[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: Wikipedia English English

[Mark Williamson]

> Mark Williamson wrote:
> > 1) I don't call people I disagree with barking mad, unless they really
> > are barking mad. I believe this is the first time in a few months I've
> > called anyone barking mad, and in the intervening time there have been
> > plenty of people with whom I've had disagreements. I think most people
> > on this list would agree that Mr Jack and Naree is "barking mad".
>
> I disagree.

Yes, but you're not most people...

> > 3) Mr. Jack & Naree's most recent message is a bit daft ("looks like
> > he failed"). If he had the sense to check, he would see that that
> > message was not, in fact, a response to his "troll test" e-mail but
> > rather to his earlier e-mail which was written in all-caps. And, if it
> > takes two to troll, why is just about everybody else on this list
> > calling him a troll? Does that mean that they're all trolls too? And,
> > of course, this isn't a response to him, but a note to you which is
> > related to but not in response to his message. And if anyone so
> > wishes, I invite them to inform Mr Macdaddy that the troll test, from
> > now on, applies to him as well: if he IS a troll, he'll make another
> > post to this or related threads; if he ISN'T a troll, he won't.
>
> Who else agrees that he's a troll?

Lars Aronsson and Ray Santoinge do, at least as far as I know, and I'd
be very surprised if nobody else did.

Mark