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His intentions may be good, but he clearly hasn't grasped what is meant by "context" on this wiki. Have you PMed him explaining that he is wrong about context and needs to RTFM?
Edited by GnomeTitanI haven't; I suppose that's the next step? I just want to make sure that there's a record that I'm trying to work this out so that it doesn't look like Edit Warring when I re-comment the uncommented ZCEs. CYA and all that. Is leaving an edit reason like "PM'd HTD asking him to review Zero Context Example and How To Write An Example" enough to do that?
Edited by HighCrate

Having a problem in Characters.Mental Omega. User HTD uncommented several commented-out Zero Context Examples. He added context to many of them, but left some of them as-is, with only something like "See [other entry]" for context. I recommented those and left an edit reason reminding him not to uncomment ZCEs without adding context, and that "See [other entry]" does not count as good context.
He went back and uncommented them again, again adding context to some, but restoring others (including most of those saying nothing other than "see [other entry]") with no change, and leaving as an edit reason "do not comment out examples with context and claim them to be ZCE."
I don't want to get the guy in trouble— I think his intentions are good, and he's done good work in adding context to many examples that I'm not familiar enough with the work to handle myself— but many more of them are still ZCEs with Word Cruft masquerading as context.
Normally I'd re-comment the examples and leave a note to bring it to Discussion, but since I've already done that once (forgetting to add the normal call to come to Discussion before reverting), I don't want this to turn into an Edit War.
Thanks!
Edited by HighCrate