User:W guice/Stop comma splicing!

=Death to "however"= Wiki defines a comma splice as:

a sentence in which two independent clauses are joined by a comma with no conjunction. For example:
 * It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.

And adds:

"It is usually considered an error in both British and American English."

There's a good reason for this proscription: namely, that when ignored, the resulting prose is generally excruciatingly horrible. On a collaborative environment like Wikipedia, what's so often missing is an over-riding editorial voice, and a common result of this is that, instead of correcting erroneous information in articles, editors just add one or (usually) all of:
 * a comma splice;
 * the word "however";
 * an incongruous new clause that doesn't fit the sentence and entirely contradicts the information in the first part.

This makes Wikipedia look like it was written by a bunch of bickering 14-year-olds.

It should be eliminated with profound prejudice.

Wall of shame: examples from articles
Blackout! is a 1999 album by hip-hop artists Method Man & Redman. As of April 2008, it is the first and only full length release by Method Man and Redman after many collaborations, however, there is talk for a Blackout! album sequel.