If you read the article, you will find out that you are only supposed to use the exception on historical names. Most people use it incorrectly and drop the trailing s any time the word ends in an s. Arguably for Bayes, he is historical enough that it could be appropriate, but that makes the rule even worse: at what point in time does a personality become historical enough that you must drop the s? I personally consider "historical" to mean: about the time of Archimedes, when a lot of people's names seemed to end in s.
In my opinion it is just better to keep the s as that matches how people will pronounce it and regularization of the language is better. Plus the misuse of the rule makes it even worse.
One man trying to dictate the direction of a language used by a billion people... that's just not going to happen.
Not that I don't sympathize. I think that "it's" should be the possessive form of 'it', not a contraction of 'it is'. Maybe if we band together we can force-feed both our changes at once to the rest of the world?
Languages by definition are fluid. If a certain way of spelling a word or grammatical structure spreads to become popular (possibly, yes, from one person), then it becomes the new normal.
Because it reflects a misunderstanding. People say "Boris's bike" not "Boris' bike". They typically omit the possessive s when they mistake the existing s for a possessive. Like in Bayes.
