[WikiEN-l] DW continues to win friends

[Lee Pilich]

At 16:47 25/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Check out my talk page.  Not only has DW attacked me as a moron, but he 
>has specifically mentioned Jtdirl and and Deb as morons.  And you've 
>already seen what he's had to say about Magnus Manske.  And then check out 
>[[Wikipedia talk:Tokerboy's Law]] and [[Talk:Georges Seurat]].
>
>Zoe

Yes, I'm afraid things have got to the stage where I simply don't edit DW's 
contributions for fear of getting into a big and stupid and pointless 
argument with him (I really commend Zoe for taking him on, because it's a 
completely unenviable task). He writes some pretty good biographies 
(although they are *pure* biography - he'll tell you where a poet studied 
and what she had for breakfast in 1917, but won't tell you much about her 
poems), but I tend to think that he's more trouble than he's worth. I've 
completely lost my rag with him a couple of times, which I'm not proud of, 
but he does have this tremendous knack of getting up people's noses.

I'm not saying we should ban him, but it would be nice if somebody who 
doesn't hate him as much as I do and who maybe hasn't had dealings with him 
before could have a go at asking him to be polite, consider that the 'pedia 
is a work in progress, that he doesn't "own" the pages he writes, and that 
sort of thing. I'm really worried that he's going to drive new users away 
(and maybe some old ones as well).

Good luck to anybody who tries to talk to him.

lp (camembert)

WikiKarma: [[Frank Stella]] (a couple of days old, but I've been really 
busy in the real world)