From: "Rowan Collins" rowan.collins@gmail.com
I love the way Malone throws everything right back the other way; a nice demonstration of the use of 'spin', I feel. E.g. "approaching 400,000 pages" vs McHenry's back-handed "over 382,000 pages that were thought "probably" to be encyclopedic articles".
His ending "crude analogy" was on the mark too. ;-)
"... Finally, as long as Mr. McHenry is going to end on a crude analogy, so will I: using a traditional encyclopedia is like owning a nice, well-built automobile that, unfortunately, has the seats and mirrors locked in place, the radio frozen on one station, the throttle welded in one position -- and the car is capable of only driving to a limited number of places predetermined by the manufacturer. ... Frankly, I'd rather pee in a public toilet."
May the best man win, I guess - but lets hope we make some serious progress on validation soon, to give them an extra weapon or two...
FWIW, I think those "mark article as 1.0 version" and similar proposals, would go a long way there.
regards, sabre23t =^.^=
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