As censorship, and even self-censorship (be it for misplaced devotion or other reasons), must not be condoned on MR, I’d like to put the link to Prestidigitweeze’s recommended
essay on Beddoes back here.
And as we don’t seem to be able to make this a broad discussion on periods and commas (but I’m still hoping for the big battle on apostrophes some day), I’ll continue this privately.