<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/7/2003 10:01:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, cunctator@kband.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:20, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:<BR>
>We now have an extensive and linked list of imaginary countries, including my <BR>
>personal favorite, "Purple Bunny" (I kid you not). Another link is to the <BR>
>Confederate Online States. Will we have an article for each state in the <BR>
>"confederacy" too? I think this is getting a tad excessive. Anyone else think <BR>
>so too?<BR>
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My question is, so what? Wikipedia is not paper. If you think it's<BR>
excessive, then don't contribute to it. <BR>
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The real problem is that most of the entries are being written in CIA<BR>
World Factbook style, not Wikipedia style.<BR>
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I would like to think that we are trying to put together a serious encyclopedia. It has nothing to do with whether we are paper or not. </FONT></HTML>