[WikiEN-l] Another rule literalism problem

[David Gerard]

2008/6/25 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:

> We have the flip side of this in another article, where a firearms
> enthusiast is going ballistic over usage of the term "clip" as a
> synonym for "magazine" in firearms.  He is technically correct - in
> the engineering sense, a "clip" is a different type of hardware used
> for a slightly different thing.  But common usage has blurred the line
> and they're used interchangably by a large portion of people with
> firearms.
> He wants to stand on principle and deprecate "clip" as a synonym,
> despite its widespread common usage.  We keep telling him that that's
> not how Wikipedia works - we reflect common usage, and report where
> technically correct terminology differs.  But he's riding the line on
> abusive behavior trying to keep it out.


c.f. [[Linux]] being where it is about what it is, with [[GNU/Linux]]
being a redirect to it named in the second paragraph.


- d.