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> Mohamed Bouazizi, Wow
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post Sat 22nd January 2011, 10:59pm
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Mohamed Bouazizi. Not much to be said that can't be garnered from reading it (and the talk page). I'm actually tempted to try to clean it up, which is something that hasn't happened to me in a long time.
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post Sun 23rd January 2011, 5:13am
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It definitely needs some improvements and better structure. But it is rather new. And more info is still coming out constantly about him, even though he is deceased. I suppose being the spark of a nation's revolution will do that.
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post Sun 23rd January 2011, 5:37am
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It definitely needs some improvements and better structure. But it is rather new. And more info is still coming out constantly about him, even though he is deceased. I suppose being the spark of a nation's revolution will do that.


Details of his life are all oral history, and not all entirely self-consistent at that. Now, if Wikipedia can dismiss the oral history of the gamers and martial artists:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=32694

then on what grounds can it retain this "information"? That the New York Times (and others) is reporting it does not change the fact that it is oral -- their "fact checking" (!) stopped at whoever was interviewed.
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