New York Brad says fuck you, style wonks
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 11:24 am
Only on Wikipedia.
1. Wikipedia has an agreed Manual of Style. It is a guideline, "a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow".
2. Part of said Manual, is MOSCAPS. It says, Wikipedia should avoid capitalising specific terms unless a preponderance of sources do it.
3. Brad recently claimed "without naming names", that those who are forcing lower case even where the sources say uppercase is the norm, are demoralising their fellow editors.
4. The people referred to are not doing what Brad claimed, they are making the argument that the sources in the main, use lower case. Oh, and by the way. They won the argument....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Batt ... ons_pocket
This is the problem with having untouchable life president type people on Wikipedia. They can get away with utter bullshit.
Brad presented this as a "contrary view". I guess that is lawyer speak for, warning, bullshit incoming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... arian_view
There is a dispute looming here soon, and if Wikipedia were a functioning exercise in self governance, this one statement would mean Brad would have to recuse, having shown his bias. He will not. He will look to give effect to his opinions on who is demoralising who.
Brad has a long record of minimising the concerns of people who take a broad view of Wikipedia, instead focusing on what matters to people with narrower interests.
Wikipediocracy of course, also let's him get away with it. And what would you expect, from a forum operated for senior Wikipedia editors? Brad is as senior as they come. And editors with narrow interests have always loved Wikipediocracy, giving them as it does, a second front from which to be whiny little bitches.
1. Wikipedia has an agreed Manual of Style. It is a guideline, "a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow".
2. Part of said Manual, is MOSCAPS. It says, Wikipedia should avoid capitalising specific terms unless a preponderance of sources do it.
3. Brad recently claimed "without naming names", that those who are forcing lower case even where the sources say uppercase is the norm, are demoralising their fellow editors.
4. The people referred to are not doing what Brad claimed, they are making the argument that the sources in the main, use lower case. Oh, and by the way. They won the argument....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Batt ... ons_pocket
This is the problem with having untouchable life president type people on Wikipedia. They can get away with utter bullshit.
Brad presented this as a "contrary view". I guess that is lawyer speak for, warning, bullshit incoming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... arian_view
There is a dispute looming here soon, and if Wikipedia were a functioning exercise in self governance, this one statement would mean Brad would have to recuse, having shown his bias. He will not. He will look to give effect to his opinions on who is demoralising who.
Brad has a long record of minimising the concerns of people who take a broad view of Wikipedia, instead focusing on what matters to people with narrower interests.
Wikipediocracy of course, also let's him get away with it. And what would you expect, from a forum operated for senior Wikipedia editors? Brad is as senior as they come. And editors with narrow interests have always loved Wikipediocracy, giving them as it does, a second front from which to be whiny little bitches.