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[Gerrit Holl]

Andre Engels wrote:
> On 9/19/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > He states that
> > exclamation marks - which he terms "notes of admiration", the term not
> > having then been invented - are superfluous to the language and should
> > be abhorred.
> 
> Actually I think this one is a good advise for those writing Wikipedia
> - usage of exclamation marks often means that you are slipping towards
> POV. Alford's term "note of admiration" explains that well - we should
> not be noting that something is admirable, just tell the facts and
> have the reader decide whether they are admirable or down-to-earth.

But we can't be fully NPOV. It's always POV to decide what news is
important enough to be on the frontpage and what isn't, for example.

> Besides, using an exclamation mark in every second line, as some
> people tend to do, is in my opinion bad style in itself, even outside
> Wikipedia.

Absolutely true!
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Gerrit.

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