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Look what popped up when I went to read the New York Times today:
A Librarian’s Less-Wholesome, and False, Biography QUOTE Mistaken identity is an occupational hazard for people who are mentioned even fleetingly on the Internet. Still, consider Peter Agree’s shock when he searched the Web for references to his late mother. “The references I turned up were to ‘Rose Agree, geriatric porn star,’†said Mr. Agree, the editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Press. “Wikipedia had a biographical entry for this person, and to my horror it fused elements of my mother’s biography, including her having been a librarian on Long Island.†Mr. Agree’s wife, Kathy Peiss, who headed the history department at Penn, contacted Wikipedia, the self-policing open source encyclopedia, which dutifully removed the entry along with a photograph. But it was too late. The Long Island librarian and the geriatric porn star had been irretrievably conflated. The librarian turned pornographic movie star took on a life of her own. Rose Agree (T-H-L-K-D) Any admin want to tell us what's hidden in that history? |
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so far Rose is faring pretty well in her AFD on the Farsi wikipedia.
http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%...%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C (blue checks are keep votes). |
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| Web Fred |
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QUOTE(milowent @ Mon 26th March 2012, 9:20pm)  so far Rose is faring pretty well in her AFD on the Farsi wikipedia. http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%...%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C (blue checks are keep votes). I wonder if the guy who first started writing in Farsi was left handed? |
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QUOTE(Web Fred @ Mon 26th March 2012, 10:06pm) I wonder if the guy who first started writing in Farsi was left handed? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/iknowiknow.gif) No, Farsi was originally carved into rock with a hammer and chisel. If you hold your hammer in your right hand as right handed people do, it is easier to carve from right to left than from left to right. |
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| Web Fred |
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Pervert & Swinger Group: Contributors Posts: 739 Joined: From: Manchester, UK Member No.: 17,141 |
QUOTE(Fusion @ Thu 29th March 2012, 8:53pm) QUOTE(Web Fred @ Mon 26th March 2012, 10:06pm) I wonder if the guy who first started writing in Farsi was left handed? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/iknowiknow.gif) No, Farsi was originally carved into rock with a hammer and chisel. If you hold your hammer in your right hand as right handed people do, it is easier to carve from right to left than from left to right. Is that on WP? If it isn't it should be. Speaking as a trivia nut, that's cool (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) |
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