Personal appeals from prolific Wikipedians, New Jersey High Schools Options

[Peter Damian]

I suppose we have all noticed the new fundraiser today. Random pictures of people claiming to have generated lots of valuable yet free content. For example Alan Sohn – user:Alansohn – who says “On Wikipedia, I’ve created 2,463 articles. All of them for free. “

Great stuff, Alan, your most significant contribution seems to be ‘List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey’, 68 edits, but I couldn’t be bothered to check any further back than this year. Nearly all of your 2,463 articles are about High Schools in New Jersey. This does not persuade me to part any of my hard-earned cash to WMF, particularly not if I have to divert it from my current financial support of institutions like the Warburg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_Institute . Interesting that the Warburg article is far smaller than any of the voluminous articles about New Jersey schools.

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[Malleus]

And here's another one . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?

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[Peter Damian]

And here's another one . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?

Were you not asked, Malleus? You seem to have written more than that useless lot.

[Malleus]

And here's another one . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?

Were you not asked, Malleus? You seem to have written more than that useless lot.

I was eventually asked after I took the piss about not being asked, but of course I refused, as the WMF and I see eye-to-eye about very little. Here's a link.

[Peter Damian]

I was eventually asked after I took the piss about not being asked, but of course I refused, as the WMF and I see eye-to-eye about very little. Here's a link.

That's a great thread.