David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/28 Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net:
Yeah, I'm still bitter about spoiler warnings, but perhaps they should be a lesson. Wikipedia is a game of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic .
Yes, because them being (a) clearly stupid in too many cases (b) clearly original research to declare as spoiler (c) having six different venues to tell you you're wrong and to go away must be because of clever politics on the part of those you disagree with, not because you're actually wrong or anything.
That was actually one of those rare instances where a mailing list campaign worked. Too bad that one otherwise sane Wikipedian has been infected by chronic wiki-tetanus over this.
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