Some comments:
1) People from the outside tend not to look at the insides of how
Wikipedia works, such as actually reading the policy/guideline pages
such as WP:OWN.
2) Sometimes, I get the feeling that the author is being slightly
sarcastic in tone, though I do believe that Wikipedia is not a
> On 05/11/2010 22:52, Carcharoth wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Fred Bauder
>> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/magazine/07FOB-medium-t.html
>> That has to be the first time I've seen WP:OWN analysed in a newspaper
>> article!
>
> When it says "no author is tempted to sh
On 05/11/2010 22:52, Carcharoth wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/magazine/07FOB-medium-t.html
> That has to be the first time I've seen WP:OWN analysed in a newspaper
> article!
When it says "no author is tempted to showboat", it
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