[Wikipedia-l] Re: technical measures for English variations...

[David Gerard]

David Friedland wrote:

> Finally, since no one seems interested in bringing dialectical 
> consistency to Wikipedia in this area, might I propose an alternate 
> policy for usage disputes?
> Where a word has different spellings/usages, the spelling/usage that has 
> the most number of Google hits shall be the spelling/usage used on 
> Wikipedia. If the spelling/usage with the most number of Google hits 
> changes, then so shall the spellings/usages on Wikipedia.
> At least this way we can be sure that the spellings/usages we use will 
> be ones used by a majority that is based on actual data. It's 
> incontrovertible, democratic, neutral, and completely dialect-agnostic. 
> Not to mention consistent.


"We must do something, this is something, therefore we must do this" is
STILL not a syllogism, and even less so when the first statement is
actually "I think we must do something, even if you lot think I'm wrong".


- d.