[WikiEN-l] Bus Uncle

[Bryan Derksen]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> I might expect
> children to fall for that kind of trick, but it was a shock to see
> that such material had been entered into an article, which had then
> been labelled one of our best.

I take it you're implying that those who have disagreed with you on this
matter are all "children"? Seems unlikely to me considering the amount
of attention it's received now.

> I still don't like the fact that the guys' names are there.  They are
> not relevant to the story.

They're the guys that the story is _about_. In what way could they
possibly not be relevant? I'm sorry, but this really seems to me like
saying we shouldn't mention Lee Harvey Oswald's name in the article
[[John F. Kennedy assassination]] (or perhaps even [[Assassination of
the thirty-fifth President of the United States]]).

They're the guys who did the thing that the article is describing. The
noteworthiness of the thing that the article is describing is well
established, there's going to be an article about it, so given that
there's reliable sources for the names why should we have to rely on
circuitous nicknames instead? It's just silly.

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