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Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-09-2013, 02:16 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-09-2013, 02:41 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - The People - 11-09-2013, 03:03 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-14-2013, 05:10 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - nats - 11-15-2013, 04:30 AM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - MakersDozn - 11-15-2013, 08:58 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-26-2013, 04:30 AM
Wikipedia. A surprise!
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Caution  Wikipedia. A surprise!
I use Wikipedia a lot. Often I copy and paste parts of their articles, e-mailing this material to myself.

Some time ago, I registered -- User ID and Password, which I generally don't use because there hasn't been a request for Log On that I can recall. Today, they requested it. The article I was looking at (about a foreign celebrity) remained onscreen. I figured I could read it either way, but chose to log on.

They had separate headings in smaller print on the same line as Log Off, at page top. You'll never guess what I found?
This particular word was in blue (like a link!), and was the distinctive name of one of my personal e-mail file folders dealing with creative thinking. I have probably, most certainly, copied and pasted parts of Wiki articles into e-mail under that heading, as well as lots of other headings. What I was looking up today went to a different file. My e-mail account title does Not contain this word.

No, I did not click on what I'm quite certain was a link into my e-mail account. If confronted by something like this, I won't seek to reinforce it electronically. I should have copied the page. Maybe I'll go back and do that now.

I don't know if anyone who has registered with Wikipedia, and signed on recently, has had this happen. Or is it, if I remember correctly, that I openly supported a controversial cause in the past, and so forth.

I'm stunned.
tweeter
"Even the very emptiest of the emptiest
Has a false bottom, a false bottom."
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2013, 02:18 PM by tweeter.)
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Messages In This Thread
Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-09-2013, 02:16 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-09-2013, 02:41 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - The People - 11-09-2013, 03:03 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-14-2013, 05:10 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - nats - 11-15-2013, 04:30 AM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - MakersDozn - 11-15-2013, 08:58 PM
RE: Wikipedia. A surprise! - tweeter - 11-26-2013, 04:30 AM

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