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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
On 13/11/05, Walter van Kalken
<walter(a)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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