[WikiEN-l] Citizendium to launch this week

[Marc Riddell]

on 3/26/07 9:51 PM, Oskar Sigvardsson at oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com wrote:

> On 3/27/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>> I appreciate the sentiment behind trying to deal with this problem,
>> since I often encounter abbreciations on this list that I need to puzzle
>> over before giving my best guess.  I don't think the hard line approach
>> will help them.  It's just not a winnable battle.
>> 
>> Ec
> 
> What I do is that I simply put in "WP:" plus the abbreviation/acronym
> in the search box and click Go. That will pretty much always give you
> the right answer. Take ASF, for instance. WP:ASF leads to the Avoid
> Self Reference policy page.
> 
> --Oskar

Thanks for this suggestion, Oskar. My eyes tend to glaze over when a
particular paragraph contains many of these initials. I was thinking of
making a suggestion that someone familiar with all (or at least most) of
these initials create a Glossary of them.

Thanks again,

Marc Riddell