User talk:Fxmastermind/supercluster

This is the last version of Super Galaxy before somebody decided to change it to a redirect, which currently loops Super Galaxy back to supergalaxy, which is so damn funny I'm not going to point it out.

The term supergalaxy, super-galaxy and Super Galaxy appear in thousands of documents, as well as current web pages from NASA and Observatories.

Until this wikiconflict, I never thought much about the term, much less what it meant. In usage, it was obvious they are speaking of very large galaxies formed by multiple galaxies combining, which is a very recent development in astronomy.

Wikipedia really has embraced wikiality, (reality defined by consensus), and I got to watch it at work. The strange thing is, only a half dozen people were involved, and the driving force, one member, didn't follow procedure, discussing the article on the talk page, but nominated it for deletion, which is against the guidelines. Nobody seemed to notice, or more likely, all the people who would have said something, long ago bailed from this site. Who can blame them?

An uneducated numbskull has the same power here as a College Teacher, or a leading NASA researcher. Probably more, if they are an admin/mod whatever the name is the people with power go by. The policies are complicated beyond belief, the talk pages suck, the communication system is non-existent, and those with infinite time to spend have the most sway.

Those with real jobs, real knowledge, a real life, could never spend enough time here to matter, much less face the arcane and complex system that has built up over many years here. A good example is, I have spent some time here, and I have no idea where to put a comment about the invisible decision somebody made to delete a valid entry here. It isn't clear who made the decision, when it was made, how it was made, or if it is written in stone. I'm sure undoing the edit would bring this anonymous person raging out of the woodwork, but really, who cares?

If this much effort is spent on a non-issue, one can imagine the energies spent on issues somebody really cares about.

It is like a cult. The intelligent leave, and never return.

Word. FX (talk) 04:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)