[WikiEN-l] Quasi-vanity and quasi-advertising

[David Gerard]

dpbsmith wrote:

>I'd like to redefine "vanity" as meaning "an imbalanced mix of motives in
>which serving the needs of the contributor outweights serving the needs of
>the reader."


Apart from the problem of unnecessarily redefining a word in English
as a jargon term of quite different meaning, I really don't see how
this will lead to *less* subjectivity and contentiousness.

Hagiographic fan writing is a problem to deal with at editorial level.
It is *not* something the deletion process can reasonably be twisted
to deal with.


- d.