Matthew Brown wrote:
On 5/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
So, if I start spamming "George Bush" all over the wiki that string will get blocked by the regex filter too?
You know, sometimes I think [[WP:POINT]] *should* have been written about you.
It wasn't?
I thought so too at the time, but the author of the original admonition claimed it was not. Or at least, Anthony may have been no more than one example of the phenomenon being addressed. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Don%27t_disrupt_Wik... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Don%27t_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point/Pollicy&oldid=2875238
--Michael Snow
On 5/3/07, Michael Snow wikipedia@att.net wrote:
Matthew Brown wrote:
On 5/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/05/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
So, if I start spamming "George Bush" all over the wiki that string will get blocked by the regex filter too?
You know, sometimes I think [[WP:POINT]] *should* have been written about you.
It wasn't?
I thought so too at the time, but the author of the original admonition claimed it was not. Or at least, Anthony may have been no more than one example of the phenomenon being addressed.
Ah yes, now I remember that.
I've long been a believer though, that for many rules, consistency is more important than correctness. In fact, for many rules there is no correct answer, so long as one is picked. If we all stopped at green lights and went at red lights, the world would still work just fine. I think that analogy follows to some of the examples in [[WP:POINT]], especially the ones dealing with AfD.
Anthony