Someone writes: climate? We all want to be nice and helpful when someone asks us a question; it is only natural. But there is a great danger to directly answering questions like these: In a short amount of time Wikipedia might become known as a place where people can mail in requests for info, and then we will be flooded with thousands of requests each month for help on homework and research. We'd get questions from people in junior high, high school, and college. I think if we get such requests, we should tell them to read the relevant articles on Wikipedia (as well as suggest to them that they need to use multiple sources). The only times we need to answer such questions is when the questions reveal a gap in Wikipedia articles. (i.e. if someone asks a good question that interests us, and Wikipedia has nothing on that topic, then maybe its a good idea to begin doing a little work on that topic.) I don't like saying "No" to specific requests for information, but if the OED and the Encyclopedia Brittanica usually answered such requests, then they might never have completed the first edition of their works. Your mileage may vary, Robert (RK) ===== "I prefer a wicked person who knows he is wicked, to a righteous person who knows he is righteous". The Seer of Lublin [Jacob Isaac Ha-Hozeh Mi-Lublin, 1745-1815] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/