[WikiEN-l] Academics (Was: an observation)

Tue Jul 1 14:37:30 UTC 2003

steve vertigo wrote in part:

>Do not, Danny, fall victim to the
>typical assumptions and presumptions of academics.

>If a
>disagreement is met, it must be dealt with in ways
>(like co-operation and respect) that some academics
>seem to avoid learning.

>That academics eventually would call for higher
>standards, to "cut out the deadwood," and "weed out
>the weaklings," reflects only the fact that these
>professionals failed to understand what was Wikipedias
>founding spirit in the first place. Such people,
>despite their vast areas of rote knowledge, tend to
>have some fundamental inefficiencies that may make
>them in the end, extinct.

>Zoe, ironically, seemed to be non-academic enough to
>qualify as being among the robust,

I think that it's time for me,
as an academic that has had few conflicts with Stevertigo,
to ask, what in the world are you talking about???

-- Toby