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 ::I hate the word ""deconstruction"" it always sounds like a disappointing and rather mean version of a much loved dessert served in a pretentious and overinflated restaurant. However, thinking about it, that's what a lot of Wikipedia editors have become, me amongst them: pretentious and overinflated. I'm not sure that the days of writing long and informed pages are over; however, I've just spent a fascinating three days in the Hofburg - returned here to write it up and found we already have quite a good page already - with no input from me. So perhaps we all take our value to the project too seriously and can't find enough to do because Wikipedia is now already pretty good.  

 ::However, what is unnecessary and annoying to many, is that when someone is pretty knowledgeable on a subject, they are forced by the uneducated and very vocal masses (who write nothing) to bow to the less knowledgeable - so we are back to the always-with-us Randy in Boise and his headless skeletons. That seems to be an insurmountable problem and one we have to accept - I include Eric Corbett in that - he has to accept it too, and I think he does. What is harder to accept are the perennial idiot Admins - who are so inflated by their own importance that they drive people away - or as in my case, bring out the worst in people: what can be more gratifying (other than sex) than deflating pomposity. I disagree with you that some of us who write content are not good at the online game, and it's a bloody good thing that we are - or the project would never have lasted this long and I really believe that the content editors who are most vocal (like Eric) have helped keep the less vocal content editors here. So I'm going nowhere and Eric needs to come back too!     "