I might point out that I've perhaps needled GerardM more than most people
on this list (and even been moderated for it once years ago), but I find
his posts about WikiData interesting and I read them when I can. I think
Thomas Morton has a very good point though -- so if I may make a request:
Whether the topic is Wikidata, or Wil, or Wikipediocracy, or pedophilia,
or whatever the drama was with Russavia, or Commons admins, or whatever it
is that raises hackles; can we all just be real for a second, and stop
feigning innocence/ignorance when we're trolling, being snarky, or posting
"innocent questions" that just so happen to cover a controversial topic, or
using misleading/distorted data to ask a pointed question? Seriously, this
list is becoming less like foundation-l and more like foxnews-l.
(To clarify this is not directed at Tomasz -- I'm just taking advantage of
his post to GerardM as being tangentially related.)
Dan
Dan Rosenthal
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Morton <
morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
At a guess; unpleasant snark.
Tom
On 21 Jun 2014 16:49, "Tomasz W. Kozłowski" <twkozlowski(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Earlier today, I used the
Gmane.org gateway to
send a message to this
mailing list in response to the "Iraqi 2014 elections thread" started
by GerardM.
Here is the content of my message (typed from memory):
Have you tried Google yet? It is a search engine that lets
you search for information easily and accurately (most of
the time).
The Wikidata entry for Google is at
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9366>.
Hope this helps!
Tomasz
I was surprised to receive a notification saying that my e-mail was
rejected by an unnamed moderator (as all e-mails sent to the list
through Gmane have to be accepted before being sent on), with the
following reason: "Your message was deemed inappropriate by the
moderator."
I would like the unknown moderator to — please — explain to me what
was so inappropriate in my message that they had to reject it.
Thank you!
--
Tomasz
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