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Hi again. Just to say that I enjoyed reading your [[Grand Lodge]] article. By the way, it is true that leaving no space after punctuation saves space, but I think there is no need to do that in Wikipedia. You can open a thread of discussion in some wikipedia page, like for example the [[Wikipedia:Village_pump|Village pump]], present your ideas and propose to change the style of wikipedia so that there will be no spaces after commas and dots, and follow the usual wikipedia style until other wikipedians agree with your views (something not very possible). Your idea about no spaces after punctuation would be very useful for articles intented to be read from old or thin-client equipment such as PDAs, mobile phones, old PCs or computers with limited Internet access (old dialup modems or wireless GPRS Internet where you pay based on how much data you download). But, Wikipedia as it is now, is intented to be read with modern PCs, so there is no consideration about space. Also consider that wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Have you seen any other encyclopedia with some articles following style X and some others following style Y? I dont think so. In wikipedia the style is important and we try to have a common general style across all the articles. When somebody (including me) edits your texts and places spaces after punctuation, it's not mean that we don't appreaciate your contribution, we do that only because we want each article to conform to wikipedia's style so that the reader won't be confused while reading our encyclopedia. My personal opinion on this subject is that space after punctuation is good because it makes reading easier (so it's good for the reader). Keep up contributing to wikipedia and please consider conforming to the community's standard style (space after punctuation); your contributions are really good. Peace. [[User:Optim|Optim]] 03:01, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Well,I use [[Lynx (browser)|lynx]]] from a text-based console,and think something designed to be read needs to treat graphical material as non-essential,and tailor its content to the text-based reader with the "frills" as secondary.I have never considered white space after punctuation to make reading easier.
(You wrote your whole paragraph above as a single line that is too long for a Lynx web form...I try hard to make sure every single line I write in an article is below that limit,as it makes them very hard to edit.I can not interpolate lines,I have to retype articles if I want to add something and there are overlimit lines involved.
As I asked you in a recent email,Optim...how broad do you intend the "mystical organizations" to be?...the Self-Realization Fellowship,headed by Yogananda to his death in 1952,James J. Lynn (Rajasi Janakananda) from 1952 to his death in 1955,and Faye Wright(Sister Daya,later Sri Daya Mata) since 1955 would be questionable on the religious extreme,while the Society of American Magicians is presumably debarred because its magic is illusionary?
--L.E./12.144.5.2/le@put.com
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