User:Andrew.Hempel/sandbox

Practising being perfect?
This Sandbox is an opportunity to practice correcting the mistakes of others, adding your 2 pennies worth, and generally exercising your right to be a "painful pedant" if you so wish to, or perhaps better yet to improve the sum of our knowledge. After all, perfection is merely an aspirational concept.

So it could be argued, particularly those by those of a positive persuasion, that it is better to have put something up for criticism and seen it knocked down, than to have stood on the sidelines and said or written nothing at all, despite knowing that they may have indeed possessed a fragment of the truth that might be a treasure to someone else... To hold back such knowledge is to hinder the progress of humanity. To stifle the never-ending, essential pursuit of excellence that must enables such a vast number of us to live on our planet into the future.

Wikipedia appears to me to have always represented that beacon of hope by the free sharing of human knowledge, and so I have decided to put a few of my own pennies into the pond, and hope they add to the pile in a useful way into the future. As a wise man once said, "No-one's built a monument to a critic", although it may have to be conceded that Oscar Wilde is a compelling exception to this:



http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit#