On 25/05/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Thank you for all of this, Fred. I agree with your sentiment here. Too often a person is so focused on expounding their own views about something, that they forget they are doing so at the expense of another. Or, perhaps, they don't really care. To me, this defines fanaticism; and has no place in an encyclopedia.
on 5/25/07 1:57 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't go as far as calling it fanaticism.
Keep in mind what good old Mr. Churchill said: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
I would say it's easy to get carried away and edit like the article has to be RIGHT, right NOW.
This has little or nothing to do with being right. It is more important to some people to be heard than to be right.
Marc