On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
rcasm>
That's a blog, so it doesn't count.
</sarcasm>
While we've discussed this, there are some new points, and I think the
canvassing problem is one of the worst. It ends up meaning that the people
who are affected by a change never get to participate in the decision,
because it's impossible to inform them witbhout "canvassing" or
"meatpuppets".
It's also a newbie problem. Some of the accounts in question are
improving, on a steep learning curve. Others never came back or show
little activity or interest in the rest of Wikipedia (normal behaviour
for most new accounta). Such incidents also show the worst of how
Wikipedia can treat newcomers.
Carcharoth