[WikiEN-l] User:Harry Potter

[Jimmy Wales]

Ai yi yi.  Postmodernists, ai yi yi.

Eugene Gill wrote:

> Ohhh yes.
> 
> Here is a quote from HP on
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cimon_avaro
> 
> As we have noted, some of the people "correcting" these pages have adopted
> blanket reversions on account of a very povie view that fact and fantasy are
> two distinct categories, whereas I experience them as an interpenetrating
> dialectic unity. i.e. we can only comprehend the world through a skein of
> signification which is culturally constructed and which structures
> information. This rejection of hardline Cartesian dualism may also be povie,
> but then so is anyones contribution. It is the interaction of us as human
> beings which creates some sort of consensual reality, so the whole NPOV can
> only happen as a consequence of these interactions. This means we are all
> liable to experience frissance with people coming from cultures different or
> even anti-thetical to our own. OK that's life. Harry Potter.
> 
> 
> And http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stan_Shebs
> 
> It is not a matter of "challenging the line between fact and fantasy" as
> this would be to assert some sort of legitimacy to such a putative line.
> Rather I am suggesting that such a line is a product of a point of view in
> motion and that different people see it in different ways. .... I find your
> suggestion that I should exclude myself from this project because I do not
> have a naive realist viewpoint hardly helpful. Harry Potter
> 
> 
> 
> Mintguy
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Becker" <wikipedia at jumpingjackweb.com>
> To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:58 AM
> Subject: FW: [WikiEN-l] User:Harry Potter
> 
> 
> > Has anyone talked to him about the inaccuracies?  This may just be a
> > misunderstanding.  At the least, someone should tell him that he has
> > added inaccuracies to his article, and then put the boiler from
> > [[Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute]] on his contributions.  Tell him why we
> > are doing it, and give him a chance to correct his errors and become a
> > contributor.  This is the process we should go through.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Becker
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org]
> > On Behalf Of Stan Shebs
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12.43
> > To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] User:Harry Potter
> >
> > I agree.  It sows an atmosphere of distrust, which, going by the
> > pataphysics manifesto, is the goal.  It's a waste of my time to research
> > things and add them to an article if the rest of the article is fiction
> > masquerading as fact; no reader is going to believe any of it.
> > [[Templars in England]] looks plausible for instance, but given Harry
> > Potter's other activities, how am I supposed to know if any of it is
> > true? Better to vaporize it and start over.
> >
> > Stan
> >
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