On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:00, Steve Vertigum wrote:
--- Adam Raizen araizen@newmail.net wrote:
If anyone has data on Ramallah, Nablus, etc., please add it. It's just that the Israeli government doesn't collect it.
Well that certainly says it all. :|
Brion's point is well taken -- cprompt's is not.
Im glad to hear that the number of articles is rather small -- only a few hundred -- meaning that what takes Adam one fell swoop will take me only a couple years to edit, etc. :) In all honesty I cant fault the use of these stats as a starting point-- just nobody get in my way when I edit them -- with the claim that these numbers are more legitimate or official.
I look forward to it-- its of course easier to bulldoze over things than it is to build them.
Seriously, I appreciate the honest and attemtps to answer the unanswerable--(Be glad you have someone to represent an opposing view) Ga'bless you all -- except you C'prompt, you jerk.
-S-
The color of my face is best described as crimson.
I meant that off-list to Adam, and the word jerk was intended lightheartedly. I tried to reply to my own posting to explain that, after I realized I had addressed the list..only that time, the reply WAS offlist, and shortly after I received a reply.
I apologize for being offensive and insulting, even if (and especially if) it was targetted at someone who was not intended to hear it. Here's the original message I meant to send.
From: cprompt cprompt@tmbg.org Reply-To: cprompt@tmbg.org To: cprompt@tmbg.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Break Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:53:48 +0000
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:49, cprompt wrote:
Just wanted to say that Steve is a jerk and I support your efforts to make the Wikipedia as complete as possible, given the data available
to
us. :-)
hehe..that was meant to be offlist to Adam. Before I get lashed (as I should be), I knew that I shouldn' tbe using the word jerk. A better phrase would be "playing devil's advocate", which is more at what Steve seemed to be doing, with the what-if scenarios and arguing for NPOV, even if others didn't deem it to be NPOV. I felt that Adam would interpret it as light-hearted as I meant it, but I don't think that others on the list would feel that way.
Attached is a JPG of how red my face is! :-) (#FF0000, i think)