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Comments by Andy Mabbett

• Please will a clerk remove this egregious falsehood. John doesn't speak for me; and nor does he present any evidence for the allegations he makes about me. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:53, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Comments by Gerda Arendt

14 February 2018

Lenten rose
Lent begins on Valentine's Day

Opabinia regalis once asked me to supply cat images to arb cases. Half that way, on Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday, I come with a flower. I have watched infobox discussions from 2012, so don't know much about the background. Why can these harmless little pieces of information create so much heat?? I believe - spring cleanup - that the topic could be cured completely by applying lots of "assume good faith". An editor asking "where did the infobox go?" may of course be part of a brigade sent out to disturb the peace of our valuable content creators, but it could also just be the person who installed it years ago and wonders what happened. Try AGF. If it doesn't work, try 1RR and 2 comments max per discussion and editor. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. - Thanks to Casliber who wrote Lenten rose. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Comments by Carcharoth

Briefly, I was looking at Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat and thinking that the radio button options to show the maps at the bottom of the infobox (A or B or A+B) would be a really good way to give readers the option to hide or show bits of an infobox. It wouldn't solve all the problems, and I know collapsible infoboxes have been discussed before, but this is the best implementation of hiding and showing different parts of an infobox that I have seen. Slight problem, in that I can't work out how this is done. I presume some magic involving some template magic, but I can't track down what template is actually driving that option. I am sure someone here knows. Carcharoth (talk) 17:40, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Comments by {username}

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Meta formatting

Why do we have subheadings marked up like:

:'''Comment by Arbitrators:'''

These should properly be marked up as:

=====Comment by Arbitrators=====

but if that is not possible for some reason, at least:

;Comment by Arbitrators

(with an opening semi-colon). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:50, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

That is the way the template is set up, isn't it? I believe Template talk:ArbComOpenCase would be a better venue to discuss the formatting as it does not pertain only to this case. –FlyingAce^✈hello 20:09, 14 February 2018 (UTC)