[WikiEN-l] Writing with our readers in mind

[Sam Korn]

Do you really have no understanding of the concept of assuming good
faith?  You have provided a good example of an argumentum ad hominem,
attacking the argument by attacking the man.

Whether or not he was intending to bring the whole BCE mess into this
or not, he had a valid point.

Is it really necessary to be quite so incivil?

Sam

On 7/10/05, JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Jon <thagudearbh at yahoo.co.uk>
> >
> >It would be useful (if we don't already have it somewhere that I've missed)
> >to have a firm
> >statement that says articles should be written to be as intelligible to as
> >many of our readers as
> >possible, with our readers being anyone potentially searching for
> >English-language information on
> >the internet.
> 
> If you imagine that your attempt to further your campaign against the use of
> BCE/CE using this backdoor method went unnoticed, rest assured that it did
> not.
> 
> Jay.
> 
> 
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