Talk:William Ashley (economic historian)

Knighthood Edits
Hey Necrothesp. Kudos on the Knighthood edits. Your attention to detail is a credit to both your profession and wikipedia. I wonder if you caught Ben Macintyre's Times article on the pitfalls of bad editing on wikipedia, whether intentional or not. i guess with dedicated wikipedians such as yourself around, this is an ever diminishing problem :-)

Macintyre's article from The Times 21/07/06 - How wiki-wiki can get sticky

P.S. Not sure if this will work after today - it might update with his regular column, I'm not sure. Anyhow, I outlined the gist of the article on his page/his talk page - he made a slight and amusing error at the end of it! Istartfires 17:26, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I quite agree with your comments. Macintyre's opinions are both entirely justified and sadly accurate and, mores the pity for wikipedia users, I'm not so sure that there's reason to be optimistic. Since the number of vandalising idiots appears to be increasing at the same rate as good editors, then I don't see the problems Macintyre details diminishing any time soon. As he says, there really are "nutters" out there, not to mention the large body of people who simply insist on adding rubbish articles just for the sake of it. For instance, anything even vaguely related to sci-fi is bound to have a huge page dedicated to it. I'm not saying this is such a terrible thing, but does it really belong in a grown-ups encyclopedia? I for one don't think so. Ariaconditzione 07:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Not so sure bout that lol. Article is funny tho, you have to admit. Yer lol, theree is like WAY too much sci-fi going on around here. What is up with people?! Anyhows, article link still seems to work, which is a bonus. Not sure if he's written a new one yet tho. Istartfires 17:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Rename / replace
May I suggest that this article is replaced to William James Ashley? I don't understand why William James Ashley is a redirect. This is his proper name. Dick Bos (talk) 12:25, 26 January 2014 (UTC)