Thanks, eta; but I'm still feeling a mixture of outrage and humiliation. I suppose I should have read the explanation, or something, before assuming. Sigh.
Yes, I can see where it would be pretty easy to eliminate the "crank" writings. However, this leaves all too open the possibility for just the kind of thing that drives me crazy: "information" that sounds correct but isn't. Just think how many people, reading that Vermont was the 15th. state to join the Union, would believe it. You know better and I know better, but hundreds of thousands wouldn't.
Kentucky was 15th.; Vermont was 14th.