User:Larry Sanger/Archive

(This page archived Feb. 14, 2003.)

I've settled in the Columbus, Ohio area.



Columbus has a lot of squirrels. Sometimes I feel like this when working on Wikipedia--hard to explain.


 * Because sometimes it seems like a gathering of nuts? Sorry, coudln't resist. --LDC


 * No, actually because it's a fuzzy cute small animal that looks like it's saying, "Who, me?" :-)

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(This picture was taken for a New York Times article about Wikipedia.)

What I've written here
I worked on many hundreds of articles. I originated quite a few. I inflicted a series of philosophy lectures first on Ohio State students, and now on Wikipedia.

I wrote a few 'pedia-related columns, which I moved to Wikipedia's meta-discussion wiki.

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 A message in a bottle to Larry Sanger. ..

I am not yet clear on what happened before I encountered Wikipedia and Nupedia, but I do know what it is to work on something that matters.

. . . And that the work is the important thing.

. . . And that the quality of your work speaks for itself.

Oh yeah! . ..

F*** `em if they can't take a joke! -- NetEsq

Thanks! I appreciate that. Yep, I'd like to put the unpleasantness behind me. The treatment was rough while it lasted but the whole process of making and guiding Wikipedia from the beginning was also fun and rewarding. But y'know I'm very glad that Wikipedia is surviving without me. :-) --Larry

Here's a link for you to try: 

It's a recient changes list for everything linked from List of philosophical topics. It should have nearly all the topics that currently exist, and links to a number of potential topics, so there's a good chance new philosophy topics will show up on the list as well. Hopefully it will be useful to you.

Thanks for putting it together, Mark. I already tried it and it's pretty neat. I just hope some coder puts together a plan of action for how we can auto-categorize (and hand-recategorize) existing and newer links, so that this sort of resource is available for all Main Page fields, and kept up to date. --Larry Sanger

Dear Larry: I wrote the Eugene Wigner article. I promise you it is not plagiarized or copyrighted material.

Sincerely, Andrew Szanton ASzanton@rcn.com

Great! I'm glad to hear it! Fantastic article. --Larry Sanger

Hi, Larry. See the Bayesian Probability talk page. You will observe that I agreed with you. The article contains an error that I may correct once I've figured out what should replace it. Michael Hardy 22:32 Jan 18, 2003 (UTC) PS: That's a good picture of you right under the statement that you've settled in Columbus, Ohio, but who's that guy in front of the keyboard?