In a message dated 7/9/2008 11:07:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
arromdee(a)rahul.net writes:
And you're still ignoring common sense. Common sense says that we should
not perpetuate mistakes, and "Tetsusaiga" is a mistake by any non-Wikipedia
standard.>>
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And not one single time have you ever shown that there is any evidence for
your position. You just keep declaring it to be true, declaring it to be true.
You have not shown that there is a specific example of a general rule, you
have not shown that a dictionary look-up confirms your position, you have not
shown that general usage agrees with you. You have shown nothing at all.
Common sense says, your hand is empty.
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In a message dated 6/25/2008 2:28:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
arromdee(a)rahul.net writes:
Other than my say-so, do we have a source for the claim that someone born
in Detroit, Michigan was born in the United States?
Hiragana is unambiguous. You can look up exactly what it is. When you look
it up you get "Tessaiga", not "Tetsusaiga". It doesn't take any
interpretation
to do so. There are no serious claims that the Japanese version doesn't
say "Tessaiga".>>
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Then you should have no problem presenting a source which states that.
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In a message dated 7/6/2008 9:49:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
delirium(a)hackish.org writes:
So should I cease writing on my academic specialty? It is directly in my
monetary and professional interest if my area (which is fairly small)
gets more publicity, and Wikipedia can probably help with that.>>>
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Writing about your company ABC Widgits which directly pays you, and writing
about "Cognitive Therapy" which indirectly pays you, are not similar.
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On 18 Jun 2008 at 00:30:34 -0700, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
wrote:
> It's a common assumption that administrators will act responsibly, but
> that has not consistently been borne out by the facts. To say that we
> will have the opportunity to look at it again is either na?ve or a POV
> push. Nobody is trying to overthrow a ruling as it related to the
> parties involved in that particular case. Most of us do not follow
> Arbcom cases, and to not participate in their petty details, so it would
> be grossly improper to have such a ruling extrapolated onto everyone else.
And in this case, the remedy was attached to a case that didn't seem,
on its face, to have anything whatsoever to do with the issue the
remedy was addressing; it was a case about the formatting of
reference quotes, about as "wiki-wonky" a topic as you can imagine,
and got very little attention even from those who regularly follow
what the ArbCom is up to, compared to some more drama-intensive
ArbCom cases going on at the same time.
ArbCom says as a matter of ideology that it doesn't make policy and
is not obliged to follow precedent, but in this case they seem to
have made policy, and done so in a highly stealthy manner seemingly
designed to be placed in force with as little community comment or
notice as possible. They perhaps hoped that it would remain beneath
the radar in the usual drama venues until it began to be quietly
enforced.
A more above-board manner of adopting such a remedy, if the ArbCom
were insistent on doing it, would be to have had a case specifically
on the subject of BLP enforcement and its failures, with parties who
were involved in BLP controversies and had a live dispute in that
area (the function of ArbCom, after all, is to resolve disputes, not
start them). Then, the community would know that a sanction in that
area was being proposed and could present relevant evidence for or
against it. Instead, the actual case has (as far as I could see) not
a single piece of evidence on its evidence page that relates to the
subject of this remedy.
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Hi,
I noticed that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TSgt_Goodman_inspects_newest_member_of_f…
is used in some pages at wikipedia.
There are reasons to suspect that the image has been altered (and I
must admit, edited in a very poorly fashion).
The sharpness of the monitor image does not correspond to the
sharpness of the surrounding items. The monitor image is beyond the
monitor screen at the lower left corner.
Even if someone considers such an image to be suitable for using it in
Wikipedia, it should be a standard procedure to at least mention the
editing (assuming that there was one).
Mathias
In a message dated 6/23/2008 3:55:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
shimgray(a)gmail.com writes:
> A reporter shows what's going on, they don't hide from it on some moral
high
> ground while wearing blinders. Our job is to show the world as it is, not
> as we wish it were by hiding from it.
Our job is to WRITE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.>>
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So you're saying that an encyclopedia. Or if you prefer "AN ENCYCLOPEDIA"
presents a world which doesn't actually exist ? A sort-of fantasy world which
contains no negative statements about anyone? I just want to be sure that's
what you're advocating here.
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