Good LORD! Gotta love discussions on issues which require about 15 minutes to fix, and perhaps double that typing out philosophies on why not to.
Kenneth - your opinions on this matter, imho, are rather baseless. Wikipedia does have issues against original research, but NOT articles which cite references - (to pages outside of wikipedia as a primary source of information). Of course, keeping them NPOV (Neutral Point of view) is an art, which I do agree a lot of potential article authors are not well versed with. As for articles with 'comments' attached - thats the general rule on any encyclopaedia. You cite references before you make claims, and automated bots/human editors run around on the website, checking whether these things are done or not. Its the norm, not the exception. Note to whoever made logos (Niyam?) - Please attribute a license to them, and change it on the images page on the (updated) wikipedia article. And mention it on the freed.in website too. Perhaps a press kit would be a good idea - logos, and a small blurb ready made for anyone who wants to cover it. - Viksit --- Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > do any of the other articles have these comments > attached? Instead of > > > sounding off - try to understand that wikipedia > insists that all > > > materials on wikipedia *must* be secondary > information and not > > > primary information. Wikipedia strongly opposes > original material. > > > And this blatant advertising for freed is just > going to confirm the > > > opinion held in many places that we are a nation > of jerks. > > i agree with raj's comment below, to what kenneth > says in the para above. > look forward to kenneth making a positive > contribution to wikipedia, > and thereby with his own hands undoing the image of > india *kenneth > perceives* gets projected abroad with well-meaning > and perhaps > poorly-implemented wikipedia entries. > > ok kenneth you do that, and in celebration of YOUR > effort and > initiative, i'll celebrate kenneth's positive small > contribution to > the community with a round of samosas and chai at > the next ilug-D > meeting, being held this sunday. > am sure kishore will be very happy to click and > publish photos of > those attending ilug-d, commemorating your > pitching-in and helping the > community and freed.in in a positive, constructive > way. > > thanks also for sharing with us on how we can > contribute in the right > way to wikipedia. please lead us all by example. > > > > > OK, since you appear to be most concerned about > India's image, why don't > > you fix issues with the article (and thereby > improve the global > > perception of India and Indians)? > > er.. kenneth's perception of (perception of india > and indians). > if wikipedia moderated publicly-archived emails to a > mailing list, i'm > sure they'd add their customary '[citation needed]'. > > :-) > niyam > > > > Regards, > > > > -- Raju > > -- > > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kandalaya.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- Viksit Gaur viksit at aya dot yale dot edu http://viksit.com Just because you have a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you should treat everyone else like a nail - Terry Pratchett ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
