Michel Clasquin clasqm@mweb.co.za writes:
Against. I've found occasional good uses for "prefix[[snafu]]suffix" that I don't want to lose - for instance it is possible to say [[peace]]fully or [[peace|peacefully]] and they link to the same page.
I don't follow. Or rather, I can't see any good uses. Can you enlighten me?
But an adjective or adverb as a link doesn't look right in an encyclopedia context.
Maybe not, but does [[peace]]fully look any better?
IMHO there's far too much talk about letting the software do all the work lately ...
Is that not what software is for?
(very OT aside: I blame GUIs. I see so many people doing repetitive tasks manually with Windows file manager that I can see why people don't classify computers as labour-saving devices any more.)
Gareth Owen wrote:
IMHO there's far too much talk about letting the software do all the work lately ...
Is that not what software is for?
Yes, but I've been giving a lot of thought to LDC's remarks the other day about what computers are good at, and what they are not good at. One thing they are not good at is conceptual relationships, etc.
The exact proposal you guys are talking about is fairly minor, and I can see it going either way. But in general, I think we should be wary of taking control away from the user. Maybe a user wants to have part of a word linked (even if we might think it is ugly), for a good reason.
Why remove that option? For convenience in other cases. It's a tradeoff, and perhaps we should be reluctant to make tradeoffs for convenience that take choices away from authors.
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