On 14 Apr 2007 at 01:02, Dycedarg darthvader1219@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently some people got together...somewhere...and decided that it would make sense to merge [[WP:DOP]], [[WP:SPA]], and [[WP:SOCK]] into [[WP:U]]. No link to said discussion was put anywhere on the talk pages of the articles to be involved in the merger, just general comments that it had been decided following discussions on WP:LAP, WP:VP, and WP:AN.
Hmmm.... maybe some of our critics actually have a point about overuse of an alphabet-soup of acronyms and initialisms. By a quick offhand glance at the above sentences, I have no clue what it's actually about, and would have to look up no less than seven different Wikipedia project pages to attempt to piece this together.
On 4/14/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Hmmm.... maybe some of our critics actually have a point about overuse of an alphabet-soup of acronyms and initialisms. By a quick offhand glance at the above sentences, I have no clue what it's actually about, and would have to look up no less than seven different Wikipedia project pages to attempt to piece this together.
Sorry about that. Here's a translation of what you quoted:
Apparently some people got together...somewhere...and decided that it
would
make sense to merge [[Wikipedia:Doppelganger account]], [[Wikipedia:Single
purpose >account]], and [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry]] into [[Wikipedia:Username policy]].
No link to said discussion was put anywhere on the talk pages of the articles to be involved in the merger, just general comments that it had been decided following discussions on Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and
guidelines, >Wikipedia:Village pump, and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard.
I usually try not to overuse the acronyms, but it was late at night and I wasn't thinking overly clearly. I hope this helps.