On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, David Gerard wrote:
If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks
of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein
didn't have any children. I wonder where they
Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, David Gerard wrote:
If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks
of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein
didn't have
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Ken Arromdee wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, David Gerard wrote:
If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks
of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein
didn't have
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/25/100125fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all
The pivotal fact of Gaiman’s childhood is one that appears
nowhere in his fiction and is periodically removed from his Wikipedia
page by the site’s editors. When he was five, his family moved to East
The problem is that Wikipedia policies pretty much encourage editors to
filibuster changes they don't like by demanding sources and questioning the
sources. This is useful when there's a serious question about whether the
information is accurate, but it's also abused when there's no serious
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
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elsewhere. Our rules generally don't say we can't use information unless
it has *two* sources; and in this case it's obvious that the reason the
information is hard to find is that Neil Gaiman is trying to keep it
2010/1/18 quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
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elsewhere. Our rules generally don't say we can't use information unless
it has *two* sources; and in this case it's obvious that the reason the
information is hard to
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
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elsewhere. Our rules generally don't say we can't use information unless
it has *two* sources; and in this case it's obvious that the reason
2010/1/18 Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com:
Did you know there's not one single use of the term 'Scientology' on
neilgaiman.com or any subdomains? Given his family is Scientologist,
he was raised a Scientologist in a major bastion of Scientology,
married a Scientologist, and so on, and given
2010/1/18 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net:
The problem is that Wikipedia policies pretty much encourage editors to
filibuster changes they don't like by demanding sources and questioning the
sources. This is useful when there's a serious question about whether the
information is accurate,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/1/18 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net:
The problem is that Wikipedia policies pretty much encourage editors to
filibuster changes they don't like by demanding sources and questioning the
sources. This is useful when
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/1/18 quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
...
elsewhere. Our rules generally don't say we can't use information unless
it has *two*
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, David Gerard wrote:
If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks
of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein
didn't have any children. I wonder where they got that from.
Wikipedia's article on Heinlein nowhere says he didn't
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