[WikiEN-l] Cruft

Wed May 3 06:42:39 UTC 2006

    I think the question of whether or not cruft is offensive has been already settled as many editors have considered it offensive. Whether or not a word is offensive is not decided by some mathematical analysis of whether it meets several convoluted linguistic criterias. If a word is considered offensive by a significant number of people, then it is offensive and it should be avoided, irrespective of whether it can *logically* be considered offensive. See [[Godwin's Law]].

  Using jargon on newbies is a tactic designed to hinder their participation in WIkipedia activities and should be discouraged. Whether or not the deletionists *hunt down* newbies and make them participate in AfD's, newbies *do* (and should), and it is not to the interests of the project to scare them off with jargon that conveys the impression that Wikipedia does not practice what it praches ("...anyone can edit").

  Molu

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