[WikiEN-l] One Where We Blew It

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Wed Sep 7 18:27:46 UTC 2005


Curses, I thought I had come up with something original! ;-)

FF

On 9/7/05, Geoff Burling <llywrch at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> 
> I guess this is an application of a rule that Jimbo mentions in his
> emails from time to time: the Principle of Least Astonishment. That is,
> if you consider Wikipedia's coverage of a given topic definitive,
> authorative, &/or exhaustive, it would reasonably astonish the reader
> if there was not an article about a specific subject.
>



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