It's been years, but I occasionally review old questions I asked and their answers - usually when a new answer is added - and this particular answer still makes me smile because I agree with it so strongly. Thought you might like to know that this is still affecting someone even six years later :-)

No, it was years ago at this point. Couldn't track it down w/ a quick Google. But it was floating around in multiple places at the time, IIRC. It seemed to be coming from the same places that wanted to refer to automated "checks" instead of "automated tests", etc., so I think it might have been part of the pro-manual / pro-exploratory pushback to the high levels of automated testing starting to take over the industry (and pushback to the corresponding devaluing of manual or exploratory testing skill).

Hi Mark, thanks for letting me know that the link was broken! The content was a fairly long list of recommended sections for a test plan. Including the content, beyond to say that it was based on the IEEE-829 seemed like overkill; if the link went bad, I figured the information in the summary would be enough to Google an alternative (and, at least for me, it was). I've updated the link, and the search terms I used to find this article were "agile IEEE-829 test plan template" in case it also goes stale.