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how to write essay

regarding the logistical operation in offshore platform by supply vessel and hwo to safe mony and time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.163.84.1 (talk • contribs)

Linking to Wiktionary

Is it possible to link a word in a Wikipedia article to the corresponding word in Wiktionary (assuming, of course, it does exist there). (The idea is to allow the reader to make a quick check on an unusual word.) If this is possible, what is the exact syntax of the expression to be used? Honti 12:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The linking shortcut should be d:like this. It doesn't seem to be working for some reason... the others work

--Rayc 15:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Look up village pump (miscellaneous) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

maritime navegation.

looking for a site related to maritime navigation information. any help in my quest will deeply appreciated..

eureka

Try asking at the WP:Reference Desk. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 18:47, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rokushakubo or Bo-Staff

Does anybody know how to make a telescopic bo staff (metal, aluminum preferably) that telescopes from 1 ft. to 6ft, with it coming out from the center? It can be tapered like most regular bo staffs ut not hat drastic like those toy lightsabers, those look fake. It also needs to be strong enough to be used just like any other bo and not break. Is this possible? If so please tell me how or where I can buy one.


Signed, Batterup91111

No clue, however you could try asking at the Wikipedia:Reference desk, or possibly Wikipedia:WikiProject martial arts if you wished to speak to editors specifically knowledgable in the subject and the reference desk did not provide a usable answer. --tjstrf 18:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to talk at WikiProject martial arts, but when I click on the discussion link at the top of the page all I see is just the martial arts project page. Help would be nice.

Signed, Batterup91111

Bias

There seems to be an anti-Christian bias in multiple locations of Wikipedia (and Meta). It pains me to see defamation of God.

May we take it easy on making statements that may cause religious offense? At least poke fun at paganism, atheism, and the like if these hurtful jokes (and NPOV disputes) continue to exist. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 23:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

May we realize that Wikipedia is not censored? User:Zoe|(talk) 02:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I do not want to trivialize your feelings, but these seem very mild to me. They have jokes of this level on The Simpsons. Also, not every mention of "god" necessarily means the god of the Christians. Only the first and third quotations specifically mention something about Christianity, and there are a lot of other religions out there. -- Kjkolb 05:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm willing to wager many of the people writing these jokes are themselves Christians. It's humour. Many common types of humour offend some people, and some (like dead baby jokes) offend many people. Deco 06:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dude don't get so upset. God does have a sense of humour.A7X 900 23:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just try to roll with it. Just try to remember it's all in the sense of humour.--Lord of Illusions 17:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Except for the last example. The NPOV warning on God is there for a reason (I assume, not having read that article), and is probably not meant to be humour. Can you be more specific why you are offended by that? If it's because you think that that article should be described from a theistic/Christian POV only, that would be in violation of the NPOV policy. If you think the article is NPOV already, you may want to argue that on Talk:God. If you think the text of the NPOV notice is offensive, you can propose a better text on Talk:God as well. Eugène van der Pijll 14:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh man I miss spelled sence....A7X 900 20:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for audio pronunciation?

Is there such a page? If there isn't one, would there be any objections to creating it?

lots of issues | leave me a message 00:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Etiquette for Non-Wikipedia Projects

I am a co-founder of ValueWiki.com. Our project goal is to someday cover all 50,000 U.S. stocks and funds with NPOV research. This is a big task so naturally I want to get the word out to as many Wikipedians as I can. But I don't know how. I like my internet Karma and don't want to become a link-spammer! Are there appropriate forums for letting wiki-people know about non-Wikipedia projects?

I did list ValueWiki on http://www.wikiindex.org and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki/en, but haven't exactly been hit with a deluge of response. I imagine there must be plenty of investment-minded Wikipedians who would be interested in this project. Is there an appropriate way to reach out to wiki-literate people and spread the word without joining the dark side of link-spammers and link-baiters? I have been scratching my head for weeks on this. Thanks to all for advice Jonathan Stokes 08:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Any response at all would be appreciated...  :) Jonathan Stokes 18:07, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to read this. It's probably best to avoid using Wikipedia to promote your site. Try other websites that accept link exchanges etc. If your site does become large and well known, other people would probably link to it. Tra (Talk) 19:03, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Mistaken Identity"

I reverted a big addition of copyright-violating material by User:ExplorerCDT a few months ago, (though I had to go back a year and a half to track down the version that predated his introduction of violating material), but he wasn't around at the time (no edits in months) so I didn't bother leaving him a message. Just recently I noticed that he had returned and left a note on his talk page about the trouble that it causes to clean up additions of copyrighted material [1]. He removed the note without response, claiming in his edit summary that it was a mistaken identity [2]. I've asked him a couple[3][4] times for further explanation of how such a thing is possible, but each time he has reverted my comments off his talk page without response[5][6] beyond claiming that it's mistaken identity.

