[Public-List] Alberg 30 in Wiki

Neil Williams neilww at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 13:46:53 PDT 2020


I'm sure you made edits under your Wiki user & pw identifiers... I gave up
on contributing to Wikip as folks with particular positions about topics
tend to curate only their views & data.  Demonstrates Wikip is a starting
point, but not entirely accurate, comprehensive or unbiased.  NW

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:19 PM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Thanks George,
>
> He makes no mention of racing... states that full keels relate to poor
> pointing, which of course is an erroneous suggestion…  makes reference to
> ‘wooded’ boats meaning I presume wooden, but relates the thickness of
> earlier fibreglass hulls to wooden scantlings which is silly in context of
> the A30,
>
> I guess I’ll give up,
>
>
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 29, 2020, at 11:36 AM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> > Gord,
> >
> > I presume you're talking about Wikipedia. I look at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alberg_30&action=history and
> see that what I presume are your edits have been reverted by Adam Hunt (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ahunt) who seems to have designated
> themselves as protector of the page, reverting changes made by others.
> >
> > - George
> >
> > On 7/29/20 8:26 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List wrote:
> >> Good morning friends,
> >> I seem to be locked into a loop.
> >> For some reason, well I have to admit the reason was mental drifting
> during a telephone conference meeting, I opened the Alberg 30 Wiki page.
> In it I found a large number of factual and grammatical errors, which I
> corrected by means of Wiki’s edit function.
> >> Some time later I looked again, and the errors and nonsensical
> statements had been put back.  I corrected… they were later put back in….
> I think I’m in a wrestling match with someone.
> >> It’s not one of us, is it?
> >> Gordon Laco
> >> www.gordonlaco.com
> >> 426 Surprise
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