User talk:Dmh
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Interesting. The IP address in question is owned by Google, not my ISP. I'm running Google's accelerator, and I was trying to edit a page I'd visited several times recently, therefore ... Presumably MyWikiBiz is doing the same thing. Except I'd expect to see a lot more people blocked. Anyway, if you have a look at my contributions, you'll see I'm not writing for MWB.
For what it's worth, I'm not sure that paying people to write Wikipedia articles is bad, per se. It's very much in line with Stallman's model of free software, where the code is free but it's fine (and even encouraged) to pay people to write it. What I find objectionable about MWB is the aim is clearly advertising. $100 for writing a 3-paragraph blurb seems a little on the steep side as well, but caveat emptor. -Dmh 04:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Turning of Google acceleration for wikipedia seemed to fix the problem. -Dmh 04:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
I read that. :) You brought up some nice points. Personally, I still have no idea what to make of the whole thing. The Google accelerator does seem to have been leading to some interesting autoblock issues, lately -- it's also interesting when non-blocked users end up loading Google-cached "you have been blocked from editing" versions of pages. ;) Well, we'll figure a way around it all, somehow, I hope. Luna Santin 05:00, 13 October 2006 (UTC)r
[edit] SQL
I see you reverted my attempt to remove weasel words from the misnomer article. It has been a while since my active study of SQL, but I'm rather sure that the statement has at least some bit of truth in it. While PL/SQL is structured and is a complete (i.e. Turing complete) language, SQL itself (especially at the time of its naming) is not. –Gunslinger47 09:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Winningest
As I stated in my edit summary, the word is considered informal. In the link you sent me "-adjective informal". It is of quite recent coinage (1970's or so) and may easily confuse non-native speakers of English. By comparison, "most successful" is a far more common construction which is equally informative. (It is obvious what he is "most successful" at - as the entire phrase is "most successful coach", the sentence clearly parses to indicate the most successful at coaching.) By comparison, "winningest" is an unfortunate, ugly-sounding, and possibly confusing alternative.
If you feel "most successful (at) coach(ing)" is too vague, I'd suggest "has the best win/loss record of any coach" or a similar construction. It was my understanding that win/loss ratio was the principle factor people looked at in determining whether a coach was a success or not. Is this incorrect?
Cheers, Kasreyn 03:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
