Term Change

[elfundeb2 <elfundeb@comcast.net>]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com, "dicentra63 <dicentra at x>" wrote:

> It turns out that I can't change other people's files.  Please go
> through and do a search and replace to change "rule-breaking" to
> "rules."  (Use CTRL + H)  Do it one at a time (don't hit "replace
> all") because we don't want "rule-breaking" in the comment field to 
be
> changed.
> 
> Nothing like making a lot of work for other people. :D
> 
Erm, I don't want to throw a monkey wrench into a well-greased 
machine, but I thought the rules said we were to work within the 
existing topic terms whenever possible.  And I wonder whether this 
change is really necessary.  Using "rule-breaking" as a topic term 
for Percy's rule-following doesn't seem to me to be any different 
from using "wealth" to discuss the Weasleys' poverty:  both are 
opposites, and I don't see how a person looking for the correct topic 
term to punch in for Percy and rules would not figure out very 
quickly that the cataloguing term is "rule-breaking".  I've tried 
*very* hard to use the existing topic terms, even though many of them 
are not perfect, because, well, like Percy I thought I had to follow 
the rules. <g>

To tell the truth, because of various computer quirks and the fact 
that my catalogue is full of discussions of rule-breaking and rule-
following, it's going to take some time to redo all 2200+ posts to 
date.  So I'm throwing my body down in the road and begging for mercy.

Debbie
waiting to be trampled