Template talk:User wikipedia/NP Patrol

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[edit] Bifurcate wikilink

It seems that my edit summary did not thoroughly explain what I was doing and why.
Short version: This userbox and the RC Patrol userbox had a certain unexplained difference from eachother, so I altered them both to make them analogous by incorporating an element of each into the other one.

Long version: Before, this userbox linked to Special:Newpages and not to WP:RCP (which is also about the NP patrol, despite its name). The RC Patrol userbox, on the other hand, linked to WP:RCP and not to Special:Recentchanges. Now, both link to their respective Special-namespace page and to the Wikipedia-namespace page that explains what both patrols are.

The reason why I changed both userboxes to incorporate an element of eachother, rather than just changing one to conform to the other, is because I think that linking to the respective Special-namespace pages and linking to the Wikipedia-namespace page are both good ideas and, had I wanted to choose just one, I wouldn't have known which to choose. This middle-ground doesn't clutter up the userboxes with any additional words, so I see no harm in splitting the two-word wikilink into two one-word wikilinks (or, in the case of the RC Patrol userbox, the three-word link into one two-word and one one-word links).

If you think that the userboxes shouldn't link to the Wikipedia-namespace page for some reason, or alternatively, shouldn't link to their respective Special-namespace pages, then I hope that you will explain your reasoning for this. Otherwise, if your revert was due to a misunderstanding of what I'd done and why, then I apologize for my unclear edit summary and hope that I have now provided a clear (if somewhat verbose) explanation. If I have not, please do not hesitate to ask for further clarification. Cheers! --Icarus 06:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)