I think Ram-Man has 2 equally valid reasons for playing chess with Lir on her user page: * it has been excellent practice for learning how to set up tables * it's a friendly way to engage a new community member
Ed Poor => moving discussion to wikiEN-l
But no reason for either one of them to clutter up the Recent Changes page with minor edits. If I am looking at the last 200 changes, every chess move subtracts one possibly interesting change from my list. I think it is bad manners.
Tom Parmenter (general wikipedia issue) Ortolan88
|From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com |Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:34:56 -0500 | |I think Ram-Man has 2 equally valid reasons for playing chess with Lir on her user page: |* it has been excellent practice for learning how to set up tables |* it's a friendly way to engage a new community member | |Ed Poor => moving discussion to wikiEN-l
Here's another thing WikipediaIsNot: a creche.
Lir's been learning to follow rules, sure: she's applying NPOV to such entries as Star Wars (maybe the empire isn't evil) and Vampirism (maybe Anne Rice didn't make that interview up). Perhaps Ed will succeed in teaching her not to indulge in edit wars, but she seems to lack the critical faculties required to work on this encyclopedia -- those can't be taught quickl (if at all). maybe she would be happier somewhere like Everything2 or H2G2 -- a more "fun" site.
meanwhile, she is getting up more & more people's noses: see Talk:Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I think Ram-Man has 2 equally valid reasons for playing chess with Lir on her user page:
- it has been excellent practice for learning how to set up tables
- it's a friendly way to engage a new community member
Ed Poor => moving discussion to wikiEN-l