[WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend

[Ray Saintonge]

Eugene van der Pijll wrote:

>The Cunctator schreef:
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>>>Some groups[*attribution needed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words>*] oppose these measures.
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>>Can we PLEASE make a blanket ban on editorial footnotes in the middle of
>>sentences?
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>No. It's important that a sentence without a citation is marked
>"citation needed", that a phrase containing weasel words is marked
>"contains weasel words", and that a word with a spelling error is marked
>"spelled wrong".
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>How else would the reader know there is something wrong with the text?
>
Whatever the justification (or lack thereof) for the other two, it seems 
to me that adding the tag "spelled wrong" takes a lot more effort than 
simply correcting the error. 

Ec