"James Hare" wrote
- What is your favorite article on Wikipedia, and why?
[[List of glaciers]] is cool. I just think having such a list is great. I started it, admittedly, in an atypical moment, but the coolness and increments are due to others.
Charles
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charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"James Hare" wrote
- What is your favorite article on Wikipedia, and why?
[[List of glaciers]] is cool. I just think having such a list is great. I started it, admittedly, in an atypical moment, but the coolness and increments are due to others.
Wow, it's much expanded since I last looked at it, two years ago!
Looks like it's ready for the flaming debate on inclusion - "all glaciers are notable" vs "icecruft", which Google shows to be a term waiting to be coined... :-)
Stan
On 12/15/06, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Wow, it's much expanded since I last looked at it, two years ago!
Looks like it's ready for the flaming debate on inclusion - "all glaciers are notable" vs "icecruft", which Google shows to be a term waiting to be coined... :-)
Nyet in this case the deletionists are being pro-active and are working on removeing the glaciers themselves.
geni wrote:
On 12/15/06, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Wow, it's much expanded since I last looked at it, two years ago!
Looks like it's ready for the flaming debate on inclusion - "all glaciers are notable" vs "icecruft", which Google shows to be a term waiting to be coined... :-)
Nyet in this case the deletionists are being pro-active and are working on removeing the glaciers themselves.
Oy vey, that suggests the ultimate stage of Wikipediholism - altering the real world so as influence articles! I can see it now - evil cackling as the insane Wikipedian holds a lighter up to a corner of the last remaining copy of the cited source for an article, and after watching it burn, rushing back to the terminal to type in "{{unreferenced}}" ...
Stan
On 12/15/06, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Oy vey, that suggests the ultimate stage of Wikipediholism - altering the real world so as influence articles!
I wonder how often this has actually happened.
--Ryan
On 16/12/06, Ryan Wetherell renardius@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/15/06, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Oy vey, that suggests the ultimate stage of Wikipediholism - altering the real world so as influence articles!
I wonder how often this has actually happened.
Wikipedia is a mirror with which to shape Jordanhill Railway Station.
(Jordanhill Railway Station has shown up in the Zork game on Uncyclopedia.)
- d.
Stan Shebs wrote:
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"James Hare" wrote
- What is your favorite article on Wikipedia, and why?
[[List of glaciers]] is cool. I just think having such a list is great. I started it, admittedly, in an atypical moment, but the coolness and increments are due to others
Wow, it's much expanded since I last looked at it, two years ago!
Looks like it's ready for the flaming debate on inclusion - "all glaciers are notable" vs "icecruft", which Google shows to be a term waiting to be coined... :-)
A hot flame war could melt glaciers, resulting in a loss of notability. :-)
Ec