I have written substantive articles on technical topics. I have also discovered that I don't need to bother with all that troublesome research and writing to get all the flack I could possibly want from editors who have different views.
Though WP:NOT says Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy, yet it is an illustrative proving ground: WP seems to be a very authentic sample, in both problems and characters, of modern political democracy. If one can be made to work, there may be hope for the other.
awarded for clear guidance here in footnote formating which solved an otherwise intractable problem, with thanks and best wishes from ElijahBosley(talk ☞) 21:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Wow. Thank you! I must have sounded like I knew what I was saying. :-) - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 19:43, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
