`  == Now that we are friends ...(posted to User_talk:Earle_Martin)==  If you're an admin, here are some things I'd like changed. For those you agree with, please pass them on - do whatever admins do to effect change. Thanks, 69.106.253.165 (talk)   1. There are more and more articles with more than 100 references. The algorithm to display those n references runs in something like (n/4)**2 time since, in the 2 column case, for every 2nd addition to the references displayed all preceeding references are reformatted to balance the two columns. This may be no big deal given the latest & best computer, but on a slower machine n squared algorithms take a long time as n approaches 100 or more.  Options. a) Most of the time I don't care about the refrences, would be happy if the were displayed only if I clicked on that section or if I clicked on a reference number. b) change the algorithm to balance the columns only after all references are displayed. c) change the display; instead of balanced use alternating columns: for a 2 column display the odd numbered would be in the left column, even in the right, both columns in ascending order. And so on for more than 2 columns.  2. ``What links here`` used to be useful in understanding the tree, locating related articles, in maintaining the intelligence represented by the category tree. No more; the flood of templates has buried the interesting links - with every article that uses a template listed as linking to everything in that template there are now hundreds of links - useless.  Please change ``What links here`` to list templates once and to NOT list any uses of a template. If I want to know who uses the template, I should be able to go to the template's page and click ``What links here``.  3.- Even after several years of editing, I have a difficult time using the Wikipedia editing reference material to answer my own questions, to locate templates, etc. I need a map, a short summary in one article of all those editing documents, that I can go to as a starting point and click to move to the article I need. My difficulties may relate to my age, 71 or so I'm told, never-the-less the difficulties are real. This user page, User:R. S. Shaw, has been the most help, but I really want a summary (brief table of contents?) of the various editing articles in one document. And that Shaw had to create his own quide should be a ``proof by example`` that the Wikipedia Help/Edit documents are missing something.  4.- Not every article needs a template, let alone two or three, and no article needs the ``Internet memes`` template. How do we slow down the template stuffers?  5.- Users updating an article often copy it to their user page or sandbox. Sometimes they never complete their edits, just leaving the article in the user page. Possibly they complete the edit but don't delete it from their user page. The result is that category pages list those user pages since, of course, the pages contain the catalog entries. For those categories I'm cleaning up I can either edit the user page, inserting the ``:`` or correspond with the user, both being a nuisance for me and the user.  Please change the category pages, at least in the ``general public`` area of Wikipedia, to not include user pages.  end Thanks again, 69.106.253.165 (talk)  Retrieved from ``http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Earle_Martin```