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Crystallography uses these things to denote whether a plane or direction is being discussed, and whether it's generic or specific. I have put up a basic account of their use in Crystallography#Notation, but you may want to wait a few days for it to stabilize before you copy it into this article. This may also convince someone to finally flesh out Miller index.--Joel 06:14 & :18, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
On chatrooms and message boards, actions are put in brackets.
There's also the "Insert Item" usage.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.172.165 (talk) 05:33 & :34, 6 November 2006
Did any WP:think of the reader on mobile? Who thought it would be a good idea to have a long list of detailed Unicode code-points that the mobile reader would have to skip past before getting any content?
Is there a convincing reason to retain the current layout rather than put it at the bottom of the article as is conventional? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 00:03, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Organizing it by Unicode sub-range before bracket shape makes no sense, as readers aren't going to know the Unicode sub-ranges before looking things up.
The ((unichar)) template has even automatically picked up some HTML entities ...
Who thought it would be a good ideawhen the revision history shows it was @Uncle G, and you even spoke with him about this before where he showed a mockup.
The real problem, articulated by SMcCandlish earlier is that, largely because of the mathematical symbols (duplicating Bracket (mathematics)) the infoboxes are long. There is, simply put, almost more data dumping than prose in this article. Fortunately, it takes a pretty extreme 16:9 portrait view window to make the infoboxes be even as long as the prose in the sections, in landscape view the prose readily being longer than the infoboxes, and as I just demonstrated for one of the shorter sections whose infobox threatened to outgrow it that's because our prose is pretty superficial rubbish and actually could be significantly longer. Nowhere do we yet explain what a "tortoise shell bracket" is, for example, or properly explain a Chinese book title mark or proper noun mark.
@Nickps: I'm concerned by your addition of the html codes to the table Bracket#Unicode and HTML encodings for various bracket characters. What is 231C ... #8988; but a hex to decimal conversion? That html column is so mathematically trivial as to be way below the WP:NOTMANUAL threshold.
The table as a whole seems yet another example of the kind of pointless article bloat discussed at talk:A#Proposed deletion of section in this and all the alphabet, so I am at a loss to understand why you would want to add to it given the clear consensus to spring-clean out such detritus? How is it Wikipedia's role to replicate the Unicode standards? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
I am at a loss to understand why you would want to add to it. Because it's incomplete. If there is consensus to remove it then it should go (and take the other overly long lists of characters that are in the infoboxes with it). But as long as it's there, it should at least have all the characters that belong in it. It's not like there was a pattern behind which characters were in the various lists and which were not. For example, U+0028 ( LEFT PARENTHESIS was listed, obviously, and so was U+FF08 ( FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS. But while U+2985 ⦅ LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS was listed in the Parenthesis infobox, U+FF5F ⦅ FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS was not mentioned at all. That makes no sense so I added it to the Unicode table. Nickps (talk) 23:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello fellow Editors!
Following Wikipedia guidelines on references in Infoboxes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Infoboxes#References_in_infoboxes) I want to remove excessive referencing of Pointon, Graham; Clark, Stewart (2014). "Punctuation Guide" from the Infobox only.
However, I met an opposition from another editor, who claims that I misunderstood the guidelines on using citations in info boxes and deleted information - imo, without factual proof for these accusations.
So they kindly suggested I find support from other editors. I also see this as the only way to resolve such conflict of rule interpretation.
For convenience of the discussion, let me quote the Manual of style for references in Infoboxes:
References are acceptable in some cases, but generally not needed in infoboxes if the content is repeated (and cited) elsewhere or if the information is obvious. If the material needs a reference (see WP:MINREF for guidelines) and the information does not also appear in the body of the article, the reference should be included in the infobox. But editors should first consider including the fact in the body of the article.
My POV is that:
- content is repeated (and cited) elsewhere [in the article]
- information does also appear in the body of the article
=> no need for citation in the infobox, all the more 3(!) times which is cluttering
Please, express your opinion on the topic; and if you disagree with my position, please, provide references/quotes to the rules. Gregory108 (talk) 03:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Factual proofis the self-evident deletions of text in the relevant diff. MrOllie (talk) 03:17, 12 May 2024 (UTC)