User talk:Mechemik: Difference between revisions

:[[User:Mechemik|Mechemik]] ([[User talk:Mechemik|talk]]) 00:23, August 15, 2019 (UTC)

::I can't speak for other admins or other wiki users, but the issue I have isn't with the changes that have been made, but rather ''how those changes were made''. When someone (admin or non-admin alike) wants to make a major change to how a template looks and/or functions on the wiki, it is customary to discuss the matter and seek feedback in the [[Forum:Community discussions|community discussions forum]] before undertaking any changes. We prefer to iron out as many wrinkles in a particular idea or design before taking it "live" for the broader community, and we value the rights of our community of editors to weigh in on things that will affect them. Simply notifying an active bureaucrat that you're looking into changing templates doesn't meet this principle; there's a fundamental difference between "we're looking into changing something," and "we've just changed something." The outcome of that hypothetical discussion may have even yielded support for the change, but the cat's out of the bag on it now so it's hard to really say for sure. So, the issue isn't what you did, it's how you did it. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]^{[[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]}''' 01:11, August 15, 2019 (UTC)