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I do not cite policy without reading it.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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