[WikiEN-l] A few choice words from DW

[Geoff Burling]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Zoe wrote:
>
> DW put this on my Talk page.  Any comments? - Zoe
>
1. What does "marketing expertise" have to do with writing biography?

2. Quite frankly, unless it's somehow relevant to the entry, occupation
would not add much useful information to many entries. For example,
Wallace Stevens is better known as a poet, NOT as a corporate insurance
executive. Many writers and poets would end up being catagorized as
"college professor" (e.g. Richard Hugo), "government clerk" (Baudelaire),
"landowner" (practically anyone whose name has survived from before
AD 1000), etc.

3. I'm probably beating a dead horse by stating my opinion about this
buffoon. (And I sometimes worry that no one notices my work in the
Imperial Roman entries: I should be enjoying this benevolent neglect!)

Geoff