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by denton-scratch 1136 days ago
> A more at weight pedant would work on changing the style guide.

Language pedantry is deprecated in Wikipedia. WP is resolutely descriptivist.

I regret that; I'm fully on-board with the notion that language changes. But I'm not OK with the idea that there are no rules at all. Humpty Dumpty was wrong; English is not a language where any string of words could have any meaning.

This is especially important in an encylopaedia.

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I agree that there are rules. I think the subject in this article is not following the rules.