[Foundation-l] 09-etc

[David Gerard]

On 06/05/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:

> > A relevant Wikipedia policy is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POINT

> /me stabs
> No, this isn't what WP:POINT is about...
> WP:POINT would be if someone who argued against us breaking the law by
> hosting anti-circumvention devices on our site  got tired of the
> arguments and went around adding child porn, windows license keys, and
> other contra-ban information to Wikipedia.
> I.e. "I'll prove your point is wrong by showing you the logical conclusions"


Greg is correct.

This is a perfect example of why WP:USING WP:CAPITALISED WP:GIBBERISH
is problematic behaviour. If you'd referred to it by its full name -
"Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point" - it'd be obvious it
didn't mean what you used "WP:POINT" to describe here.


- d.