Re: [WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia to out pseudonymous Erwin James, Guardian writ...

2009-04-23 Thread Oldak Quill
is is not inconceivable, since many people are imprisoned every year, and it is possible that they may have been members of the Legion. If so, what if the person identified was the wrong person? If the wrong person had been identified, what you claim to be valid research would have produced incor

Re: [WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia to out pseudonymous Erwin James, Guardian writ...

2009-04-23 Thread Oldak Quill
cle, it would have been defamatory. Apologies if I wasn't initially clear about the circumstances. -- Oldak Quill (oldakqu...@gmail.com) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia to out pseudonymous Erwin James, Guardian writer.

2009-04-23 Thread Oldak Quill
rvlet?action=showall&boardid=40&threadid=11620 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_James -- Oldak Quill (oldakqu...@gmail.com) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] A morsel of substance, a truckload of nonsense

2009-04-23 Thread Oldak Quill
), which is what the feudal system was all about. Similarly, if a businessman were famous today for being a businessman, it would make sense to list the companies he has been a CEO of. As David said above, it is a short article, so his landholdings take a up a large portion of it. Just add more

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article

2009-04-16 Thread Oldak Quill
to pursue them. Rod Liddle is respected in some circles and we'd only invite ire for pursuing him. We should determine if that Spectator article contains untruths and, if it does, we should ensure that a retraction is issued. -- Oldak Quill (oldakqu...@gmail.com)

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-04 Thread Oldak Quill
nd have easy access to a number of large university libraries and the British Library (if the resource is especially obscure). It would also be possible to scan in the relevant page of a PD/uncopyrighted book, as proof of the reference, for example. -- Oldak Qui

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and "indecent" content

2008-12-23 Thread Oldak Quill
ho disagree with you regarding the obscenity of the image? Even some of those who agree that the image is obscene may not wish to suppress the image. A Voltaire quotation might be relevant here. So surely the role that suppression should play in Wikipe

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Times on Wikipedia

2008-12-21 Thread Oldak Quill
ut something, as long as you research the subject and reference legitimate sources". -- Oldak Quill (oldakqu...@gmail.com) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] IWF backing down?

2008-12-09 Thread Oldak Quill
the decision stand. In which > case, party on. Something I don't understand about this affair: BT set up Cleanfeed, the "ISP level content filtering system" that caused this problem. Why haven't BT subscribers been subject to the block? -- Oldak Quill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-26 Thread Oldak Quill
hat a person was born in Ireland refer to the island-state. -- Oldak Quill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l