I feel, as I said on one deltion debate. that we are being taken over by
puritans who want us to have no fun while we slave away making an
encyclopedia. I am reminded of "1066 and all that":-
Monarchist Cavaliers - romantic and wrong.
Puritan roundheads - repulsive but right.
Back to the grindstone.
Brian.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:51:37AM -0500, David Goodman wrote:
I glad to agree with Ned on this. Those categories
that are used for
improper purposes can be deleted. There are always a few dozen people
here trying to conduct their friendships on wiki, and it does
interfere with the tone of the project--but they are not the majority.
I myself would never dream of using these, medical, political ,or
otherwise, but that other people do is their lookout unless they
actualyl cause harm by it. We need a greater tolerance and acceptance
of diversity
another example of well-intended steps being carried too far, instead
of to a reasonable compromise.
David DGG
On 12/28/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29/12/2007, Kurt Maxwell Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com> wrote:
On Friday 28 December 2007 19:05, Ned Scott
wrote:
I'm also confused as to why people seem to
think that [[WP:MYSPACE]]
applies to anything that they don't see as helping Wikipedia.
Certainly, useless categories should be deleted, but being useless
does not mean something is being (or is even practical to be) used for
social networking. It also seems to set people off, in that since they
are assuming these categories are being used for social networking,
reasonable arguments that demonstrate wiki-related use will not be
given proper consideration.
Like I said, a lot of these deletions are dead on, but we're also
losing a lot of categories that were realistically usable. Should some
be taken to DRV? Should a kind of "rationale" page be created to help
avoid confusion? Are any of these categories realistically being used
for social networking, or are we overreacting? Are babies in lurking
in the bath water? Is it bath water in the first place? Green or
yellow? Up or down? Paper or plastic?
Why do any of them need to be deleted? What do they hurt?
I strongly suggest you (and those who agree with you) read [[Wikipedia:Why do
you care?]], an essay I wrote on this subject a few weeks ago.
Which is up for deletion, in rather ironic fashion...
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