[Taxacom] Wikipedia rewrites

John Grehan jgrehan at sciencebuff.org
Fri Feb 13 11:40:52 CST 2009


That's understood. But I should have acknowledged that having a separate
page on the subject would also be a good idea, just not the only
approach. If I insert material in other pages I am prepared for the
censorship, and I will have to have the will to keep coming back.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick W Schueler [mailto:bckcdb at istar.ca]
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:38 PM
> To: John Grehan
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Wikipedia rewrites
> 
> John Grehan wrote:
> >
> > Wikipedia offers a potentially unique situation in which orthodoxy
has
> > no necessary control over content. So they may not like it. But so
what?
> 
> * I think the concern here is about the stability of your
contributions
> to wikipedia -- if you have a page called "Orangutan origins" nobody
can
> edit away your content, because that's what the page would be about.
But
> I predict that if you go into the main human origins pages, and try to
> insert orang-based evidence everywhere, you'll constantly find your
> edits undone.
> 
> fred.
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