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Phoenix wiki

24 Oct 2007 24 Oct '07

5:10 p.m.

I've seen countless programmes about this and not really believed them. I don't really believe this either but here's a link so you can wonder in awe/wonder at how someone could write such crap/MFD it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KEncyclopediaB Phoenix 15

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Gary Kirk

24 Oct 24 Oct

5:15 p.m.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's their userpage. As long as they get on with writing an encyclopaedia, we don't tend to mind.

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On 24/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I've seen countless programmes about this and not really believed them. I don't really believe this either but here's a link so you can wonder in awe/wonder at how someone could write such crap/MFD it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KEncyclopediaB Phoenix 15 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

-- Gary Kirk

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GDonato

5:41 p.m.

Gary Kirk wrote:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's their userpage. As long as they get on with writing an encyclopaedia, we don't tend to mind.

Yes, that's true. The only problem is that they aren't really writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/KEncyclopediaB) However, this is not a particularly serious problem and after all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors_matter is an important thing to consider in these situations. GDonato

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joshua.zelinsky＠yale.edu

5:53 p.m.

Quoting GDonato <gdonato(a)blueyonder.co.uk>uk>:

Gary Kirk wrote:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's their userpage. As long as they get on with writing an encyclopaedia, we don't tend to mind.

Yes, that's true. The only problem is that they aren't really writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/KEncyclopediaB) However, this is not a particularly serious problem and after all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors_matter is an important thing to consider in these situations. GDonato

The editor has only been around for a day. Give the editor at least a week or so before MfDing.

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Phoenix wiki

6 p.m.

Plus, he's a member of my project; you can't MFD it now!!! Phoenix 15

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Gary Kirk

6:27 p.m.

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On 24/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Plus, he's a member of my project; you can't MFD it now!!! Phoenix 15 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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GDonato

8:16 p.m.

Gary Kirk wrote:

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On 24/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Plus, he's a member of my project; you can't MFD it now!!! Phoenix 15 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Also, that does taste of [[WP:OWN]] just a little. :P GDonato

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Thomas Dalton

9:19 p.m.

On 24/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I've seen countless programmes about this and not really believed them. I don't really believe this either but here's a link so you can wonder in awe/wonder at how someone could write such crap/MFD it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KEncyclopediaB

First mistake the jumps out at me: As far as I know, the Free Masons are not historical, they still very much exist. They have plenty of secrets, but I can't see any of them "shaking the foundations of History". Second mistake: The Free Masons are very good at keeping secrets. They wouldn't be stupid enough to print them on billions of pieces of paper which get handed out to every man and his dog.

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joshua.zelinsky＠yale.edu

9:29 p.m.

Quoting Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:

On 24/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I've seen countless programmes about this and not really believed them. I don't really believe this either but here's a link so you can wonder in awe/wonder at how someone could write such crap/MFD it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KEncyclopediaB

First mistake the jumps out at me: As far as I know, the Free Masons are not historical, they still very much exist. They have plenty of secrets, but I can't see any of them "shaking the foundations of History". Second mistake: The Free Masons are very good at keeping secrets. They wouldn't be stupid enough to print them on billions of pieces of paper which get handed out to every man and his dog.

Actually the Free Masons are awful at keeping secrets. Any secret organization worth its salt wouldn't have hundreds of conspiracy theories about it. Heck, we'd probably not even know they existed.

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Thomas Dalton

9:34 p.m.

Actually the Free Masons are awful at keeping secrets. Any secret organization worth its salt wouldn't have hundreds of conspiracy theories about it. Heck, we'd probably not even know they existed.

Knowing it exists and that there are secrets is all that is required for people to come up with conspiracy theories, they don't need to know any of the secrets - there is plenty of smoke without fire. Ideally, we wouldn't know it exists, but it's been around for so long that someone was sure to notice sooner or later.

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Phil Sandifer

9:47 p.m.

On Oct 24, 2007, at 5:29 PM, joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:

Actually the Free Masons are awful at keeping secrets. Any secret organization worth its salt wouldn't have hundreds of conspiracy theories about it. Heck, we'd probably not even know they existed.

Hiding in plain sight seems clever enough to me. -Phil

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