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Re: Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 20:43
Right with Dirk there.  My langs may be artlangs for lack of a better
category, but my purpose in creating them was not artistic expression.

As for one-stop shopping for information, there's this thing called Google...


On 2/26/08, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:36 AM, <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote: > > > Dirk, > > One of the reasons I like Wikipedia is that it is all available from the > > same > > place and it has search functions. > > It's one-stop shopping, for good or ill. > > > I agree; I use it frequently as well. I was not trying to malign Wikipedia; > I'll leave that for others to do. As for constructed languages, I think that > the solution others have proposed (general article about language > construction, links to prominent constructed languages) is reasonable. > > As for regarding crafts as art, I recognize that people do this as well. > Perhaps I'm just being stubborn, but I still don't regard my language > construction activity as art. Others may treat it as such, but not because I > present it that way. > > stevo </HTML> > > > > Dirk > -- > Miapimoquitch: Tcf Pt*p+++12,4(c)v(v/c) W* Mf+++h+++t*a2c*g*n4 Sf++++argh > Lc++d++600 >
-- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>