User talk:Thomas l magness

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SoCal Wiki News

Since you have been editing various SoCal articles lately, I thought that I would mention there is both a California WikiProject and Southern California WikiProject that I invite you to check out. Also, although it's very short notice, the very first LA-area Wiki meetup will happen on Monday July 25, 2005 (see Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/1 for further details). BlankVerse ∅ 10:31, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

RE: Tommy Lasorda

Thomas, this is an encyclopedia. Think of it as the Encyclopedia Britannica, the World Book Encyclopedia, etc. The main people who use encyclopedias are people who do not know about a subject and want to educate themselves, like an eight year old doing a report for school, or someone from another country trying to learn about this country, or a non-baseball fan trying to learn something about the game. I am not sure that your addition to the Tommy Lasorda article is the proper place for this kind of material. Did he actually say the words "BLEEP", "BLEEPING", and "BLEEPED"? This is not a good quote. I don't think that it adds to, or enhances, the article very much. Do you? Is this the best quote you can find for Mr. Lasorda? Is this the best this encyclopedia can produce? WikiDon 00:46, 27 July 2005 (UTC)