From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>, categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Illusion and Forthrightness in Wikipedia
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:38:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OxioP-0005Ra-H9@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In response to jb, John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>, who wrote:
> ... >Yep; certainly now my original objection no longer applies.
>>Instead, I'm annoyed by the mealy-mouthed lack of content in
>>the new "disclaimer" (?),
> Then change it, or argue about this issue on the talk page for that
> article.
Fair enough; thanks for the tip.
> Every Wikipedia has a talk page, accessible with a single mouse click,
> where people discuss that article and how to improve it. Registering your
> complaints here rather than there merely makes it much less likely that
> they will have any impact.
>
> But if you're saying you just don't like Wikipedia, fine.
If that's all you think I'm saying, I'm sorry. But no matter; ... .
> Best,
> jb
Cheers, -- Fred
[For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-19 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 23:38 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
[not found] <474oiRg647312S02.1284793135@web02.cms.usa.net>
2010-09-18 7:26 ` John Baez
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-18 6:58 Fred E.J. Linton
2010-09-19 22:07 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-09-14 7:46 John Baez
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E1OxioP-0005Ra-H9@mlist.mta.ca \
--to=fejlinton@usa.net \
--cc=baez@math.ucr.edu \
--cc=categories@mta.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).