On 01/14/04 at 05:18 AM, zero 0000 nought_0000@yahoo.com said:
One of the surest marks of a problem editor is that they insist on filling up articles with "quotations".
This reminds me of a comment Adam Carr made on [[Talk:Zionism]]:
I have written a new paragraph which avoids this stupid war of quotations. An encyclopaedia article is supposed to be a work of synthesis, not a collection of undigested primary source materials. Adam 02:40, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I thought this was very insightful. Indeed, many articles include such "quote wars" (like [[Norman Finkelstein]]) and they look ridiculous.
V.