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| Zoloft |
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QUOTE(gomi @ Wed 8th June 2011, 11:35am)  QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Wed 8th June 2011, 11:30am) 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. |
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Wed 8th June 2011, 7:42pm
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QUOTE(Zoloft @ Wed 8th June 2011, 12:36pm) QUOTE(gomi @ Wed 8th June 2011, 11:35am) QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Wed 8th June 2011, 11:30am) 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."  |
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Wed 8th June 2011, 8:39pm
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May we all find solace in our dreams. Group: Regulars Posts: 1,332 Joined: Fri 15th Jan 2010, 11:08pm From: Erewhon Member No.: 16,621 |
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 8th June 2011, 12:42pm) QUOTE(Zoloft @ Wed 8th June 2011, 12:36pm) QUOTE(gomi @ Wed 8th June 2011, 11:35am) QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Wed 8th June 2011, 11:30am) 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." " 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)) "  The article was a lot easier to read before smjwalsh took it from 10k in February to 284k now. |
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| CharlotteWebb |
Sat 11th June 2011, 4:27am
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 6th June 2011, 1:04am) Nevermind. It appears the poor woman has bought a house in Arizona and is thinking of being a politician from there. On the ocean-front, in fact. |
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| KD Tries Again |
Mon 13th June 2011, 1:59pm
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An encyclopedia or a laughing stock?
QUOTE Jill Lepore, a historian and a professor at Harvard who wrote an article in the New Yorker about the “Hyperlore” surrounding Revere’s ride, sent along the Revere entry from the American National Biography Online. This entry, she said, was “a scholarly dictionary, and authored, and, therefore, exactly the opposite of Wikipedia.” NY Times |
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