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[[User:ELWisty|ELWisty]] 22:51, 14 July 2011 (EDT)ELWisty
[[User:ELWisty|ELWisty]] 22:51, 14 July 2011 (EDT)ELWisty
== revert war ==
As one who hardly did anything until a few weeks ago, you may not realize what a dim view sysops (which I am not) and serious contributors (of which there are many) take to disruptive and insulting characterizations like "willful ignorance". I don't know whether you were referring to me or PatrickD, but, as recently as last December, something like that would have gotten your account closed so fast it would make your head spin.
It is true that I used the words "vandalism" and "parody" in my criticism, but these words have specific meanings at Conservapedia (and, indeed, all wikis) and those characterizations were legitimate.
Your intention in not removing the planet stuff was to "leave the evidence of other editors' foolishness in plain sight"?????? You think that one of the goals of an encyclopedia is as a vehicle whereby editors highlight other editors' ignorance for the public to see???????????
As far as the humor value of the pickle reference, it may well be that you teach topology courses, and that you crack that joke in class, and that you use that joke as a way of illustrating that the truth of the theorem is independent of the presence of other sets, or of overlap among any of the sets. But as you admit, the joke sometimes goes down well, and sometimes doesn't. This doesn't surprise me in the least. Delivering jokes in person is a very different skill. Careful consideration of timing, and reading the audience, is necessary. Humor in writing is very different. It's much harder. Very few people are successful written humorists, while nightclub humorists are very common. I'm sure you can recognize that an encyclopedia math article is not the place for humor, unless the joke is extremely good, which this isn't.
I now invite you to go the to "Gabriel's Horn" article and repair the two errors that it contains. I won't say whether I consider them to be subtle parody or something else. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 01:10, 17 July 2011 (EDT)