QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 21st February 2012, 2:25pm)
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Well, this is just terrible. I know English probably isn't his first language and he's been living in Norway for a long time, but it's an English language encyclopedia-like website - can't he come up with better sentence constructions than these?
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Advocating the removal of personal attacks and outing of personal information on third-party websites independent of Wikipedia
Talk about dangling participles. They're
advocating the outing of personal information? That's not even correct subject-verb agreement. You don't "out" personal
information, you "out"
actual people. The information is how you achieve your goal of "outing," assuming you're the sort of person who does that sort of thing.
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Provide support for editors who have been the victims of such attacks including helping to sustain the editor's motivation for editing Wikipedia
The attacks have included
helping to sustain the editor's motivation for editing WP? Sure, that's a particularly dastardly form of attack, but (I'm guessing) not from his perspective.
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Advocate the creation of policies which grant administrators the right to block users making personal attacks and outing personal information about Wikipedia users on third-party websites in cases where the Wikipedia account of the poster is tied to the third-party website account of the user, or, if the user has self-identified as a Wikipedia user.
Oh, come on - now he's just
laughing at us. We're supposed to
read this? Who does he think we are, a bunch of idiots? Show some respect!
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Identifying and tracking users whose editing of third-party websites shows an intent to damage Wikipedia and its users and reporting it to Wikipedia.
Okay, better - there's no dangling participle, though the last bit does look suspiciously like a run-on, not to mention completely unnecessary - what are they gonna do, identify and track users and then keep it all to themselves? That wouldn't even be totally hypocritical, putting aside the whole revenge-motive factor.
What kind of website are these people running? Someone should give this fellow a stern warning of some kind, not to mention grammar lessons.