QUOTE(Ottava @ Wed 2nd February 2011, 11:12pm)
But yes, anyone else think it is odd how Blofield thinks his "contributions" are anything more than what a bot could do?
Much as it pains me to do so, I'm going to defend Blofeld on that score. Don't let the flood of bot-generated substubs he created hide the fact that he did a lot of substantive work on important-but-unfashionable topics which went generally unnoticed, as they're neither in English-speaking countries nor ever mentioned in The Simpsons—
Deforestation in Brazil,
Sharabha or
Maiden Tower (Baku) for instance. If Wikipedia is ever going to become a credible reference work, those are just the kind of significant-but-not-covered-by-Britannica topics which it ought to have.
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