On 23/05/2011 03:56, geni wrote:
On 23 May 2011 02:24, Brian J Mingusbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
When you Google for Santorum's last name this Wikipedia article is the
second result. This means that people who are looking for legitimate
information about him are not going to find it
Words coined after the names of then-living people:
*Orwellian
*Chauvinist
*Boycott
*Bowdlerize
and countless others. Wikipedia can't ignore significant cultural trends for
the sake of censorship and super injunctions. Nor should it be used to
promote those trends. So long as we stick
On 23/05/2011 03:56, geni wrote:
On 23 May 2011 02:24, Brian J Mingusbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
When you Google for Santorum's last name this Wikipedia article is the
second result. This means that people who are looking for legitimate
information about him are not going to find it
On 23/05/2011 13:35, Fred Bauder wrote:
This seems to combine malice and political purpose. Really it is stuff
that belonged on Encyclopedia Dramatica.
I take it Fred means this article or this campaign: if the latter
that's obvious enough. Given a mainstream piece of coverage such as
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 23/05/2011 13:35, Fred Bauder wrote:
This seems to combine malice and political purpose. Really it is stuff
that belonged on Encyclopedia Dramatica.
I take it Fred means this article or this campaign:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
Many of the things we report on are unfortunate. An IMF
candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid
snip
Candidate? Last I looked, he was Managing Director of the IMF at the
time the story broke (he is now former
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
that the situation with Twitter and a UK footballer
I was looking at the wrong article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_British_super-injunction_controversy
This one is more specific:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
Many of the things we report on are unfortunate. An IMF
candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid
snip
Candidate? Last I looked, he was Managing Director of the IMF at the
time the story broke (he is now
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 23/05/2011 13:35, Fred Bauder wrote:
This seems to combine malice and political purpose. Really it is stuff
that
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
Many of the things we report on are unfortunate. An IMF
candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid
snip
Candidate? Last I
We don't exist to fix the real world - we exist to report on it
accurately. Many of the things we report on are unfortunate. An IMF
candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid, a tornado that killed 89
plus people, a terrorist attack in Pakistan and several ongoing and
incipient wars,
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
We don't exist to fix the real world - we exist to report on it
accurately. Many of the things we report on are unfortunate. An IMF
candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid, a tornado that killed 89
plus people,
I'm skeptical that we should have an article.
The reason: Wikipedia is on the Internet. If Wikipedia has an article
about something whose promoter specifically intends to spread it on the
Internet, it is impossible to separate reporting from participation. It's
a loophole in the definition of
I agree. Let's remove all content on Wikipedia about the Internet.
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
I'm skeptical that we should have an article.
The reason: Wikipedia is on the Internet. If Wikipedia has an article
about something whose promoter
On Mon, 23 May 2011, geni wrote:
When you Google for Santorum's last name this Wikipedia article is the
second result. This means that people who are looking for legitimate
information about him are not going to find it right away - instead we are
going to feed them information about a biased
On Mon, 23 May 2011, The Cunctator wrote:
The reason: Wikipedia is on the Internet. If Wikipedia has an article
about something whose promoter specifically intends to spread it on the
Internet, it is impossible to separate reporting from participation. It's
a loophole in the definition of
I agree. Let's remove all content on Wikipedia about the Internet.
My God! Larry Sanger was right!
Fred
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--- On Mon, 23/5/11, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
From: Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
On 23 May 2011 02:24, Brian J Mingusbrian.min...@colorado.edu
wrote:
When you Google for Santorum's last name this
Wikipedia article is the
second result.
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 21:56, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
The reason: Wikipedia is on the Internet. If Wikipedia has an article
about something whose promoter specifically intends to spread it on the
Internet, it is impossible to separate reporting from participation. It's
a
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