GlassBeadGame
Fri 28th September 2007, 4:59pm
QUOTE(Mndrew @ Fri 28th September 2007, 10:35am)

I've been bouncing this off a few people in private, but in the interest of a quicker response I decided to post here. I'm wondering if anything could be done should one see a major WP editor in person?
As in, you've talked about him/her here.
No, I would simply be polite and go about whatever matter that brought us together without even mentioning Wikipedia. If it were someone very prominent and public, like Mr. Wales, I might say something like "Oh yes, I've heard of Wikipedia" to not be rude. This is pretty much the same approach as I would take with a prominent person who I politically oppose.
I don't think the kind of conversation that would be appropriate in such casual encounters would offer any possibility of persuasion. Not engaging them would be consistent with my choice to pursue criticism of WP pseudonymously and would avoid the possibility of making them uncomfortable, which may be characterized as "stalking" them.
WR provides a sufficient forum to voice criticism of WP.