IBM-MAIN is a listserv-based online forum, and wikipedia does not consider online fora, including wiki itself, to be reliable sources. Unfortunately, neither I nor any other subscriber to IBM-MAIN controls the wiki rules or their interpretations.
I ran into this before with the issue of CKD drives that are fixed block under the covers and the issue of when ECKD started, and I've concluded that it's a hostile working environment due to the lack of an effective mechanism for conflict resolution (arbitration requires consent of all involved editors.) As a result, I no longer do large updates to hardware-related articles, although I haven't yet encountered similar problems with software articles. I only edit the English wikipepedia, but the underlying issues apply regardless of the language. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reliable source for slang term "noodle picker"? Shmuel wrote: >No, if challenged you need a citation with claims about colloquial usage. And IBM-MAIN posts aren't sufficient? Why not? That's pretty darned colloquial! (Yes, I feel like we're going in circles here, but it's not your fault or mine--it's that this requirement, while well-intentioned, seems to miss something!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
