Re: wiki "abuse"

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Heya,

2010/8/9 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>:
> You must be one of those übermench to whom the concept of
> procrastination is unknown :)

Not that, but I am leery of people trying to promote their site like this.

> FWIW the contents were (sorry Johannes):
>
>    Amir E. Aharoni, a proud SVN user.
>
>    * [http://aharoni.wordpress.com/ Aharoni in Unicode, ya mama - blog]
>    ** [http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/advocacy-for-the-uncool/ a
>    reality check for git fanboys]
>
> FWIW he seems to be able to contribute to Wikipedia without being
> banned for trolling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80

I think there's a significant quality difference between that
wikipedia profile and what was on the wiki.

> As an aside, that's not an unusual user page for Wikipedia. Which I
> think goes a long way to clearing up the obvious culture clash here.

I agree, the Wikipedia page looks a lot more like a user page, and a
lot less like a shameless plug because his wiki profile links to other
wiki pages, not to his personal website.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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