[Wikipedia-l] RE: F***

Mon Sep 23 21:46:40 UTC 2002

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|From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
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|Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:34:35 -0400
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|I know I'll get in trouble for this, but in the spirit of "be bold" I
|deleted the [[Fuck]] article. It just seemed pointless to have an
|article called f***.
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|If someone wants to write an article on obscenity or censorship, and
|treat the problems the term f*** has had, fine. But I don't want to see
|every dirty word (or word that's gotten the dirty end of the stick) have
|its own article.
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|Ed Poor
|An "old fart"
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It's not every dirty word, Ed, it's one important word, so important
that one of the most distinguished American lexicographers wrote a
whole book about it.  

It's back now, and is being edited.  

Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88