Wikipedia:Discuss and draft graphical layout overhauls
 | This page documents an English Wikipedia editing guideline. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page. |
Discuss and draft graphical layout overhauls instead of using a highly visible page as a sandbox. While articles can improve by this normal method of small, unorganized edits, page design is different. When many users edit a page for layout, different plans can conflict, and the page may get worse. This process of attrition is what this guideline is meant to prevent. For example, Help:Contents had many unharmonized edits that brought a clean, good design to one with a very unorganized lead.
As such, we highly recommend that users not make these sort of style edits unilaterally or on a whim. This may seem to violate the spirit of the Wiki, but the resulting hodgepodge of design elements that are not cohesively linked, formatted, colored, and organized far outweighs this philosophical consideration. Instead, we encourage discussing changes on the appropriate talk page, and creating a draft in a sandbox. This encourages consensus and would avoid a gradual erosion of the page's design by many uncollaborative edits. Another point to recognize is this page is a reference for many pages to follow, it is a main page in Wiki. When people tamper with it, other pages could be lost or visitors to the site might be misdirected.
Please note that this guideline does not apply to most pages—see the next section.
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