On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
Trying to hammer every peg into one of just two holes is bound to
cause problems.
Then there's the issue of people who are inter-sexed (born with mixed
or absent gender-specific organs, example being [[Jim Sinclair]]),
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:49 AM, David Goodmandgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
The only paid references that should be removed are those which merely
duplicate exactly what is available from other sources. For example,
if a story is reprinted in many newspapers, we should try to find one
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.dailylit.com/tags/wikipedia-tours
Thank you for that link. I had thought to do something like that
myself. I have been saved the time now.
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I agree completely with David, and if David is misunderstaning, please
explain. Your comment in an earlier email that Most people seem to fail to
understand to what I refer. certainly applies to me, as I have no idea what
you're talking about. I also cannot see why you're being coy rather than
2009/8/9 wjhon...@aol.com:
About Women on Wikipedia, I think famous is probably problematic, like
list of short women, is too much based on a judgement call.
And a list of all women on wikipedia would be too enormous.
However I would think no one would object to something like Women by
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/9 wjhon...@aol.com:
About Women on Wikipedia, I think famous is probably problematic, like
list of short women, is too much based on a judgement call.
And a list of all women on wikipedia would be too enormous.
2009/8/9 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Tags and categories are different. Ideally, you would have both, or a
clear of idea of what would be primary tags (what we call
categories) and what are descriptive tags.
Oh yeah. But in practice, most of our ridiculously specific
sub-sub-cats
2009/8/9 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
http://is.gd/296dF
- d.
Patent dates to 1993 about when Encarta first appeared. I don't think
that Britannica could quite be considered dead meet at that point.
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Just because a vanishingly small minority of people can't be
classified as male or female, that is a reason to not bother doing
such classifications? If that was a valid argument, many of these
information forms that people fill in wouldn't ask for your gender.
Those forms usually
Cacharoth has it correct.
My response was in three parts, part one only refers to those items which
*solely* have an online life and no offline life whatsoever. That first part
is what a few people have objected to, but they objected to something which
I did not say.
Let's say that someone
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the
feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning categories into tags - so
that e.g. [[Category:Left-handed dead Jewish lesbian presidents of the
United States]]
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:58 -0400, wjhon...@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com
wrote:
You have completely ignored the requirement that I am here *solely*
referring to items which live, online, behind subscription walls. If
the item is free, then it does not. So that removes the majority of
your
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Daniel R. Tobiasd...@tobias.name wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:58 -0400, wjhon...@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com
wrote:
You have completely ignored the requirement that I am here *solely*
referring to items which live, online, behind subscription walls. If
the
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
You're right. Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue.
That nothing free is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it.
IIRC we basically agreed that traveling about, is just part of your
normal life.
So if I
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Daniel R. Tobiasd...@tobias.name wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
You're right. Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue.
That nothing free is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it.
IIRC we basically
In a message dated 8/9/2009 6:26:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
d...@tobias.name writes:
How come online for-pay stuff is to be excluded by your proposed
rule, but not on-paper for pay stuff? Printed books, magazines,
and newspapers are not generally free.
--
Again this is not
In a message dated 8/9/2009 6:40:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
d...@tobias.name writes:
So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened to know of
only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole
Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel there
Will,
If I may ask a question.
What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or
days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and
there's no way I can really get books or newsletter to help cite
In a message dated 8/9/2009 7:42:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or
days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and
wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 8/9/2009, bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or
days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and
there's
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:51 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Skepticism rears it's ugly head.
I just don't think that motivations are ever that straight forward.
Everyone loves to tell a simple tale like The idea came to me one day
when X, so that night I decided to Y. Usually, though, we all have
I'm trying it. It looks a lot like Vector, which I was already using.
Haven't really made up my mind about Vector/Acai. Seems like a step in
the right direction, but it's not really earth shatteringly better.
But then, usability is not really about helping experienced
power-users...
Steve
On
In a message dated 8/9/2009 9:59:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
sainto...@telus.net writes:
Most of these
rare works will be in large cities where there will also be a
concentration of people available to verify the material. For much of
our material the acceptance criterion validly
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