I think it is important to remember that anyone trying to suppress the
truth, will lose in the long run.
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On 24-02-2012 23:18, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Those people who would like to write on Wikipedia about any subject
can write a book or pdf about it. It does not have to be a scholarly
work in every aspect. And then, the Wikipedia in language X can decide
that it accepts this kind of literature as reli
Those people who would like to write on Wikipedia about any subject
can write a book or pdf about it. It does not have to be a scholarly
work in every aspect. And then, the Wikipedia in language X can decide
that it accepts this kind of literature as reliable. (Those various
standards are not uncom
On 24-02-2012 07:48, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from
their books. That's what historians are for.
Kind regards
Ziko
Ziko,
there's a lack of historians writing books outside Europe/US, specially
on some traditional oral history. They lo
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 18:56, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> PS I have no idea about the Serbian situation, and I am glad they do not
> need to discuss it anymore.
Not sure that we won't do that anyway. Just as a warning.
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on 2/24/12 1:35 PM, Nathan at nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Marc Riddell
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I agree with you, Yaroslav, that repeated and indiscriminate use of the
>> method would dilute its impact; and could come back to bite the Project.
>> But
>> I think it unwise
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Marc Riddell wrote:
>
> I agree with you, Yaroslav, that repeated and indiscriminate use of the
> method would dilute its impact; and could come back to bite the Project.
> But
> I think it unwise and unfair to put a flatly negative spin on the idea.
>
> Marc
>
>
I
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:51:13 -0500, Marc Riddell
> wrote:
>>> It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is
> becoming
>>> an
>>> accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how
>>> often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose. When it
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:51:13 -0500, Marc Riddell
wrote:
>> It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is
becoming
>> an
>> accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how
>> often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose. When it
>> happened
Nathan, 24/02/2012 18:13:
It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is becoming an
accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how
often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project-wide_protests
Wh
It seems that this was the protest with the fastest outcome.
Government of Serbia said that "they didn't plan to consider ACTA"
(text in serbian [1]) :)
[1]
http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?=2012&mm=02&dd=24&nav_category=12&nav_id=585437
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 18:13, Nathan wrote:
>
> On 24 February 2012 09:34, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> On 02/22/12 6:04 PM, David Goodman wrote:
>>
>>> There are many subjects in which there would be multiple schools of
>>> thought with little agreement; anyone following book reviews in the
>>> humanities or social sciences or even some of the
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:52 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>
>> On English Wikisource, we consider these to be public domain.
>> We tag them that as public domain and explain why.
>>
>> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Ethiopia
>> htt
On 24 February 2012 09:34, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> On 02/22/12 6:04 PM, David Goodman wrote:
>
>> There are many subjects in which there would be multiple schools of
>> thought with little agreement; anyone following book reviews in the
>> humanities or social sciences or even some of the sciences
Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from
their books. That's what historians are for.
Kind regards
Ziko
2012/2/24 Florence Devouard :
> On 2/23/12 7:29 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:10 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
>>>
>>> Splitting
On 02/22/12 6:04 PM, David Goodman wrote:
There are many subjects in which there would be multiple schools of
thought with little agreement; anyone following book reviews in the
humanities or social sciences or even some of the sciences would know
the intensity with which the highest level schola
On 02/23/12 11:41 AM, Sarah wrote:
If the oral citations (audio and video) were used as an adjunct to
more traditional sources, I think there would be no problem at all.
On the Holocaust page, we used to highlight a quote (now removed) from
a witness who talked to the BBC at the time of the Brit
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