[Foundation-l] Verifiability: Constitution? Question for Jimbo!

Walter van Kalken walter at vankalken.net
Mon Sep 18 10:29:09 UTC 2006


Andrew Lih wrote:

>On 9/17/06, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
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>>Andre Engels wrote:
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>>>2006/9/17, Christoph Seydl <Christoph.Seydl at students.jku.at>:
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>>>>Jimbo Wales says: "I can NOT emphasize this enough.    There seems to be
>>>>a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative
>>>>'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs
>>>>a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be
>>>>sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of
>>>>negative information about living persons.    I think a fair number of
>>>>people need to be kicked out of the project just for being lousy
>>>>writers. (This is not a policy statement, just a statement of attitude
>>>>and frustration.)"
>>>>(http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046433.html)
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>>Dear Jimbo:
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>>I challenge you to find me a reference/citation for:
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>>''When walking on the major street towards increasing soi numbers, all
>>the even-numbered sois are on the right side and the odd-numbered ones
>>on the left side of the street. If for instance a new soi is added
>>between soi 7 and soi 9 it will get the number soi 7/1, the next one soi
>>7/2 etc. It is also possible that soi 20 is far away from soi 21 if
>>there are more sois on one side of the street than on the other.''
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>> From the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soi
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>Is this sufficient?
>http://www.frommers.com/destinations/bangkok/0071024195.html
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Interesting thanks.

Waerth



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