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<DIV><SPAN class=127084115-02032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Why
not write to Columbia and ask them if they'd like to do their own "article diff"
and then give us a list with their blessings?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=127084115-02032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Meanwhile, there's nothing to stop individual Wikipedians from looking up
topics one at a time in Columbia Concise and then searching Wikipedia for a
corresponding topic.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=127084115-02032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We're
not competing with paid professionals. They have one thing we don't: the backing
of an authoritative body. We have one thing they don't: complete openness to
input from anyone in the world.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=127084115-02032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ed
Poor, aka Uncle Ed</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>