[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

[Jon Awbrey]

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Steve Bennett wrote:
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> On 7/2/06, Jon Awbrey <jawbrey at att.net> wrote:
> > Puppy do what puppies do, to wit, [expletive deleted],
> > but while we're collecting testymoanials on my doorstep,
> > flaming or otherwise, here is what one of my co-editors
> > said about me with respect to the issue of originality
<snip>s & <snail>s
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> Ok, enough's enough. This conversation is going nowhere, and since
> you're not banned from Wikipedia, would you mind carrying out this
> character defence there rather than here?
> 
> Any point to this thread seems to have disappeared a long time ago.
> With the possible and limited exception of banned users, we are not
> here to discuss the merits of individual editors, who in any case have
> apparently decided they no longer want anything to do with us.
> 
> Would it be ok with everyone if I declared this exit interview over?
> 
> Steve

Steve,

I said right up front that I have no need and no intention
of defending my individual character as an editor or a scholar
in this effort to provide the WP community with my observations
over the past six months.  But a modicum of incidental chit-chat
aside from any greater purpose does not seem to be out of bounds
with what I observe on a day-to-day basis on this List.

It is clear that some folks are desperately seeking any sort of excuse
they can cook up not to listen to the kinds of responsible feedback that
I am hardly alone in providing.  This is understandable in human terms --
bad news, even if accurate, especially when accurate, is never welcome --
but it will not serve either the WP effort, nor any future effort of
its kind, to ignore the lessons of actual experience.

The bear-baiting and messenger-killing tactics --
that some people will resort to in order to keep
from having to consider any kind of critical analyis --
are quite familiar as a rule:  A defender of the faith
spews a flaming mass of pure invective into the forum,
and the mildest response on the part of the invectee
is then condemned as being off-topic.  Very typical,
but hardly to the greater purpose.

Jon Awbrey

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