On 04/05/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
No, it is assuming that Wikipedia's mission is to be a reference work, otherwise known as an encyclopedia. The last message we want to send is "If you're big and bad enough, and you don't like what we say, make rumblings about a lawsuit. It'll be gone within the hour." The message we want to send is "We're a reference work. We publish numerical values all over the place. It's not a "circumvention tool", it is a -number-. Its decimal value is somewhere around 1.325E37.
As a typical querulous wikien-l contributor, I must note that it is a string of bits that happens to form a number. Certainly in its notable form, it's a string of ASCII text.
Other than that, yes, precisely. Rolling over on this one is *ridiculous*.
Mind you, I still want to wait at least a week. The article's a bit better now, but needs more substance.
- d.