No, the point is not to boycott Mark!
While Mark did irritated me (and as I did talk against some of Mark's foolish behaviour), I was never talking that Mark is the most important problem. The most important problem is community response about one hoax!
And I would like to point now with a few sentences as well as I would like that someone hear/read it:
1. Political decisions about some scientific (even sociological) fact is very very bad. We should have comity for Wikipedias in new languages. (I.e., I hope that we would not make political decision that Earth is flat.)
2. The most irritating and the most dangerous Mark's characteristic is that he doesn't have responsibility about his steps inside of other cultures. Wiki(p|m)edian community is growing into global cultural movement and community response to such things should be strong: (1) while separatism and nationalism are far a way of the most of Westernernes, (2) while I left 10 years of my life inside of such bullshit and I am very nervous when someone attacks me on that field, (3) in some cultures this is the question of life and death. (Note that it can be something other then separatism and nationalism.)
And Wikipedian community would be faced very soon with communication with such communities. And this means that we should prepare for it.
Those are the points.
And about Mark: I am sure that some people know him better. Please talk with him. He has enough of time to change himself.
On 11/13/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
On 13/11/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
With regards to the latest drivel Mark wrote I want to call on everyone to boycott Mark. He is a pre-puberescant prick imho.
I'm going to pretend you didn't say the last sentence, and reply instead to the rest of your e-mail.
I'm not sure which parts of my e-mail are "drivel" -- are you just referring to the Zlatiborian part, or all of it? I find it hard to believe that you would agree with Milos on his beliefs about how people should be isolated from society or even killed for their attitudes.
Well, you told me that the "anti-Zlatiborians will be first against the wall when the revolution comes" (or words to that effect); who's got the moral high ground now?
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