On 25/05/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Thank you for all of this, Fred. I agree with your sentiment here. Too often a person is so focused on expounding their own views about something, that they forget they are doing so at the expense of another. Or, perhaps, they don't really care. To me, this defines fanaticism; and has no place in an encyclopedia.
I wouldn't go as far as calling it fanaticism. I would say it's easy to get carried away and edit like the article has to be RIGHT, right NOW.
Particularly when one fails to quite realise one has ended up writing a sterling piece of investigative journalism rather than an encyclopedia article. Those can go up on private webspace quite easily, you know - I don't see why we must put them on Wikipedia, where the article will promptly become the first hit on the person's name.
- d.