On 14 May 2007 at 23:13:06 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
PPS, can we have some sort of Godwin's Law equivalent about the use of the suffix "cruft" in deletion debates? It's basically equivalent to "I personally think this is not worth having in Wikipedia", a sentiment that deserves to be made more explicitly and in more detail than that.
We can invent the term "cruftcruft", to refer to the overuse of terms with "-cruft" in them.
I have a big fan of {{spoiler}} tags making a CALL TO ARMS to REVERT ALL MY EDITS on my talk page. I can see the spoiler tags are doing their job of attracting the sort of editors Wikipedia really wants, then.
- d.