[WikiEN-l] Going Off in a Huff

Mon Jan 12 21:14:23 UTC 2004

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Daniel Mayer wrote:
>
>>Fred Bauder wrote:
>>
>>>Regarding Jimbo: I think it is important that you create an account under
>>>some persona, edit some articles, get into an edit war or two, and in
>>>general get grounded in the realities of this project.
>>>
>>Peter the Great did it - why not Jimbo? 
>>
>Ah, my hero. ;-)
>
>Here's the problem, basically.  My own political opinion in the
>Israeli/Palestinian situation is not very far from RK's.  
>
I think that the spirit of Fred's suggestion was to develop trench 
experience in the edit wars without having the article influenced by the 
knowledge that you are the one who is editing.  The chaos of the 
Israeli/Palestinian situation would not be a good place to start this. 
 I would suggest something more obscure, where some people might try to 
make a case for deleting it as not belonging in an encyclopedia.  If you 
are concerned that your political opinions might bleed into the subject 
and make your chosen persona, then simply choose a less political subject.

Some of this could be a bit trollish, but I've never felt that some 
controlled use of trolling was all that bad.  The important thing when a 
person uses such a tactic is to know when to stop.  

Ec