This seems like pretty egregious behavior to me and not a proper response at all, but maybe I'm not seeing something. Is it even possible to have mistaken identity on wikipedia? Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 13:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded on talk. Durova 15:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a wikipedia song!

This ditty [7], consisting of somebody singing the word "wikipedia" over and over and over, above an amateurish keyboard arrangement, was submitted to Salon.com as part of a song search. It is ... well ... not as awful as it could be. - DavidWBrooks 16:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Close though.... :) Garion96 (talk) 16:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Paper

I am doing a paper for my English 1301 Class, and I have to have an interview. What a better place than to go to the source. So plese if you could help me out answer the questions below.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.185.81.231 (talk • contribs)

This person also posted this (along with their questions) at Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)#Please fill out the questions about Wikipedia to help me on my College paper about Wikipedia. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 19:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

failed home delivery?

does anyone know of a supermarket/grocer that operated a traditional bricks and mortar store but during the dot.com period launch a home delivery service that subsequently failed? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.158.169.201 (talk • contribs) .

You'd better try Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe. Garion96 (talk) 22:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Publix tried --plange 04:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forbes using Wikipedia without attribution

Forbes: "The company began in 1997 as a spin-off of Enron's pipeline operations, and now employs many former Enron employees, including former whistleblower Jordan Mintz."

Wikipeidia: "The company began in 1997 as a spinoff of some assets of Enron, and now employs many former Enron employees, including former Enron whistleblower Jordan Mintz."

With the exception of the bolded, the text is identical. As you can see in the history, Wikipedia's text predates the article by about a month. At the very least this is hilarious. Is there any chance that this violates the GFDL? savidan(talk) (e@) 03:29, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting of that small a portion isn't likely to be considered beyond fair use: they didn't even use a full sentence. It'd get you in trouble for plagarism in a college class, but it's not going to win in court. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 04:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? There is a page on the web that lists dozens of Wikipedia articles that were, in whole or in part, plagiarized from previously-existing sources. The plagiarized content is highlighted, and the previous source is linked. Unfortunately, this site is on Wikipedia's spam blacklist, so I cannot tell you where to find it. 68.93.140.47 17:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If it's plagiarism feel free to remove it or list it as a copyright violation. I've done that numerous times myself. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 10:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with the usage of sub-categories of Category:Biota by country

I am trying to get a discussion going on the Flora of <region>/Fauna of <region>/Biota of <region> categories.

Please see Category talk:Biota by country, and add talk there GameKeeper 14:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-pollenation with ODP?

I'm not even sure where to go with this.

One of the seeming mantras of Wikipedia:External links and WP:SPAM is "Wikipedia is not a web directory" and that such links should be sent to a site that wants them, such as the Open Directory Project.

Someone suggested perhaps a template to request links be moved out to ODP might be useful (see: Wikipedia talk:External links/workshop#Wikipedia is not a web directory). There are a number of Wikipedians who contribute to the Open Directory Project who might be able to help out.

I mentioned this on the internal editor forums, and one of the ODP Administrators responded, in part:

If the Wikipedians would follow this suggestion, then, you're right, it would be very important to have a project whose participants do the ODP-side coordinating and support. Which might very well mean not only editing and creating cat[egories], but planning and setting up workflows or tools to collect the links or the suggestions for new categories at Wikipedia, channel them over into ODP and process them. It would be complete waste of volunteer energy if the Wikipedians delete good links that are already sorted and maybe even described en masse, while we´ve to track down the same links to add good resources to ODP!

She then goes on to anoint me as the point-man to "negotiate with the Wikipedians".

So, okay, where do I go from here? Does this need to go to the Admins? Higher? Can it be run as a WikiProject?

