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, 04:16, 5 November 2007John Dash
6. '''Anonymous''' - $2,000 <br>
6. '''Anonymous''' - $2,000 <br>
Unwilling to leave a name, since $2,000 is what a typical cotton farm family of 10 persons would earn in a whole year in Chad, Benin, or Mali, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/world/africa/21subsidies.html according to OxFam]. Better that this money go to an encyclopedia that might help North Africans more fully understand their role in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_western_Eurasia#Proposed_Deletion_of_this_page History of western Eurasia].
Unwilling to leave a name, since $2,000 is what a typical cotton farm family of 10 persons would earn in a whole year in Chad, Benin, or Mali, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/world/africa/21subsidies.html according to OxFam]. Better that this money go to an encyclopedia that might help North Africans more fully understand their role in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_western_Eurasia#Proposed_Deletion_of_this_page History of western Eurasia].
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7. '''John Dash''' - $1,000 <br>
There are two notable men by the name of "John Dash". Which one would be pumping $1,000 off to the Wikimedia Foundation? The church pastor who founded the New Beginning World Outreach... [http://www.newbeginningworldoutreach.net/images/4-19_Bro_Dash_with_potatos_Small.jpg]
Or, the Physics professor from Portland State University who thinks cold fusion will work someday...
[http://www.newenergytimes.com/Images/DashJohn2W.JPG]
Being that Wikipedia is managed in a half-crazy manner, and cold fusion is another half-crazy idea out of Utah, we're guessing this donor is the physicist.
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