I think you misunderstood my mailing; I think Christopher Mahan has a legitimate gripe, which is not being addressed. Most of the "ranting" goes on in the articles. It doesn't make for an encyclopedia.
-Hephaestos
At 10:47 PM 1/24/2005 -0600, John Robinson wrote:
I'm pissed, and I want to rant. (you've been warned)
Welcome to the club. Wikipeida is no longer an encyclopedia, in my view. It has devolved into simply another write-enabled website where anyone with an opinion can have a rant.
And that's sad.
He didn't rant on Wikipedia, though, he ranted on a Wikipedia-related mailing list. While it may still be arguable whether it was appropriate to do so at least it doesn't affect Wikipedia itself in any way. User: pages come a little closer, but even in that case User: pages are quite well segregated from the encyclopedia content.