—Wrathchild (talk) 18:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm cofused as to just what, exactly, the Wikipedians would be doing with this. I take it that ODP's purpose is to attempt to list and categorize websites, and that the two projects could interact in situations where a Wikipedia article is overburdned with links. Such links are (hopefully) related in some way to the article's subject, therefore the links could be deleted from the Wikipedia article, copied to ODP, and replaced with a link to the appropriate category on ODP. Meanwhile, ODP would find in Wikipedia a wonderful source of pre-categorized links that would make their job much easier. Ok, so... where do we (those of us who have never heard of ODP before) come in? What is there for us to do that we aren't already doing (deleting extraneous external links in articles)? I'm not sure what needs to be "negotiated". ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 18:25, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not entirely sure myself. Yes, ODP's purpose is to build the most comprehensive human-edited directory and give it away. [8] I see two problems: Articles here often attract external links that aren't wanted here. They may very well be wanted by ODP, but unless the person who removes them submits them to the ODP suggestion pool, they're effectively just gone. I'd like to be able to capture those. How? I'm not sure.
The other problem I see is that there are a lot of articles here that would benefit from a link to the relevant ODP category (to siphon off the linkspam and, I hope, provide a categorized topical links) and a lot of ODP categories that would benefit from a link to a Wikipedia article.
I'm just not sure how to proceed. Should I start a WikiProject? Do any "higher ups" need to be involved? If a bunch of ODP editors start systematically adding links to ODP categories (and adding Wikipedia articles to ODP) while adhering to the guidelines of both projects, will that ruffle some feathers? Maybe I'm just looking to find out what my next step should be. —Wrathchild (talk) 16:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A WikiProject sounds like a good idea. Maybe also adding a comment to WP:EL to the effect that unwanted external links should be removed to ODP and replaced with a link to ODP and to contact your wikiproject for assistance. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 16:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
An effort to tighten up WP:EL is already underway. See: [[9]] —Wrathchild (talk) 16:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How to see every article?

Hi, I'm new here but I just signed on the account because my sister(she is the crazybookie, not me) wants to read every article on wikipedia --Crazybookie 06:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not humanly possible. A web-crawling script can barely keep up with the new pages anymore. In the time it took me to write this statement, there were another 14 articles written. (Several of them on Croation geography) --tjstrf Now on editor review! 06:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Special:allpages and do a few a day? Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 12:41, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your head (or whoever's head happened to be trying to read Wikipedia in its entirety) would explode. Dont try it, youll go insane and start randomly quoting things from places in Afghanistan or something. --The Corsair. 09:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia seems to be much like Unseen University. Enter the Library, if you dare... --Jollyroger 14:07, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Giant section edit buttons

Please put the section edit buttons at the right-hand edge again, and in regular type - not bold. It's not like people are shy about editing! --Wtshymanski 16:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Information concerning tax leins

I am a layman in terms of how tax liens work; I am interested in finding out if I can purchase property through a tax lien that has ben taken by a county. I was told by some outside sources, that if the property in question had a lien put on it that the property was no longer by right the original owners. Is this so? I am very confused about how this whole process works and would love some insight into how the process works. I have found numerous properties that are sitting in a county lien and if I pay off the lien does it revert to the original owner, or can i get the property from the county? PLEASE HELP ME Im not at all familiar with how this works- if anyone can help I'd sincerely appreciate it- Martina — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martina1974 (talk • contribs) 14:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First: Sign your comments with four tilde characters like this: ~~~~
Second: This isn't the right place for your questions. You might try seeing if the Tax lien article answers your question, and if not, you might ask on the Talk:Tax lien page, but only if your question is relevant to contributing to an article. Other than that, I suggest looking for a web forum in which you can talk about it. Wikipedia isn't a forum; it's a place to create encyclopedia articles. =Axlq 00:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
reference desk answers questions though. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 03:04, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

morsels

what are morsels i need to know in about 7 minutes. ok

Why not look it up in Wikipedia or Wiktionary, or ask at the Reference desk? --J.L.W.S. The Special One 09:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"Morsels" are a kind of edible bivalve (like clams or oysters) that fasten themselves tightly in place with an "abyssal thread." I. M. Pei is a famous source of "PEI morsels." A famous folk song tells of an Irishwoman who used to sell "cockroaches and morsels alive, alive-O" from a wheelbarrow. "Morsel" can also mean an ordinary human being who will die eventually (as opposed to a god or goddess who will live forever).
Isn't that a "mortal"? *Dan T.* 19:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'd call it an extended joke. Durova 01:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia on TV

I saw a commercial for Cisco that used a screenshot of Wikipedia on a laptop for a few seconds. Pretty cool.--G1076 06:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

admin

how exactly do you become an admin, and are there any other ranks available?

You have to pass a confirmation at Requests for Adminship. And there are some other ranks, but they just possess certain job-specific abilities beyond normal admins, like Wikipedia:Checkusers, who can test to see if different accounts are run by the same IP. The highest attainable rank is God-king, but there can only be one of those at any given time. --tjstrf Now on editor review! 16:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drizz't do'Urden Entry has been vandalized

The subject pretty much says it all. I'm not registered on Wiki, so I can't do anything, but maybe one of you could — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.56.211.142 (talk • contribs)

I reverted Drizzt Do'Urden to its previous version. (You should have been able to do that I think.) That user has vandalized the page three times today, so an Admin might want to look into some sort of blocking. —Wrathchild (talk) 19:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template talk:Europe#This and similar templates' names

More voices, please, in this dicussion that currently only has three!  Thanks, David Kernow (talk) 23:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

4000metres = ?

