User:Sibadd

User:Sibadd
To contact me try: simon@baddeley.be Sibadd 19:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC) I'm much more a user than a contributor to Wikipedia and therefore struggle with its conventions when facing a dispute I'd wish to resolve or an edit I'd like to challenge. My main articles on Wikipedia are about my stepfather Jack Hargreaves, about a childhood mentor Denys Rayner, about an urban park near my home in Birmingham UK whose history I've written and with which I've been involved for many years - Handsworth Park, and another park with which I've been more recently involved - Black Patch Park - as well as our local church St. Mary's Church, Handsworth, which holds the remains of three parents of the Industrial Revolution. I'm an academic with part-time visiting lecturer status at the University of Birmingham, UK, making almost daily use of Wikipedia for reference, and to illustrate my blog Democracy Street http://democracystreet.blogspot.com/ I have great respect for Wikipedia, enjoying it as a practical application of the view that there's no such thing as a canon, only a constant iterative debate. Some detest this; others embrace it. I'm somewhere in between, reaching out now and then for a fixed truth, even as I know such crimps are unreliable. I strive to respect evidence-based policy making as part of my career interest in the work of local government where I have specialised in studying the overlap between political, professional and managerial thought and action in the making of government I have sought to capture generic elements from the verbal, para-linguistic and non-verbal subtleties  of human interaction at points where democracy and bureaucracy meet, an encounter Max Weber described as 'the most profound source of tension in the modern social order'. Now and then I wish that people with whom I wish to engage in 'talk' would contact me by email (above). I can handle the edit/re-edit conventions within any one piece but find it very difficult to ask questions and find help from Wiki-experts. When I do I've found them very helpful. Simon Baddeley (talk) 14:45, 7 August 2015 (UTC)