[theme-reviewers] ASCII art in header.php

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Fri Apr 4 00:37:03 UTC 2014


I would consider an ASCII-art HTML "powered by datacube" comment to be
tacky and inappropriate promotion. AuthorURI is there, and equally publicly
visible in source, in style.css.


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> We don't have any specific requirements, however I would treat the ASCII
> like name="author", meaning it should not be in header.php.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Ryan Cowles <ryan.cowles at automattic.com>wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I've been reviewing a theme that includes a large ASCII art comment in
>> header.php. I imagine that this is not acceptable, but I can't seem to tie
>> it to a specific rule/guideline. Here's the file for reference:
>> https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/dc_genomics/1.0/header.php
>>
>> Does this in fact violate any of the requirements? And if so, which one?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ryan
>>
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