Richard Holton wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:04:14 -0500, Poor, Edmund W
<Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
>Think of Wikipedia as a massive garage where you
can build any car you
>want to. Great tools are provided, a lot of shop manuals are there, and
>you get your own lift and away you go. Fantastic. But every one else,
>and I mean everyone else in the garage can work on your car with you.
>There's no "lead mechanics", no "shop floor managers", no
anything. In
>fact, the people who are allowed to work on your car can completely
>disregard what you were doing with it. They could have flown in from
>Boola-Boola Island 2 hours ago, not know the language, can't read the
>manuals, and just go in and paint your car pink. And drive it. And leave
>it somewhere. Now, since tools are free and paint is free and you can
>easily go and retrieve your nice car and get it back to something
>resembling sanity, a lot of the people in the garage see there's no
>problems. But in fact, the fifth, or the hundredth time you're traipsing
>down the lane to find your messed-up, polka-dotted,
>covered-in-chrome-pussycats car, you're kind of inclined to drive it
>into the lake and leave it upside down, wheels spinning.
Except...it's not your car!
That would be the key point, yes. That's what "no article ownership" means.
- d.