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Re: A quick LEGO History
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:35:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
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Aside-- the wikipedia timeline seems to have it wrong. I’ve changed the
timeline over there at least once, and some things seem to have been changed
again, some incorrectly. It currently says:
“1932 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, opens his shop in the village of Billund,
Denmark.”
“1965 - Lego Samsonite is discontinued.”
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legotimeline
DaveE
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Dave, I see that Wikipedia is using the Official LEGO Timeline dates.
Well there’s a problem with doing that.... about 20-30% of the time those
dates are wrong!
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I have
raised the issue. If anyone has corrections and can source them, please
make the changes. Changes will
stick a lot better if they are backed up with cites, per Wikipedia’s policy on
verifiability, uncited changes have a
tendency to get reverted.
That timeline, in my view, needs a discussion in the intro about whether it’s
official, or accurate, and what the difference between those things is. :)
If you’re not sure how to do referencing,
put the sources on the talk
page and someone else will fix it for you ... or just find an article that uses
them (they look like footnotes) and look at the source to see how to do it. Many
of my recent articles use them. (for example
Thornapple River does...)
Hope that helps.
++Lar
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 | | Re: A quick LEGO History
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| In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote: <SNIPPAGE> (...) Dave, I see that Wikipedia is using the Official LEGO Timeline dates. Well there's a problem with doing that.... about 20-30% of the time those dates are wrong! I wonder what KKK (who is THEE (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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