Re: Des Small and Wikipedia

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:41:51 GMT

Des Small wrote:
>
> "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).
> """

My suggestion is posted elsewhere ...

> Wikipedia articles aren't signed, which is after all no less
> disgraceful than the Economist. (There is a history page, but life is

The New Yorker now signs everything, even the previously sacrosanctly
anonymous "Talk of the Town" pieces -- where it was amusing to try to
identify the contributors from their style and topic.

> 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.

Yet not of "abjad"? Hmm.

> Des
> hasn't contributed to wikipedia yet.

Good show! 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net