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If someone has a concrete proposal for a change to MOS (like "Just use hyphens for everything") let's hear it now. Otherwise I think it's time to stop. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 15:01, 8 October 2018 (UTC) |
If someone has a concrete proposal for a change to MOS (like "Just use hyphens for everything") let's hear it now. Otherwise I think it's time to stop. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 15:01, 8 October 2018 (UTC) |
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:I hereby propose just that suggestion, as the position that "this little horizontal line is different from this little horizontal line" just seems ridiculous. They are different usages for the same thing. It seems like saying the "W" on the Walmart sign is different from the "W" on my keyboard because it's bigger.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 16:22, 9 October 2018 (UTC) |
:I hereby propose just that suggestion, as the position that "this little horizontal line is different from this little horizontal line" just seems ridiculous. They are different usages for the same thing. It seems like saying the "W" on the Walmart sign is different from the "W" on my keyboard because it's bigger.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 16:22, 9 October 2018 (UTC) |
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*'''Oppose''' because at least so far, Wikipedia is not ruled by illiterates. I guess I should be careful what I wish for. And by the Walmart reasoning, we should eliminate the distinction between lowercase ''w'' and uppercase ''W'' because they're the same except for scale. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 18:15, 9 October 2018 (UTC) |
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== The ''real'' comma wars == |
== The ''real'' comma wars == |
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