On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Rotem Dan wrote:
With all the respect for wikipedia's founders, please do not allow these tribute pages on wikipedia.
*ahem*
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger/Larry%27s_Text
"... This material will require radical reworking and general wikification to become appropriate for Wikipedia. I'm now in the process of wikifying this myself, but I certainly invite help with this. --Larry Sanger"
"I know a lot of this sucks. It is written to get the general concepts across to Ohio State undergrads. Yes, some of what I've written might be outright wrong, and most of it can be tightened up considerably. If you want to help me do that, don't bother replying to something I've written here. Just make the change you think is necessary, please."
"Finally, you might not like my style, and you might think that I don't present the issues reliably enough, and otherwise feel that this contribution is not exactly a boon to Wikipedia. If that's the case, you can feel free to replace what I've written with your own golden prose; I'd just appreciate that you convey roughly the same information that I do (i.e., you cover the same topics and say the same (true) things I have to say about them). If these textbook entries are placeholders before better stuff comes along, that's perfectly fine by me."
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)