User:CFCF/sandbox/verbage

Verbage is a term coined at Amazon and a misspelling of verbiage. It can also be concatenation of the words verb and garbage — essentially meaning "word garbage". Wikipedia gets out of hand when people produce verbage, and creating verbage on talk-pages can be a deliberative strategy to silence dissent — if your text dominates people might think you are winning a dispute despite lack of any real arguments. Please don't produce verbage — not in talk, and not in articles. Verbage undermines the process of reaching consensus, scaring away new eyes by obscuring the issues — be succinct!