QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Mon 20th June 2011, 6:43pm)
You might be onto something, Greg.
Well, I do know this -- Dr. Brenna Gray has not responded to any e-mail from me to her. And her department chair has not responded to an e-mail where she was copied. I contacted a college administrator to find out Gray's phone number, but nobody ever returned that call.
I have finally obtained Gray's office phone number from a staff directory, and I've left a very polite voicemail message for her.
I have a feeling it, too, will go ignored... but let's hope.
I think it would make for a fascinating Examiner story to show how someone went from
saying this in 2006:
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"...this entire experience has soured me on ever contributing to wikipedia again. Not that that should bother you. I shall take my supposed self-involvement elsewhere, and I will encourage my peers, regardless of their expertise, to do the same. Apparently we are not welcome here..."
...to saying
this in 2011:
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“Rather than saying, ‘Don’t use Wikipedia,’ I think it behooves us to teach them how to use it and how to make use of it and that they can contribute to an intellectual conversation even as fledgling junior scholars — they can contribute to that conversation too.â€
However you want to slice it, that is a very interesting transformation.