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07/10/2014 10:03:53
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
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Business
Category:
Technical writing
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01608877
Message ID:
01608916
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>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I have the following error message text:
>>>
>>>"Credit Limit must be a number greater or equal than 0" (this error message is shown in angularJs web form).
>>>
>>>I am a bit concerned about than 0 part. If there would not be 'equal' part, then 'than' sounds OK. But with added 'equal' I am not exactly sure about this error message.
>>>
>>>Can you please tell me if this is OK and if not, how it should be formulated?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>You're communicating with humans, not programmers.
>>What you really want to say to a human is that the credit limit can't be negative.
>>So why not just say:
>>
>>"The credit limit can't be negative"
>
>Good point. I guess this is the best.

I disagree. Some humans do not know what negative means and error messages should be more specific, not more generic.
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