I am still too much puzzled by this thread.
I have to understand what's wrong, but honestly I still can't get it.
July76 asked to get in contact with Vasilescu Petru Ionat.
After few normal replies, Staulan (who is not a newby but an Expert who joined Autopuzzles 10 year ago!) expressed his opininon about this kind of work
Something superficially compiled from online sources made by robots, plus work stolen from the big encyclopedias, plus a collective work (they say Ionescu, but there are probably 100+ guys)
a bootleg encyclopedia made by tens of securitate officers and presented as the work of "little Ionat", who costs more than its weight in gold
And so far, even if personally do not like these hard tones, these are just opinions.
I understand he doesn't like this kind of work and prefers free sources or at least the work of (in his opininon) real researchers.
Few years ago, he proposed an off-road encyclopedia to work on:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/general-automotive/automobile-coachbuilders-and-manufacturers/msg256639/#msg256639and this is what he wrote about his own work:
since 15 years ago I collect offroad vehicles pictures. I probably roamed 3/4 of the free Internet, collecting (...) more than 5000 models.
In the current form, I had this project in mind for more than 5 years, and recently I reserved a wikia domain. As I'm not doing this for me, I am very happy with their confidentiality and copyright policy. If there will be profits (which I doubt), I even devised a sharing mechanism. If not, I have something similar in mind for the "image gains".
It seems like the kind of work he is against: compiled from online sources and looking for collective work.
Then there are some considerations that I find hard to understand:
a hidden support from someone who wants to present the romanians as intellectuals because they are doing some dirty things for them.
Romanians from all over the Europe passing as Spaniards or stuff...
supported by strange guys in a worldwide campaign meant to present the romanians as quasiintellectals, in order to help their efforts to undermine the whole world
He is not against Vasilescu, but the Romanians!
Even if I can't see them trying
to undermine the whole world I realized there was something more behind.
but then his reply #9 add more confusion to my head:
I admire very much the wise people, who with a perfect self-control, are saddened to see the lunatics of this world tainting its perfect beauty. They still love them, but they cannot stop themselves to see the sad reality.
Who are these wise people?
THAT'S WHY THEY ARE NOT BOTHERED BY THE VISIT OF DUGIN IN BUCHAREST - THEY WORK TOGETHER
SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO SHOW YOURSELVES SAD AND WISE, BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO HIDE THE FACT YOU ARE THIEFS AND MURDERERS
UNITED STATES ARE NOT WHAT YOU SEE IN WIKIPEDIA - JUST FEW MILLION DUDES WHO ARE EXTREMELY HAPPY TO COOPERATE WITH THEIR ENEMIES TO CUT THE CAKE. NOT SO WISE ANYMORE, ARE YOU?
Are United States the problem now?
and finally:
I am sorry for insulting the romanians; they are your allies in EU, NATO and many other fora and you have so many plans together... It's good you don't even let their name be touched. I am sure there were other rants. I am sure most of them closed in less than a week for lack of interests or arguments (at least on one side). I am also sure no moderator intervened and definitely not all moderators. But that's why the friends are for! I appreciate your strive for perfect neutrality and total politeness, and if this was a test for your loyalty, you all passed it with maximum grades.
We have plans with Romanians?
Now moderators are the problem?
A test for our loyalty to what?
Please, Staulan, I took some time to read all your previous posts and you've been a true Autopuzzler, so far.
In this long post I'm trying to show you that it's fine if you do not like Vasilescu's work, we can discuss what is the best way for a task like that...but it seems you are looking for a fight, not a discussion.
I really, truly, honestly can't understand what is the matter with these posts