User talk:Keith Akers

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Ebionite article
Keith, I well understand your reluctance to get re-involved in editing the Ebionite page, given its past history. However could you please indicate which version, from the history, you were most happy with? It would be a great help, thanks. --Michael C. Price talk 07:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Michael. August 21 2007!!! In the future, please contact me at my e-mail address, keith [at] compassionatespirit [dot] com, rather than leaving a message here. I maybe check this once every six months or so. Sorry it has taken so long to get back. I try to look at the article on the Ebionites once a year, in August, and then write something for my web site. So I haven't looked at the article since last August. As far as I know, the article may be great right now, but it doesn't pay for me to look at it; usually it just makes me mad than an article can have so many really stupid comments and still be passed off as some sort of knowledge.

There are no previous versions that I was really happy with. Some were worse than others, but it's really a hard judgment to make. At one point I deliberately set aside about an hour each day just to correcting the problems with this article. Other people would provoke endless discussions, wouldn't respond to objective arguments, and just go in and undo any changes I had made. I think there are fundamental problems with Wikipedia, and Wikipedia would do better to try to identify characteristics of articles that need supervision (such as this one) and those that do not (like, say "bee keeping"). Maybe this is what they're doing, but I can't tell and that's my two cents.

You might look at my web site and look at what I've written about the Ebionites there. I specifically address Wikipedia and this specific article at several points. There's even a sample article of what I would write if I had absolute authority over this entry. I could take a look at the past history and try to figure this out, but it's not worth it except maybe once a year, usually around August. All the best. Keith Akers (talk) 22:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)