2008/6/25 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
We have the flip side of this in another article, where a firearms enthusiast is going ballistic over usage of the term "clip" as a synonym for "magazine" in firearms. He is technically correct - in the engineering sense, a "clip" is a different type of hardware used for a slightly different thing. But common usage has blurred the line and they're used interchangably by a large portion of people with firearms. He wants to stand on principle and deprecate "clip" as a synonym, despite its widespread common usage. We keep telling him that that's not how Wikipedia works - we reflect common usage, and report where technically correct terminology differs. But he's riding the line on abusive behavior trying to keep it out.
c.f. [[Linux]] being where it is about what it is, with [[GNU/Linux]] being a redirect to it named in the second paragraph.
- d.