[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 182

[Mark Gallagher]

G'day Molu,

> On Sat, 20 May 2006 01:46:50 +1000 Mark Gallagher wrote:
> 
>> G'day Molu, [Gah! Top-posting again! It's not that hard to send an 
>> email, man!]
>> 
>>> See [[WP:POINT]]. You are delibarately disrupting a reader's 
>>> experience of WIkipedia by removing spoiler notices when the 
>>> consensus is clearly for keeping them. This sort of thing when 
>>> done with malicious intent is called vandalism.
> 
>> That has nothing to do with WP:POINT. I suggest that you, and 
>> everyone else who repeatedly cites it without actually knowing what
>>  it means, actually *read* the damn page instead of simply falling 
>> in love with the name.
> 
> I do not cite policy without reading it. Guy has the personal opinion
>  that spoilers are not good, and he disrupts the normal functioning
> of Wikipedia to make this point, even when consensus is clearly
> against him.

That's *not* what WP:POINT says.  Please read it again.

If Guy was a *fan* of the spoiler warnings, and removed them to prove 
that the flood of complaints we'd receive from people such as your good 
self would be overwhelming, *that* would be WP:POINT.  Or if he hated 
them, so he added them to articles on non-fiction (e.g. [[Titanic]]) to 
show how silly they are, *that* would be WP:POINT as well.  He'd be 
causing disruption, and making edits he knows are inappropriate, solely 
to prove a point that would be better made (without disrupting anything) 
in conversation.

But a simple case of "I believe something, and I'm going to act on that" 
is not WP:POINT, it's WP:BOLD.

> P.S. I don't know what makes a top-posting or what doesn't. I don't 
> know many different ways of sending emails.

Compare my message to yours.  I'm making my comments below those
comments of yours that I'm replying to.  You're just throwing everything
above the line, so that we have to scroll down to find out what on Earth
you're talking about.

Interleaving comments instead of top-posting is free, easy, and comes
with a sense of moral satisfaction you'll be itching to feel.


-- 
Mark Gallagher
"What?  I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse



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