While I'm doing my penance, why not read an excellent historical article
my church's monthly magazine put out, on "Chinese in America".
The Chinese railroad workers showed an admirable industriousness and
self-discipline, while receiving significantly less pay than "filthy"
whites.
"China was the first nation to have a written language and before the
early dynasty of Han, they used a knife to mark the writing on freshly
slashed, moist sections of bamboo. As the bamboo dried, the records
became permanent. When paper was developed, records were kept in books."
[http://www.worldandi.com/subscribers/americanwavesdetail.asp?num=12325]
> >I'm willing to clean up any "poor English" articles you send my way.
>
> OK Ed - [[Manshukoku Koku KK]] is fresh in.
>
> Charles
Rough copy-edit + moved to [[Manchukuo National Airways]].
Next job, please!
Uncle Ed
--- Kevin Rector <krector(a)Compco.com> wrote:
> > --- Kevin Rector <krector(a)Compco.com> wrote:
> > > Yeah, to be clear, I'm making no comment on the
> > > "goodness" or "badness"
> > > of the article it's content or anything at all
> to do
> > > with the article in
> > > question, but the topic of linking to
> "commercial"
> > > sites.
> > >
> > > -Kevin
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > RickK
>
> You calling me a liar?
>
> -Kevin
C0nsidering your recent history of demanding the
removal of anything that offends you, then, if the
shoe fits ...
RickK
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> --- Kevin Rector <krector(a)Compco.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, to be clear, I'm making no comment on the
> > "goodness" or "badness"
> > of the article it's content or anything at all to do
> > with the article in
> > question, but the topic of linking to "commercial"
> > sites.
> >
> > -Kevin
>
> Right.
>
> RickK
You calling me a liar?
-Kevin
> > Would a simple explanation
> on the talk page and a regular call to editors to clean up
> the user's bad English in his contributions be enough? If
> it's cleaned up, no one can complain about it.
>
> It is hard to ring-fence the 'problem'. New articles like
> [[Yen block]] and
> [[yuan of Manchuria]] are being spun out all the time.
>
> I can quite see why these cause puzzlement. If you don't
> know the dialect
> ('poses' = 'possess' = 'have') it looks weird. But if people
> used CleanUp
> as intended it would be better.
I'm willing to clean up any "poor English" articles you send my way.
Just paste a link at [[user talk:Ed Poor]]. (The other day, I criticized
a Korean elder in my church for his broken English, and I need to do
penance!)
Ed Poor
--- Kevin Rector <krector(a)Compco.com> wrote:
> Right, I hate McDonalds and wish they'd go bankrupt
> (not likely).
> However, the McDonalds website does provide (at
> least the US version)
> "nutrition" information as well as other
> information. The website isn't
> the company's primary commodity, that's all I'm
> saying. I'm pretty sure
> we're agreeing on this one.
>
> -Kevin
Nope, sorry, just more poorly-disguised censorship.
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BJörn Lindqvist told somebody:
> ... you are clueless and prejudiced. One of the most
> important rules of rhethorics is that you should not
> generalise about groups that may be present in the audience
> unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE that you represent them.
Ahem. One of the most important rules of mailing list
discussions is that you should not insult other participants
in the discussion. Let's all avoid rhetoric like "clueless"
or "prejudiced" when describing one another; or, better, try
not to make *any* personal remarks at all.
Thank you.
Ed Poor
Former Mailing List Admin
Wikipedia Bureaucrat
(and general pain in the neck ;-)
--- Kevin Rector <krector(a)Compco.com> wrote:
> Yeah, to be clear, I'm making no comment on the
> "goodness" or "badness"
> of the article it's content or anything at all to do
> with the article in
> question, but the topic of linking to "commercial"
> sites.
>
> -Kevin
Right.
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--- Kevin Rector <krector(a)Compco.com> wrote:
> I would agree with Tony with a caveat. For a sports
> related link you can
> often get a lot of information. For instance if you
> go to
> www.nashvillepredators.com you can get significant
> information about the
> team (for instance you can get the box scores for
> every game the team
> has ever played). This information is all freely
> available to anyone who
> wants it. However, -most- adult oriented sites
> simply exist to take your
> money and show you porn.
>
> I would submit that there is a different level of
> "commerciality"
> involved between the average porn site and the
> average non-porn
> corporate site since the primary commodity of the
> porn site is the porn
> site itself.
>
> I would think that we should be hesitant to link to
> any web sites (porn
> or otherwise) whose primary commodity is selling
> access or "memberships"
> to the website, and more liberal with links to other
> types of
> industries.
>
> -Kevin
Of course you would. You're offended by the image of
one blurry breast. A porn site would certainly offend
you. I'm surprised your head didn't explode.
But if we are going to allow articles on porn stars,
and it would be a BIG fight if such a thing were
suggested, then we should allow links to their pages
and to fan pages, just as we do to any other actor,
sports figure, or human being.
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--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
> It is the Prurient content....
>
> Fred
So what?
RickK
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