They aren't incompatible in the real world.
Date sent: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:54:45 -0700 From: Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org Organization: Boskonia To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Page delete request. Send reply to: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org mailto:wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org?subject=unsubscribe mailto:wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org?subject=subscribe
You claim that you wish to help produce an encyclopedia, yet wish to avoid joining our community. These are mutually exclusive wishes, at least if Wikipedia is the encyclopedia you wish to help produce.
We will not allow you to fulfill both at the same time.
John Bradley stated for the record:
Free will and being able to control you sub conscious and it's needs are not the same thing at all.
The idea of lowering myself to the level of the average wikipedian is not appealing. That most of them don't appear to be hear for Wikipedias stated aims but for some other aims. I do not wish to join the "Wikipedia community", I wish to help produce an encyclopedia, and seeing as one of the most annoying features of wikipedians is their tendrncy to claim to speak for everyone in the community when try to brow beat. I have no intention of bolstering the numbers they can claim to command/speak for.
The idea of losing my integrity and taking part in a ritual is unpleasant, and as far as I can tell that's what this is.
I find talk to Matt very difficult as he seems to forget everything from email to the next.
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John Bradley
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