[AccessD] Friday/weekend scaring reading: Wikipedia and JET

 I'm definitely retired and have some time...tell me what you want to say
and I'll take the time to clean it up for you....

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:02 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Friday/weekend scaring reading: Wikipedia and JET

I don't think it's fair to dump all this responsibility to correct this
entry upon Gustav. Even though he is a fabulously wealthy magnate with
billions to spare and allegedly retired, having nothing better to do than
play with scantily clad nympettes and write brilliant VBA code, we ought not
foist all this responsibility upon him. Amongst us all, we could revise this
entry to be accurate.

That's what Wikipedia is all about, IMO. Some dumbass posts his or her take
on some subject, and it gets revised by the more knowledgeable set of
readers and writers.

I've a niece in graduate school whose prof said, "Never trust Wikipedia". I
hate this response. It says to me, "I know where the author is incorrect,
but rather than post revisions, I shall instead declare the entire
enterprise worthless and beneath contempt."

Such persons can go fart in the nearest lake, IMO.

The whole point of Wikipedia is that we collectively fix its entries. In
this narrow and specific example, several of us, if not most, on this list,
know considerably more about JET that the author of the existing entry. The
original contributor may have thought herself in possession of most or all
the facts. Clearly this is not the case. But attacking her (or him) is
unproductive: let us fix the entry and let us not foist it upon Gustav to
fix it.

Let us not issue diatribes about the incorrectness of the original entry,
but simply and quietly and without malice render it more accurate.

How to coordinate our collective corrections is another issue, but one best
manage by Wiki itself. We can all contribute to the history of JET, to the
best of our abilities, and render this first submission a good start but
since enhanced.

A.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Dan Waters <dwaters at usinternet.com> wrote:

> Gustav,
>
> I think you could modify the Wikipedia entry to be correct!
>
> Dan
>
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