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	As anyone who has been to Recent Changes in the past few days has probably seen, I've been making a massive effort toward removing underscores from links. It has been brought to my attention that some of these edits have not necessarily been the will of the community and I should have brought it up before starting the project. I will admit that some very good suggestions have been made (like marking them all as minor edits so they could be easily hidden in RC (which I was not aware of when I began)). And some opinions have come out that suggest that a consensus should be reached before these types of edits continue. My philosophy was that all double-bracket links were worth changing from underscores to spaces. Double-bracket links include: [[Internal Links]], [[Wikipedia:]], [[Image:]], [[HR:]], [[Mirror:]], etc. If you have an opinion as to whether or not any of these should be left with underscores, please reply to this message. ~~<span style="white-space~~: ~~nowrap">[[File~~:JustOrangeCouch.png~~\|[[File:~~JustOrangeCouch.png~~\|48px\|thumb]]]]~~ [[User:OptimisticFool\|OptimisticFool]]~~</span>~~ 22:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)		As anyone who has been to Recent Changes in the past few days has probably seen, I've been making a massive effort toward removing underscores from links. It has been brought to my attention that some of these edits have not necessarily been the will of the community and I should have brought it up before starting the project. I will admit that some very good suggestions have been made (like marking them all as minor edits so they could be easily hidden in RC (which I was not aware of when I began)). And some opinions have come out that suggest that a consensus should be reached before these types of edits continue. My philosophy was that all double-bracket links were worth changing from underscores to spaces. Double-bracket links include: [[Internal Links]], [[Wikipedia:]], [[Image:]], [[HR:]], [[Mirror:]], etc. If you have an opinion as to whether or not any of these should be left with underscores, please reply to this message. https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/3/37/JustOrangeCouch.png/48px-JustOrangeCouch.png [[User:OptimisticFool\|'''OptimisticFool''']] 22:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

	For anything other than an Internal Link, why does it matter? —[[User:BazookaJoe\|BazookaJoe]] 22:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)		For anything other than an Internal Link, why does it matter? —[[User:BazookaJoe\|BazookaJoe]] 22:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

	I support this in general, although I should point out that as long as an underscore isn't ''showing'' where it's not supposed to, then there's no technical reason to make a specific edit to change it. In other words, I often remove underscores, but it's usually a piggyback with another, more substantial edit. I do think, however, that we should leave underscores in HR and Mirror links, as the files to which they point actually have underscores in the names (and even though a similar case could be made for image links, I think those look better with spaces). — [[User:It's dot com\|It's dot com]] 22:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)		I support this in general, although I should point out that as long as an underscore isn't ''showing'' where it's not supposed to, then there's no technical reason to make a specific edit to change it. In other words, I often remove underscores, but it's usually a piggyback with another, more substantial edit. I do think, however, that we should leave underscores in HR and Mirror links, as the files to which they point actually have underscores in the names (and even though a similar case could be made for image links, I think those look better with spaces). — [[User:It's dot com\|It's dot com]] 22:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
			I agree with It's dot com. --[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Super_Martyo_Brother https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/images/b/b9/Mario2.PNG] [[User:Super Martyo Brother\|Super Martyo]] [[User talk:Super Martyo Brother\|boing!]] 22:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
	I agree with It's dot com. --~~<span class="plainlinks" style="white-space: nowrap" title="Now with 50% more bounce!">~~[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Super_Martyo_Brother ~~[[File~~:~~Mario2~~.~~PNG\|thumb\|~~Mario2.PNG]]] [[User:Super Martyo Brother\|Super Martyo]] [[User talk:Super Martyo Brother\|boing!]]~~</span>~~ 22:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

	I'm confused. If there's no technical reason for spaces rather than underscores, then why do it? Why come Image:Homestar Runner.png is better than Image:Homestar_Runner.png? —[[User:BazookaJoe\|BazookaJoe]] 22:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)		I'm confused. If there's no technical reason for spaces rather than underscores, then why do it? Why come Image:Homestar Runner.png is better than Image:Homestar_Runner.png? —[[User:BazookaJoe\|BazookaJoe]] 22:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

	No real reason. Aesthetics, mainly. I personally think that internal links with spaces are easier to read than those with underscores. — [[User:It's dot com\|It's dot com]] 22:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)		No real reason. Aesthetics, mainly. I personally think that internal links with spaces are easier to read than those with underscores. — [[User:It's dot com\|It's dot com]] 22:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
			That's cool. So I guess unless we are dealing with [[strongbad email.exe]] vs. [[strongbad email.exe]], then it's not really "worth changing," as OptimisticFool stated, unless you like it better aesthetically and are piggybacking it on another edit. Well, it's certainly not worth spending hours focusing on. —[[User:BazookaJoe\|BazookaJoe]] 23:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
	That's cool. So I guess unless we are dealing with [[strongbad email.exe]] vs. [[strongbad email.exe]], then it's not really ~~"~~worth changing,~~"~~ as OptimisticFool stated, unless you like it better aesthetically and are piggybacking it on another edit. Well, it's certainly not worth spending hours focusing on. —[[User:BazookaJoe\|BazookaJoe]] 23:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)		[[Category:HRWiki Projects]]

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As anyone who has been to Recent Changes in the past few days has probably seen, I've been making a massive effort toward removing underscores from links. It has been brought to my attention that some of these edits have not necessarily been the will of the community and I should have brought it up before starting the project. I will admit that some very good suggestions have been made (like marking them all as minor edits so they could be easily hidden in RC (which I was not aware of when I began)). And some opinions have come out that suggest that a consensus should be reached before these types of edits continue. My philosophy was that all double-bracket links were worth changing from underscores to spaces. Double-bracket links include: [[Internal Links]], [[Wikipedia:]], [[Image:]], [[HR:]], [[Mirror:]], etc. If you have an opinion as to whether or not any of these should be left with underscores, please reply to this message. [[File:JustOrangeCouch.png|[[File:JustOrangeCouch.png|48px|thumb]]]] [[User:OptimisticFool|OptimisticFool]] 22:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

For anything other than an Internal Link, why does it matter? —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 22:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I support this in general, although I should point out that as long as an underscore isn't ''showing'' where it's not supposed to, then there's no technical reason to make a specific edit to change it. In other words, I often remove underscores, but it's usually a piggyback with another, more substantial edit. I do think, however, that we should leave underscores in HR and Mirror links, as the files to which they point actually have underscores in the names (and even though a similar case could be made for image links, I think those look better with spaces). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with It's dot com. --[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Super_Martyo_Brother [[File:Mario2.PNG|thumb|Mario2.PNG]]] [[User:Super Martyo Brother|Super Martyo]] [[User talk:Super Martyo Brother|boing!]] 22:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm confused. If there's no technical reason for spaces rather than underscores, then why do it? Why come Image:Homestar Runner.png is better than Image:Homestar_Runner.png? —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 22:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

No real reason. Aesthetics, mainly. I personally think that internal links with spaces are easier to read than those with underscores. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

That's cool. So I guess unless we are dealing with [[strongbad email.exe]] vs. [[strongbad email.exe]], then it's not really "worth changing," as OptimisticFool stated, unless you like it better aesthetically and are piggybacking it on another edit. Well, it's certainly not worth spending hours focusing on. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 23:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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