WikiStyleGuide

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 20:11 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 14.10.2010 19:41, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:39 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> >> Matt has created a new wiki page
> >>
> >>   http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WikiStyleGuide
> >>
> >> which mandates to use book capitalization for page and section titles.
> >>
> >> Wikipedia capitalizes only the first character on page and section
> >> titles (e.g. [1], see also [2]).
> > 
> > I ACKed this suggestion on IRC yesterday. I presume you know where to
> > find the edit button.
> 
> I'm certainly not going to interfere with you on that page. So no, I
> won't edit that page.

Huh. That's a rather un-wiki attitude.

> When I told you on IRC that I'll edit the wiki like Wikipedia style,
> *you* told me on IRC that, no, you want edits to comply with that page.

Here's what was said:

(16:03:04) abuehl: 
I will use Wikipedia style in my edits
(16:04:04) mpm: 
Uh, no. Either update the style guide and conform to it, or don't.


And I meant it. The style guide is not written in stone and you are
welcome to improve it, especially while it's still just a proposal and
not widely implemented. In fact, I've given you explicit permission to
edit it on precisely the point you've brought up here.

But you are NOT welcome to ignore the style guide because you don't like
it. That obviously defeats the whole purpose of the exercise, not to
mention being rude.

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