On 7/7/08, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Where on earth do people get these ideas? It's certainly appropriate to use hidden messages to dissuade editors from making a common error, or from vandalising.