On 2008.07.07 09:06:04 -0400, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com scribbled 0.7K characters:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
There's also been some shenanigans on [[Wood]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woodoldid=224074261#In_Popular_Cul...
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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