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Bradspeak, a term coined on the talkpage of User:Iridescent in 2011, is the formal, deliberate, and exhaustive style in which Misplaced Pages functionaries communicate in public in order to cover their backs and forestall any possible criticism, or any use of their opinion to further a wikicrusade, or for any other inappropriate purpose. Bradspeak is named, somewhat unfairly, after long-time arbitrator User:Newyorkbrad.
Scope-limiting
Bradspeak seeks, in part, to limit the applicable scope of a particular comment or decision thereby reducing its ability to be used outside of the most immediate subject of discussion. It therefore tends to be extremely context-specific whenever possible. As a result, generalizations tend to be avoided whenever possible so that any particular generalization—and therefore any particular philosophy—can neither be vindicated or discounted based on a single decision intended to only be applied to a single instance.
Diff-friendly
In order to reduce out-of-context diff use in on-wiki arguments, Bradspeak tends to be highly proofread so as to avoid subsequent revisions needed to clarify otherwise-ambiguous portions of the first edit. Making the assumption that some editors might happily drop would-be intermediate revisions, Bradspeak seeks to perform one large revision to prevent the need for further revisions that would naturally in and of themselves be taken out of context.
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