WikiEN-l March 2004

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Consistency
by John C. Penta 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> Date: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:04 am Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Consistency > As for the Madrid date, I express no opinion other than a fervent > desire that we not get too heated up about it. Never mind that bull, can we at least use the right YEARS?

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RE: [WikiEN-l] Reference Desk questions
by KNOTT, T 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Option 3 sounds good to me Theresa -----Original Message----- From: Poor, Edmund W [mailto:Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com] Sent: 22 March 2004 14:30 To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Reference Desk questions Judy Inman inman(a)powerweb.net wrote: > I was wondering if there is some way I could get a list > of the people who died in the Spain Madrid terrorists > attach on the trains. Thank You I've started getting one or two inquiries like this, each week, and I'm wondering how to handle them. 1. Approve the post, so it's passed on to the mailing list? 2. Reject the post with the default explanation: "Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list." 3. Refer the person to some sort of Reference Desk on the Wikipedia website? Ed Poor Wikien-l admin _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Madrid terrorists attach
by Judy Inman 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

I was wondering if there is some way I could get a list of the people who died in the Spain Madrid terrorists attach on the trains. Thank You Judy Inman inman(a)powerweb.net

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Making the world a better place
by Poor, Edmund W 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Frequently people ask my advice on making Wikipedia a happier place to work. Sometimes the answer can be found in the daily comics: http://www.unitedmedia.com/creators/onebighappy/archive/images/onebighap py2004032348581.gif Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed

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Michale may be 131
by Arno M 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

The Anome has picked up something I missed. The person who told us about the Best and Worst pages - and there's a new page there now that takes a direct poke at wikipedia ( http://www.bestandworst.com/pages/vote/vote-24143.html) - seem to be the same person who created them. See Jimbo's user page for details. ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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An odd webpage - did Michael write it?
by Arno M 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

Interesting stuff keeps popping up on Jimbo's user page. A short while ago, an anonymous soul stated on it that the following website referring to wikipedia and some of its members should be checked out, as it may have been written by Michael. http://www.bestandworst.com/pages/vote/vote-23922.html The webpage was certainly done by someone with a mind similar to Michael's. Mind you, there is an option on it you can choose: "Michael is a troll". If it was indeed Michael who created it, I can only say that some kinds of wounds or hatreds certainly seem to run deep. ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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report
by jwales＠bomis.com 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

greetings

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Restaurans in New Haven, Connecticut
by Bjorn Lindqvist 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

> It's another thing to have a link or entry that does nothing more than > promote the business. I removed an external link to a listing of a local > chain of restaurants for that reason. From your description, Nunh-huh is > doing nothing more than providing free advertising. If enough people added enough advertisement to Wikipedia it would cease to be advertisements. Because you would only stumbe upon the advertisement if you went looking for restaurants in New Haven, Connecticut, in which case you probably appreciated the info. --------------------------------------------------- BIG MAC & C:O IS REALLY GOOD ON MCDONALDS!! EAT IT! --------------------------------------------------- And with that little statement I've probably made an advertisement that is much much more effective than whatever someone who added something to New Haven, Connecticut could ever do unless he had another advertiser who went on to make a really big fuss about it. BL

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
by A 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

Re -- http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-March/011856.html *I would point out that you have not raised "any" "circumstance" or "issue" on which you would like mediation, and thus "refusal" is the only option open to any and all mediators past, present or future. **Utter nonsense. Is there not a year and a half long history of "edit wars with Lir" -- do you think those issues have just gone away? Face it, the committee is refusing to mediate. *I would suggest that you start small; try to impeach a specific mediator. Like me, for instance. **How about you either mediate, or ask someone else to take your place and mediate for you? *Your perspicacity is awe-inspiring. For myself, I never have had _any_ wish to "undertake the effort of mediation". **I know, that's the problem. *Respectfully (barely), **A flame is a flame no matter how much you try to suger coat it. I'm sick of all this fake "wikilove", who do you think you are fooling? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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the mediation committe is a failure
by A 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

The mediation committee has refused to mediate in any circumstance or issue for which I am a participant. What is the point of this committee, if it refuses to even attempt mediation with some of the supposedly more "mediationally-challenged" users? I think everyone on the mediation committee should be asked to resign, so that we can get some users who actually want to mediate and facilitate discussion. It seems clear to me that these people only took the position because they saw it as a way of becoming "super-sysops" -- not because they really wanted to undertake the effort of mediation. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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