[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[Anthony]

On 6/9/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> No, not for any of the stuff I'm getting into fights about lately,
> like cliques and BADSITES.  But for one of its article deletions.
>
> You see, I was working on edits to one of my personal websites, in
> this case one about e-mail formatting and related technical and
> cultural issues ( http://mailformat.dan.info/ ).  I decided, in the
> course of talking about forwarded messages, to refer to the concept
> of "glurge", which is the sort of sickeningly-sweet motivational
> stuff (Norman Vincent Peale - ish) that gets regularly forwarded
> around the net.  Usually when I do something like that, I like to
> stick in an external link to some place that describes what I'm
> talking about, and lately Wikipedia is almost always my first choice
> to try to find one.


If your purpose is to link somewhere that describes a term, Wiktionary would
be a better choice than Wikipedia.