Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-02-04/In the media

Regarding this edit - is it a subtitle, versus intending to be read as a sentence? (:-)) -- Seth Finkelstein (talk) 07:46, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ha ha. That's a great edit. Yaris678 (talk) 11:10, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting that Guy Keleny of The Independent chose k. d. lang as an example. Discussion of the name of the article comprises almost the entirety of Talk:k.d. lang. Yaris678 (talk) 11:10, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed, though at least it dates back a few years rather than all having been written in the past two months. Strictly speaking, our MOS would recommend K.D. Lang, but most of us are willing to make exceptions for personal names. The name of a work of art, on the other hand, is a different story. Powers ^T 14:47, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank heavens there wasn't a hyphen in the title. --Surturz (talk) 20:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- No, but there was another thing. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 21:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - "If the WP:MOS prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia - ignore it." --Surturz (talk) 00:46, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - It is no improvement to blindly follow styles imposed by other sources when we have a perfectly good MOS of our own. Powers ^T 17:56, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      - It's actively harmful to the project for editors to edit-war over whether a title should use a hyphen-minus or an en-dash, which has happened to me. WP:MOS changes should be non-controversial and gnomish. Content is the dog, MOS is the tail. --Surturz (talk) 23:38, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        Dogs without tails rarely win prizes. Powers ^T 02:38, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
At risk of appearing a raging xkcd fanboy... why does this article make it seem like "The Daily Dot" broke the story, prominently quoting them and mentioning them in the first sentence? They didn't. It was the xkcd comic that was published first, and the news piece was simply riding the wave. It might be my imagination, but it seems that the Signpost quotes from The Daily Dot a good bit, which is weird since it appears to be a rather small and non-notable webzine that I've never heard of elsewhere. SnowFire (talk) 17:49, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]