On 16/01/2009,
brewhaha%40edmc.net <brewhaha(a)edmc.net> wrote:
In this matter of choice, I avoid jeneral terms when I
can. For example, I
rarely write "algae", because that could refer to moss that has a solid
substrate or dissolved phytoplankton. The practical difference is that
plankton can grow (and consume oxygen in decomposition) a lot faster than
moss. Other writers figure that they want to, and can safely get rid of,
both, so they lump it altogether in "algae", a word that I avoid.
But what would you do if you found that the algae article in the
wikipedia had been hijacked by somebody that defined it to be only
dissolve phytoplankton, and two editors were conspiring to ensure that
this never changes; and at least one of the editors teaches people how
to dissolve phytoplankton for a living?
I mean if there's always two editors saying no to everything, then
there's never going to be consensus to change anything in the article
right?
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.