On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Also, some of those media references may be obituaries,
which are a
different sort of source to news articles.
While Lessing was born in 1919, last time I looked she was still alive. ;)
Oops! :-)
Tough old bird.
--- On Sat, 5/2/11, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
Academic writing makes a judgement
about what the most likely state
of matters is, and gives a position. When I read an
academic paper ,
in whatever field, I expect that there be some conclusions.
(I am
likely to skip ahead and
--- On Sat, 5/2/11, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Our article talks about her dalliances with communism,
feminism, and sufism,
and tells us that she was out shopping for groceries
when the
-Original Message-
From: wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Kolbe
Sent: 05 February 2011 10:21
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender
gap in Wikipedia
--- On Sat, 5/2/11, wiki doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
From: wiki doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com
If we really wanted our core topic articles to be at FA
standard, we'd need
to adopt a totally different process. One where a writer
was allowed to
start from scratch and write a new article,
I've always found the problem with Wikipedia is that it has components
which
usually work remarkably well together (wiki, open editing, no-privileged
editors, neutrality, verifiability, quality) but since it has never
defined
which of these is core and which is the means to the end, on the
On 05/02/2011, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
Academic writing makes a judgement about what the most likely state
of matters is, and gives a position. When I read an academic paper ,
in whatever field, I expect that there be some conclusions. (I am
likely to skip ahead and read the
On 2/4/11 6:08 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
I do not permit any of my students to cite your encyclopedia as any
kind of reliable source when they write papers for me. Wikipedia is too
much a playground for social activists of whatever editorial bent wherein
the lowest common denominator gets to
--- On Sat, 5/2/11, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote:
From: Mark delir...@hackish.org
On 2/4/11 6:08 PM, Andreas Kolbe
wrote:
I do not permit any of my students to cite your
encyclopedia as any
kind of reliable source when they write papers for me.
Wikipedia is too
much a playground for
