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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain about people making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it; I quit. You do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop wasting my time cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowdlerizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain about people making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it; I quit. You do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowdlerizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it; I give up, and I don\\\'t care anymore. You do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowdlerizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it; I give up. You do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowdlerizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowdlerizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\'t \
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowdlerdizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\'t \
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowlderdizer}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\'t \
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both the {{Bluenose Bowlderdiser}}s and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\'t \
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up after both BluenoseBowlderdisers and the \\\"this troper\\\" abusers. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\'t \
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up messes. Deal?
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And yes, deleting one example isn\'t \
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with \\\"this troper\\\" abuses, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up messes.
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)

Edit: On second thought, if the thanks I get for trying to clean up messes is \\\"shut up, you have no right to complain that people are making your work needlessly hard,\\\" then forget it. I give up; you do whatever you want with, and I\\\'ll just stop cleaning up messes.
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe the same event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe one event gives my mind compiler errors trying to parse it. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it. Four different tenses to describe one event gives my mind a compiler error. It looked like they had TimeTravelTenseTrouble without the TimeTravel, basically.)
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@Strikesnest: I \'\'\'am\'\'\' fixing those pages myself. And don\'t try to [[YouFailLogicForever ad hominem]] and [[TheWarOnStraw strawman]] me. I\'m annoyed at the people who do sloppy cleanup because I end up doing more work to fix those pages than I would\'ve if they had \'\'not\'\' tried to fix it first. It\'s gotten to the point where \'\'they\'re creating \'\'\'more\'\'\' work to do\'\'.
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@Shrikesnest: I \\\'\\\'\\\'am\\\'\\\'\\\' fixing those pages myself. And don\\\'t try to [[YouFailLogicForever ad hominem]] and [[TheWarOnStraw strawman]] me. I\\\'m annoyed at the people who do sloppy cleanup because I end up doing more work to fix those pages than I would\\\'ve if they had \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' tried to fix it first. It\\\'s gotten to the point where \\\'\\\'they\\\'re creating \\\'\\\'\\\'more\\\'\\\'\\\' work to do\\\'\\\'.
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/teen_charged_for_cell_phone_pics/ convict a teen for \
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\\\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/teen_charged_for_cell_phone_pics/ convict a teen for on child pornography charges because she took nude pictures of herself]].

And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to convict a teen for \
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\\\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/teen_charged_for_cell_phone_pics/ convict a teen for \\\"making child pornography\\\" because she took nude pictures of herself]].

And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to convict a teen for \
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\\\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to convict a teen for \\\"making child pornography\\\" because she took nude pictures of herself.

And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But if it\\\'s a legit example, it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. And those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to convict a teen for \
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\\\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. Piracy is bad, sure. But anti-piracy measures that physically damage the CD drives of legitimate users is worse. Not to mention those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to convict a teen for \\\"making child pornography\\\" because she took nude pictures of herself.

And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen random examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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I am not lionizing those who abuse the phrase, either. As I have already said, I agree that it should be avoided on main pages as a guideline. The problem I\\\'m talking about is when the measures taken to solve the problem only create more problems, as commonly seen with CopyProtection / {{DRM}}. And those laws that are meant to prevent child abuse, but end up being used to convict a teen for \\\"making child pornography\\\" because she took nude pictures of herself.

And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen random examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen random examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.

(And yes, I do mean impossible to understand. As in, on multiple occasions, I have had to go into the page history to see what the example previously said so I could understand it enough to fix it.)
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@Strikesnest: I \'\'\'am\'\'\' fixing those pages myself. And don\'t try to [[YouFailLogicForever ad hominem]] and [[TheWarOnStra strawman]] me. I\'m annoyed at the people who do sloppy cleanup because I end up doing more work to fix those pages than I would\'ve if they had \'\'not\'\' tried to fix it first. It\'s gotten to the point where \'\'they\'re creating \'\'\'more\'\'\' work to do\'\'.
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@Strikesnest: I \\\'\\\'\\\'am\\\'\\\'\\\' fixing those pages myself. And don\\\'t try to [[YouFailLogicForever ad hominem]] and [[TheWarOnStraw strawman]] me. I\\\'m annoyed at the people who do sloppy cleanup because I end up doing more work to fix those pages than I would\\\'ve if they had \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' tried to fix it first. It\\\'s gotten to the point where \\\'\\\'they\\\'re creating \\\'\\\'\\\'more\\\'\\\'\\\' work to do\\\'\\\'.
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And yes, deleting one example isn\\\'t \\\"burning down the whole city.\\\" But it\\\'s perhaps burning down one building. Now, deleting a couple dozen random examples, and introducing horrible grammatical mistakes to another dozen to make them impossible to understand, is burning down a couple dozen buildings, which makes for a small town.
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