On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Abe Sokolov wrote:
maveric149 at yahoo.com:
"The ability to write good summaries is a rarer trait than the ability to write at length on a subject. Let those who can summarize help improve the article series by making it useful to people who don't want to read for an hour."
Are you saying that I can't. FYI, I've written dozens of brief articles on broad subjects too. I just don't list them on my user page because I don't want to give stalkers a guidebook.
I would prefer to take Mav's statement at the face value of a generality without any implicit criticism of you or anybody else. Personalizing somebody's general comments is not very encouraging for interwikipedian relations. O:-)
Treating the topic as a personal afront appears to be 172's strategy in every interaction. One is left with one of two reactions: bewildered shock that one has inadvertently caused offense, or suspicion that 172 is acting in bad faith. I have offered evidence in my previous email why I embrace the latter interpretation, but here's one more example:
172 complains that he doesn't have the time to make certain changes in the article under discussion, & that the article isn't important enough for him to make them. Mav offers to do the work, & 172's response is to find offense.
I haven't written further about the matters of my earlier email to allow 172 time to respond to my accusations, but he has not seen fit to answer them, let alone acknowledge them. I assume that a lack of answer indicates his tacit consent to my charges.
Geoff