Why would I use the pronoun 'you' to refer to you? That's silly! One would think I was opposing your call to ban me -- despite your never having made one.
Look, we can trade witticisms all day.
But Wikipedia is getting bigger, it's throbbing, it's monstrous, it's becoming cocky, and I'm with Magnus and Larry: * I want to build a free encyclopedia. * I see Wiki software as a means to an end.
When I wrote an appointment scheduler for a hospital, it wasn't because they wanted to "have appointment scheduling software" but because they wanted to "keep track of their appointments".
Let the end guide the choice of means. (Not to be confused with -- or to override -- "the end justifies the means", lest Larry stomp me while you hold me down!)
Ed Poor
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:23, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:38, The Cunctator wrote:
On 11/11/02 2:31 PM, Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Okay, then ban me. I surreptitiously vandalized 5 or 10 pages with a fake account, then confessed to Larry.
Suppose you revoke my sysop rights, erase my user name, block my IP. Will that solve the crisis facing Wikipedia? Will that prevent the abuses that you fear will stem from codifying and enforcing standards?
By "you", do mean mean me? Please quote the entries to which you refer. I never called for banning you.
Why would I use the pronoun 'you' to refer to you? That's silly! One would think I was opposing your call to ban me -- despite your never having made one.
Look, we can trade witticisms all day.
I'm not trying to trade witticisms. I'm asking you to quote entries to which you refer, instead of using pronouns with unclear antecedants.
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