Template talk:Scourge Sacrifice

"sic" is not necessary (after "Also" in concise description), because this hexes the target and ALSO adjacent foes. This exact phrase ("Also hexes < > foes") is also used in Clumsiness, Panic, Arcane Conundrum, etc.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael  14:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I put it there in case someone tries to "fix" it later, thinking that it is grammatically incorrect. Your explanation was that "that is how it is in-game", and that is precisely what the [sic] template is designed for. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 14:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * [It's] Also not grammatically incorrect. Except insofar as a declarative sentence without a subject is incorrect, but that happens all the time in the concise descriptions, i.e. "Hexes nearby foes."  Unless we tag all those with sic, then we don't need to tag this one because there's nothing incorrect about adding "Also".  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 14:48, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thinking may be the operative word here. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 14:58, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Then we should edit the skillbox to tag every description with sic, just in case anyone "thinks" some other description is incorrect. But of course, there's people who either don't know what sic means or willfully ignore it and "correct" things anyway, so even that would be futile.  Do you see what I'm getting at?  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 15:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Your hyperbolic dismissal is not appreciated. My point is that the person who changed the template thought they were correcting it, because it sounded funny/grammatically incorrect/etc, which implies they thought it was a typo - either on our part in transcribing it, or on ANet's part. Average people do not know the technical grammar rules etc. and so even if something is fully acceptable, extremely compressed English, if it is not common usage or "seems" incorrect then that is what will be thought. (And no one can be bothered to run concise descriptions through e.g. SpellCheck with Grammar Check enabled)
 * Sic tags are placed onto things which are either actual typos/errors within the game (for example, when Rurik says "King Albedern" or such) or which are commonly thought of to be incorrect and thus changed. This concise description would be an example. I do not have numbers on my side to support this line of thought, so I am merely arguing on principle. Most of the concise descriptions "seem" to be okay. "Hexes nearby foes" does not at first glance seem odd. It's just a few odd ones like this which may cause some users to correct them because they use abnormal verbing which weirds the language.
 * Nevertheless, that being said, you have a point that it is entirely pointless anyway, because slippery slopes are slippery. Thus I am dropping the argument. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 15:12, 21 January 2009 (UTC)