Thread:User talk:Geofferybard/Netiquette/reply (8)

I don't want to ruin your weekend so here:

(e) avoid talking about people, pot calling the kettle black where do you get off with that?? This is an entirely spurious charge. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

and talk about the subject matter instead I wish you would'' Again, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection''

On another note, Wikionary is a descriptivist dictionary. It describes how language is actually used rather than prescribing how it ought to be used.

''Yeah I got that. The horse was whipped to shreds regarding respell. What else is new. You are whipping a dead dead horse. Put down the whip and get on with the work.''

You are entitled to not liking various words or their forms, but your disliking them has nothing to do with what should be documented in Wiktionary. '' No kidding? How many times are I going to have to go over that? See'' WP:STICK WP:HORSEMEAT WP:DEADHORSE WP:LETGO

'' The only other place where your nit to pick has any possible relevance is http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion#Islamic_fascist  I suggest you argue that point there, not here. ''

 Note that by mounting this multifaceted personal attack and totally ignoring my multiple comments on RFD, it is you, not I, who is ignoring the issue and "talking about persons".

''I really think you need to - we both need to - put this discussion on the back burner until Monday. Which is about the third time I have suggested that, but I keep getting these flames in my Inbox now at three o clock on a Friday afternoon.''

On yet another note, "show me the policy" is sometimes the right request to be done,

I rest my case.

but more often than not it is pretty meaningless. As a newcomer to a project, you should try to figure out common practices rather than asking for formal policies that codify these practices.

 Which is what I do most of the time.

The most important Wiktionary policies are WT:CFI and WT:ELE, in case you are looking for policies, but many practices remain uncodified,

''That just shows you are way behind on updating the policies. That now is my fault?All this time spent WT:Biting newbies could be spent writing and updating policies, which is what every other WMF project does.'' '' Just because we have a genius at the top of the pyramid doesn't mean that the rest of us can ignore WikiSOP. ''

hand some points from the mentioned policies suffer from the lack of consensual support, so are in fact invalid.

''Well gosh Dan. If the policies lack consensual support, are they the policies or not? whose fault is that? What is the big deal then?''

''I could have put in several properly formatted new entries or new sense definitions in the time I have spent answering your mostly stale complaints.  Consider this: There are thousands and thousands of definitions that sorely need to be re-written. Wiktionary needs new editors who have a good bullshit detector regarding definitions. Wiktionary - specific details can always be taught and learned; a strong sense of the Language cannot be taught in a year or a decade. Some of us have got the goods and some of us do not.''

''I might not be 100% up to the wiktionary netiquette which you admit is not properly documented, but I have skills in the language. Yes, I completely fumbled one lousy edit, respell, mainly because I inadvertantly clicked the link to the User's page and not the +respell google. But I ate crow and provided the requisite mea culpa. Nobody is perfect.''  You continually bring that up as proof that I am not so competent in the English language as you think I think I am but all it really proves is that (1) I am capable of error in clicking around the web because I actually read books more than I surf the web and (2) that my writer's sense sometimes, but only sometimes, conflicts with my lexicographic duties.''  The language has ALWAYS had tiers of class, region and quality of usage. Probably if you went to Gutenberg press and compared different writers you would find that some detest certain words as I detest(ed) respell. Find it in Chaucer. Find it in Conrad. Etc. I get that this point is not relevant to descriptive lexicography. It would have been clear to you that I took that point had you read through some of my other posts where I did own up to that one cruddly little mistake which apparently has now become some sort of idolatrous proof piece in your prosecutorial presentations.''

''Just because someone has taste and a defined writing style in their language does not mean that their lexicographic potential is permanently impaired. Good writers can actually make good wiktionarians, despite the apparent preference for people who don't have a clue how to put together a proper definition. To the contrary.

There ARE a few good writers out there who would make excellent wiktionarians. '' Summing up: '' Probably only 1-3% of my definition revisions have been even challenged, at all, and most of my revisions were upheld.  You are diverting focus from the work by whipping a dead horse.''

This completes the line by line reply you seem to prefer to my nod to Mr Havel. I hope that over the weekend you do ponder them because quite frankly I think they are a hell of a lot more interesting than all of these petty quarrels. Geof Bard 00:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)