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Johann Hari[edit]

The Council of the Orwell Prize have today issued a statement.--A bit iffy (talk) 13:25, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article title[edit]

There is a bit of gray here, so I'm not personally going to change the title, but "recants" isn't quite the right word - it should be "confesses". To recant is to publicly disavow a position or statement that one has made in one's own name, previously; in this case, what is being disavowed is surreptitious editing, not an open, avowed position regarding what is right and wrong. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 16:49, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Michael K. Williams[edit]

I found the erroneous fact in the article from May to October of 2007 but I don't see that it was readded more recently. Seems a bit unfair to complain of something broken and fixed that long ago. Rmhermen (talk) 07:21, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is "Newtonian conception"?[edit]

Regarding: "... quite differently to the traditional Newtonian conception held in business circles".

What does "Newtonian conception" mean in this context? Reference to something (planets) orbiting a central thing (the Sun)? --Mortense (talk) 09:27, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

maybe it means "old-fashioned" and/or "objective", as in "newtonian = classical = superseded by modern things like relativity = non-relative and non-modern"? just a wild guess. very weird writing indeed.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 02:57, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia vs Tumblr[edit]

The important thing to remember here is that this is based on absolute pageviews - not uniques! --U5K0'sTalk_{Make WikiLove not WikiWar} 21:04, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]