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I think it's high time we merged [[The skinny on NES scrolling]] into this document. This redundancy has been a problem for a long time.
I think it's high time we merged [[The skinny on NES scrolling]] into this document. This redundancy has been a problem for a long time.


1. Keep the lead and "The common case" from this article, discard the rest.
# Keep the lead and "The common case" from this article, discard the rest.
2. Keep everything from Skinny except the preface, and include it directly after "The common case".
# Keep everything from Skinny except the preface, and include it directly after "The common case".


I'm suggesting doing it this way because while I don't see anything incorrect in this article, the explanations in Skinny are universally more detailed, and there's nothing covered here that isn't explained more clearly there. I find the formatting in this article <code>hard</code> to <code>read</code> and the prose is difficult to parse (much like the original loopy document), so I don't think we're really losing anything by just going with the Skinny article version. Of course we shall continue to revise after the merge too, I'm not saying the Skinny version is perfect either.
I'm suggesting doing it this way because while I don't see anything incorrect in this article, the explanations in Skinny are universally more detailed, and there's nothing covered here that isn't explained more clearly there. I find the formatting in this article <code>hard</code> to <code>read</code> and the prose is difficult to parse (much like the original loopy document), so I don't think we're really losing anything by just going with the Skinny article version. Of course we shall continue to revise after the merge too, I'm not saying the Skinny version is perfect either.

Revision as of 20:57, 24 March 2015

Proposed Merge

I think it's high time we merged The skinny on NES scrolling into this document. This redundancy has been a problem for a long time.

  1. Keep the lead and "The common case" from this article, discard the rest.
  2. Keep everything from Skinny except the preface, and include it directly after "The common case".

I'm suggesting doing it this way because while I don't see anything incorrect in this article, the explanations in Skinny are universally more detailed, and there's nothing covered here that isn't explained more clearly there. I find the formatting in this article hard to read and the prose is difficult to parse (much like the original loopy document), so I don't think we're really losing anything by just going with the Skinny article version. Of course we shall continue to revise after the merge too, I'm not saying the Skinny version is perfect either.

Does anyone oppose this? Any additional thoughts on how this merge should be done? Since it's a topic a lot of people care about I just wanted to open a discussion before making a change like this.

- Rainwarrior (talk) 14:57, 24 March 2015 (MDT)