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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by MartinHarper (talk | contribs) at 19:50, 8 December 2003 (Glad to be of service, Charles!). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Not a bad summary of the criteria --Morven 01:48, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Quote: "George W. Bush is an illiterate moron - obvious."

O Brits and their dark humour.... :-D --Menchi 02:20, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I felt the humour made the page less dreary, but it is something of a hairy arm - I'm not expecting it to last... :) Martin

I do copywriting. Sometimes clients want me to include statistcs because, well, they have these statistics here (and sometimes they commissioned to polls themselves, meaning they spent good money to get these here statistics). Now, when these requests come up, I can quote (the current version of) this page and say "Information is not the same as data. If you want data, get a random number generator." --Charles A. L. 18:23, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)

Glad to be of service, Charles! Raw data can sometimes be forgiven in a work in progess, because it might eventually become information after it's worked on. But on a finished product like an advert, it's unforgivable! Martin
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