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Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?
Date 2018-09-28 21:50 +0200
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On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 19:10:40 +0100, Brian wrote:

> On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 15:59:26 +0000, Curt wrote:
> 
> > On 2018-09-28, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Curt wrote:
> > >> > It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too
> > >> > bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it.
> > >
> > > Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > >> I opted to restore the text exactly as it was (a pure revert) rather
> > >> than improve upon it, although I'm not really sure why I rationalised
> > >> that.
> > >
> > > So how should the statement be improved ?
> > 
> > "should better not be used" is a bit twisted.
> > 
> > You could say:
> > 
> >  It is preferable not to use wodim for DVD or BD media.
> > 
> > Or:
> >  
> >  It's better to avoid using wodim when burning to DVD or BD media.
> > 
> > Or:
> > 
> >  Wodim has proved less reliable when used with DVD or BD media and is
> >  best avoided when burning to those media.
> 
> The last statement is good and the one I'd be inclined to go with, maybe
> qualifying "less" with "much".

See what you think on the wiki.

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Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-09-27 18:10 +0200
  Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-27 22:10 +0200
    Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-09-28 07:40 +0200
      Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 11:00 +0200
        Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 11:20 +0200
          Re: DVD+R DL and BD media. Was: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 11:40 +0200
        Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 12:30 +0200
          Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 12:50 +0200
            Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 13:20 +0200
              Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 15:10 +0200
            Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-09-28 15:40 +0200
        Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 16:50 +0200
          Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-28 17:00 +0200
            Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-09-28 17:40 +0200
              Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 17:50 +0200
                Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-28 18:10 +0200
                Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-09-28 18:20 +0200
                Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 20:30 +0200
                Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 21:50 +0200
                Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 20:30 +0200
                Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 21:30 +0200
              Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-28 17:50 +0200
              Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 18:20 +0200
          Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-28 17:00 +0200
      Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-09-28 19:30 +0200
    Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-09-28 10:10 +0200
      Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-09-28 20:10 +0200
        Future of cdrkit. Was: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-28 21:10 +0200
  Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-27 22:10 +0200
    Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-28 13:10 +0200
      Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-28 14:10 +0200
        Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-28 15:30 +0200

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