User:Sibadd

To contact me try: simon@baddeley.be Sibadd 19:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC) I'm much more a user than a contributor to Wikipedia and therefore struggle with its conventions when facing a dispute I'd wish to resolve or an edit I'd like to challenge. My main articles on Wikipedia are about my stepfather Jack Hargreaves, about a childhood mentor Denys Rayner, about an urban park near my home in Birmingham UK whose history I've written and with which I've been involved for many years - Handsworth Park, and another park with which I've been more recently involved - Black Patch Park - as well as our local church St. Mary's Church, Handsworth, which holds the remains of three parents of the Industrial Revolution. I'm an academic with part-time visiting lecturer status at the University of Birmingham, UK, making almost daily use of Wikipedia for reference, and to illustrate my blog Democracy Street http://democracystreet.blogspot.com/ I have great respect for Wikipedia, enjoying it as a practical application of the view that there's no such thing as a canon, only a constant iterative debate. Some detest this; others embrace it. I'm somewhere in between, reaching out now and then for a fixed truth, even as I know such crimps are unreliable. I strive to respect evidence-based policy making as part of my career interest in the work of local government where I have specialised in studying the overlap between political, professional and managerial thought and action in the making of government[1] I have sought to capture generic elements from the verbal, para-linguistic and non-verbal subtleties [2] of human interaction at points where democracy and bureaucracy meet, an encounter Max Weber described as 'the most profound source of tension in the modern social order'. Now and then I wish that people with whom I wish to engage in 'talk' would contact me by email (above). I can handle the edit/re-edit conventions within any one piece but find it very difficult to ask questions and find help from Wiki-experts. When I do I've found them very helpful. Simon Baddeley (talk) 14:45, 7 August 2015 (UTC)