User talk:Kairon Paideia

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Kairon Paideia, I noticed your comments on Talk:Symposium, and I thought I'd welcome you to Wikipedia. You should never feel reluctant about jumping in and fixing any problems you see with an article; one of the mottos around here is that you should be bold in editing (there's a whole page about this, found at WP:BOLD). Happy editing, and let me know if I can help you with anything--Wikipedia can have a steep learning curve sometimes. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your welcome and helpful suggestions, Akhilleus. Could you enlighten me regarding my question on the Discussion page? I just wonder, since I read a lot of the Discussion page about the Symposium, and a lot of these issues have been being addressed for about two years, why there is still this strange sexual skewing at the very beginning, in the introduction segment of the article. How do you feel about the Introduction? Geez, I hope you're not the one who wrote it, especially as I've noticed your discussion points have been very intelligent and well-balanced. But I wonder if you agree with me. I'm no prude believe me, not uptight at all, and I'm a proud member of the LGBT community. It just seems so inappropriate to have two small paragraphs in an Introduction about one of Plato's greatest dialogues (a foundational and incredibly culturally influential piece of literature), and be left with the impression, from the very beginning, before even reading the Wikipedia entry on the subject, that it's just a bunch of gay guys debating the relative worth of their lifestyle versus heterosexual coupling, and that indeed Man-Man love is the "noblest" form of love there is.

On another note, I suspect this is not the correct way to respond to your lovely welcome to me, technically speaking that is. Is there another procedure to respond to a "User Talk" note sent to you by another Wiki user, other than just editing the actual page that you've been sent? I suspect you'll never get a message at the top of your Wiki homepage, as I did, alerting you to my response. I'll try to figure this out on my own, but if you do happen to see that I've edited this, perhaps you could help. Thanks again, heroic (and not at all pouty) Akhilleus!! Kairon Paideia 14:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Kairon, you can leave a note on people's pages by going to User talk:WHOEVER. For me, you'd go to User talk:Akhilleus (or you can just click on "talk" in my signature). Usually, if someone leaves a message on your talk page, you can leave a message on their talk page in response; but, like most things on Wikipedia, people do this different ways--some users like to keep the conversation together on a single page, so you might leave a message on their user talk page, and they'll reply there (like you did). When I left the welcome message, I put your page on my watchlist by checking the "watch this page" button below the edit window, so I noticed your response that way.


 * As far as your thoughts on the Symposium article, I agree with most of what you said. The reason why the introduction was left the way it was, even though it was unsatisfactory, is simply inertia. Most articles have only a handful of editors, even articles about major works of literature--so changes tend to stay in the article, just because not many people are paying attention. That's a reason to be bold, and correct any problems you see. --Akhilleus (talk) 22:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)