would you consider this useful jesse?
13:12, 17 May 2006 62.129.121.63 (added section on flag, the m population of muslims and famous chinese muslims) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_China&action=history
p.s here is the wikipedia policy on amaturism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections#Amateurs
"Many ignorant people who think they know stuff will riddle articles with errors and serious omissions."
In all honesty, Wikipedia has a fair bit of well-meaning, but ill-informed and amateurish work. In fact, we welcome it an amateurish article to be improved later is better than nothing. In any case, when new hands (particularly, experts on the subjects in question) arrive and go to work, the amateurish work is usually straightened out. Really egregious errors are fixed quickly by the thousands of people who read Wikipedia every day. In general, the worse the error, the faster it will be noticed and fixed. As Linus' Law states, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." The editor base of Wikipedia is large enough that errors are usually small.
From: Jesse W jessw@netwood.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Saladin1970 (new thread) Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:20:42 -0700
On May 23, 2006, at 2:00 PM, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
When you say "no useful edits," does that mean that you are "able to provide evidence of your accusations?" It seems to be that Saladin1970 definitely has made useful contribution(s):
I can't comment on the 2nd link you gave, but this one at least...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Turkic_peoples&diff=53987242&oldid=53921254.
This one is already addressed *directly* below, and links to a quite long, and apparently well-referenced article on the subject: [[Xiongnu]]. While I, personally can't comment on the good faith or lack of such in the edit, it was, in fact, not useful where it was put, and was redundant (as best as I can tell) in the article where it should have been put.
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