I shouldn't do what the local expert urges. Robin Patterson 22:48, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Inviting discussion on locking pages
Why do we lock pages like this? (as in, when using this template)

Citation:


 * "you don't want people commenting on year-old blogs."


 * Why is that, exactly?  I've never seen any problem in any form with anyone commenting on old blogs or forum posts.  In fact, I've often seen the opposite:  Disallowing adding new information to old discussions means that false information cannot be corrected.  When searching for information on video games, threads on gamefaqs often come up in the results - usually unanswered similar questions from years ago, which no-one can answer now.


 * Wikia suffers the same problem with locking old blogs and forums posts.  When I search for a question, it's easy to find the same question being asked, but impossible to leave an answer in the same place so that the next person searching can find it easily.


 * The implementation of Message Walls has caused wiki-wide locking of all talk pages, again making it impossible to leave answers to old questions, despite those unanswered questions popping up in search results. -452  19:53, November 14, 2012 (UTC)

End Citation It makes asking a difficult question lead to getting a partial answer, and then, when someone else has the same question, them getting another, overlaping, partial answerSisima70 (talk) 19:05, May 1, 2016 (UTC)