I finally did it. It’s hard to believe, but it actually happened.
Tonight, I edited Wikipedia.
It was a ‘minor edit’ but I think it might have had a real impact on the page. I deleted an extraneous f-bomb on the Sikkim entry (under the Macroeconomic Trend section). It was just sitting there, in the middle of two paragraphs, swearing at nothing in particular. I feel strangely liberated and disciplinarian at the same time.
I find I can’t help thinking about who would have added the expletive to the page and why. Was it a Freudian mistake? Were they laying the groundwork for a subversive scavenger hunt? How old were they? And why Sikkim? Sikkim’s full of mountains and barking deer.
Cool! Good for you. I don’t know why anyone would have added an expletive there either, save for fun — kind of adding their own little ‘foot-print’ much like you, except yours was for the better.
By: Richard on February 24, 2008
at 6:14 am
… and Rhododendrons, K. And ‘Hit’ beer, which clocks in at, like, 8%. And the BRO signs, e.g. ‘Speed Thrills But Kills’.
By: Peter Toccalino on February 28, 2008
at 11:36 pm