[WikiEN-l] My favorite Wikipedia article ever

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Mon Jul 9 03:34:38 UTC 2007


On 7 Jul 2007 at 19:23:11 -0500, "Charlotte Webb" 
<charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/7/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > Perhaps we should also ban the use of that great weasel word "obviously"
> > from all deletion nomination statements.
> 
> Don't forget the N-word. Let's ban all words derived from "notable".

If we're banning words (which sounds way too much like censorship for 
me to actually endorse), some I'd like to see banned include:

"common sense" -- Not really very common, and often cited to justify 
uncommon nonsense.

"troll" -- used to label a person whose opinions you disagree with.


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