The article says "The most notable instance of this was on the night Barack Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry, "Barack Obama is the new SOCIALIST President of the United States of America."", but the closest I could find was this edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=249916284&oldid=prev&g… lasted for about one minute. I wonder what she saw. On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard &lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: "WODUP"

It's free association, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(psychology) Fred

2008/12/21 David Gerard &lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: "Wikipedia's founding belief is that everyone has one subject (dropping the gearbox out of a Ford Ghia, the life and works of Morton Harket of A-Ha, making wild-berry chutney), on which they are an expert - and could, therefore, then contribute an entry on said subject to Wikipedia. " I've never considered this to be Wikipedia's founding belief. Wikipedia culture is far more geared toward referencing than expertise, and toward generalism rather than specificism. Expertise can certainly mean that someone is more dexterous with concepts and handling references relating to a subject, but knowing something in your head is useless for Wikipedia unless you can point out where this fact is written. Expertise is certainly welcome, but has never been an assumption. I would say that Wikipedia's founding belief is closer to "you don't need to be an expert to write about something, as long as you research the subject and reference legitimate sources". -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)

By Caitlin Moran's numbers 70% of wikipedia should be porn. Where is the porn? :P Identifying me as a " incredibly tedious nerd" would probably be an understatement. - White Cat On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:13 AM, David Gerard &lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: