Talk:Editing Guidelines/@comment-232266-20150607201839

Regarding the 250 character limit, I just wish there was some way for the system to count accurately. I see warnings about 250 character limits everywhere I go, and virtually none of them are right -- I've taken to putting a fair number of them in OpenOffice to count characters for me, and many are off by significant margins. I'm kind of baffled as to how the character counts were figured. It doesn't even seem to be the case of someone forgetting to add the Trimmed category to the page; I've found claims of 600+ characters on ones with only about 270 or so, and by all appearances that's all the in-game text the page ever had [in other words, yes, over the 250 limit, but not as direly so as the page claims].

Worse still is the fact that even those pages that are trimmed seem to be penalized for their elipses. Elipses are explicitly not text from FBG and shouldn't count against the limit.