[WikiEN-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Ladies and Gentlemen, As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a

Re: [WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

2009-07-19 Thread Jay Litwyn
Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Wp_freedom_fighter ... No response from gmail about why his e-mail is still functional. The Apathy Cabal rules again. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paradoxes

2009-07-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/16 Jay Litwyn brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca: Here is the simple way to explain why the answer to any paradox is no. Can God crush an uncrushable stone? If God exists, then the uncrushable stone does not. If an uncrushable stone exists, then God does not. Emacs can create a core

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paradoxes

2009-07-19 Thread Ian Woollard
On 16/07/2009, Jay Litwyn brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: Here is the simple way to explain why the answer to any paradox is no. Can God crush an uncrushable stone? If God exists, then the uncrushable stone does not. If an uncrushable stone exists, then God does not. ___ I do not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paradoxes

2009-07-19 Thread WJhonson
Your belief in something however does not effect it's own existence. However I have a new twist on this old issue. Given: God can do anything Assume: God creates an object which can do more things than God Explain: Why this fallacy is a logical violation. Second new twist Given: God can

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ahhh, physics cranks

2009-07-19 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On 17 Jul 2009 17:47:49 -0400, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: {{fact}} Can we have a naval-gazing article on the history of the policy?? Perhaps we'd be able to address questions of how it came to be. Contact the United States Naval Observatory and get somebody there to write one. On Fri, 17 Jul

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ahhh, physics cranks

2009-07-19 Thread WJhonson
Of course we'd have to have a community consensus that no person with tools could edit the meta articles, since we'd be trying to present the actual history of the project, including all the warts. Problematic. Of course it may collect all the troublesome persons into one area, so perhaps

Re: [WikiEN-l] NYT: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Fac ts, but It’s a Desert for Photos

2009-07-19 Thread geni
2009/7/19 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/20funny.html One error on licensing. Claim that Wikipedia requires you to give up your copyright unchallenged. Otherwise, pretty good! And should have the right effect in terms of promo photo donations. - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

2009-07-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:06 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Why would Google care about our internal issues? I would assume because he was using a gmail e-mail address, maybe something the user was doing was against google's TOS? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023