QUOTE(It's the blimp, Frank @ Thu 10th November 2011, 1:51pm)
Here's an odd character.QUOTE
I feel like I’m living the first line of my obituary.
You can't see his photo on that page, but when it pops up at Wikipedia, he looks like he works part-time at a meth lab.
The rest of that paragraph.
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I don’t think there will be anything else that I do in my life as important as what I do now for Wikipedia. We’re not just building an encyclopedia, we’re working to make people free. When we have access to free knowledge, we are better people. We understand the world is bigger than us, and we become infected with tolerance and understanding.
It follows, then, that those who are banned have been working to make people slaves, to oppress them, to deprive them of "free knowledge," to ban them, uh .... never mind, strike "ban." What was I saying? Ah, yes, Wikipedia is the embodiment of all Truth and Goodness, send usyour money.
Give a man a fish, he's fed for one day. Teach him to fish, he's fed for life. Give him "free knowledge," he's, he's, he's ...
Addicted to editing Wikipedia.
Knowledge is never free. Acquiring it takes experience, work, and courage. Sometimes even money. If one needs a taste of knowledge, a hint, one can sometimes find it at Wikipedia. Real knowledge, the kind that actually does make people free, cannot be found on Wikipedia, what remained of it has mostly been deleted or revised literally to death. Used to be you could find links to truly useful web sites on Wikipedia. Gone, for the most part, for this or that "reason." "Site has advertising on it, remove as spam." "Site advocates a point of view."
(people who have knowledge advocate the points of view developed through the knowledge, so
of course they advocate it.)
(Those, by the way, were made-up standards, but are based on real situations that actually damaged the project because an admin enforced the idea.)