User talk:Vignaux
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Nicely said to Daniel. Danny
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Hi Vignaux. Just in case you're wondering why I completely rewrote your bright article, it's because the article as you wrote it was likely to quickly draw fire for being an idiosyncratic idea, unknown by most people. Quite likely, it would have been listed on VfD within hours. When I read up on the idea, it struck me as being too good to waste like that, so I rewrote it into a form which is much more likely to be kept.
Wikipedians are instantly hostile to weird ideas they haven't heard of. To defuse some of that hostility, when you write about strange ideas you should:
- Try to make the article stylistically perfect: see Wikipedia:Manual of style. Otherwise the style becomes a kind of strawman.
- Make the popularity of the idea explicit. Do not try to make it sound more important than it is.
-- Tim Starling 07:13 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)