All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII

[robkelk]

Ah, jeeze, I just noticed something we've all overlooked.  A new user by the name of "TheCajunPhoenix" has been systematically miscorrecting the possessive form of nouns that end in "s", from s-apostrophe to s-apostrophe-s.  <sigh>  Something for me to track down and fix, along with giving him a warning.

EDIT:  Okay, it wasn't as bad as I thought at first glance, maybe a half dozen such changes in all.  And honestly, different references say different things (including one that has different rules for nouns that are plural vs singular nouns that just happen to end in "S"), so he's probably just following the way he was taught.  However, a lot of our style descends from the AP Stylebook, and we've been handling this exactly as the AP lays it out.  Anyway, I undid those half-dozen or so cases, and left him a friendly note about it.

User:TheCajunPhoenix is now On Notice for ignoring a mod (specifically, ignoring Bob.) They tried to make an edit that was nothing but adding an "S" to a possessive that ended with an s.

On that note, how do we respond to this proposal to modify our style rules:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Mo...odid=25632

Said user has also confirmed they want the rules changed here:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Mo...odid=25633

I approved the edits, and replied to the actual "proposal" fact-checking the claims and asking for a proposal.