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post Wed 31st August 2011, 4:08pm
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Brandon Mendelson has been writing on the Web since 1998. Since then he's seen the place gentrified and overtaken by corporations and governments, which also brought about a mass migration of unscrupulous marketers. In that time, the marketers have ...

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post Thu 1st September 2011, 6:30am
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What a terrible article.
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post Thu 1st September 2011, 6:36am
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What a terrible article.

Bullshit.
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Of course, I identified the problem at the start of this post: So few actually edit the thing, and Wikipedia can’t seem to retain them. So as great as the service is, and I’m a fan, it will never be comprehensive.

He's right, the thing is dying. That will be a major thesis of my project.
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post Thu 1st September 2011, 10:54am
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...I can tell you all about the life of one of my favorite wrestlers, WWE Superstar William Regal...


I think that puts in perspective where this guy is coming from, intellectually.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 1st September 2011, 3:54am) *

From the Forbes article:
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...I can tell you all about the life of one of my favorite wrestlers, WWE Superstar William Regal...
I think that puts in perspective where this guy is coming from, intellectually.

Perhaps, or perhaps he's being sarcastic.
There is a LOT of crap about pro wrestling on en-WP. I figure it's either the 2nd or 3rd most popular sports subject, after football and (maybe) cricket. Everything the WWE has ever done since the 1990s is detailed with loving care. Every major wrestler, no matter how absurd or stupid his ring persona might be, enjoys a long and trivia-filled BLP.
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