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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:16, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Finale coming up, and gonna be dealing with the usual traffic of edits that mark the series over before it is

Looks like it's time to watch this article (as well as other articles and the Disney Channel navigation template) for any edit that marks the series as over before the last episode has aired on July 26, 2019. Doing this violates WP:CRYSTAL, even though this is scheduled to end. The convention is to mark the series over after the last episode has completely aired. And since Disney Channel has two feeds in the US (east coast and west coast), it's best to wait till it has aired on both feeds. MPFitz1968 (talk) 22:58, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Andi Mack is Not a Sitcom

I WP:BOLD removed sitcom categories because Andi Mack is not a situation comedy. It's hybrid genre of a drama with occasional comic elements i.e comedy-drama. Sitcoms and dramedy are not the same thing. If you want to use the umbrella genre, you could use "comedy" but you can't call a dramedy a "sitcom" and vice-versa". Remember, sitcom is a sub genre of comedy, not a synonym. Starforce¹³ 13:16, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Amaury • 16:24, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Music

Lady Gaga's song is not 'background' music and Tomorrow Starts today is the theme song. Deserves mentioning. Maxwell King123321 (talk) 05:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

links

I have added 6 hyperlinks to in the plot section to terms that are not universally known. I'm sure this won't be controversial. Linking "frisbee" to "Ultimate" is definitely useful (and not MOS:OL) because "frisbee" is being used as a metonym, which not everyone will be familiar with. Linking to coming out is certainly useful, because not everybody is familiar with coming out, and it features heavily in the plot. Linking to learning disability may be useful, as not everybody is familiar with learning disabilities. Linking to dirt biking may be useful, since many people are not familiar with dirt biking. Linking to magnet school is certainly useful because many people, including myself (a native English speaker from the United States), do not know what a magnet school is. Linking to holding hands might also be useful. I also corrected some grammar. Dylanvt (talk) 18:34, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are ignoring the most important point here in that you are failing to follow WP:STATUSQUO. In other words, the article should stay in the version prior to your change. But I am not going to get into an edit war with you over something ridiculous. You don't need to link words when over 99% of people know what they mean. The only grammar you corrected was changing "closely" to "nearby." Add: Magnet school is the only one that is fine being linked. The other phrases are common and don't need to be linked. Amaury • 19:16, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I still adamantly believe “coming out” should be linked, because it is certainly not the case that 99% of readers are familiar with coming out. In the US it’s a pretty widely understood concept, but outside of the US (or the wider Anglosphere) there are millions of people who are not very familiar, if at all, with coming out. Further, understanding coming out is vital to understanding the plot. If you feel you absolutely must get rid of the other links (aside from “magnet school”), then get rid of them.

As for the grammar, the other two fixes I made are undeniable improvements. Adding “they” prevents a disagreement of verb (plural “are”) and subject (singular “Buffy”), while adding “to” after “admit” is just… common sense for a native English speaker. You don’t admit doing something, you admit to doing something. It sounds 100% more natural. The later word order change also improves readability and makes the sentence flow more naturally (“questioned about it by X” is much more natural than “questioned by X about it”). Dylanvt (talk) 19:32, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) General consideration is if a link adds value to understanding the article content. Somewhat of a judgement call. Some things are just background and don't matter much so won't get clicked. Also links should not lead to some article not expected. Example frisbee team is more likely to be followed than just "frisbee". Geraldo Perez (talk) 19:37, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can we just keep magnet school, comes out, and maybe frisbee team, and agree to keep the grammatical fixes? Dylanvt (talk) 19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to make a big deal out of the grammar fixes, but magnet school is really the only link needed. The other two are debatable, as they're common terms everyone knows. The others not mentioned in the response above definitely no. Amaury • 19:47, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Again, Ultimate Frisbee is not a "commmon term everyone knows", nor is it immediately obvious to someone (especially over the age of 40 or so) that "frisbee team" actually refers to "Ultimate team". And again, despite your and my experiences and cultural understandings, coming out is not a universal concept. For instance, I have multiple friends from Russia for whom the concept of coming out is completely foreign and unfamiliar. Not every reader here is a native English speaker, or in the Anglosphere. Dylanvt (talk) 19:52, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is the English Wikipedia. If the coming out term is not very familiar for people in Russia, then the term, in its Russian language form, can be linked on the Russian Wikipedia. But here, everyone will know what it means. Amaury • 19:59, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I can't wrap my head around why you're so unilaterally opposed to including a link to coming out, an entirely harmless, very minor, and rather useful thing we could do. Will it help anybody understand this article? Yes, a few. Will it hinder anybody's understanding of, or experience reading, this article? No, it won't. Dylanvt (talk) 20:05, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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