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Started by Scott5114, January 27, 2009, 09:47:00 PM

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#175
November 24, 2013, 09:46:37 PM  
Quote from: 1 on November 24, 2013, 11:35:49 AM
Also, MA 28 had vandalism for 17 days
17 days? Clutch the pearls!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alabama_State_Route_33&diff=583059849&oldid=564138530 (the actual reason was that 33 was east-west and 36 was north-south, and Alabama changed to directional parity in 1957, but that's original research without a better source than maps)
pre-1945 Florida route log

I accept and respect your identity as long as it's not dumb shit like "identifying as a vaccinated attack helicopter".

J N Winkler

#176
June 23, 2014, 10:52:21 AM  
Apologies for the bump, but this Slate article on Wikipedia's bureaucratic creep may be of interest to some:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/wikipedia_s_bureaucracy_problem_and_how_to_fix_it.html
"It is necessary to spend a hundred lire now to save a thousand lire later."--Piero Puricelli, explaining the need for a first-class road system to Benito Mussolini

rschen7754

#177
June 23, 2014, 01:23:13 PM  
Heh, I know who that is :O

Getting your user account renamed is probably one of the most bureaucratic things on Wikimedia though. You have to go to each language Wikipedia/Commons/Wikisource/Wiktionary etc. that you have an account on and make a request, and prove that the account is yours. There's also usurpations, and global account deletion...
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