Talk:MS

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[edit] Pointless Entries

There are some entries of worse than dubious (i.e. misleading) merit here. For example, 'Mirrorsoft'... don't recall them ever being referred to as 'MS' (let alone commonly enough to warrant inclusion), can't find any evidence to support it. Just because they were referred to as such once or twice, it doesn't mean the abbreviation is common enough to justify inclusion.

'Mad Scientist'? Has anyone every heard of this being abbreviated 'MS'? The 'mad scientist' page doesn't even include it. Is someone out there throwing every phrase that includes M-word S-word in here?!

This is just clutter, and mostly inaccurate clutter... much of it examples of the tendency to throw every 'fact' in for the sake of completeness, regardless of usefulness, let alone accuracy.

I've taken some out, but left others that may well fall into the same category (I don't have enough knowledge to judge these on my own).... That having been said, I'd like to see the more useful answers (e.g. 'MS' for Microsoft) given greater prominence.

Fourohfour 23:45, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

MS means microsoft most often as a prefix. Such as "MS-DOS" or "MS word". MichaelBillington 01:35, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think the problem here is that there are too may things that this can mean. It is far too long for a disambig page, but I'm not sure how to fix it. MichaelBillington 01:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

As I said, I was fairly conservative with the pruning, as it's hard to judge some of them myself. The question is (for each entry) whether someone is going to type it as a search term and should reasonably expect navigation to the page they want.... I'm not convinced by all of them. As for Microsoft, I've seen them referred to as MS (i.e. non-prefix) often enough, and it doesn't really matter anyway, provided people know it means Microsoft. Fourohfour 22:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)