Perhaps, but changing the manual of style is premature at this point IMHO.
A good number of the votes were as per those comments pointed out here, which is rather troublesome of course. But, I think the issue at hand is not the number of uncivil comments directed at me, but the topic at hand.
I think it is good practice to toss in "people" after any ethnicity or nationality. Some of the terms can have multiple meanings at that was the original reason for this IIRC. What do you guys think?
- Cool Cat
On 2/5/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
"...Also without assuming bad faith I have to ask why people would be so concerned with moving this category..- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg"
I interpreted that as assuming bad faith against the opposers, not the proposer. It's rather ambiguous.
"Strong Oppose per IZAK, frankly I'm shocked that this is even up for discussion. ... -- Chabuk" "Oppose. ... Share Chabuk's outrage that we're even voting on this. JFW"
Agreed, those are baffling and offensive comments, and should result in warnings to the commenters. However, they are just 2 people - the vast majority of people commenting did so with no problems at all.
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