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  1. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    Dear readers,

    We'll get right to it: This week we ask you to help Wikipedia. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We're sustained by donations averaging about [Dollars]15. Only a tiny portion of our readers give. Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. That's right, the price of a cup of coffee is all we need. If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it online and growing. We're a small non-profit with costs of a top website: servers, staff and programs. We serve millions of readers, but we run on a fraction of what other top sites spend. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park where we can all go to learn. Wikipedia is written by a community of volunteers with a passion for sharing the world’s knowledge. Please help us end the fundraiser and improve Wikipedia. Thank you.
     
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  3. danshawen Valued Senior Member

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    I've always been a strong supporter of Wikipedia. Most of their technical articles are very complete, well written and researched. The bibliographic references can take research on a subject in dozens of worthwhile directions, even if some educators disapprove of Wikipedia as a sole source.

    The only turn-0ffs have been the very censored treatment of biographies of important people like Ayn Rand, and this happens because Jimmy Wales happens to be a libertarian. I'm not a fan of Rand, her philosophy, or her books. For almost every worthwhile idea she advocated, there are better examples from other philosophers and authors. The Mike Wallace interview with her was the 21st century equivalent of her inclusion in the Encyclopedia of American Loons. She would most definitely belong.

    Few celebrities came away from a Mike Wallace interview without answering hard questions for a few of their transgressions, and Rand was no exception. But you won't find that interview or any of its content referenced in the pages of Wikipedia.

    The closest Mike's illegitimate son Chris has been able to do along those lines was the Bill Clinton interview. Entertaining and perhaps deserved, but Clinton was too good a politician to let Chris come away from that interview looking clean. Mike would have taken him down for the count.
     
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