Re: Des Small and Wikipedia

From: Des Small (des.small_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:16:42 GMT

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> I made the mistake of clicking on the link you provided, and it told me
> I was downloading a file called "None," so I clicked Cancel and it
> crashed my Netscape.

Bad Netscape!

> So could you tell me what the article says, and who signed it?

Full text:

"""
Peter T. Daniels is a scholar of writing systems. He is notable for
being co-editor of the book The Worlds' Writing Systems, and coining
the now widely used term abugida.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Peter_T._Daniels&action=edit).
"""

Wikipedia articles aren't signed, which is after all no less
disgraceful than the Economist. (There is a history page, but life is
short.) It seems to exist so that there is a link for your name when
you are cited as the coiner of "abugida" in the entry on writing
systems.

Des
hasn't contributed to wikipedia yet. 

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