[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

[George Herbert]

On 7/3/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Voting will be by secret ballot (the names of voters and the
> > candidates supported will not be posted on-wiki)."
> >
> > Could the committee correct that statement?
>
> The statement is correct, although easy to misunderstand. Names *and*
> candidates supported are not listed anywhere, just names. In jargon,
> the "and" binds more tightly than the "will not be".

"Has to be parsed by an grammar lawyer to be read and interpreted
properly" == "A misstatement"

The information put forwards has to be both literally correct *and*
interpreted by any casual reader to have the correct information
content, or it's wrong...


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com