I say this in all seriousness: 172 is forcing us to look at aspects of totalitarian regimes that we might otherwise miss.
On the other hand, he apparently never saw a totalitarian regime he didn't like. Not a "leftist" one anyway.
And willfully and massively deleting other people's changes to "his" articles changes without notice or discussion is inexcusable. As is his rudeness to Zoe.
I wonder if he is salvageable, given my first observation. Stalin did modernize Russia, and it's worth knowing, but only at the cost of millions of lives, also worth knowing, and more important. Ideally, someone like 172 says the first thing and someone like me says the second and we end up with an NPOV article. 172 rarely plays that way, however.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
|From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com |Content-Disposition: inline |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 04:14:20 -0800 | |Zoe wrote: |> No one seems interested in doing anything about him, despite |>repeatedly writing POV articles and refusing to compromise. If nobody |>cares what the Wikipedia looks like, why should we? | |Hey, I care. I was on vacation and I'm still catching up. | |--Jimbo |_______________________________________________ |WikiEN-l mailing list |WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |