QUOTE(Sarcasticidealist @ Tue 9th February 2010, 10:34am)
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Tue 9th February 2010, 1:32pm)
It's also short for nickname. It's quite appropriate in the way he used it.
I'd say it's a level of informality unsuitable for A Website Purporting to be an Encyclopaedia, but that was hardly the most serious problem with the edit.
Agree. But the fact that this somewhat unedited "Website Purporting to be an Encyclopaedia" (Encyclopaedoia?) actually
purports to be an "Encyclopaedia," is the real problem. The wont of a paper boundary to contain overspilling crap, has made WP sloppy and garbage-ridden beyond words. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/yecch.gif) Did you ever come across Robert Frost's description of free verse as "tennis with the net down"? Well, that's Wikipedia, too.
On WP, the gems, junk, and garbage are all mixed up. The garbage is winning. Since the problem is getting worse not better, it's not going to fix itself with time. It is like the old business proverb: "When outgo exceeds income, then upkeep leads to downfall." Something has to change.
The meta-problem that you "admitted without admitting" is interesting. We saw the God-King clean up the pedophile userbox problem in 2006 like Jesus in the temple, desysopping 5 people in one blow. With him now losing interest, one presumes that leaves WP busted with no fix. As the only member of the board easily available, might that be a topic of your next meeting? Or is it too hard to get even these people together for a conference call?