"David Gerard" <dger...@gmail.com> quoted news:fbad4e140906151058wc6f789dxaedcbfde40e78...@mail.gmail.com , citing > 2009/6/15 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>: > >> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and >> a really long thread results.
I was reading the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and [[prion]] came up, defined as a great mystery. I thot I understood it. I still think it is pesticide poisoning if it is not heavy metal poisoning. To my surprise, the topic was not in the wiki article. At first I did not bother getting an ID, because I thot that once the work of Brown, Purdey (and others!) took hold on some minds, it would become dominant theory, because it does not contrast with prevailing doctrine that life demands [[DNA]] to reproduce. When I went to the wiki article and put in a narrative with attitude, someone almost immediately put a POV tag into it, then toned down my text. Then I did some of what I do best and made it easier to read. Then I went meticulously through the entire talk page, adding headings where there was a change in topic -- and tried to answer everything. Much later, perhaps in 2008, I began a "Make your headings blue" crusade, which goes against a style guideline based on an undocumented browser bug (one that probably does not exist, and certainly *should* not exist), and that was the first time I got any direct feedback regarding my [[prion]] activities. Two reasons are to make a heading that is a link, in my book: 1. The section is only started, perhaps with nothing but references. 2. The section started talking about something that does exist as though it was something that does not, so I deleted the section's text and made the heading into a link. _______ Line from Darth Vader in Star Wars to sanitize: (Exhale, Inhale) "Luke, you are my bastard!". _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
