Re: I need some backup on Wikipedia F-14 article.

"alumshubby" <alumshubby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With all due respect to your axe-grinding about the Turkey -- however
well-founded -- this is Wikipedia we're discussing, and I'd take it up
with the Powers that Be there, such as they are.

That assumes the Powers That Be at the Wikipedia can leave off
grinding their own axes.

I laughed my *** off a few months back when I saw that somebody had
written in a post about Ivy Bells that the whole thing had been thought
up by a seven-year-old; it helped me understand that although Wikipedia
wants to seem authoritative, they're hamstrung by letting any idiot or
charlatan who wants to badly enough post any lies he/she wants.

No, they are hamstrung by an increasingly secretive and authoritarian
system of government and administration - whose interests lie not in
promoting an authoritative encyclopedia, but in ego masturbation.

D.
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Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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