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Revision 2 . . September 28, 2001 9:58 am by (logged).62.87.xxx [*a modest proposal]
Revision 1 . . September 23, 2001 8:04 am by Simon J Kissane
  

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Note from [bleeding heart history student]?:
Hey, I just wanted to complain a bit about what you are doing.
Your approach is far off from a traditional encyclopedia or
scholarly work,
1. it uses extremely subjective language in its word choices.
2. You cite no reference sources.
3. You take things that are arguable interpretations
and state them as though they were facts. This
is what is done in high school history books, but I happen
to prefer that something that is quite arguable be left
as 'some people think x and some people thiink y'. This
lets the reader open up to new ideeas and exercise their
own gray mellon rather than being force fed the pet peeves
of some crusty old academic.
4. You tend toward the 'history is a war timeline' way of presenting our past, which is depressing as hell. is there not more to the story of mankind that who slaughtered whom?



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