[Public-List] Alberg 30 in Wiki

George Dinwiddie gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
Wed Jul 29 14:16:43 PDT 2020


Wikipedia favors "secondary sources" over primary sources or first-hand 
knowledge. I wonder if you wrote some articles I could publish in the 
A30 site, then you could edit the wikipedia page and cite those 
articles. :-)

  -  George

On 7/29/20 3:19 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List 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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   When I remember bygone days                         George Dinwiddie
   I think how evening follows morn;            gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
   So many I loved were not yet dead,           http://www.Alberg30.org
   So many I love were not yet born.                          also see:
                'The Middle' by Ogden Nash     http://idiacomputing.com
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