Bulbapedia talk:Talk page: Difference between revisions

"Make sure to respond to them on your own talk page, and not theirs. Splitting a conversation between two pages can be very annoying to the person you are talking to, or, you yourself, trying to read their responses." - Really why do we always want to be different from other Wikis? On all normal Wikis it's actually recommended to respond on other user's page. It reduces the possibilities of an edit conflict and the user gets notified. I often hold more than one ongoing discussion with various users and I can't keep track of them all without being notified. It's especially annoying if the user is rarely online and replies after months, sometimes even over a year. I can't check other user's page to see whether or not he replied, especially for such long time. A month is enough to forget. So, if I never get noticed when the user FINALLY replied, I'll probably won't be even aware of the fact that he did. And actually, such users who come here "once in a blue moon" aren't a rarity, they make a good part of our community. Also, I can't understand what's so annoying in the conversation being split to two pages. It's actually a habit for me to look at both users' talkpages when I read a conversation. It's not THAT much of a difficulty as the policy states it to be. On ALL major Wikis there's a policy of replying on the other user's page, not your own (the way we do it is really considered as n00bish by most). And I don't see the reason why we should be different. "We're not Wikipedia" isn't an argument. Nor is "I'm used to that". It's actually a habit to be changed. --[[User:Maxim|Maxim]] 12:09, 21 July 2010 (UTC)