At 08:07 AM 8/7/02 -0700, Koyaanis Qatsi wrote:
just wanted to give you all a heads up: if you check
out
[[Special:Ipblocklist]] you'll see I just blocked somebody:
* 07:42 Aug 7, 2002, Koyaanis Qatsi blocked 213.253.39.188 (contribs)
(unblock) (scripting in about 24 Easton's Bible Dictionary entries per
minute--wikified, which I appreciate, but otherwise untouched, that is,
heavily biased.)
I email this because I'm about to go pick up equipment for a shoot I'm
going to in L.A. I'll be out most of today and I'm leaving Friday morning
and will be gone until early Sunday a week later. I'm not dodging the
debate that will undoubtedly come up.
I'm relieved; I don't mind the entries on things found only in the Bible,
but they're grossly
inappropriate as articles on subjects like [[anise]]. (I did a quick
once-over on that, putting
a quick definition at the beginning, clarifying that the easton is about
the bible, and making
a few links. But it needs lots of work--the original author doesn't even
seem to know which
of two botanical names the article means when it says "dill."
If you're curious, I consider [[Anger]] a prime
example of the bias
inherent in the dictionary, and think also that many of them are no longer
historically accurate. At the rate of 24 a minute, the cleanup (if left
unchecked) would IMO be quite an undertaking. Feel free to unblock if
I've acted unfairly or in haste. I probably won't be around to discuss it
until much later tonight.
cheers,
kq
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