Talk:Arch is the best

Proposed changes for a page slowly growing unwieldy

(Diff of proposed changes | Preview of updated page). Pay particular attention to the changes in wording for the § BIRL, please. I'm no prude, but I find it in the poorest of taste to have exhortations to marvel at the volume of some dude's ejaculate on a site like the ArchWiki; take that stuff to Reddit and I'll crack up over it with everyone else, though. I assume it's a made-up language to begin with, so I just rewrote it using PG language rather than disrespect the original author to the point of just deleting it wholesale. —RogueScholar (talk) 13:48, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Now you have announced the rewrite, what about ArchWiki:Contributing#Do not make complex edits at once? We are not going to review the one and only complex diff... — Lahwaacz (talk) 14:45, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

…well, then I doubt they're not going to get made. *shrug* If I'm willing to do the actual work, there's a reciprocal responsibility of those who wish to exercise oversight of it to find the energy to do so, and artificially breaking it up does nothing to reduce that in the long run. In summary, it's a bunch of style changes that use the code formatting templates to complement the HTML definition lists and restore the intended indentation scheme, and then the rewrite of the BIRL section as described above.

I'm not intending to be disagreeable, rather it's a key belief of mine that volunteers are not less deserving of respect simply for not insisting on compensation. If anything, the opposite is true. I'll learn how you like things done here (by way of implementation, that is), but with over two decades at the Wikimedia projects under my belt, I'm long past fetching rocks.

—This unsigned comment is by RogueScholar (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2024 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

The reviewers are volunteers too and dumping a 1000-line diff mixing multiple topics on them is not respectful either. The linked contribution rule exists specifically to prevent this. — Lahwaacz (talk) 08:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

This diff can be divided into four main parts:

1. Wrap all code blocks with Template:bc (removing spaces is what makes the diff unreadable)
2. Remove newlines before Template:bc, this puts the code blocks inside the <dd> tag
3. Change BIRL
4. Subsections and minor style fixes (links, spaces, etc.)

— andreymal (talk) 17:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Even though it's a "made-up"/joke language, according to https://birl-language.github.io/ the syntax was right (so either we remove it completely, or we keep it as is, but there can be no in-between). There's no disrespect in removing an entry if it is not following Help:Style#Language register or ArchWiki:Contributing.

-- Erus Iluvatar (talk) 07:16, 2 May 2024 (UTC)