--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk> wrote: > On Tuesday 6. September 2016 23.09.15 Paul Boddie wrote: >> >> Anyway, I've since added a bunch of citations: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EOMA-68&oldid=738088717 >> >> I hope that other editors can source their material and maybe even widen >> the sources to other sites than the ones I had to hand. > > And the stupid bot just reverted my entire edit because "Inexperienced user > citing to primary sources associated wiht [sic] the product, fails WP:RS." faaakin 'ell... > And, of course, the page is now a deletion candidate. oo that's actually a good idea! > It makes me wonder how > automatic ("wiht", indeed) this "bot" is. > > So, I say that we don't waste any more time with these people. I've left a > remark about this on the talk page, but I guess they'll just delete the page. > It's really far better to provide robust, authoritative documentation > elsewhere and just ignore Wikipedia for the time being. no it's at least inspired some reviews of the standard, which is great. > The tactic, if Luke is bothered about misrepresentation, is to then demand > page deletion if someone recreates the page and writes nonsense on it. After > all, that probably works rather well for famous people, so we can afford the > luxury of suspending our disbelief for a second and thinking that it might > work here as well. in about 6-12 months time there will be people coming out with stuff so it'll be "multiple sources" > Paul > > P.S. Generally, I've only ever edited Wikipedia to correct nonsense, add > citations to various things, and generally try and uphold the historical > record (where others might want to further their own agenda on a non-factual > basis). hilariously there's people on wikipedia who think that's what i'm doing. they have _no_ idea how software libre / open project management works... l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
