Taint no thang

Joel sez "You must drop what yer doing and do things my way- and Now, not gradually, not organically, not even at the most popular web site of all. Just Now. Well, sure but 1st things 1st- If this is the case them 'Taint no thang' if we just move yer own righteous name off-page- Arite? -Kthnx.

Pointy-headed editors inevitably tend to be over-represented. They exploit a WP flaw which allows such to make the most of small talents via use bots instead of brains. However life teaches us the way to improve things is to become involved. Conversely I have on occasion seen destoyed interests which I'd unfortunately withdrawn from. Others may have mentioned elsewhere that Mr Rane might himself tend to alientate the same associates who might otherwise care about deleting this page for the sake of his private endeavors. Is there even any appropriate Greek tragedy?

Ew..."private endeavors"? Joel may or may not have more to say (see below) than he allows- we'll see indeed. So in the spirit of full participation and as immolation for any WP 1st-Person squeamishness Joel feels**, I offer- from my Google Mail Achives dated 15Feb2009 [& with my interpolated appeals]...

Joel's post with my snarking

Subject: Barrington Hall page on Wikipedia

Greetings, friends,

[Ah- :-) we are back to 'friends' 2day? Well- - 8-D Howdy Doody U2]

If you navigate to the Barrington Hall page at wikipedia:

http://wiki.riteme.site/Barrington_Hall

You'll see at the top that a Wikipedia editor has challenged it once again.

[An 'editor'? 'At the top'?? ie., Heavy WP mojo ?...]

I suspect that most of the page will soon be taken down.

[LOLs. This community's survived boring BS before; it will survive yer willfull ignoring]

In fact, if you click on the word "Discussion" at the top of the wiki page, you'll see that I am doing my best to provoke that reaction.

[Ew? Click 'Discussion' for magic? I've seen discrete 'editors'- ie., individuals- frustrate mediators into haole paralysis, but never vanish pages- not w/o some legal mojo. You cant get this page by begging- But you can get yer name took out w/ jest a lil' request. Go ahead, Real.]

I am not completely happy that ANYTHING about Barrington Hall is on the Wikipedia.

[Welcome to WP, Editor]

But "there is another"...for a few years I've owned the domain

"http://www.californiawiki.org" '

The matter of internet 2nd & 3rd party ownership remains an evolving and squiqqly affair

-with the intention of creating a tour guide. I've been told for years by my folks that my encyclopedic knowledge of LA would make a ripping book (blush),

[Our chapbook author's parentals' compliment- How faux-naif .

Rane does have some broad experience of Cali locations; his posts & sentiments here express the depths of his sediments]

but I think the wiki is a better format than a book.

[You may seek a second opinion on that... (if you havent already) chat up an accountant]

I've got the MediaWiki software up and working, and thanks to this complaint at Wikipedia I have my first page up:

http://www.californiawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Barrington_Hall

Yeah, I just stole all the code from Wikipedia,

[considering the material's freely available, this appears self-characterization]

but what I'd like to do is make this the REAL Barrington page.

[ie., RANE'S?] Obsessions with 'reality' of course create paradox. What's with this macho drive to dominate?

Once I figure out how to configure the user permissions,

[U & any corporate stake-holders]

I'd like to create a user group just to edit this page. In fact, I'd kinda like to create a user group just to SEE this page, but I'll open that one up in the discussion board. Please use the discussion board rather than individually replying to this message.

I want California Wiki to be a personal page, with individual stories and named authors, and it will be "closed", so that only people I know (or perhaps that know them) can add to it. For now the Barrington Hall page is wide open...in case you can't contain yourself. Thanks and if I have blown you a kiss yet...smack!

- Joel

So does Mr. Joel Rane prefer no proliferation of Barrington information- No competition? He insists on being the sole REAL? How deep. Yet he will now depend on contributors. Perhaps some lack of interest in the ways of competition half-way explains why he believes his contributors' posts in Facebook will become 'his'- and not FB's. Typically he who pays the online piper has the hidden small print to call this tune; bon chance. At least now there's now some evidence of precedence & intent here.

-leo "all that smack is not sweet" sullivan