Somebody is adding a lot of cycling stuff to Wikipedia
09-12-05, 08:58 PM
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Somebody is adding a lot of cycling stuff to Wikipedia
Example pages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Pantani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbin..._%28cycling%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_d%27Huez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_d%27Italia
somebody has been writing biography pages for a lot of the top-tier riders, past and present. example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Indur%C3%A1in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Pantani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbin..._%28cycling%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_d%27Huez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_d%27Italia
somebody has been writing biography pages for a lot of the top-tier riders, past and present. example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Indur%C3%A1in
09-12-05, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Urban Shooter
What do you think this means?
09-12-05, 09:52 PM
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What do you think this means?
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Originally Posted by 7rider
He must have finished writing the wiki entries of Peter North's greatest shots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_N...8politician%29
!!!!!!!
09-12-05, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by thewalrus
I bet 3/4 of these pages were written by 1 guy, somebody with a lot of time on their hands who owns six-disc DVD sets of the past 10 years Giro, Vuelta and Tour, and watches them on a 100" projection TV...
09-13-05, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by cooker
He has to do something now that he's retired....
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Originally Posted by thewalrus
I bet 3/4 of these pages were written by 1 guy, somebody with a lot of time on their hands who owns six-disc DVD sets of the past 10 years Giro, Vuelta and Tour, and watches them on a 100" projection TV...
09-13-05, 07:40 AM
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interesting how opinion becomes fact on Wikipedia:
On the final stretch, Armstrong allowed Pantani to pull away, giving him the stage victory, a gesture that Pantani resented, causing bad blood between the two riders, exacerbated when Armstrong referred to his rival as Elefantino (italian for 'little elephant', a nickname Pantani hated
On the final stretch, Armstrong allowed Pantani to pull away, giving him the stage victory, a gesture that Pantani resented, causing bad blood between the two riders, exacerbated when Armstrong referred to his rival as Elefantino (italian for 'little elephant', a nickname Pantani hated
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Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
interesting how opinion becomes fact on Wikipedia:
On the final stretch, Armstrong allowed Pantani to pull away, giving him the stage victory, a gesture that Pantani resented, causing bad blood between the two riders, exacerbated when Armstrong referred to his rival as Elefantino (italian for 'little elephant', a nickname Pantani hated
On the final stretch, Armstrong allowed Pantani to pull away, giving him the stage victory, a gesture that Pantani resented, causing bad blood between the two riders, exacerbated when Armstrong referred to his rival as Elefantino (italian for 'little elephant', a nickname Pantani hated
