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Thu Apr 29 19:26:05 UTC 2004

>>>>> "PG" == Peter Gervai <grin at tolna.net> writes:

    PG> maybe i'm wrong and there shouldn't be such styling on
    PG> wikipedia pages (people against tags would say "it makes
    PG> wikitext harder to read for nontech people"), so please share
    PG> your opinion.

My opinion is that they're absolutely right. Wikis aren't supposed to
be about fancy HTML formatting.

The information payload in pixel-twiddling is remarkably low. It might
be worthwhile to concentrate on, say, making an encyclopedia instead.

~ESP

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