2008/12/17 Phil Sandifer <[email protected]>: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> Please don't! I try and avoid reading about lit crit (I completely >> avoid reading actual lit crit), far too many long words used purely to >> sound clever. > > Not to call Thomas out particularly here, but this attitude is much of > the problem - WP:NOR reads like it was written by a bunch of people > who were really hostile to anything to happen in literary criticism > since World War II, and who thought it best to just ignore it all. > > I suspect that, in fact, it was. > > -Phil
And this is one of the reasons why wikipedia policy is what it is. This fight has been done by others and they have done it better ( eg http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html ). Wikipedia policy is a pragmatic approach to the situation. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
