On 5/3/07, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)att.net> wrote:
Matthew Brown wrote:
On 5/2/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 02/05/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
So, if I start spamming "George Bush"
all over the wiki that string
will get blocked by the regex filter too?
You know, sometimes I think [[WP:POINT]] *should* have been written
about you.
It wasn't?
I thought so too at the time, but the author of the original admonition
claimed it was not. Or at least, Anthony may have been no more than one
example of the phenomenon being addressed.
Ah yes, now I remember that.
I've long been a believer though, that for many rules, consistency is
more important than correctness. In fact, for many rules there is no
correct answer, so long as one is picked. If we all stopped at green
lights and went at red lights, the world would still work just fine.
I think that analogy follows to some of the examples in [[WP:POINT]],
especially the ones dealing with AfD.
Anthony