[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: "a liberal cesspool of fact-checking, sources and citations"

[KillerChihuahua]

It wasn't a distinction. It was intended as a joke.

See also: lead balloon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Saintonge" <saintonge at telus.net>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: "a liberal cesspool of fact-checking, 
sources and citations"


> KillerChihuahua wrote:
>> So if you're verbose in the name of Liberalism, that's "wordy" and bad, 
>> but
>> if you're verbose in the name of Conservatism, that's "strong" and good?
>>
>> check. I'll remember that. I'd hate to be verbose for all the wrong 
>> reasons.
>>
>
> That's not the distinction that I would make. Conservatives don't need
> to be verbose because they believe that they already have God's truth.
> Liberals too easily spend much time on trying to figure out what to
> create in place of God, and figuring out how to avoid stepping on the
> merry-go-round.
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tony Sidaway"
>>> On 10/6/09, Charles Matthews wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness" is pretty good though
>>>> (scroll down).
>>>>
>>> That's a doozy.
>>>
>>> Note also that principle 4, "Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms",
>>> links to another of Schlafly's crackpot projects, to prove that since
>>> 1612, "Powerful, insightful new conservative terms have grown at a
>>> geometric rate, roughly doubling every century"
>>>
>>
>
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