Purge greater or lesser To purge or not to purge greater or lesser that is the question As a published author it seems to me that use of the phrase however superfluous is simply a matter of choice Greater or lesser connotes change so using it in the Intimidate article may have been unnecessary Variously or maybe variably might have been a better word choice Yet the point was made that intimidation varies with the person The crux of my argument is that few who submit articles to Wikipedia are English scholars any more than are wire service writers So I have learned to read between the lines and not rely on every word or phrase I read as gospel