On 9/11/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
When I say I think something's useful in the context of encyclopedia-writing, I mean it's useful for _writing an encyclopedia article_. Any essay that would attempt to claim this is not a good reason for keeping something is approaching the point of self-parody, IMO.
Amen. Months ago, I noticed that "useful" was part of an ever-growing list of "arguments to avoid (ATA)" and my self-parody detector began rapidly to chirp.
So I decided to compile a set of "arguments to use (ATU)". Needless to say I didn't get very far, but at least Radiant thought it was funny.
—C.W.