On several different airport pages, 4000 metres mean several different things. It sometimes states 13120ft, 13123ft, yet i've gotten 13124 on my calulator using 1*3.281. Which is the most correct? It is very confusing...

The actual conversion from meters to feet is 1 foot = .3048 meters [10]. Multiplying meters by 3.281 is an approximation to this (1/.3048 is actually 3.280839895013, more or less). Using this as the conversion factor, I get 13123.359580052 (which rounds to 13123). However, if we're counting significant digits, 4000 only has 4, so using only 4 digits for the answer yields 13120. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well actually, 4000 only has one significant digit. It depends on the context, if someone is talking about a 4000m race, for example, then we know that it's 'exactly' 4000m and so an accurate conversion is more appropriate, whereas if 4000m means "nearer to 4000m than it is to 3000m or 5000m" then something more crude would be OK. On an airport page I would expect 4000m to meane "at least 4000m" as it's probably talking about runway length and you wouldn't want to be overestimating their length! You could always remove the imperial measurement. MikesPlant 13:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question...

Why exactly are there idiots in the world who pretend to be gangsterrrr rappers and have horribly made MySpace pages, when in reality, they live in the suburbs?

Perclose Sutures...

Can anyone give me a bit of help on finding out what "PERCLOSE devics" are made of ? I have an allergy to nickle... .had renal surgery .. no "stents" due to being made of surgical steel,, ,the surgeon said it had nickle in it .I have reacted strongly on nickle when allergy tested,,, He wasn' too comfortable doing it, as I have a nasty latex allergy too. I had to instist he did it, or find another drs. He closed up my feromal artery with "permant staples" ,he was very cautious & hesitant to answer when I asked what he used... as he had been thinking all the edema was from anxiety.. .when it was from the kidneys arteries closing up. A few more days & they would've failed he said in the O.R., to the intern & nurses. They keep you half awake.

Since that time... I have been reacting intensely to my servre allergies..even minor ones cause a much stronger reaction. only thing that helps is staying on 100 mgs. o f Benadryl a day.. .never was like this before the surgery. I need proof to show the dr. .as he doesn't know much about allergic reactions.. If it is a nickle alloy,,, I need to get it replaced with something. I want to be able to live without being so doped up... tried of being sick & tired... exhausted from meds & ER visits,,, all the high doses of Predisone & Benadryl.


thanks for any help anyone can give me... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetmameeyes (talk • contribs)


Ninjas or Pirates?

There is a big discussion going on about ninjas and pirates. the disscusion topic is "which is more popular, Pirates or Ninjas?". Everybody has a lot to say about this question so please say what you think and don't be afraid because you need to speak to be heard.

Gogoboi662 11:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)Anthony Schade[reply]

Pirates, naturally. ;)--The Corsair 00:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ninjas, clearly. Deco 07:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Pirates. The fact that I'm former Navy has absolutely nothing to do with it. ;) Durova 13:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Pirates will own ninjas any day :P --Kar_the_Everburning 22:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Age profiling

Are there any statistics for what the median age of the average wikipedian contributor is? Or related results? Or guess-estimated results? Or general results/opinion/guesses about the average age of a wikipedian contributor/reader/anon-contributor? TIA. -- -- mowgli 20:28, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In what subject area? The age of the editors in a given area of Wikipedia will obviously vary based on who is interested in that subject. --tjstrf Now on editor review! 20:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Systematic & Organized Vandalism

Take a look at Julius Caesar. During that short 1 hour, about 15 vandalisms occurred from 3~4 users. They continue to vandalize, and challenge patrollers into revert wars. Something must be done against incidents such as these. I've noticed that many vandalisms have some type of systematic quality to them, as if they were organized among friends from schools. (Wikimachine 00:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]

If it's just anon IPs vandalising, the article could be semi-protected (I think this has already been discussed on the talk page). Looking through the different IPs vandalising, I've noticed that they are located all over the world (USA, Australia, UK, Netherlands) so if they were talking amongst themselves, it's probably not because they're in the same classroom. Having said that, the edits made around 18:00 UTC (that's 03:00 in South Korea) were made during school time in the USA, and one of the USA IPs vandalising 207.235.196.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has previously said on Talk:Main page that they are 'just chilllin up in this class' so its probably someone messing around in a lesson. Tra (Talk) 01:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've semi-protected the page. Durova 03:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot! I wish I could semi-protect. (Wikimachine 03:20, 26 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]
You've made over 3000 edits and participate in some good wikiprojects. You'd probably get that ability if you asked for it. Regards, Durova 13:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The (Hopefully Reversible) Decline of Wikipedia

I've used Wikipedia for years. I've had an account for years. I'm posting this anonymously because, in the past, when I've been candid, I've found some people become personally abusive as a result.

