Ortolan88 wrote:

TMC states on his user page that he believes the Wikipedia is "doomed to to failure at worst or uselessness at best"

I do believe this, but that doesn't mean that my objective is to hasten the process. I'd love to see wikipedia succeed, but I think it has basic structural problems. Recognizing those problems doesn't make me an enemy of the project.

and explicitly states his opposition to NPOV.

I do no such thing. I do refer to the existence of something I have called the "Tyranny of Neutrality", but that is not the same as saying I oppose neutrality. Again, it is just an awareness that Neutrality, absolutely applied, will cause certain problems and can become a tyranny of itself.

pretense that the name is pure poultry, he is so embarrassed by his user name that he never uses it, even on his own pages.

I am not embarrassed by my chosen user name. If you read my talk pages you would see that Tarquin asked me long ago to begin using a nickname instead of my full name to sign my posts, and I have done so fairly consistently since then.

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