[Wikipedia-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] A concept from Buckminster Fuller

Fri Nov 22 20:56:34 UTC 2002

Thank you, kq, for saying it even better than Larry:

> We are a community of people trying to 
> build a free online encyclopedia.  To 
> this regard, it seems to me that we 
> should not hesitate to show people the 
> door when they prove not to share our goal.

I agree wholeheartedly with this, as well as your entire post.

Clearly the days of optional rules and options like "ignore all rules" are over. We can only inch toward tyranny or lapse into obliteration, unless we clarify our principles and find a way to live by them together.

I suggest a thorough overhaul of the Wikipedia namespace, with re-codification (and condensation where needed). Please work with me on this.

I'm stretched too thin, which is one reason I kept "quitting" this month. I can't orient newcomers, adjudicate POV battles, research new articles, run my spellchecker and tune the database to relieve the lag problem all at once. Oh, and I also wish I had time just to browse through the 'pedia and actually read some articles!

Ed Poor