Paul Revere, is still dead, however...... Options

[EricBarbour]

In case you haven't noticed, Sarah Palin stuck her foot in her mouth yesterday (again).

Result: it seems that today, the Paul Revere article has been the target of an editwar, intended to
rewrite history. To make Palin appear to be accurate......

Mentioned on Reddit, on LGF, on Think Progress, and spreading to other political blogs.

(Go ahead. Try asking Amadscientist and Tomwsulcer what they hell they are doing. I'm still confused.)

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[EricBarbour]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56186.html

The reporters who are speeding, tailgating, cutting off other cars, blasting through roundabouts and passing on the right in an effort to keep up, say they have no other choice since they never know what Palin’s up to or where she’s headed — and aides typically won’t tell them anything. Once they’re on the road, they’re filing urgent updates by phone and figuring out unorthodox bathroom breaks, like the reporter who pulled over to relieve himself on the side of the highway going from Gettysburg, Pa., to Philadelphia — drawing notice from both Palin aides and the rest of the trailing press.

“It’s like paparazzi,” said one reporter who followed Palin to the Thursday evening clambake. “It’s like following Princess Diana.”

Isn't that nice. We get to watch the death of "journalism".
That's what Palin really is.

And Wikipedia is, apparently, the death of scholarship. Her BLP is one of the most
vandalized and closely hyper-watched of all. It's also one of the longest.....currently
at 166,000 bytes. The only BLPs that are longer: George W. Bush,
Ernst Nolte(?), Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Tiger Woods, Aussie cricket player Ricky Ponting(???)
and ha ha, Lyndon LaRouche.

And that brings up Wikipedia's longest biography of all.
Which I'm going to discuss (with disgust) elsewhere.

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[Milton Roe]

And that brings up Wikipedia's longest biography of all. Which I'm going to discuss (with disgust) elsewhere.

Has to be Michael Jackson. Wikipedia itself is, after all, the king of pop.

[NuclearWarfare]

And that brings up Wikipedia's longest biography of all. Which I'm going to discuss (with disgust) elsewhere.

Ordering by number of bytes in the page (not number of letters or words):

Fanny Crosby (T-H-L-K-D)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (T-H-L-K-D)


I don't get it.

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[gomi]

Fanny Crosby (T-H-L-K-D) ... I don't get it.

Wow. 825 citations for an article that, most likely, no one has ever read all the way through. What a monument to wasted effort.

[Zoloft]

Fanny Crosby (T-H-L-K-D) ... I don't get it.

Wow. 825 citations for an article that, most likely, no one has ever read all the way through. What a monument to wasted effort.

Back when I gave a rat's ass about fixing Wikipedia's problems in their entirety, I read this all the way through.

If you sliced the other contemporary biographies out of the article, reduced the number of photos of the subject, and tossed a good amount of glurge out of the narrative, you would still have a massive hagiography.

[Milton Roe]

Fanny Crosby (T-H-L-K-D) ... I don't get it.

Wow. 825 citations for an article that, most likely, no one has ever read all the way through. What a monument to wasted effort.

Back when I gave a rat's ass about fixing Wikipedia's problems in their entirety, I read this all the way through.

If you sliced the other contemporary biographies out of the article, reduced the number of photos of the subject, and tossed a good amount of glurge out of the narrative, you would still have a massive hagiography.

Indeed. Pronounced with a hard "g." (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ermm.gif)

[Zoloft]

Fanny Crosby (T-H-L-K-D) ... I don't get it.

Wow. 825 citations for an article that, most likely, no one has ever read all the way through. What a monument to wasted effort.

Back when I gave a rat's ass about fixing Wikipedia's problems in their entirety, I read this all the way through.

If you sliced the other contemporary biographies out of the article, reduced the number of photos of the subject, and tossed a good amount of glurge out of the narrative, you would still have a massive hagiography.

Indeed. Pronounced with a hard "g." (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ermm.gif)

" 11:00, 14 November 2005 Mr Tan (talk | contribs) m (3,281 bytes) (reduce image size; black glasses could haunt readers at night (from my view)) "
(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)

The article was a lot easier to read before smjwalsh took it from 10k in February to 284k now.