If we're so much offtopic...
NH>> dollars to pour into his defence, and another guy can literally get away
NH>> with murder in criminal court, and yet be found guilty in a civilian court.
That happens because the burden of proof in the civil court is lower than
in the criminal court. And that is
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] Wikipedia &
Jimmy Wales":
> If somebody registers "david-shay.co.il" and you want to register
> "shay-david.co.il" or "davidshay.co.il" or "david-shay.com" or anything
>
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] Wikipedia & Jimmy
Wales":
Believe me, I know.
Uri, I am sorry, I don't think this particular argument sounds very
c
Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
You won't believe if I told you what happens in paper encyclopedia. These
evil pits of corruption are ruled by absolute dictators hiding under the
name of "editors", and not only they are not obliged to accept input from
anybody - everybody is actually permanently banned
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I'm not so sure about the deleted comments, but I did go over all the
changes to the actual page (not the discussion) that took place during
those two days. It seems that the page was in the middle of a stupid
edit war. Most of the deleted comments, as far as I could tell,
Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> OK, you asked for an example, you got it. Look at the history of
> "שיחה:אריאל שרון" from 28 May 2005. There were comments by an anonymous
> user which were deleted by the system administrators. Read the
> discussion and then read the comments that were deleted.
>
> http:
UE>> happens in Wikipedia and it happens in the police, army or any system
UE>> where people have power. But in Wikipedia there is nowhere to complain.
UE>> Nobody will do anything to people who abuse their power. So
UE>> eventually, I think Wikipedia is corrupt.
You won't believe if I told you
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] Wikipedia &
> Jimmy Wales":
> > Believe me, I know.
Uri, I am sorry, I don't think this particular argument sounds very
convincing..
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] Wikipedia &
Jimmy Wales":
> OK, you asked for an example, you got it. Look at the history of
> "שיחה:אריאל שרון" from 28 May 2005. There were comments by an anonymous
> user which were deleted by
This doesn't have much to do with Linux, but since most people interested
in free software are also interested in free content, I hope that people
aren't too upset about this thread of discussion.
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] Wikipedia &
Ji
OK, you asked for an example, you got it. Look at the history of
"שיחה:אריאל שרון" from 28 May 2005. There were comments by an anonymous
user which were deleted by the system administrators. Read the
discussion and then read the comments that were deleted.
http://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t
Hi Shachar,
I'm sorry, Uri, but when raising such serious allegations, i.e. that you
were banned based on the fact that you tried to correct incorrect
information,
There is no absolute "incorrect information". There are opinions. I
tried to change something that was wrong in my opinion, and
Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
>> Care to give specific examples, so we can form an independent opinion?
>> The articles you tried to fix, as well as the username you were using,
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> I prefer not to give specific examples. I refer to Wikipedia i
By the way...
A friend of mine has a name which is slightly similar to a Wikipedia
operator. He tried to register to Wikipedia but was immediately banned
just because of his name. If you think that's not an evil dictatorship
then what is?
Uri.
--
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Care to give specific examples, so we can form an independent opinion?
The articles you tried to fix, as well as the username you were using,
would be greatly appreciated.
I prefer not to give specific examples. I refer to Wikipedia in general
and not to specific example
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "Re: [off topic] Wikipedia &
Jimmy Wales":
> Wikipedia is not free. Wikipedia is operated by people, with hierarchic
> ranks, who control it. Anything in the articles which doesn't fit their
> agenda will be removed
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:34:09AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Wikipedia is not free. Wikipedia is operated by people, with hierarchic
> ranks, who control it. Anything in the articles which doesn't fit their
> agenda will be removed or modified, and any person whom they don't like
> (for any
Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> You can't correct falsehoods in Wikipedia. Believe me, I tried. If the
> editors ("system operators") don't like what you wrote, it will be
> changed back and you will be banned. Wikipedia is a dictatorship.
> There is no way to appeal on a system operator's decision to b
Hi Nadav,
Can you explain why you recommend reading those sites, much of which appear
to be the writings of a nudnik at best, or a raving lunatic at worst?
Wikipedia's method of operation is well-known. Nothing written on it comes
with any promise of being correct. But, unlike much of the rest o
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about "[off topic] Wikipedia & Jimmy
Wales":
> I recommend reading this article (in Hebrew), and looking at the
> websites below:
> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3180710,00.html
>
> http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/
Hi people,
I recommend reading this article (in Hebrew), and looking at the
websites below:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3180710,00.html
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/
http://www.google-watch.org/
By the way, www.google-watch.org has a Google PageRank of 6, and appears
#17 when sear
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