Re: Suggested improvement to the 'Permission Denied' page

[kcott]

G'day BramVanOosterhout,

Welcome to the monastery.

It's good to see you're "learning to use this website" and reading relevant documentation.

Before posting, you should use the [ preview ] button. When the preview appears, check for: typos; mismatched tags; invalid links. Fix any problems, hit the [ preview ] button again; repeat this cycle until your post is correct.

In your post, you have three instances of "Markup in the Monastry". That was probably one typo (i.e. s{Monastry}{Monastery}) that you copied then pasted two more times; however, regardless of how you generated those errors, there is no "Markup in the Monastry" page so those links all go to the "Super Search" page. I'm sufficiently familiar with the site to know that you almost certainly meant "Markup in the Monastery".

Similarly, when I checked "Permission Denied" (i.e. [Permission Denied]), I found "Permission Denied" was not a unique page name: the link went to a "Duplicates Found" page. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with that page and, given that's the page you're requesting changes to, this is critical information. I did find "Permission Denied" and "Permission denied." but, as they're both just normal threads you could have added to yourself, I'm assuming neither are what you meant to target: you probably mean some site documentation to which you don't have write-access. So, please determine exactly which page you're referencing and then visit the "SiteDocClan" page (it has a link to information about requesting changes). [Just before posting (while previewing, actually) I found this "Permission Denied" page which is probably the one you meant.]

Here's a few other pointers you may find useful:

• Take a look at "What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?". Regarding "... thought I could put [ http:// ...": you can — see the "Arbitrary external sites" section. Here's two examples: http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html (markup: [http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html]); Perldoc: perl.html page (markup: [http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html|Perldoc: perl.html page]).
• Regarding "The thread ended at 5 responses ...": I'm not sure if this indicated that you had trouble seeing more than this. You can change how much you see by going to your home node (BramVanOosterhout), following the "Settings" link, then changing "Replies header depth" and/or "Replies text depth" (I usually have both of those set to 10 but choose whatever you want).
• It's usually better to update your posting than starting a new thread: "How do I change/delete my post?" gives some pointers on doing this. [Actually, I wrote that after remembering your two posts yesterday; however, I checked them and found that the first one was anonymous so, obviously, you couldn't update that one. The information linked to is still valid for future reference.]
• The "Posting on PerlMonks" page has links to other information you may find useful (it's one I have bookmarked).