User talk:Simon Lucy

RE: Handicapping and Peter Tidmarsh
I am copying here for your convenience my comments left in response to your comments at the discussion page for the Handicapping article.


 * My disagreement is precisely with the content. Some of it was amateurishly immature (especially the Golf write-up).  The etymology is clear in the sources I've run into, and his alternative etymological origins were woefully unsubstantiated...despite my best efforts of tracking down the claims he posted in good faith before deleting them from the article.  Lastly, his style was hopelessly hackneyed and anecdotal and not up to the standard of an objective encyclopedia.  In fact, his additions to the article smacked of tongue-in-cheek smuggery.  Sure, the adjectives I used may not be helpful, and they may be pointedly hurtful, but they are amazingly accurate when describing what I feel his additions did to the tenor of the article, it's accuracy, and furthermore they in no way disguise my disagreement.  In fact, they are the crux of my disagreement rather overtly stated. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 18:30, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)