[WikiEN-l] In popular culture

[David Gerard]

2008/7/7 Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com>:

> 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.


God I hope there isn't. I've often left comments in the wikitext when
appropriate (e.g. "<!-- this is not a spelling error -->"), perhaps a
note on talk would be good as well.


- d.