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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Curtis Hovey wrote on 10/01/11 15:00:
>...
> https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/DerivativeDistributions#Mockups
> 
> +newseries

"This page allows you to add a new distribution series"

In <https://dev.launchpad.net/UserInterfaceWording> a few years ago, I
proposed that no Launchpad page should intentionally contain the phrase
"this page".

The window in which you are reading e-mail right now almost certainly
doesn't say "this window allows you to read e-mail". In the same way,
the purpose of a page should be obvious from the contents of the page.

When a form page has a one-sentence introduction, it's easy to briefly
hint at the purpose of, consequences of, and/or next step after the
task, without referring to the page itself. In this case, for example:
"Once you've registered a distribution series, it can be initialized
with packages from a parent series."

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mpt
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