User:Jgda

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I haven't updated this for a while, and it seems to be causing some interest, so here goes...

I'm still a graduate student at the University of Melbourne, and I also lecture, but at another institution. My interest in Wikipedia, now, can be summed up as one of horrified curiosity: the kind usually reserved for a particuarly bad car wreck that you just can't help gawking at. So I gawk occasionally, though I avoid contributing, as I do to particularly bad car wrecks. Although I noticed that the Wiki co-founder guy who was on a promotional talk tour of Australia recently said pretty much what I tell all my students: do not source this place. It's only use is as a very general guide: much like a globe of the world when trying to find a street corner...

I have awarded myself a Barnstar of Wiki-dness, for my ongoing and continually mounting uneasiness in the face of the utlimate e-instituion of intellectual democracy. If I believed in God, I'd ask him to have mercy on us all, or at least me. Unfortunately I don't. I'm left with people, who, fortunately, are actually much more worthy of belief than gods or users...

(And I'm starting to get the ugly impression that the vandals on this website, generally, and I'm including here even the ones expressing a point of view I passionately disagree with, might have a point.)