And now for some vaguely on-topic off-topicality: OOo 3.2

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Ian <ian69 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (u2s)
>> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, February 16, 2010 12:55, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Q.v.
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access
>>>> (although, IIRC, I think I wrote that, originally.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> You even contributed to the discussion page.
>>>
>>
>> I used to actively contribute to Wikipedia; I wrote numerous articles
>> & edited widely.
>>
>> Then some arrogant mindless little scrote - I think it was User:Yamla
>> but I could be wrong - accused me of "vandalism" for a very careful &
>> meticulous page-edit, reverted my changes and left an highly offensive
>> note on my personal user discussion page threatening to block me. I
>> think they had been on WP for about 1/8th as long as I had.
>>
>> Soon after, an entire, some-years-old article, linked to from a number
>> of others and widely edited, was deleted for being "insufficiently
>> encyclopaedic".
>>
>> Since then, WP can, by and large, go screw itself, basically. I
>> correct the odd typo but I have not written another word for the site
>> and do not intend ever to do so.
>>
>> <snipped>
>
>
> Not to belittle your efforts, but do you realize most professors and other
> academics do not allow the use of wikipedia  as a source for any type of
> research?  I'll soon be teaching, although it will be at a K-6 level, I will
> follow the example of my professors and not allow the use of wikipedia as a
> respectable source of information.  Your own post is enough justification
> (for me, anyway) for this decision.

Curious. Why, AAMOI?

I find it a tremendously useful resource, myself. Unless or until the
politics gets sorted or goes away, though, I don't research or write
for it any more.

I leave typos, spelling errors &c when I find 'em /if/ they show that
an illiterate half-wit wrote the article & it thus can't be trusted.
Where AFAICS it's correct & factual but has the odd typo in it, I fix
'em.


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