David Friedland wrote:
Finally, since no one seems interested in bringing dialectical consistency to Wikipedia in this area, might I propose an alternate policy for usage disputes? Where a word has different spellings/usages, the spelling/usage that has the most number of Google hits shall be the spelling/usage used on Wikipedia. If the spelling/usage with the most number of Google hits changes, then so shall the spellings/usages on Wikipedia. At least this way we can be sure that the spellings/usages we use will be ones used by a majority that is based on actual data. It's incontrovertible, democratic, neutral, and completely dialect-agnostic. Not to mention consistent.
"We must do something, this is something, therefore we must do this" is STILL not a syllogism, and even less so when the first statement is actually "I think we must do something, even if you lot think I'm wrong".
- d.