On 11/12/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure it's in our best interests to
pre-empt this, though
ensuring we can transition as smoothly as possible is always good. (I
remember the day of Sorting Out All The Pluto Stuff)
An important lesson of Wikipedia is that people will argue to death
over ANYTHING in the pursuit of Getting Things Right. See [[Talk:Prime
Minister of Australia]] for the now-moot dispute over what on Earth
the correct term for the leader of the party that won the last
election is before he's actually sworn in as the new Prime Minister
(there doesn't appear to be one), and whether the loser can still be
described as "incumbent" (probably).
I'd like to see our obsession with getting things right as a virtue,
even when it verges on the querulous ...
- d.