On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen
wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom:
GNOME guy)
describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected
false
information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a
On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account
banned,
and the head of his
On 27/04/07, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We don't devote time and
resources into being renaissance people.
Human intelligence is hardly limited in that regard.
While I do not subscribe to the Colin Wilson theory,
the vast majority of people contain so little information
it is
On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:17:32AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
Perhaps this was all just a devious plan by me to make you all look like
fools by watching your argue about the importance of checking sources
while none of you checked your sources ...
Muhahaha ...
In any event, it's been a
In response to Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:17:32AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
Perhaps this was all just a devious plan by me to make you all look like
fools by watching your argue about the importance of checking sources
while none of you checked your sources
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
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If you had provided the guy's Wikipedia account, we'd be able to check
*your* sources -- wouldn't we? As long as you don't tell us the
necessary information for checking up on it,
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:31:53AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
(of course, everyone knows that Wikipedia is the ultimate source of
information and is infallible, right?)
hardly. I'd expect that most intelligent readers would have encountered
On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Bill Moran wrote:
A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME
guy)
describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false
information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research
assignment
that involved that
Bill Moran wrote:
A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy)
describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false
information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research assignment
that involved that information. Apparently the number of
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy)
describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false
information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned,
and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I
don't suppose you know the name of his Wikipedia account, or his legal
name. . . .
yawn.
--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned,
and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I
don't
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:29:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned,
and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I
don't suppose you know the
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other
sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this
particular brand of intellectually lazy person to realize that about the
printed page,
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 21:21:47 Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other
sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this
particular brand of
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