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subject. "Whom" is only used when it is on the receiving end of the verb (i.e. when it is the object, "whom did you call?"). Who is used when it is doing the action, which it seems to be. ("who called you?") Perhaps we can change this template OR make an alternate "by who?" template. Why am I drawing this distinction? Well, it seems to me that if you say "by whom" you are trying to follow the who/whom distinctions, but that is incorrect. Please, a grammarian help me! Correct me if I'm wrong!
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Where appropriate, application developers may selectively target users of suitable devices based by feature requisite, as commonly practiced when an application depends on a particular hardware attribute of the device, such as a motion sensor (for motion-dependent games) or a front-facing camera (for
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Whenever this template seems to be commonly used, say like this: "It has been suggested " it is grammatically incorrect, I believe. This is one of those less common cases where whom is used when who ought to be. Dissecting the sentence, "it" is the object, "suggested" is the "verb" and "who" is the
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What makes this come across as brochureware is that both "many" and "can be" are qualitative restrictions cooking in the same kitchen. Then "based on" wades into the conversation, and you don't know which chef to slay. It shouldn't be the reader's job to decide this (therefore brochureware rarely
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Thanks. I agree that having it say somthing different every where would be bad and that if it really was important to have something different someone could do it maualy and not haveing that option would make it less likelly for people to have something different then everywhere else without a good
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to add the section heading. I'll document them all if the change goes live. But to change the displayed text, there'd have to be a little extra code that defaulted to something standard, but depending on what the user put in the template, changed to suit. As I say though, I think that's a bad idea.
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If this template ought not cover the latter, what template should? And how will the average spot-checking diligence bunny such as myself find out? Most usefully, by direct mention in the article here. (A spot-checking diligence bunny RTFMs all the time, but never front to back, and thus relies
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solution that you use now or write the wikitext yourself. This would probaby be ok for the sort of person who needs that as very few times would that be needed. On a side note, is this parameter you are thinking of optional (you said it would be)? If so then why did you decide to have an
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I think you're wrong. "by whom" is a prepositional phrase, and in a prepositional phrase we use the object form (where that matters). A useful trick for "who" vs "whom" is to replace it with "he" or "him" and see if it makes sense, although you may have to take into account
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I agree that "Discuss" is much better than "Talk". I don't really know much about templates right now but I see that a lot of them have extera parameters for situations that are not 'normal'. In that situation you could go with
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Many applications can be targeted to specific users based on a particular hardware attribute of their device, such as a motion sensor (for motion-dependent games) or a front-facing camera (for online video calling).
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targeted to specific users based on a particular hardware attribute of their device, such as a motion sensor (for motion-dependent games) or a front-facing camera (for online video calling).
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i would suggest adding the same 'Visual effect' example under the usage header. Also, wouldn't it be better to also use {{By whom|{{subst:DATE}}}} instead of manually adding the date?
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I don't seem to be able to get the tone right on this sentence (for the audience of this page), so perhaps I would have been better off simply flagging the problem and moving along.
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I just want to add that maybe there should be an optional parameter for what should be said (right now it is "Discuss" but it could be "Talk" or something simmilar if need comes up).
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is missing in the template, there simply are to many verbs to choose between, such as "worn by whome", "eaten by whome", "rejected by whome", "hailed by whome". ... said:
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If it rolls out, and is used, imagine if every time you saw it, it said something different? That incontinuity would rub people the wrong way (it would me).
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a particular hardware attribute of their device, such as a motion sensor (for motion-dependent games) or a front-facing camera (for online video calling).
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This second point I don't see. There is no way to add the date automatically. We simply copy the code from the documentation page, or yes, type it out.
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This message is to inform people monitoring this talk page that there is an "editprotected" request involving this and several other templates at
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link text or the dash? Should it render an error message if the section is incorrectly formatted and/or add the page to a maintenance category?
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Not only are there two chefs in the kitchen, but there are many other parties at the table holding knives, and looking vaguely chef-like.
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The dubious grammatical structure set off my brochureware alarm, and I waded in with a sledge hammer. Then I started actually thinking.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you ever want help with techy things like templates, scripts and such.
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with "July 2020" instead of "date=July 2020"; there was no error and it was not put in the correct monthly category.
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For continuity and technical simplicity, I think the visible link text should be standardized. Personally I prefer
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There was a clear consensus to implement support for an optional link to an associated talk page section, which
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As for the technical stuff: The way I wrote the test implementation, to call the functionality, we can use
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requires a crowd. If the sky were falling I might leap into the fray, but all the while I'm listening to
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Then I realized that this is actually an unorthodox use case of "by whom", worthy of explicit mention.
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doesn't explain what I'm after: I wish that this sentence is rewritten to a sourced citation. If a
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A straight replace seems ok to me. Some of the redirects were formerly redirects to "who" anyway.
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to not redirect here. On the other hand the doc is unified between the two templates. ... said:
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I think it could be valuable to have this option, and would appreciate your consideration.
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Had I been in a blind hurry, I might have wanted to handle the problem like this:
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to implement support for an optional link to an associated talk page section - in
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BTW: shoe number reveals whether they're dwarves, the rest is obvious. ... said:
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Where this wants to go is something like this (but more gracefully worded):
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immensely on prominent "see also"s link-farmed at the usual suspects.) —
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with a value of yes (use "by whom" form) or anything else/blank (go with
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When I write "{{says who}}" in the offending subjective text, I wish a
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Hi. Although we can be bold, we can also be humble :-) There's
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In any case the template documentation is in a separate page,
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is appended before the rest, I signal that I wish to know
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Please ping me if I messed anything up. – 889:because it tells you exacly what to put in. 528:| link = Knowledge (XXG):Avoid weasel words 86:Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Inline Templates 47: 244:in the template such as , not a simple . 1115:passes such a golden opportunity up). 1079:This was recently found in the lead at 684:RfC: Optional link to talk page section 49: 1005:Any concerns about the rendering; the 931: 927: 923: 886: 863: 754: 750: 723: 126: 410:; i.e. there is an extraneous space. 89:Template:WikiProject Inline Templates 66:This template is within the scope of 21: 19: 7: 1037: 710:The following discussion is closed. 115:This should probably be merged into 746:{{By whom|date=Today|talk=Foo bar}} 201:Reverted by me, and Rich informed. 38:It is of interest to the following 1234:WikiProject Inline Templates pages 1075:Possibly useful off-label use case 881:? 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content assessment
WikiProjects
Inline Templates
WikiProject Inline Templates
the project's talk page
who
who
SMcCandlish
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Rich
Farmbrough


Headbomb
κοντριβς
WP Physics
08:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Tonywalton
17:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough
verb
Rursus
bork³
13:26, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Rursus
bork³
13:29, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
says who
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