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"White" vs "white"

Our articles are rather inconsistent with how "white" and "black" (in the racial sense) are capitalized. Should we add something about which to use here? Spriggina (tal) (framlög) @ 19:04, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: Tooltip

I want to use tooltip (hovering over a word making text appear) in mainspace, but I don't know if it is allowed. Is it? If it is, I am willing to create the template for it. — Godless Raven ^talk_stalk^walk_balk 🌹 13:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

I don't see any reason not to allow it as long as its not being used for essential content, as mobile and screenreader devices don't really support it afaik. — Z 14:21, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

There also is Template:H:title (will move page, since this is burdensome to write or find). — Godless Raven ^talk_stalk^walk_balk 🌹 14:31, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Vertical A-Z

I created {{AZv}} and wanted to see if it may be useful for pages such as Dyslexicon, for example? — Godless Raven ^talk_stalk^walk_balk 🌹 20:35, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Update: Mobile users have problems with the position of the bar (it blocks text and might be small), unfortunately this is a problem with viewing RW on mobile phones. Not sure how to fix it. Open to suggestions. — Godless Raven ^talk_stalk^walk_balk 🌹 03:09, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Absolutely! It can be added to the list of gods too. Maybe there could be an option to close it? Maybe? The Sqrt-1 ^{talk stalk} 04:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Made it collapsible. Let me know if there are further issues or suggestions. — Godless Raven ^talk_stalk^walk_balk 🌹 04:41, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Russian RW but not Chinese?

Richard Dawkins#Want_to_read_this_in_another_language.3F

If we have a left sidebar that links to the Russian version of the article, why not the Chinese one? — Godless Raven ^talk_stalk^walk_balk 🌹 07:56, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Cite format

It should be mentioned that rationalwiki (like wikipedia) has special codes for citations: {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}, and {{cite news}}.

See Template:Cite book, Template:Cite journal, Template:Cite web, and Template:Cite news on the formatting of cite.--BruceGrubb (talk) 04:55, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

'Further reading' sections

There doesn't seem to be much consensus on where to place these relative to the rest of the typical article structure. Examples of pages with a further reading section: philosophy of science, transgender, flat Earth.

Personally, I've placed this section above notes and references, but below the see also and external links. Wikipedia sticks "further reading" below references, but also does this for external links, unlike RationalWiki. I kind of feel that it'd be ignored down there, if the references section was sufficiently long enough (seeing as we have pages with hundreds of references).

As a side note, these sections can also serve as a "potential future article sources" section, as I've seen some editors on Wikipedia partly use it for. Chillpilled (talk) 20:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)