[WikiEN-l] In popular culture

[Sam Blacketer]

On 7/7/08, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Which lead one editor to add an HTML comment to the wiki code asking
> future editors not to re-add the joke "IPC" section. Another editor
> removed the comments with the edit summary "An article's source is not
> a place for messages to other users".
>
> Ia there any consensus/policy/guideline for this view? I wanted to add
> it back as I have used such comments before but didn't feel like
> getting into an edit war over invisible wikitext on an article I don't
> regularly edit.
>

Where on earth do people get these ideas? It's certainly appropriate to use
hidden messages to dissuade editors from making a common error, or from
vandalising.

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Sam Blacketer