On 3/25/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
This part of their policy is almost funny seeing how much we all just "love" WP:TLAs
"No initialisms. The Policy pages of the Citizendium may not contain any three-letter "initialisms." For example, "IAR," "NOR," and "AFD" are three letter initialisms. These expressions are a considerable problem for new users who are unfamiliar with them. The first time a user introduces such an expression in a policy page, he/she will be warned and the expression removed. The second time a user repeats this offense, he will be banned for a suitable amount of time.?
I look forward to seeing what sort of private jargon they wind up developing -- and if they realize that they've done so. Initialisms are the English Wikipedia's jargon.
Conservapedia doesn't have any objection to initialisms as such, but they've adopted one--VSA for Very Short Article--in order to avoid calling them stubs, i.e. to be different from Wikipedia for the sake of difference.
The template which expands into "This article has been identified as having problems with length, content and/or style, and is therefore classified as a Very Short Article (VSA)..." is... wait for it...
{{stub}}