[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 11:20:51 UTC 2011


On Dec 24, 2011 8:55 AM, "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at 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!"
> >> --
> >> --
> >> 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.

It is extremely unclear to me what connection there is between the AFT and
Nupedia. It sounds like meaningless rhetoric to me.

Also, please don't send four emails in response to one. It is completely
unnecessary and makes it even harder to follow what you are trying to say.


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