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I believe that biographical articles should always tell you why the subject was important enough to merit an article. In particular I think that means that a biographical article on a scientist should always include some discussion of the subject's work and how it fit into the historical development
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article back in August 2006. Naturally, after I corrected it, my edit was reverted out (probably by someone who thought I was a vandal) the next day. I managed to find some online references to support my position and managed to make my edit stick. Once I made one edit to the article I just had to
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concept even though he probably hates it. Whenever I use Knowledge as a reference I never stop with the article I started with, so I believe that cross linking between articles is incredibly important and I try to spend time adding cross links wherever I find them
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I am a software engineer who has worked on embedded system software and on data communication protocols, on devices such as cable modems, VoIP systems, and wireless comunication devices. I played a role in the early development of both the
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Although my professional expertise is in SW engineering I rarely edit those articles. Instead I do most of my editing on articles related to the
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I had used Knowledge as a reference for years, but I only became a Wikipedian, when I stumbled across an incorrect fact in the
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I believe that many otherwise reasonably good articles on scientific topics don't have enough historical context.
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of whatever scientific field that person contributed to, not just a laundry list of career achievements.
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Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Knowledge editors
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Courts order Knowledge to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
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I believe that Knowledge should be as easy to use as possible so I also spend time adding redirects.
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Indian courts order Knowledge to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
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on August 15, 2006 (18 years, 1 month, 2 weeks and 2 days ago).
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I also believe that Knowledge is one of the best practical realizations of
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and some others. I also plan to improve some of the articles connected to
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I believe it was no accident that the greatest literary project of the
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For helping to taking 2 important and complex works to FA,
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I believe that Knowledge represents a major step towards
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for political reasons, but it finally got switched back.
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For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
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Evolutionary ideas of the renaissance and enlightenment
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enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Rusty Cashman!
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systems, and I am currently working in the areas of
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