# Article edit review revue?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/article-edit-review-revue/24411>\
**Category:** MDN\
**Created:** [January 15, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/article-edit-review-revue/24411 "2018-01-15T01:19:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![tshinnic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@tshinnic](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/tshinnic)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/article-edit-review-revue/24411/1 "2018-01-15T01:19:23Z")

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Procedural question: what to do when an edit is ‘questionable’. Is there a valid avenue for discussion besides filing a doc bug?

At article [\<input type=“checkbox”\>](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/checkbox) back in July someone updated an example to a [clever alternate way](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/checkbox%24compare?to=1279943&from=1277819) to do something, using CSS rather than JS. Irritatingly, they forgot to update the old text above “This is achieved with a simple block of JavaScript.”

But (and since I’m more a JS coder than CSS) I thought “well, which example is more informative, the 11 lines of painful explicit JS or the 8 lines of confusing CSS magic?”

So, what is the best forum for discussing either/or decisions, where best judgement may be a collaborative affair? At Wikipedia I might change and drop a comment on the article’s talk page, explaining the conundrum. But where here? [Talk pages](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Talk:DOM/element.getBoundingClientRect) don’t really seem to function here?

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**Author:** ![chrisdavidmills](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/chrisdavidmills/32/21688_2.png) [@chrisdavidmills](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/chrisdavidmills)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/article-edit-review-revue/24411/2 "2018-01-15T06:30:52Z")

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Hi there,

Discourse (or filing a doc bug) is probably the best way. We’ve not had talk pages at least in the time I’ve worked for Mozilla, for various reasons.

For the addition you pointed out — thanks, I missed this one! I’ve not subscribed to the input type pages so I can watch all changes made to them.

In this case I reverted the code change because I think the CSS is more cryptic and confusing, plus it has a couple of disadvantages compared to the JS — it affects page layout, plus it doesn’t clear the other field content after it has been re-hidden.

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**Author:** ![jswisher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jswisher/32/20455_2.png) [@jswisher](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jswisher)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/article-edit-review-revue/24411/3 "2018-01-15T17:00:43Z")

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In the [early days of MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN_at_ten/History_of_MDN), it was on MediaWiki, and had Talk pages, but this community never developed the culture of using Talk pages that Wikipedia has. So when we implemented our own wiki platform ([pull requests welcome](https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)), we didn’t include Talk pages as a feature. There are a few Talk pages hanging around from the MediaWiki era, but they’re seldom found or touched.

Much as I would love to have an on-site discussion feature on MDN, currently, discussing here or in Bugzilla are your best options.

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**Author:** ![sheppy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/sheppy/32/20903_2.png) [@sheppy](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/sheppy)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/article-edit-review-revue/24411/4 "2018-01-16T14:14:56Z")

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I think pretty much all of us would like to have some form of discussion, annotation, and/or edit-review system on MDN. It’s just a matter of prioritization and time, the twin devils of the world of software development. 🙂

Eric Shepherd  
Senior Technical Writer

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