Desperately Seeking Scapegoats
The Usual Suscepts converted a discussion on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Expert_rebellion&oldid=73986894, originally a salon brawl taking place on one of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dbuckner's subpages, to a soi-disant "Brain-Storming" page on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Expert_Retention&oldid=78652893, and then finally co-opted the whole earnest call for reform into the latest fad in outsiding agitators, a new brand guideline on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing&oldid=78435011.
It's a Killer ...
Jonny
PS. Could some kindly staff person please fix the subtitle? — I have real bad OCD (Optical Character Digitization), and I'm sure that it will send me off the deep end to keep seeing those typos. It should read:
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What we've got here is yet another P&G from the same Porchesian litterature. It disporks the classical syn-tactics of Double Speak, the language in which all double standards are written, and it falls write in line with that utterly confabulous post*mudern genre that includes http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules&oldid=79029331 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_binding_decisions. Wikipilgrims and Wikipledges are constantly admonsished to doublespeak the doublespeak in hushed and reverent tones, with all due mumble-jumbled mystification of its "long tradition" (length matters) and its "deep and subtle meaning" (DASM), a textual macramé rapped up in paralogical knots and hyper-liturgical hermenooses that can of course be untangled for the masses by no one short (length matters) of the inner cyclopedia of high priests and pythonesses.
Etc., Etc., Etc.,
Jonny