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From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net (jason-tuhs@shalott.net)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:32:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron
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> If the person who backed it out had known who committed the change, he 
> might not have been so hasty.

Unfortunately, that's not how Wikipedia works.

See, for example, this story about an author who was told he "was not a 
credible source" regarding the basis of his own writings -- not because 
there was any doubt about his identity, but because Wikipedia "require[s] 
secondary sources."

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia


  -Jason