Tonight, I happened on a page where perfectly legitimate, double-sourced material was removed as "defamatory" in a POV edit by what appears to be both an ignorant and overzealous "administrator" cum "censor." I checked the administrator's record; he/she has been a Wiki user for less than a year. This "administrator" clearly doesn't understand defamation (I am an attorney -- I do).

To me, this sort of behavior articulates the growing problems with Wikipedia in a nutshell: Wiki used to be about building a big base of free knowledge. Now it's all about people trying to become administrators and their petty powers and suck-up circle. (When I see people asking to be administrators and organizing little suckup campaigns, my first reaction is, "that person does not deserve nor merit to be an administrator.") The levels of bureaucracy and rules and policies and templates here make the DMV look like a lemonade stand. Wikipedia is now an AV Society of Asocial Geeks who are obstructive and self-protective of their ridiculous little circles of power. To preserve that power, they're destroying Wikipedia in the process.

As a result, Wikipedia is narrowing its potential pool of contributors by becoming an entrenched bureaucracy as petty as the faculty of any also-ran community college. Just look how frickin' complex footnotes have become; how is a new contributor supposed to understand all that coding? Who wants to waste time learning? What was wrong with the old, simple footnote policy? How many tasks forces and little online committees and requests for proposals were necessary to come up with that byzantine silliness?

Most dangerously, Wikipedia is now self-destructing with this "living persons" policy which, absurdly, actually is exposing Wikipedia and all of its assets to legal peril. Wikipedia, simply put, is voiding its 47 USC 230 (c)(1) protection with all this heavy-handed screening and editing. You're inviting yourself to be sued by doing this and, in the process, voiding your own legal protections.

So what is my solution? I didn't just come here to bitch. My solution: simplify. Go back to the basics of what made Wikipedia great. Trim back all the bureaucracy and all the layers upon layers upon layers of policies and reviews and tasks forces and procedures and yada yada yada. Make CONTENT king; don't make the petty and monstrous bureaucracy king, as it is now. I can remember when Wiki's policies took ten minute to read. Now it would take ten days to read. That's just absurd.

I will continue to use and contribute to Wikipedia. I was here in the beginning, long before the vast majority of present administrators had even heard of the site and were still busy wasting their time on Friendster. I fear, however, that what made Wikipedia great is being lost. It's about information, people, not the bureaucracy. It's about content, not petty little turf wars and seeing how you can flex your little administrative powers. I'm constantly shocked by the rude and heavy-handed actions by administrators. Police yourself, people, before you try to make yourself look big by being small. 207.69.137.12 05:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you expand upon the 47 USC 230 part? -- Kjkolb 08:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If this editor is actually a lawyer and a seasoned contributor then I'm surprised he or she would choose to express complaints in this way. The obvious method for a practicing attorney to share a concern about potential lawsuit exposure would be to contact the Wikimedia foundation or its counsel. There are several ways to express misgivings about a particular administrator's actions. Open a dialogue with the administrator. Post to WP:AN or open a user conduct WP:RFC.
The way this editor presents the dispute, by making anonymous bad faith accusations against administrators in general and providing no page diffs or links, makes me doubt its credibility. Durova 19:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
In a 61 minute span the IP edited this page, Talk:Michele Bachmann, and Curt Weldon. It looks like this is about election politics. Durova 19:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I assume very good faith on the part of this anonymous IP. Perhaps, our check-users should be able to know of his/her real user identity, if he/she has one, so editing with a user name or an IP is immaterial. One has all the right to edit anonymously and to impute any motive to such anonymous edits is perhaps not a good idea. I also do believe that he is an attorney. Why he/she would assert so if he/she is not one? I also find that her/his general assertions are true. Wikipedia's style of functioning has become more rule-oriented and process-oriented, and this may not be killing wikipedia, it may be making the life of real editors and content builders difficult. --Bhadani 00:55, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
BTW, if one has done his/her work fine, and preapred the materials, he/she could do more pages in 61 minutes. If one works off line for say one month, one may upload 10 good articles in 5 to 10 minutes. There is nothing surprising in such fast edits. --Bhadani 01:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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