MediaWiki:Createacct-another-submit

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Docs clarified, with link to relevant special page, for context

The message Createacct-another-submit (“Create account”) is apparantly a submit button. I would have expected the text of a submit button to be definite - something like "Create the account". Instead it is indefinite "Create a(nother) account", which is a text I would expect to find on a link to a dialog box. Could we have some clarification on why the text is as it is?

I have reread the message documentation and think that what is meant here is "Create the account for another", "another" here meaning "somebody else". I will add this alternative wording to the documentation - please undo if its wrong. Personally, I think the alternative wording would also be better in the English source.

It's one of the possible meanings but it depends on the circumstances, it can also be an alternate account for self. Let me adjust the docs a bit. Are we convinced that the button has to be different in this case?

The English doesn't have to be different if the meaning is obvious from its context on the page. As long as the documentation gives the true meaning of the message, with equivalent alternative wordings where they exist, then all is well, I would say.

The new documentation is much clearer. Thank you.