[WikiEN-l] BLPs in the papers

Steven Walling steven.walling at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 21:34:13 UTC 2008


Goddamn! What I want to know is why papers always call us "Wikipediots".
It's too close to idiot to be anything but degrading. I don't call
journalists "newsies" or the like do I? It says quite clearly all over the
site, "Wikipedian". Besides, adding -idiots is grammatically nonsensical.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:41 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=37C948F3-14D1-13A2-9FB530596FADE2A6
>
> Nice one to Cool Hand Luke.
>
>
> - d.
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