[WikiEN-l] Moving the Main Page

en: Firefoxman enwpmail at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 22:25:47 UTC 2007


Yes, but we at least should change the code so that it displays Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia with out the words "Main Page"
 in the title!

On 1/14/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 14/01/07, en: Firefoxman <enwpmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is in violation of [[WP:NAME]]
>
> ...something we ourselves invented and applied.
>
> We're writing an encyclopedia here. We're working for the convenience
> of our readers and editors. We're not attempting to work on a giant
> self-consistent logical proof; we're not writing a legal system or
> playing a game of nomic. If a "rule" for articles conflicts with the
> sensible thing to do for the encyclopedia, we ignore the rule.
>
> I am amazed people fall over themselves to comply with constraints
> that simply don't matter.
>
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> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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