[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:
> On 9/10/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 9/9/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> But surely the text surrounding the link tells you why the person is notable.
>>>       
>> Oh yeah. "Walter had close connections with many 18th century notables
>> including [[Fred Johnson]], [[Pierre de Bonsang]]...".
>>     
> It's easy to come up with a counter-example by making stuff up.  Why
> not just say "William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an
> American entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft.
> [[Paul Allen]] is a person."
This suggests that Gates is not a person. :-)

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