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It seems like they are running a seek-and-destroy against every Brin
stuff in wikipedia. After Alvin, the trolls will delete Streaker.
The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan,
Tymbrimi, Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo.
...
If we want the articles to stay up on Wikipedia, the best defense is
references to them in books not written by David Brin. Does anybody know
any?
---David
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Jumping in here without reading the whole thread (bad form, I know, but I
have no time to even be reading what I've read and replying *now*), but an
amazon.com search might turn something up. It's given me stupid references
to things inside books when I've been looking for just one thing in
particular, so, at least in theory, that should work now.
Julia
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Julia--
Thanks for the suggestion. Google Book Search seems better, though.
I found a synopsis in _What do I read next? 97_ that way.
(Or little snippets of it, since that's what the search returned.)
So I put that and some other references in the Alvin article, removed
the tags from it, and put it (and 15 more Brin-related pages) on my
watchlist.
The sense I get is that Abductive is on a crusade against poorly-sourced
articles. It's silly in a way, since it's easy enough to hunt up
sources, and putting them in doesn't really improve the articles.
The best spin I can put on his actions are that he's trying to get
people to improve "their" articles. Once people have put enough
effort into an article to add references, it WILL probably be a
good article.
---David
Oh, and Happy New Year to everybody!
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