I remember "edited mercilessly" as well... The current message is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editpage-head-copy-warn and dates from 2012. I wonder if this was changed when the ToU came in?
An unscientific hint is that posters to the Wikimedia mailing lists more or less stopped using "mercilessly" in 2009 ;-) Andrew. On 3 December 2014 at 13:11, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > ... Oh, actually now I see at the top of the English Wikipedia source > editing page: "Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and > redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions." > > As far I recall, however, it was near the Save button, and it definitely > said something more hard-core, like "it will be edited mercilessly". > > And I can't find anything like that in the Visual Editor. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2014-12-03 15:08 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English >> Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which >> said something like this: "Your changes will be edited mercilessly". >> >> I remember similar notices in other languages as well, though even more >> vaguely. >> >> I don't see it now. I checked English, Hebrew and Russian. >> >> Does anybody know why was it removed? Did the editors communities just >> decide independently to remove it for whatever reason? If it was, I'd love >> to see links to discussions if anybody has them. Or was it a design >> decision by the Foundation? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> “We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
