RE: "Button Gravity" and "Warning Gravity"

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

From: "Lippincott, Richard" <RLippincott -at- as-e -dot- com>
Subject: RE: "Button Gravity" and "Warning Gravity"

[snip]

"Danger" means that failing to follow the procedure as written will
likely result in death.

"Warning" means that failing to follow the procedure as written can
possibly result in serious injury or death.

"Caution" means that failing to follow the procedure as written can
result in damage to the equipment or system. Personally, I include
"crashing the software" as damage (even though nothing is actually
broken, it's something the user might very much want to avoid), so I
insert "Caution" admonitions if getting the next steps wrong will result
in a software conniption.

"Note" is used to provide some additional information that may be of use
or make the user's job easier.

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Then technically, I should never use anything stronger than a caution,
because I don't document equipment that could injure or kill people.
However, I -- and some of the other folks in my department -- will
occasionally use warnings for situations where a wrong move could cause
serious corruption and/or destruction of data, with disastrous results
to whatever institution was using the software. Does this seem
acceptable?
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