[WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

Carcharoth carcharothwp at googlemail.com
Fri May 8 07:04:42 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>> geni wrote:
>>> 2009/5/5  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>
>>>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>> Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:35 am
>>>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win
>>>>
>>>> Redundant text - "the X war was a war" duh :) Try this:
>>>>
>>>> "The Peloponnesian War (Ancient Greece, 431-404BC), took place between
>>>> Athens and its empire, against the Eponymous League led by Sparta. Rock
>>>> on!">>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------
>>>> Why do you have to state "Ancient Greece" ?  And remove "The"
>>>> Also "was" is much shorter than "took place"
>>>>
>>>> "Peloponnesian War (431-404BC), Athens and its empire, against the
>>>> Spartan-led Eponymous League."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> "Peloponnesian War (431-404BC), Athens and its empire vs Spartan-led
>>> Eponymous League."
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> "Peloponnesian War (431-404BC), Athenian empire vs. Spartan-led forces."

Who, what, where, when, why, how?
Fails to give location of war and result.
Was the Delian League an empire or not? Discuss.
Is it right to call the Pelopponnesian League "Spartan-led forces"?
Should such a summary (for Twitterpedia) be just facts or some opinion as well?

Has anyone registered the domain name yet? :-)

Carcharoth



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