WikiStyleGuide

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 14.10.2010 20:46, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 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.

No it isn't. The Mercurial wiki is special, in the sense that you are
the project lead.

If a project lead creates a WikiStyleGuide, then that's certainly not a
normal wiki page.

>> 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.

Great. Leaving away some context to prove a point.

> 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.

Unfounded accusations like this aren't helpful, Matt.

Most interestingly, the edits I've done *before* you put up the guide
already mostly conformed to it (considering the ACKed part).

So what's the point?

Just to make this clear: I *will* conform to your guide.