They aren't incompatible in the real world.
Date sent: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:54:45 -0700
From: Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.org>
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To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Page delete request.
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You claim that you wish to help produce an
encyclopedia, yet wish to
avoid joining our community. These are mutually exclusive wishes, at
least if Wikipedia is the encyclopedia you wish to help produce.
We will not allow you to fulfill both at the same time.
John Bradley stated for the record:
Free will and being able to control you sub
conscious and it's needs are not
the same thing at all.
The idea of lowering myself to the level of the average wikipedian is not
appealing. That most of them don't appear to be hear for Wikipedias stated
aims but for some other aims. I do not wish to join the "Wikipedia
community", I wish to help produce an encyclopedia, and seeing as one of
the most annoying features of wikipedians is their tendrncy to claim to
speak for everyone in the community when try to brow beat. I have no
intention of bolstering the numbers they can claim to command/speak for.
The idea of losing my integrity and taking part in a ritual is unpleasant, and
as far as I can tell that's what this is.
I find talk to Matt very difficult as he seems to forget everything from email
to the next.
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