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Old May 24, 2013, 8:37 am
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I don't see any option to edit the wiki
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Old May 24, 2013, 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by the hotel bar
I don't see any option to edit the wiki
It seems you just crossed the magic 90 post barrier set for wiki. Perhaps you need to log in/out for it to be active.
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Old May 24, 2013, 8:54 am
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It seems you just crossed the magic 90 post barrier set for wiki. Perhaps you need to log in/out for it to be active.
Thanks for the heads up! Done!

Also Oliver, your exchange with him on that thread is hilarious.

Apparently he doesn't take it well when you needed 3 seconds to correct what "he" spent 80 hours researching

(to make no mention of the other dozen posts he didn't take well)
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Old May 24, 2013, 9:08 am
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History shows that the cover up is usually far more damaging than the underlying misdeed. @:-)
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Old May 24, 2013, 5:54 pm
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Originally Posted by freeloader
i think the reader deserves to know who wrote the piece, so they can judge the integrity of it.
Really what difference does it make ? As long as the information is factual and useful, all you all are just having fun at bashing someone !
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Old May 24, 2013, 6:27 pm
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Originally Posted by HMPS
Really what difference does it make ? As long as the information is factual and useful, all you all are just having fun at bashing someone !
Normally, you're absolutely right. Who cares who wrote it, and if he hires someone to do it and part of the deal is he posts it on his own, then fine.

But in this case, he went out of his way to claim how many dozens of hours HE spent researching, and how those very hours made HIM worthy of receiving a reader's referral click. THAT, imo, is extremely disingenuous (to put it nicely).
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Old May 25, 2013, 9:22 pm
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Really what difference does it make ? As long as the information is factual and useful, all you all are just having fun at bashing someone !
It makes a difference, because if Darius wasn't the person who wrote it, I can probably find a dozen different instances in the posts and comments which are not "factual"

It also makes a difference because there are people who clicked on the link thinking HE spent 80 hours of research prepping it.
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Old May 26, 2013, 11:55 am
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I'm in POS so not keeping up with blogs. Was a definitive response to the question of the actual authorship of the series ever provided?
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Old May 26, 2013, 4:13 pm
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Originally Posted by kokonutz
I'm in POS so not keeping up with blogs. Was a definitive response to the question of the actual authorship of the series ever provided?
Yes and no

Google definitively answered the question for us

Darius did not
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Old May 26, 2013, 4:32 pm
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Originally Posted by the hotel bar
Yes and no

Google definitively answered the question for us

Darius did not
But the series still appears under the MMS byline.
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Old May 26, 2013, 9:46 pm
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But the series still appears under the MMS byline.
see post #10
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Old May 27, 2013, 12:05 am
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Old May 27, 2013, 8:55 am
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There is a word for when one takes credit for the work of others. Trying to think of what that word is....
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Old May 27, 2013, 11:47 am
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There is a word for when one takes credit for the work of others. Trying to think of what that word is....
Depends on if it is done with the permission of the original author or not. :-:
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Old May 27, 2013, 12:35 pm
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