On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I hope you will forgive me for being a bit terse and blunt. It is the > season >> for unpalatable truths, and not just in Scotland. To an impartial observer >> this whole exercise has all the earmarks of trying to dig up Nupedia from >> the grave, give it the "kiss of life" and do all sorts of hocus pocus and > arm >> waving and say "It is alive! It is alive!" >> >> ... And then see it just fall on its face like the corpse it is. >> >> Cue even more bubbling vials with smoke and sparks. "Let's try again! >> This time it will work!" >> -- >> -- >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] >> > > Jussie-Ville - terse or blunt is fine IF it is accompanied by a reasoned > argument and preferably also a proposed alternative. I find your posts on > this thread to be both full of hyperbolic metaphor as well as being > unclear. As such I don't think they are helping your argument, however > strong you might hold your opinions on the topic.
I don't really get the "unclear" bit. How more clear could I be than say "impartial observer". How do you ever think you are going to get an intelligent reader to swallow that as "[...] however strong you might hold your opinions on the topic. " -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
