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that is really hurting newspapers.) So I tend to edit articles about blogs, mostly conservative political blogs, and related topics. (My other main topics are computing (my profession), SF/F authors and books and computer games.) I'm here to further the aims of the project, but I also browse Arbcom
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eople have said that Knowledge (XXG) is not in the truth business. Well guess what? We are not in the lie business either. Attempting to use this respectable encyclopedia to promote deceptions against true knowledge shouldn’t be tolerated. In fact, the removal of POV violations that were in direct
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This article is excellent. When I looked into the origins of ASCII a few years ago, it took me days of Googling (or was it AltaVista-ing?) to get this information, and even then I didn't get it all. In fact, I originally joined Knowledge (XXG) solely to remove some vandalism from the article.
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For some strange reason, I'm interested in the impact of blogs (and New Media in general) on the 'real' (ie., off-internet) world, in particular on newspapers and (to a lesser extent) TV news programs. (But I'm not that interested in the
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conflict with our policies & guidelines is something that should be rewarded. I am in support of anyone who will refuse to allow this project to be used as a platform or soapbox to spread propaganda lies.
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hat is great about that advice, WilliamThweatt, is that it doesn't violate the assumption of good faith, it works just as well whether someone is, or isn't, disrupting on purpose. So I sure do endorse it!
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cases, ANI, etc out of interest in how a bunch of smart people try to create new internet-only forms of governance while dealing with old problem that all large volunteer-run organizations face.
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when he said "Don't abuse yourself by responding" to pure disruption. Just relax, count to 10 and keep your discussion on topic and he'll move on or be dealt with by an admin.
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I also came here to improve my prose style through practice; you can see by the last sentence of the preceding paragraph that I still have plenty of room for improvement.
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you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than
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I have found that that is the goal of most users who practice such disruption--to bait you into "betraying your frustration". 172 gave some
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a piece of advice that I tell my kids and I have to tell myself occasionally: "You can't control other people ... you only control how
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My full name is Christopher William Chittleborough, which takes a while to say or type. I sometimes use "Chris Chittleborough" as a
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The articles I edit are mostly about computing, games and "New Media" (blogs etc). Recently, I've been trying to help out at
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Should explain: 2 subformats, dynamic loading (PLT, GOT, symbol tables, what the DL does, lazy symbol resolution, etc).
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says that "U.S." is preferred to "US" (except in certain circumstances) so I'll edit accordingly. Thanks to
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Policies and guidelines are not a substitute for thinking. There is no substitute for actual understanding.
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I have been putting double square brackets around every year number in articles (eg., 1955 →
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is the place to lay out the information and let people draw their own conclusions.
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This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than
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he desired outcome here is that we get constructive edits from peacable users ...
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for pointing me to this page (which I had already read … Do-oh).
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obvious. It was only by chance that I discovered this (from
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There's a good essay on inclusionism/deletionism/mergism
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Need someone who knows about Cyrillic→Latin translation.
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