On 6/19/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/19/07, Gracenotes <wikigracenotes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/19/07, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> Slim Virgin wrote:
> >> Yet we persist in doing it here
> >> -- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees"
are,
> >> or whether we have one person
filling several jobs -- using the
excuse
>>
that adminship is "no big deal."
Only if we want to create a culture that
glorifies article creators and
despises maintenance workers ...
Gracenotes, you need to read what you're responding to. Someone else
made the analogy of admins and editors to "menial employees." It was
just an analogy; it said nothing about article creators v. maintenance
workers. The hyperbole has to stop, because it's just an attempt to
stoke things up.
I am aware that my paragraph is somewhat out of context, and is
more meant as a general response to the so-called "culture" for which
you've recently been advocating. But it's a piece of satire (so, like A
Modest Proposal, it naturally employs hyperbole), and I hope to heaven
that you realize that. Or else I shall get a wall to bang my head against.
(Figuratively.) It's meant to intellectually stoke things up, to get people
to *think* about things; I have talked to some editors who have indicated
that they sense the atmosphere in some parts of Wikipedia discourages
original thinking about extra-content situations. Now, if you can identify
why I think this culture is a bad idea, congratulations, you're off to a
super start! (Or you can claim to be confused.)
Cheers,
Gracenotes