User:Sir Gawain McGarson/The McRap Project

The McRap Project

User:McRap has passed on but the McRap vision lives on—and so does The McRap Project!.

McRap was formerly User:McCronion, User:McZeus, User:Amphitryoniades, User:Esseinrebusinanetamenfatearenecessest and User:Lucretius, but then turned into User:Eyeless in Gaza, followed by User:McCnut and User:McOoee, not all at the same time but one after the other. This unum e pluribus entity is a mockery of social interactions between electronic signals, in a virtual world dominated by gangs, and now includes auxiliary members the lone piper from Dunimop, the Mongolian prince, the Cairo pimp and the Murray River. I don't like gangs and thus I have created my own, as therapeutic satire.

I am not alone.

Rapping is the rhythm of gang culture and it is the key note of this project, which comprises only one member or custodian at any one time.

Project banner

The logo below says in Greek: This coal bucket is my bro' fro' the 'hood' (more or less). The words are from Aristophanes's play The Acharnians. The coal bucket is virtually human, as seen through the eyes of both the hero and his antagonists, the charcoal burners of Acharnae, and they confront each other over its future. Articles also have a human dimension and that's why people fight over them. The hero of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis ('Justiceville'), is a many-in-one character like me: outnumbered in a gangland dominated by dilapidated sites and dysfunctional groups. For him, that was Athens at the height of the Peloponnesian War; for many Wikipedians, it is WP.

The banner is to be pasted onto the talk pages of articles I am working on, but only while I am working there, just to let other editors/gangsters know that the McRap gang is in town.

ὁ λάρκος δημότης ὅδʹ ἔστʹ ἐμός.

Project aims

• helping articles needing further information and elucidation;
• serving WP as the model of an alternative kind of project;
• Wearing good faith like a fixed smile, scepticism like a gun.

McRap articles

Articles the gang created

Lille Stesichorus, Prosody (Latin), Iambus (genre)

Articles that are mostly McRap

Aristophanes, The Knights, The Acharnians, The Wasps, The Clouds, Peace (play), The Birds (play), Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Pindar, Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Timocreon, Hipponax, Theognis of Megara, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Archilochus, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Euripides, Herodotus, Horace, Pindarics, Solon, Dirac large numbers hypothesis, Planck force, George Johnstone Stoney, Ancient greek units of measurement, Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica

Articles that have been significantly McRapped

Demosthenes, Hesiod

Success

My articles often get rave reviews from other gangsters. For example, this version of Iambus (genre) has been rated by five people and it scored:

Trustworthiness 1

Objectivity 1

Completeness 1

Well Written 1

1 is ground zero, the lowest possible rating. I'm not discouraged. I'm flattered by the differences between us. Gangsters like that are cocooned together in cyberspace somewhere, like bats in a belfry, and their ratings are just dung. The McRap gang soars above them like an eagle.