On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:47 +0100, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:

> (rhetorical question of the day: just like teaching a person how to fish is 
> better than to give them a fish, isn't providing the url to google or 
> wikipedia better than providing an answer to a basic question?)

You can read a few paragraphs about "The spirit of helpfulness" here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/How_to_answer

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