User talk:Jalexander

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WMFAA003/en/US

Can you explain why you're using hardcoded styles instead of using a template, why you're calling the header template twice, why the style section mixes spaces and tabs, and why it's using tabs at all? I was under the impression that the reasons to not do all of these things was discussed weeks ago. Now I'm discovering that you've seemingly completely disregarded everything you were supposed to learn and have made a large mess. I'm lost. --MZMcBride 19:59, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That particular style was designed by Kaldari (including the hard code and the extra header call) In creating new vesions i have been copying because it has been easiest for me. As we have started to settle on that style for the US cleaning up the code into a template is not illegitimate and your concerns are obviously valid however to say that I am 'disregarding everything you were supposed to learn' is neither fair or correct. If you have concerns please say them, and you are right the code should be cleaned up at this point, I had, however, not placed it as a high priority given the amount of work that has to be done and the fact that I will be out most of next week for surgery. To be honest I believe that was the right decision.

Also, in the future PLEASE do not change live pages if they are working. A mess that works is far better then a cleaner page that accidentally has a stray tag or comma breaking a live donation page. I do not expect that you would generally cause such errors but at this point I would like to err on the side of safety. Jalexander 20:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]