So, to reply to Liam's point first - no, that's not the "real reason", that's something that I, personally, think should be taken into account as a secondary consideration; as said, I've emailed people asking for more concrete information on the data gathered, and so I can get the rationale "from the horse's mouth", as it were. It's christmas eve, so there's no guarantee that I'll get a response immediately, but I'll let you know when I do.
To reply to Jussi; I think we're uniformly confused as to what you think is the link between an encyclopedia written by experts, and an encyclopedia that asks average joes to provide comments on articles (other than the "encyclopedia" bit, of course :-)). If you want this thread to go anywhere productively on that issue, you should probably start by explaining what you see as the link.
On 24 December 2011 11:20, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 24, 2011 8:55 AM, "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com
wrote:
On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com
wrote:
I hope you will forgive me for being a bit terse and blunt. It is the
season
for unpalatable truths, and not just in Scotland. To an impartial
observer
this whole exercise has all the earmarks of trying to dig up Nupedia
from
the grave, give it the "kiss of life" and do all sorts of hocus pocus
and
arm
waving and say "It is alive! It is alive!"
... And then see it just fall on its face like the corpse it is.
Cue even more bubbling vials with smoke and sparks. "Let's try again! This time it will work!"
--
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
Jussie-Ville - terse or blunt is fine IF it is accompanied by a
reasoned
argument and preferably also a proposed alternative. I find your posts
on
this thread to be both full of hyperbolic metaphor as well as being unclear. As such I don't think they are helping your argument, however strong you might hold your opinions on the topic.
I don't really get the "unclear" bit.
It is extremely unclear to me what connection there is between the AFT and Nupedia. It sounds like meaningless rhetoric to me.
Also, please don't send four emails in response to one. It is completely unnecessary and makes it even harder to follow what you are trying to say. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l