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!"
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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. How more clear could I be than say "impartial observer". How do you ever think you are going to get an intelligent reader to swallow that as "[...] however strong you might hold your opinions on the topic. "