Rick,
As far as I am aware, I am still yet to receive any explanation from you. I'll take your last sentence as a compliment - thanks.
Ed
Rick wrote:
So what is your opinion of a newbie running to the mailing list and tattling for every thing I do, even when I explain to him what my reasons were and he doesn't come back with another discussion, but instead institues an RfC on me after supposedly having been around for maybe three or four days? Sounds like somebody who knows his way around Wikipedia a little too well for a newbie.
RickK
Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com wrote: Trolls seek to fire up people on some ruse, to get them to overreact and make complete asses of themselves in public.
I don't know if Ed is a troll (and I'm not saying he is; it seems progressively unlikely to me that he is).
Lemme however assume for a sec that RIck is right and that Ed is a troll: What Rick is doing is STILL remarkably unwise, because he's getting EXACTLY where a troll would want him to be. Besides, insulting (ie. wronging) a perceived or actual bad guy doesn't improve anything or anybody.
Now assuming that Ed is not a troll: What Rick is doing is de-test-a-ble, because Rick is Assuming Bad Faith. No matter how strongly Rick may believe in his assessment of Ed: Strength of conviction is no substitute for sensible reasoning and due process.
As a Wikipedian (even as a pretty dormant one), I expressly disapprove of this.
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com
On 28 Nov 2004, at 21:41, Rick wrote:
Go find something worthwhile to do. You are a pest. Like a gnat or a yappy little dog.
RickK
R E Broadley 20041111@stardate.freeserve.co.uk wrote: Rebecca,
I apologise for misrepresenting your post by not including the topic title. It was not my intention to misrepresent it, and if this was an honest mistake by RickK, than I apologise to RickK also. It might not be reckless editing, but I still consider it to be editing without due care and attention, of which I've spotted a lot of these from him recently. If it were driving, he'd have lost his license by now.
Ed