I think it is right to be pedantic. In fact, if it is not stated already, it should be stated that this means any single WP project, but counts in several projects cannot be added together Louis
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----- Message d'origine ---- De : Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com À : Wikimedia Translators translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org Envoyé le : Vendredi, 6 Juillet 2007, 12h55mn 17s Objet : Re: [Translators-l] [Election] Mail to the unqualified votes whose vote will be struck
It should read June 1, not March 1. Flick the wording as you'd like. :-)
On 7/6/07, Michelle Gallaway <mgallaway@gmail.com > wrote: Don't want to be pedantic, but shouldn't that be "The election rules state that users must have *had* at least 400 edits by March 1 to be eligible to vote.", since the chances of anyone who does not meet these criteria meeting them in the future is nil?
I know this is translators-l, not englishgrammarscrutiny-l, but we might as well get it right in as many languages as possible.
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