---- Jon Awbrey jawbrey@att.net wrote:
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post 8.
response to a friendly off-list message, which i will go ahead and post here in the hopes that a different stroke might work better for different folks. ja.
thanks for the friendly response.
I'm a 50+ year old person with a solid lib arts BA, MA's in math and psych, lots of post-grad study in multiple fields, and years of cross-disciplinary experience as a statistical consultant where i specialized in constructing software and even philosophical bridges between sub-communities of researchers who had all but lost the ability to comprehend each others' ways and motivations.
i understand about high ideals and non-elitism -- I'm a onetime flower-child from a generation of non-elitists.
but WP defeats me, and it's largely because it enforces a regime of dishonest communication, and it's gotten confused about the difference between non-elitism and anti-knowledge-ism.
Jon Awbrey,
Take a break from editing till your batteries are recharged then come back and help fix the problems. Theere is a place for you at Wikipedia. You need to learn the ropes.
Look me up: User:FloNight, a former Register Nurse, mother of three college students and a Wikipedia Administrator. I'll give you some tips on how to deal pov pushing editors and bullies.
Take care, Sydney Poore Georgetown, KY