The battle on [[New Imperialism]] is reaching absurd levels. First we had Pizza Puzzle /insisting/ that his rival version to the main article should be advertised on it. Whatever about advertising a new draft being prepared that was scheduled to replace the main article, to have the official article and PP's personal alternative rewrite seemed absurd. Encyclopædias do not normally put in two rival versions of an article. I protected the page to stop the constant attempts of PP to insert it until people had a chance to discuss whether this was a good idea. (PP refused to wait until it was discussed and insisted that he be allowed to have his way). We had a vote and a narrow majority agreed to put in the link /for one week/.
The page has since been redesigned and reduced in size, negating one of PP's main complaints about the live page. But now it turns out that we have not just one but TWO temps being placed on the main page.
This temp madness is becoming a joke. It is barely encyclopædic to put two rival drafts on the one page. But now THREE??? We have the main one and two temps. This is plain silly. We have agreed to PP's temp1 being there for one week but now introducing Temp 2 is madness. I have removed the Temp 2 link and will be placing a link to it, alongside Temp 1, on then talk page, where Temp 1 was only supposed to be linked to in the first place.
JT
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james duffy wrote:
The battle on [[New Imperialism]] is reaching absurd levels. First we had Pizza Puzzle /insisting/ that his rival version to the main article should be advertised on it.
Why not send him on to Fred Bauder's encyclopaedia, whatever it's called. Last I looked, the focus of it seemed to be on providing as many different POVs as possible.
on 8/1/03 4:15 PM, Jimmy O'Regan at jimregan@o2.ie wrote:
james duffy wrote:
The battle on [[New Imperialism]] is reaching absurd levels. First we had Pizza Puzzle /insisting/ that his rival version to the main article should be advertised on it.
Why not send him on to Fred Bauder's encyclopaedia, whatever it's called. Last I looked, the focus of it seemed to be on providing as many different POVs as possible.
Well, I did take this little quarrel as an opportunity to post 3 slightly different articles on New Imperialism, but that doesn't solve anything for Wikipedia. Vertigo sets in as I try to read them... Perhaps if I knew something about the subject it would all be clear with the subtle shading and spins clear. (I'm pretty sure 172 has got to be up to SOMETHING).
Fred Bauder
Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
JtdIRL wrote:
The battle on [[New Imperialism]] is reaching absurd levels. First we had Pizza Puzzle /insisting/ that his rival version to the main article should be advertised on it.
Why not send him on to Fred Bauder's encyclopaedia, whatever it's called. Last I looked, the focus of it seemed to be on providing as many different POVs as possible.
It's the Internet Encylcopedia: http://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/.
-- Toby
on 8/2/03 6:16 AM, Toby Bartels at toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
It's the Internet Encylcopedia: http://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/.
No, It was up under that name on http://www.featureprice.com but they went broke and that address is no longer accessable.
Internet_Encyclopedia is hosted on ibiblio (http://www.ibiblio.org) and is at:
http://www.Internet-Encyclopedia.org
Fred Bauder
Fred Bauder wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
It's the Internet Encylcopedia: http://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/.
Thanks! and sorry.
-- Toby