QUOTE(Proabivouac @ Tue 6th May 2008, 4:44am)
QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 6th May 2008, 3:41am)
I've never seen such blind anger and pure hatred on a WP talk page before.
It gets much worse than this, actually.
Yes, it sometimes
does.
QUOTE(Proabiviouac)
QUOTE(Moulton @ Tue 6th May 2008, 8:00am)
What are the members of the ID Cabal doing
hacking up editing an article on
Affective Computing, a technical subject on which they have no meaningful background or expertise?
While there were many problems with the article, I can think of no other answer here besides revenge. This is how Wikipedia editorial policy is formulated. There is no one who will take responsibility for the decisions that are made: formally, no decisions are being made. It's just volunteers, you know, helping out where they can according to WP policies.
The irony is that I first went to Wikipedia last August, during a slow week, to see if WP even
had an article on Affective Computing, and if it was in need of any updates, in anticipation of the start of another school year. And that's when I clicked on the name of the MIT faculty member who was the founder of the field of Affective Computing, and
found this.
Editing articles on Wikipedia is like playing Whack-A-Mole.
QUOTE(Proabivouac @ Tue 6th May 2008, 4:49am)
No one is blocked, no one is topic banned, and no one has been assigned responsibility for decisions about this (or any other) article. There is nothing to stop the problems from recurring; we can be fairly certain that they will.
That's why I view this anecdotal case as indicative of a structural, systemic problem. Just fixing this one article does little more than shave off the tip of the iceberg. When I zoomed out from the first problematic article, I found it was far from a unique example.
While this thread began with an opening sneeze involving Krimpet and OrangeMarlin, perhaps the thread title could be revised to more accurately capture the essence of the story as it unfolded during the course of the opera.
The story reminds me of
The Hary Janos Suite, but I daresay that's too obscure a musical reference to be meaningful to most observers here.