From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7D4BB9A for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:44:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA76irTj002173 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:44:54 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22254 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:44:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from mxsrv1.tranzpeer.net (mxsrv1.tranzpeer.net [202.180.66.214]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA76imCJ002168 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:44:51 +0100 Received: from [203.184.50.104] (helo=Mark) by mxsrv1.tranzpeer.net with ESMTP (Exim 4.34) id 1EZ0kI-00009R-Do for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:44:47 +1300 From: "Tony Edgin" To: Cc: Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Wikipedia Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:44:47 +1300 Message-ID: <001601c5e366$c21fcb00$6832b8cb@Mark> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 436EF7E5.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 436EF7E0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 haskell:01 cheers:01 bounces:98 2005,:98 ...:98 26,:98 wrote:01 referenced:01 corrections:02 caml:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 > -----Original Message----- > From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list- > bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Thomas Fischbacher > Sent: Monday, 7 November 2005 8:33 a.m. > To: Jon Harrop > Cc: caml-list@inria.fr > Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wikipedia >=20 >=20 > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Jon Harrop wrote: >=20 > ...and once again, it may be interesting to see a bit more context. >=20 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocaml > > > > The page gets a lot of hits and is, most likely, the first port of = call > by > > many people when trying to learn about OCaml. > > > > Unfortunately, the quality of this page is substantially worse than = that > of > > the equivalent pages on SML, Haskell and so on. I have tried to = improve > the > > page myself but most of my links have been removed following = complaints > to > > admim by an anonymous, German-speaking, OCaml-using physicist with = the > IRC > > nic "tf" and all of my corrections were removed by Mike Lin. My code > examples > > remain though. >=20 > On Oct 26, 19:10, I put a note into the "talk" section of the OCaml > wikipedia article, pointing out that it contained an excessively large > amount of links to ffconsultancy.com, which were indeed entered by Jon > Harrop, by now infamous also on Usenet. >=20 > = http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3DTalk:O%27Caml_programming_lan= gua > ge&oldid=3D26550471 >=20 > To give an excerpt from the article as it was at that time: >=20 > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3DOcaml&oldid=3D26478312 >=20 > Please note the number of ffconsultancy.com links: I really don't see the issue here. Yep. He posted several examples = hosted on his own server and referenced his own book. It would have been significantly more work for him to dig up and test links to examples he didn't produce. If more people would contribute, the diversity of = websites reference would increase, and the density of FFConsultancy links would decrease. Maybe this should be a call for other contributors to aid his wikipedia work instead of an attack on him attempting to improve the wikipedia article. Cheers, Tony