SlimVirgin wrote:
It's not just the most controversial this applies to. It's any article, project page, or section thereof that anyone's watching closely. One problem we had after we'd written the final draft of ATT as a summary of V and NOR is that some people believed the meaning of a few crucial sentences had been changed. They hadn't -- they had just been written differently -- but the change in writing led some people to feel sure there must have been a change in meaning too, so they opposed the proposal. This happens a lot with material that people care about. They guard it fiercely, even if that means preserving bad grammar, no flow, and words used incorrectly.
Policy pages are quite another matter. Changes of a single word in a law or policy can have a profound effect because it is very rare when two words will have identical connotations.
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