Edit book has two divergent help links - help from staff?
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While in the edit book page, I noticed that there's two different help links that go to two very different topics. The top-right hand help link goes to:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Work/Edit
The bottom-right help link goes to:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Editing_your_books
I'm sure this is probably a relic of before HelpThing was introduced.
This is also complicated by the fact that the latter link is also linked from the "Editing your books" link under "Key features" in the Help/FAQ:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Help_and_FAQ
and the topic is marked with {{FAQ}}.
So one thing I think could possibly be done is have the bottom-right link on the edit books page also point to HelpThing:Work/Edit.
Is that a pretty non-controversial change?
Another suggestion is possibly to remove the bottom-right help link altogether and just stick with the top-right one. But I have to admit, that top-right one just isn't nearly as noticeable, or isn't as easily understood as being specific to the page you are on. That's a different topic but I just thought I'd at least mention it.
The actual Editing_your_books topic could also probably use more changes if it's going to be a Help/FAQ entry. I actually already included the "How do people use the comments field?" in the HelpThing page before deciding to post here about it. And the stuff in the "Publication Date" section is already in the HelpThing page (just phrased differently). So I'm not sure what should be done about this topic in general. I can understand the point of "well, this is about the concept of editing your books, not about the specific page which is what the HelpThing topic is for." But I'm not sure how that actually should play out here.
I'd like staff involvement on changing the link, but all comments are certainly welcome, especially if I've somehow made a bad assumption.
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Work/Edit
The bottom-right help link goes to:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Editing_your_books
I'm sure this is probably a relic of before HelpThing was introduced.
This is also complicated by the fact that the latter link is also linked from the "Editing your books" link under "Key features" in the Help/FAQ:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Help_and_FAQ
and the topic is marked with {{FAQ}}.
So one thing I think could possibly be done is have the bottom-right link on the edit books page also point to HelpThing:Work/Edit.
Is that a pretty non-controversial change?
Another suggestion is possibly to remove the bottom-right help link altogether and just stick with the top-right one. But I have to admit, that top-right one just isn't nearly as noticeable, or isn't as easily understood as being specific to the page you are on. That's a different topic but I just thought I'd at least mention it.
The actual Editing_your_books topic could also probably use more changes if it's going to be a Help/FAQ entry. I actually already included the "How do people use the comments field?" in the HelpThing page before deciding to post here about it. And the stuff in the "Publication Date" section is already in the HelpThing page (just phrased differently). So I'm not sure what should be done about this topic in general. I can understand the point of "well, this is about the concept of editing your books, not about the specific page which is what the HelpThing topic is for." But I'm not sure how that actually should play out here.
I'd like staff involvement on changing the link, but all comments are certainly welcome, especially if I've somehow made a bad assumption.
