"You can either start allowing open discussion within the Wikipedia namespace, allow writers to rework or totally repudiate their earlier work, and deal with me as a surly collaborator, or you can deal with my effort from outside your so-called community for a long, long time. And it appears you have the hard part of the bargain, because all I have to do is watch and decide if I will make quality contributions that advance human understanding or if I will battle this collectivity to my last breath because I have found it to be a dangerous authoritarian cult. + +If you don't like being pushed around and feel you have the moral high ground, I know how you feel. Because I am absolutely confident of my stern approach, am completely fatigued of a mealy mouthed lies from educators who are trying to make knowledge a trade secret, and I have little to loose and everything to gain by fighting with all of my might wherever the battle might present."
So what is Jimbo's response to this little edict? Another "all you need is love" approach?
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Arno M wrote:
So what is Jimbo's response to this little edict? Another "all you need is love" approach?
Sure, all you need is love of Special:Blockip. :-)
Look, we do have to be tolerant of a wide variety of perspectives on how editing should be done, how the course of the articles should go, etc. But we need not tolerate people who rant and curse at us and accuse of authoritarianism because we won't accept their extreme bias as being a neutral presentation.
--Jimbo
Just to let everyone know - I'm currently attempting to mediate with Bird.
This is a non-standard mediation at this point - a discussion between the two of us to find a starting point for further mediation with those concerned. I've no idea how effective this will be, but willing to give it a go
--sannse
I wrote on Friday, March 12, 2004 9:43 PM
Just to let everyone know - I'm currently attempting to mediate with Bird.
This is a non-standard mediation at this point - a discussion between the two of us to find a starting point for further mediation with those concerned. I've no idea how effective this will be, but willing to give
it
a go
--sannse
My discussion with Bird has ended. We did not come to any agreements.
--sannse