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From: John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>
Cc: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Illusion and Forthrightness in Wikipedia
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:46:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OveRT-0002Au-L8@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Fred E.J. Linton <fejlinton@usa.net> wrote:


> And that's why I write here now: How does one fix such a state of affairs?
> Or is there no better to be hoped for from Wikipedia?
>

The way to fix it is: go to Wikipedia, click "Edit" and fix it.

I was going to do this and say "look, it took just one minute!" - but it
seems Peter Selinger beat me to it.  (Just click on "View History" and
you'll see someone named Selinger made this change on 1:52 UTC, September
14th, 2010.)

Best,
jb


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             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-14  7:46 John Baez [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-19 23:38 Fred E.J. Linton
     [not found] <474oiRg647312S02.1284793135@web02.cms.usa.net>
2010-09-18  7:26 ` John Baez
2010-09-18  6:58 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-19 22:07 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13  0:11 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-13  6:23 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13  8:42 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13 18:32 ` Mike Stay
2010-09-13 19:02 ` Timothy Porter
2010-09-14 16:54   ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-13 22:02 ` Toby Bartels

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