[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Tue Jun 20 16:37:53 UTC 2006

---- Jon Awbrey <jawbrey at att.net> wrote: 
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> 
> post 8.
> 
> response to a friendly off-list message,
> which i will go ahead and post here in
> the hopes that a different stroke might
> work better for different folks.  ja.
> 
> thanks for the friendly response.
> 
> I'm a 50+ year old person with a solid lib arts BA,
> MA's in math and psych, lots of post-grad study in
> multiple fields, and years of cross-disciplinary
> experience as a statistical consultant where i
> specialized in constructing software and even
> philosophical bridges between sub-communities
> of researchers who had all but lost the ability
> to comprehend each others' ways and motivations.
> 
> i understand about high ideals and non-elitism --
> I'm a onetime flower-child from a generation
> of non-elitists.
> 
> but WP defeats me, and it's largely because
> it enforces a regime of dishonest communication,
> and it's gotten confused about the difference
> between non-elitism and anti-knowledge-ism.

Jon Awbrey,

Take a break from editing till your batteries are recharged then come back and help fix the problems. Theere is a place for you at Wikipedia. You need to learn the ropes.

Look me up: User:FloNight, a former Register Nurse, mother of three college students and a Wikipedia Administrator.  I'll give you some tips on how to deal pov pushing editors and bullies.  

Take care,
Sydney Poore
Georgetown, KY