Ever Publish On Wikipedia?

[Texas Star]

Have any of you ever written for Wikipedia?

I spotted a probable error in an entry that I'd like to correct, but one should create an account and sign-in, otherwise your IP address will show and be public. I got this data off the site. I don't know where your info will show.

Have any of you read a 1952 sci-fi book by the late Chad Oliver, "Mists of Dawn"? It was a childhood favorite of mine when I found it in a school library some years after it was published. I've never seen it in a bookstore. It was too old before I found it. I don't know if it was ever in paperback.

I'm almost sure that the gun that Mark Nye had was his uncle's WWI service automatic, a Colt .45 M-1911. I think he just had the seven shots in the magazine.

The author of the Wiki piece on this book calls it a six-shot .45 revolver. I want to correct that.

If you've written for Wiki, were you satisfied with the results? Did they use your membership to solicit you for donations, or were there other negative consequences?

Please discuss your relationship with them overall. Is there any reason why I should hesitate to make this correction?

Thanks.

 

[cowart]

I've never seen it in a bookstore.

There is a copy for sale on ebay - its a first edition hard copy. Nobody has bid on it yet.

You can also download it in digital form for $2.99 at the ebookmall

 

[walkin jack]

Never written for W..... and never will. But just FYI I have had great luck in the past with getting books long out of publication from Amazon.com. Good luck finding it.

 

[Texas Star]

Never written for W..... and never will. But just FYI I have had great luck in the past with getting books long out of publication from Amazon.com. Good luck finding it.

Thanks, Jack, but I checked them last night and they're out. I've ordered from Amazon before, though, and they often have lower prices than are seen on E-Bay.

Late last year, I found a movie there that I'd been wanting t see again. Hadn't seen it since I was a kid, when it was in theaters. "Safari", with Victor Mature and Janet Leigh. Amazon had it.

There are other Online book services. I'll check there. I just thought that someone here would recall if Mark's pistol was his uncle's WWI .45 auto. I'm 99% sure it was. That was one of my favorite books. His Uncle Bob, a nuclear scientist, had left the gun in the time machine that he'd just built. He wanted to go back to ancient Rome. But there was an accident and Mark wound up in 50,000 BC. I read the Internet info on the book and realized how the names of the Cro-Magnon characters had Aztec overtones. I didn't spot that when I was a young teen.

A good book, if you see a copy.

 

[walkin jack]

Thank you sir. I'll definitely keep an eye peeled. I enjoy that kind of fiction.

 

[Cyrano]

I've forgotten the details but seven or eight years ago I wrote something for Wikipedia. I went through all the things you have to do in order to post, and wrote my piece. It was on the French Mle 50 auto pistol; the original article was not well connected to reality, so I rewrote the whole thing. I e-mailed whoever was in charge of that particular section of the Wikipedia, but he was on vacation for a month and I never got a response. Never had any adverse reaction to doing this; reuests for funds, advertising, etc. T-Star, go ahead and make the change, it's a good thing to do.