[WikiEN-l] Let's get a few things straight, shall we?

[Daniel Mayer]

Tannin wrote:
>What I posted just now was a DEFENCE against the 
>personal attack made on me. And you will note that 
>despite considerable provocation, at no point did I 
>attack the person who attacked me, simply reported 
>his actions factually in the most unemotional way I 
>could. 

Oh? What do you call this:

>... with a non-contributor who's behaviour in this 
>matter has been appalling. 

"Non-contributor" is not a nice label. 

>....the same objector who recently suddenly took 
>it upon himself to start a single-handed campaign 
>of what can only be described as vandalism

By direct implication you are labling somebody a vandal - again something that 
is not in line with the principle of WikiLove.

>... and an objector who practically never bothers 
>to contribute anything to the fauna articles in any 
>case, just talks about them at great length, and 
>wastes enormous amounts of the time  of the people 
>who *are* doing the work, and causes a great
>deal of genuine distress to useful contributors. 

So by direct implication you are stating that this person (me I guess) is not 
a useful contributor?  

Pardon me but your statement to Zoe that she is blaming the victim seems 
rather disingenuous to me after a read of the above comments by you. 

Now instead of more self-righteous indignation how about you list the people 
who agreed to the compromise and then offer evidence to support the 
capitalization of mammals? I for one quickly dropped my support for extending 
the bird capitalization rules to mammals after it was made clear to me that 
this is not a standard practice (for some time afterwards I was shell-shocked 
from the whole incident - like Zoe - and then I went on vacation). 

Do you have logical arguments to back-up this extension or just more 
hyperbole?

I guess I have to admit that your scare tactic of threatening to leave the 
project over this issue did prompt me to draft the compromise. I won't make 
that mistake again.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)