The World and Wikipedia - Andrew Dalby Options Rating

[sappho]

Did anyone read this book yet?

[Peter Damian]

Some interesting material in his user space here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrew_D...d_and_Wikipedia

where he mentions the Law incident.

[A Horse With No Name]

Some interesting material in his user space here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrew_D...d_and_Wikipedia

where he mentions the Law incident.

Law is not in the book, but ChildofMidnight and his weirdly funny food obsessions are.

This is a riot, considering who gets into the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrew_D...ned_in_the_book

I especially like that Keeper76 is in the book. What has he ever done except complain about how boring it is to be an admin?

[grievous]

This is a riot, considering who gets into the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrew_D...ned_in_the_book

Cast of characters, or the usual suspects?

This post has been edited by grievous: Fri 6th November 2009, 7:59pm

[EricBarbour]

Cast of characters, or the usual suspects?

That's part of why that book is such a joke.

He does not mention Jayjg at all, and the Israel-Palestine editwars rate a few paragraphs (pp. 182-183).

He gives Mantanmoreland only the briefest mention (p. 183).

The editwarring that involved Barack Obama and Sarah Palin articles got plenty of play (pp. 181-182, 209-213), yet the long, ongoing and extremely nasty Armenian-Azeri editwar got only about one page (pp. 170-71).

There's plenty about the Essjay mess, but Poetlister got a short dismissal, and there's not a peep about FT2 or Carolyn Doran.

He even talked about the JHK vs. H. Jonat editwar, which was in late 2001 and which very few people even remembered.

Why doesn't he mention recent (major) AN/I pests like Ottava Rima or Jehochman or Will Beback? Where's JoshuaZ?

And there's a lot of talk scattered everywhere about the French Wikipedia, which I guarantee is of virtually no interest to any en-wiki users, especially on WR.

In short, this is not a book. It's a blog smeared onto dead trees.

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Fri 6th November 2009, 8:40pm