User:McOoee/The McRap Project

The McRap Project
User:McRap has passed on but the McRap vision lives onand so does The McRap Project!.

McRap was formerly User:McCronion, User:McZeus, User:Amphitryoniades, User:Esseinrebusinanetamenfatearenecessest and User:Lucretius, but then turned into User:Eyeless in Gaza, followed by User:McCnut, not all at the same time but one after the other. This unum e pluribus entity is a mockery of social interactions between electronic signals. Almost all social interactions here at WP are between you at the keyboard and some electronic signals on your screen, a fact that we all somehow contrive to forget, with some very strange results. Gang wars between electronic signals often break out in this anonymous environment and sometimes individual signals get mugged. The McRap Project is partly an attempt to remind myself and others about these realities of online editing. It is partly an attempt to set a precedent: this is a new kind of gang.

Rapping is the rhythm of gang culture and it is the key note of this project, which comprises only one member or custodian at any one time.



An imaginary conversation

 * Lucretius: Large parts of Wikipedia are governed by social relations between anonymous user names, leading to some very strange articles. It's a lunatic asylum.
 * Esseinrebusinanetamenfatearenecessest: You're crazy if you trust a mere user name!
 * Amphitryoniades: Who are you calling crazy?
 * McZeus: He didn't mean you, Amphitryoniades! He was using "you" generally.
 * McCronion: I'm as sane as the next man.
 * McRap: Well I happen to be the next man and all you guys are just my own memories! Keep quiet!
 * Eyeless in Gaza: Actually I happen to be the next man now! So you can shutup too!
 * McCnut: Correctionyou were the next man, Eyeless, but you were crushed when WP fell out of the airwaves. Now the project is my responsibility, alas!
 * McOoee: Stone the bloody crows, I'm now left holding the parcel! I'll do me best to keep the flag flying but, as some bloke in tights once said at the Jawonjeri Creek Town Hall, where I went for the B & S Ball last year, only to find meself there on the wrong night watching some clowns prancing around the pianist's podium, oh curséd spite, that ever I was born to set it right! and he ended up getting pelted with me shoe before the night was over, for which Constable Crack'n'jaw stuck me in the meat shed over at Bob Hanson's property, to cool me feet for a few hours, though he agreed the bloke in tights got what he had coming to him, making such a spectacle of himself.

Project banner
The logo below says in Greek: This coal bucket is my bro' fro' the 'hood' (more or less). It is from Aristophanes's play The Acharnians and no racial slur or pun is intended. The coal bucket has a human dimension, as seen through the eyes of both the hero and his antagonists. Articles also have a human dimension and that's why we fight over them. The banner is to be pasted onto the talk pages of articles I am working on, but only while I am working there, just to let other editors/gangsters know that the McRap gang is in town. It will also be pasted at the head of talk pages of articles that other projects seem to have abandoned/forgotten or whose importance they have totally underestimated. If other editors want to mess us around, we'll move on. Kool.


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Project aims

 * helping articles needing further information and elucidation;
 * serving WP as the model of an alternative kind of project;
 * Wearing good faith like a fixed smile, scepticism like a gun.

Articles the gang created
Lille Stesichorus, Prosody (Latin), Iambus (genre)

Articles that are mostly McRap
Aristophanes, The Knights, The Acharnians, The Wasps, The Clouds, Peace (play), The Birds (play), Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Pindar, Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Timocreon, Hipponax, Theognis of Megara, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Archilochus, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Euripides, Herodotus, Horace, Pindarics, Solon, Dirac large numbers hypothesis, Planck force, George Johnstone Stoney, Ancient greek units of measurement

Articles that have been significantly McRapped
Demosthenes, Hesiod