User:Jemmy Button
Links[edit]My articles: Cost the limit of price: current, old. Property is theft: current, old Summary of Industrial Society and Its Future: current, old I was once User:207.38.160.124. For convenience, my contributions and 207.38.160.124's contributions. |
Hi, I'm Jemmy[edit]
(My name is not really Jemmy.)
When I read books, I try to edit the relevant wikipedia articles. I dislike dealing with the users and admins here. In the past I have had problems with two types of users: idiots, and POV-warriors. I wish the administration here would do something to help with these problems, but they won't (or can't). Oh well.
The only whole articles I've written are quite minor, on the anarchist political slogans "cost the limit of price." and "property is theft." Both of them already existed, but were terrible, so I rewrote them. Once, under a different account, I mostly rewrote "drapetomania." (It was better then than it is now.) I also wrote the summary of Industrial Society and Its Future in "Ted Kaczynski." What had been there before was very inaccurate: I do not think its primary authors had read the text. I encountered the same problem in the article Stigma (Sociological Theory); its authors wrote about, but clearly had not read, Erving Goffman's very insightful book Stigma; however, I only corrected what was there rather than rewriting from scratch. Some day I may edit articles on Foucault, because I have read lots of Foucault. I might write an article on Goffman's book: it certainly deserves one. However, I mostly like to keep these little projects small, not giving to any one more than a day's devotion. (You can understand, then, why I dislike so much having to deal with users: disagreements require more effort on the talk pages, and checking back to revert, etc., than does the writing itself.) —Jemmytc
Today I did a major cleanup of eco-terrorism. The article still needs work, yet I am not afraid to say that the improvement was huge. A ridiculous POV bias was removed; much quality was added. Now is the time to wait for the POV-warrior backlash... —Jemmytc 11:46, 14 September 2008 (UTC)