From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6198 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Illusion and Forthrightness in Wikipedia Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:38:41 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284998567 16604 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2010 16:02:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:02:47 +0000 (UTC) To: John Baez , categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Sep 20 18:02:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.138]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxipJ-0001kK-1o for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:02:45 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:49535) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OxioS-0004uJ-Om; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:01:52 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OxioP-0005Ra-H9 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:01:49 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6198 Archived-At: In response to jb, John Baez , 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 y= our > 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/ ]