On 2008.07.07 09:06:04 -0400, Ron Ritzman <ritzman(a)gmail.com> scribbled 0.7K
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Which lead one editor to add an HTML comment to the wiki code asking
future editors not to re-add the joke "IPC" section. Another editor
removed the comments with the edit summary "An article's source is not
a place for messages to other users".
Ia there any consensus/policy/guideline for this view? I wanted to add
it back as I have used such comments before but didn't feel like
getting into an edit war over invisible wikitext on an article I don't
regularly edit.
I think removing comments is ridiculous. In the past, a few users have removed my comments
from an article and (sometimes) put them on the talk, and it was just as silly every time.
I devoutly hope that consensus is still where it was when I started: that lengthy comments
sometimes belong on talk, but comments in general are fine and have many useful roles
(such as the warnings you mention.)
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