Forum:Text that is nonsense for a different skin

Trying to find where the mailing lists have gone, I got a "404" page that told me the bad news and included this:

"You can use search box in top right of page"

Thoughtless Wikia writer - I can't be seriously expected to use a search box there to find anything on Wikia, because the only search box anywhere near "top right" on my Cologne Blue display is Firefox's Google search. My search boxes are at top left and bottom.

Please do not tell viewers where to find something unless absolutely certain that it is there on the skin the viewer is using. You will irritate veteran Wikians (which matters little) and you may LOSE a new potential contributor (which matters a lot)!

It is fairly safe and very easy to say instead "in the sidebar or top of page".

(Now why have those mailman pages moved without redirects? I've been blithely welcoming new members to various Wikia with welcome templates that include dead links to the mailman!)

Robin Patterson 05:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)