[WikiEN-l] Moving the Main Page

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jan 15 03:56:49 UTC 2007


Andrew Gray wrote:

>On 14/01/07, en: Firefoxman <enwpmail at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>It is in violation of [[WP:NAME]]
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>...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.
>
In a well ordered universe aesthetic sensitivities will occasionally be 
offended by irregular procedures.  Sounds like an exciting game of 
[[Whac-A-Mole]].

Ec




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