[Taxacom] IRMNG update

[John Grehan]

My point made I guess. And if people cannot do a search beyond Wikipedia
then I guess there is no hope for the world or anything.

John Grehan

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> The problem with what you are doing John is that there is little to bring
> people to your site. Instead, many people will look first to Wikipedia, not
> realizing that it is a battleground of territorial mobs and fragile egos
> who have the power to block even entire countries from editing WP, without
> being accountable to anyone, except for a handful of "sensitive IP
> addresses" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_IP_
> addresses#Sensitive_IP_addresses) involving the US, Canadian or UK
> governments, or major corporations like Microsoft who might be able to win
> a lawsuit!
>
> Stephen
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 30/8/16, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Taxacom] IRMNG update
>  To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
>  Cc: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>, "Doug Yanega" <
> dyanega at ucr.edu>
>  Received: Tuesday, 30 August, 2016, 5:43 PM
>
>  With such
>  Wikipedia headaches why would anyone bother to put up with
>  such aggravations? I'm so glad I decided to make my own
>  page for my group where I am an absolute dictator when it
>  comes to content and no one to complain or plot against me
>  :)
>  John
>  Grehan
>  On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at
>  9:30 PM, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
>  wrote:
>  Yes,
>  well, Wikipedia is up to you. For my trouble commenting on
>  Wikipedia about this issue, one of the insidious little WP
>  misanthropes (Kevin) has filed a sockpuppet investigation
>  against me (https://en.wikipedia.org/
>  wiki/User_talk:SEThorpe? markasread=86768151), so I expect
>  to be blocked shortly (if not already).
>
>
>
>  Stephen
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------ --------------
>
>  On Tue, 30/8/16, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>   Subject: Re: [Taxacom] IRMNG update
>
>   To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>,
>  taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>
>   Received: Tuesday, 30 August, 2016, 12:51 PM
>
>
>
>   On 8/29/16 5:11 PM,
>
>   Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>
>   > The junior
>
>   homonym, Aellopos Muenster, 1836 (a fossil fish), seems
>  to
>
>   have been replaced by the next oldest name in its
>  synonymy,
>
>   i.e. Spathobatis Thiollière, 1849.
>
>   >
>
>   For some reason, I was having problems tracking
>
>   that down. Thanks. I see
>
>   you commented on
>
>   Wikipedia, but in this case, the homonym needs to
>
>   redirect readers to Spathobatis, which already
>
>   has a page.
>
>
>
>   Peace,
>
>
>
>   --
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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