|From: "Pedro M.V." <macv(a)interlap.com.ar>
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|Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:15:09 +0100
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|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Tom Parmenter" <tompar(a)world.std.com>
|To: <wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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|Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:18 AM
|Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Acronyms
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|> |From: "Pedro M.V." <macv(a)interlap.com.ar>
|> |Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 05:04:35 +0100
|> ||
|> |We need in wikipedia free
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
|> |
|> |Regards.
|> |
|>
|> Seems to be marketing for Amazon books. I searched on ILO, it gave me
|> a bunch of expansions, such as "International Labor Organizaton" and
|> "In Lieu Of", each with a button that led to the results of an Amazon
|> search using the expanded term as keywords. Clever, but too
|> commercial for us, don't you think?
|>
|For sure. We could use [[acron:ILO]] and in the wikipedia [[ILO]] include :
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|- International Labor Organizaton and so on.
|
|No commercial ( external ) links need in our wikipedia.
|
|Could be included more acronyms like IMHO and so on.
|
|Regards.
Pedro,
It is an excellent research resource. People can use it to figure out
what an acronym means, but I would not be in favor of any kind of link
to
Amazon.com advertising (and there are many people on this list who
are rabid Amazon haters who would put it much more strongly than I
would).
Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88
PS - My first Spanish teacher era mi vecino, Pedro (Mata) de Madrid..
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