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parenthetical statements in help:links
Hi! I updated an example on Help:Links a few days ago. After my first edit, I realized that having parentheses around the note included with the example was not consistent with the other examples on the page. None of the other examples' notes are parenthetical. So I removed the parentheses. Later, you added them back with the edit summary of "(Undo revision 362520 by Lsloan (talk) - not consistent)".

I disagree with your analysis, and I could just remove the parentheses again, but I wanted to learn from you why you thought it was not consistent to remove them. Can you please explain? Thank you! --Lance E Sloan 17:31, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not precisely sure how this happened, but it has to do with the pending changes system. When I first intended to remove the parenthesis it seems I instead undid the one removing them, and at that time, I did not know that there were subsequent pending revisions.  Then, when I then tried to approve my revision instead of approving just it it seems to have approved all pending revisions instead hence restoring the parenthesis.... Wow, that's confusing.  I'll fix it :)     Thorncrag    21:13, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, I see... So I was just wondering, how does the pending changes system work?  I've seen links that say a change is pending, but I didn't see any documentation about who can approve changes or how it's done.  I've set up a MW instance at work for my colleagues and I think this ability to let some people make changes while others' need to be approved would be helpful.  If you could point me to some documentation to get me started, I'd appreciate it!  --Lance E Sloan 14:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)