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It's comforting to see that even demigods get it wrong sometimes. Knuth shouldn't have used Wikipedia as his blog.
by Agathos 17y ago
It's comforting to see that even demigods get it wrong sometimes. Knuth shouldn't have used Wikipedia as his blog.
- ellyagg 17y agoThat's a fairly stupid characterization of what happened.
- hughprime 17y agoI looked at the edit in question. He didn't just add in his opinion on wikipedia out of the blue, he corrected a misstatement of his opinion by someone else. In the end, the whole sentence was removed by a third party on the grounds that Knuth's opinion on wikipedia really doesn't matter enough to be part of the Knuth article anyway.
- Agathos 17y agoSomeone else started it, but Knuth continued it. So two people made mistakes. It's understandable and I might do the same in his situation (once I'm important enough for an article, of course). But it's still against policy and if it continued some people's articles would read like blogs.