[wp-forums] self-linking rules?

[esmi at quirm dot net]

on 31/08/2010 22:05 Michael E. Hancock said the following:
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> If the question needs to be answered more than a couple times, then 
> continued reference is better done by contributing the information to one of 
> the Codex FAQ articles.    Two things are accomplished:  The information is 
> more likely to be available at a later date because it is in Codex, and 
> there's no question the person's motive is to contribute to the open source 
> movement.

I appreciate the point, Michael, but there are some common 
queries/solutions that don't fit easily into the Codex documentation 
structure. Conditional CSS is one such example. Strictly speaking, it 
isn't a WP issue - it's a general CSS wrangling one. But I got so tired 
of posting the same answer that I initially ended up writing a blog post 
on it.

Then, in the interests of trying to keep solutions within the 
wordpress.org domain, I created a Codex user page [1]. That was months 
ago but, despite having a wander around the docs every now and then, 
I've yet to find a suitable slot for this kind of info. It's way too big 
for a faq point but I'm unsure if it's suitable as a Codex page in its 
own right.

{In fact, I'd question whether the Codex should really be addressing 
general CSS/markup topics at all! It can never be all things to all 
users, so why not focus limited resources on directly WP-related topics?)

On top of that, there's the whole "how to you go about getting a page 
officially added to the Codex" thing. I know it is possible but there's 
only so many hours in a day, this does all add up and no one has 
unlimited time to spare. So I end up linking to my user page (which is 
really clunky) or, on rare occasions, to my own blog.

I'm sure I'm not the only one like this - full of good intentions but 
short on time. And, in the meantime, there are people asking for help.

Mel

[1] http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Esmi/Conditional_Comment_CSS