I WON

The Insatiable Yucca is proud to announce that he won. Yes, he won. He won against the establishment, overthrowing it.

Go and check the wikipedia page for “Harry Potter” and the wikipedia page for “J.K. Rowling”. Both now refer to her as “British” rather than “English”, after the bloody battle between the Yucca and wikipedia already documented on this blog.

P.S. If you think my celebration geeky and sad, you are right. But, more importantly, you have never fought nor defeated the wikipedia establishment. Revolution, these days, takes unlikely forms. Get used to it!

geeky deed of the day

I just happened to end up on the ‘Harry Potter’ wikipedia page to check the book series’ sales. I noticed that J.K. Rowling was referred to as an ‘English’ author. Given her ties with Scotland, and her political attachment to PM Brown, I thought that ‘English’ was not the most appropriate definition for her. So I changed it to ‘British’.

UPDATE: the wikipedia establishment stroke back, and changed ‘British’ back to ‘English’. So I had to change it again. But I can’t do that all day: so if someone finds ‘English’ again, well, you know what to do.

UPDATE 2: there is now an ongoing discussion on whether it should be ‘English’ or ‘British’ here.