User talk:Bielle/Archives/2012/September

Quote regarding the "business of being offended" quote
Hi there, I recently read this brilliant quote from Anaxagoras on your user page and loved it. Do you have a source confirming it was from Anaxagoras? I'm trying track down a reliable source but so far no luck. So far all I've found is several sites attributing it to Anaxagoras (yours was at the top of the google results) and this book which uses it but without any attribution. A8875 (talk) 21:58, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * You have just sent me on a wonderful chase. I knew I had copied it from someone else's user page. I went to all the usual suspects ( Malleus, Antandrus,  Giano and  Angr), all of whom have interesting statements about WP and its "civility" policy, but couldn't find the quote.  I then did the same Google search you did, though it had not registered with me that you had identified the Rauch book. I went to it on Amazon, and looked at page 159 (isn't preview wonderful?) and there it was, without attribution, as you had said. I usually give credit to my sources for quotes, so next I thought to check my user page's history. Fortunately, I don't change it often. There was the name:  East718. The quote is not on the current version of his/her user page, but it was also relatively easy to find in the history. If you take a look, you will see the mistake I made. Now, I am correcting it.  Thanks for asking the question. Bielle (talk) 23:38, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Glad I could help out. We both learned something new today. A8875 (talk) 19:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)


 * By Googling, I seem to find it most often attributed to Jonathan Rauch. Whether he picked it up from Anaxagoras, I wouldn't know. --Trovatore (talk) 01:55, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see; that was the correction you made. Sorry for the interruption. --Trovatore (talk) 01:59, 27 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Not a problem; age visitors are always welcome to comment. Bielle (talk) 23:45, 27 September 2012 (UTC)