>Eppstein was off-base, but you escalated it into the realm of the personal attack. That's both counterproductive and even somewhat >hypocritical. In particular, your blanket denigration of academics is amazingly offensive to many more Wikipedians than just your >wayward reviewer.

I apologize to all those who were offended ... yes, I’m not entirely outside the circle of academia myself (among which that sort of criticism is not unheard of, actually). I probably might not have flown off the handle so much if Eppstein hadn’t ended his review with something that sounded so snippy and dismissive, and it wasn’t so late.

Daniel Case